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Show fOII HISTIS - t. Salt Lake Ready for Celebration Cele-bration of Yulelide Festivities. Community Tree at City and County Building Is Feature of Program. K er thing is in readiness for Salt 1-nku's Ohristmas. celebra t h ms, and the curtain K'Ha up today. The community Ohristmas tree sericea, to ho held at ibo city mid county building toniglii at o'cluek, will t,0 the hi- feature of todays to-days festivit cs. II will he tho fir.sl niu-"leipal niu-"leipal Ohrisunas h.t iocs since Amerl-l; Amerl-l; 1 -s out raiicn lino the w mid war. and proniuscs t.. be the most aidlMic fciiluro ot tho hohdav sensun. Tho tiee will he lbled at 7 o'clock by Mayor Ferry audi imuiedia t el v !'nl,.w-I !'nl,.w-I nig, trumpeters dressed as h"ral,leri of .'hrislnias w.II mareh h. tic- lour corners ol the grounds and huglo calls will summon sum-mon children and grown-ups from ll.o north, south, east and west. b'our huudi'ed clnldrcn, hearing larvo" red lanterns. . will encirclo tlm building singing t'hristmas carols, under the direction di-rection of Mehm IVt.-rsnn, supervisdr of music or' the Salt hake schools. Children trom tho Fast Jim an and tho Fryant Junior high schools have been chosen fur the. singing. Oratorio Chorus to Sing. A ehonifi of singers from the Oratorio society will sing a number of Christmas songs on the steps of the building at the west cut ranee, uni music also will be furnished by the Salt Lake high s.-hoo! hand, under tho direction of L. V. Chris-tenseu. Chris-tenseu. Xo chicles will bo allowed on the grounds during the ceremony, thus making mak-ing room for all pedestrians. 'J he arrangements ar-rangements of tho evening are under tiic direction of Miss Charlotte Stewart, supervisor su-pervisor of the city playground-;, and she will bi assisted in the work by Miss Lola Farreli. Miss Annette Vincent. Mifs I, le Oahoou. Miss liaolla Idantel and "W illiam Flaekler. At the i. r ph a m a" 1 Imue and T'ay Nursery a program and the hanging up of the children's stockings will take place this afternoon at o'clock, on Christ mas day li!f of the orphans will he taken to tho home of liussel L. Ti ae- for a Christmas dinner. The vomr,;ers will be invited to meet San'a Ciaus and each one will receive two presents, in addition tu nuts ami eandv. A vaudeville entertainment enter-tainment will be furnished, and the hours between 2 and tl oh-lock hi the afternoon will pass happily for the lit t lu homeless children. Tree at Hotel Utah. At the Hotel Utah, on Christmas nlpht, t!.e Saleation Army Christina p tree will he lighted, and lOuij children will receive present:!. Various organizations -null provide Christnui3 cheer for children whoe parents par-ents are uiicthle to .spare the money tor festivities. Among these is tiic Santa Clans club, which has taken the name and addrceses of more than 4'i" children who v.'ill hc visited by iSunta Claus impersonators im-personators on Chriitmas morning. .udJie Henrv C. lund of iho cite court is president presi-dent 'of tho club: Sheriff John S. Cor-less. Cor-less. vice president; W. W. Barton, tee-i-etary. and P.tistel I.. Tracy, treasurer. The Associated Charities will check up oa all of the poor and destitute families in the city and arralero through some channel to pro ide a Christinas dinner for each of them; the Klks cluh will have a Christmas tree and Santu Claus at its home on Christmas morning, and more f'nan on) families are on its list for Christmas dinners, groceries and coal; and Cue Volunteers of America will arrange ar-range for dinners for many who would otherwise dine very lightly on Christmas day. Churches Plan Services. At a number of churches, observance of the birthday of Christ will be held. Midnight Mid-night serv c.-s w'll be held at the Cathedral Ca-thedral of the Madeleine, and at 11:15 o'clock tonight s.-rvices will ho held at t Ma-k's cathedral. In addition to this, special vervi'-.-s will be held for tho children chil-dren at St. Mark's at 4 o'clock this afternoon after-noon and on Christmas morning another service will he held at 10:110 o'clock. t the Waterloo Methodist church, at ll' o'clock Christmas morning, a combined com-bined -ervice will he held by the Waterloo Water-loo church and the First Metnodlst church. Last night at the aterloo chu-rh Sania Clans distributed presents at 't ie S.indav schoo, tree. Recitations and srecial music were given by the ChLocal''"o S13 of the Cooks and-Waiters-union held its Christmas festivities last night in the hall at 1ST East Urst South s-reet tree, with presents for each o' tho ninelv children present, was a featuie Refreshments were served to I'.jo members and their partnei-3. Dancing closed the evening. Matinees at Theaters. Ma'inees will be given in all of the vaudeville and picture theaters In too citv and at the Salt Lake theater on Christmas night a new show will open The u-ual Christmas festivities will be p.-ovidel for the children at the K'tuns St. Ann's orphanage by -Mrs. Thomas 'hhjMXat wards, made gay and attractive attrac-tive wnli the green and red of Chi .stems .st-ems decorations, lively music, presents and all kinds of good things, including ,Hti will i-elri l! soldier boys on Christmas dav to forget ti.at. they are fir from home and still sutfering from the clfec'.s ' wounds and sickness. - number of Salt Lake women formerly for-merly connected with the different branches of flic Red Cross have been m-it,,,, plans for the entertainment of Ihe soldiers "ho are so unfortunate as t 'have to spend Christmas in the hospitals. hos-pitals. There are nearly forty ol these bo-.s. Through the efforts of Miss Vx mni-fred mni-fred Walsh of the home service of the Red Cross those of tho men wno are able will accept special invitations to dine at private homes In the cit The others will have, their Vulctide dinners brought to them. Girls to Distribute Boxes. group of girls will distribute boxes of' home-made, candy, nuts, fruit Clgarets, woolen gloves, neckties. ham kercniefs. socks, writing paper and pencils to the men at Fort Douglas. Mrs. A H Pea-boo'v Pea-boo'v is ill charge of the musical program pro-gram Vk'trolas. loaned by the John Illicit Il-licit Clark company some time ago will turnish tnc music There will a so ! be amusement features by amateui enter- I Tbe'conimittee in charge includes Mrs. A. L. Hoppaugb. Mrs. A. H. Peabody. Mrs A V JIcKav, Mrs. A. H. Boxrud, i Mrs,: A. V. Graham, Mrs. W. A. Tyler 1 a TheIrgir' whoPwm distribute the hoses : are Miss Katherine Graham. Miss Ruth Jennings, Miss Catherine Hoppaugh, Miss kleanoTe Richards and Miss Hope Parker ! The local chapter of the Red Cross will ! furnish the decorations, fruits, nuts and fi&rei.- Tne presents have been pur-1 pur-1 haced through the contributions of the committee members and their friends. " r e service men registered at the So -rtic-s-' home Hir. East South Temple si.-eet which Is under the auspices of tne National Catholic War council, will be 1 , i ll a largo dinner to be given Fi -fsnuas day be the Salt Lake Red Cross chapter. Mrs. Hornbrook. matron of "the club, will prepare the dinner. |