Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 305, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1916 — Various Organizations Planning For Christmas Entertainments. [ARTICLE]

Various Organizations Planning For Christmas Entertainments.

The various religious and social organizations are, planning for entertainments of different kinds during the coming week, which will end on next New Year’s eye. •The churches of the city will hold their entertainment starting tomorrow morning and ending in the evening with the, Christmas entertainments. Monday, Christmas day, will be a day of rest and the majority of the business . houses will be closed. The Catholic church will hold religious services throughout Ohristjnas day. On Tuesday evening there will be a dttace given at the armory 'by the Van Rensselaer Club. McKelvet’s orchestra of Chicago will furnish the music. A great many college students and other visitors will be in the city on this evening and the dance is expected to be the most pleasant social function of the entire season.

On Wednesday evening the Moose lodge, which is Rensselaer’s newest order and which is coming rapidly to the front, will serve a feast at their hall, l Other lodges of the city are expected to have some sort of functions during the week and several parties will be given on New"-Year’s eve, among them, the Van Rensselaer Club smoke n. ,>A Chicago entertainer will be on hand, for this. No doubt a dance will be given, at the armory on this evening also. Taking It all in all, it looks as if the next few days would be busy ones in social and religious ways.