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Show SUNDAY MS PASSESQ1TLY Christmas in Ogden passed quietly, quiet-ly, the vast majority preferring to seek entertainment in private Christ-Dras Christ-Dras Eve was given over largely to entertainment of a public nature but. the fact that Christmas foil on Sunday Sun-day detracted from the usual hilarity of the occasion. While the weather conditions wero Ideal, but not from a Christmas stand point The light snow of a few days ago had almost entirely disappeared and tho warm, bright sunshine compelled com-pelled thoughts of an early spring day rather than those of Christmas with enough chill to Invigorate, It was ery pleasant weather for riding rid-ing or driving and many a Christmas dinner was followed by a motor drive. As a result of Christmas falling on Sunday many Christmas entertainments entertain-ments and Yuletide gatherings will bo held early this week. Today will also be quite generally observed as a holiday. Some of the stores will give their clerks a half holiday and In many Institutions of tho city business busi-ness will remain suspended until tomorrow. to-morrow. General Christmas conditions were very satisfactory' In this city. Merchants Mer-chants and tradesmen have no complaint com-plaint to make and report a very liberal lib-eral Christmas business. Shopping was especially heavy on Friday and ! Saturday and tho amount of money spent in the city on these two days alone would mount up into the thousands. thou-sands. A large number of holiday parties and entertainments of various kinds have been planned for this week and several notable social functions will take dace before New Year's Year end celebrations In the form of watch parties are also being planned. Public watch parties will be held at the local theatres in addition to countless private pri-vate parties. -on |