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Show PROGRAMME GIVEN AT JACKSON SCHOOL j ! Before an audience of 619 parents and friends, there was presented last Friday evening the best musical Christmas Christ-mas programme ever given at the Jackson Jack-son school. In a charmingly rich contralto voice, Mrs. E A. Smith, wife of Dr. Ernest A. Smithf sang a number of solos. As the opening number, 176 pupils, from the kindergarten to the eighth grade, inclusive, presented twenty numbers of "Songs of Nations,' ' in costume, Dr. E. A. Smith spoke for a few moments mo-ments on the value of such entertainments entertain-ments from an educational and social standpoint. A committee' of parents, with Mrs. Lundy as chairman, announced an-nounced that it had raised sufficient funds for the purchase of a lantern and slides for school purposes. |