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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1931
Page
7
A 1931 Christmas weekend promises three festive days starting Friday with extensive family and community celebration. The piece suggests planning a detailed program from Christmas Day through Thursday December 31 to include meals, church services, outings, movies, tea times, and club gatherings for all ages.
Mrs Pinchot anticipates a hectic pre Christmas period with formal dances, New Year revelry, family dinners, and numerous club and church parties. The article paints a festive rush of gift exchanges, deductions, and social gatherings across communities, culminating in New Year celebrations.
The Christmas Eve midnight service at St Johns Episcopal Church features a choir procession with It Came Upon a Midnight Clear, the Te Deum by Schencker, a Communion Service in Do by E Wheatley Reade, the anthem Holy Night Peaceful Night by C B Hawley with Eldon Jones as soloist, and the recessional O Little Town of Bethlehem. Rev Peter M Dennis will celebrate the Eucharist and the public is invited to attend this holy midnight celebration.
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