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Show MUNICIPAL TEE ST OffiJS SUCCESS Young and Old Brave Snow to Be Present at Out-of-doors Celebration. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN", Dec. 24. Assembled around a sixty -five-foot Christmas tieea which illuminated the scone with its scores of colored globes and bijj flood lights, hundreds of Ogden people, both obi and young, participated this evening in Ogden 's third annual Christmas celebration cele-bration in Central park. A raw wind with flurries of snow was discomforting, discomfort-ing, but the outdoor celebration was otherwise successful. The programme was given at 5:30 o'clock from a covered platform erected near the big Christmas tree, which was formed by attaching evergreen .boughs to the tall steel flagstaff. City Commissioner M. 1. Jones introduced intro-duced Airs. Maude Deo Porter, chairman chair-man of the general committee, as the chairman of tho programme. Mrs. Porter Por-ter gave a brief history of the municipal muni-cipal Christmas tree movement in Ogden, Og-den, and Mayor A. R. Hey wood extended ex-tended municipal greetings to the citizens. citi-zens. There was also a brief address by Senator Joseph Chez. The programme was concluded with the tableaux under direction of T. Earl Pardoe and the singing of Christinas carols by a chorus of more Than 100 voices. Music was furnished by the Ogden Federation band. At the conclusion con-clusion of the programme the children marched to the west entrance of the city building, where they received bags of candy, fruit, nuts and crackers. The supplies for this distribution were donated do-nated by various Ogden firms. The distribution of 300 bags of candv and fruit to children quarantined in "homes aud unable to attend the public celebration cele-bration was also a feature of the municipal muni-cipal Christmas observance. |