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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1900
Page
8
Special Christmas services filled many churches with simple tasteful decorations as sermons spoke on the actual Jesus and living truth. Unitarian talks contrasted ideal and historical Jesus while Eliot and Highland Congregational churches presented concert programs, readings, and choral works led by local pastors and choirs.
A sequence of largely mild to windy conditions marked the Christmas weekend with clear days and packed streets while forenoon winds stirred dust. Frost and rain followed, then fog returned this morning as temperatures edged up toward springlike levels. Indications point to colder weather with southwest winds tonight and Tuesday in Massachusetts.
A compact late December 1999 note from the Lowell Daily Courier covering a local event or brief. Details are limited in the supplied OCR fragment but center on a community item reported on December 21, 1999.
Horne's coal company and H Babbitt optician advertise in Merrimack with a Christmas party at Lester's on 36 Prescott Street. Pease's orchestra performs. Shattuck & Son promote silver knives and carving forks. W T S Bartlett Hardware showcases imported items. Merrimack Valley Inter-club League opens Friday at Vesper clubhouse with Highland Club vs Vespers in bowling billiards and whist. A five-year-old boy from Richmond Street is found safe after wandering. he is returned to Kirk Street Day Nursery by Officer Grady.
The central city will see iron posts replace wooden ones to bear about 26 underground wiring boxes. Fire boxes will be mounted on four foot posts along Market Street and nearby streets, with police department boxes atop posts, while many Market Street poles will be removed for now.
The Cambridge Medical Improvement Seroclation held a meeting at the Colonel club in Cambridge at night. Present were physicians from Arlington Belmont and Helmont with Edmund Reardon of the Cambridge park commission and Cambridge City Engineer Hastings. The Undrained Area Between Arlington Belmont and Cambridge was discussed. W Lyman Underwood of the Belmont board of health spoke. The meeting favored immediate reclamation to protect public health and urged united action by interested cities and towns. A committee was formed to cooperate with an existing committee to pursue the goal.
The Kirk Street church auditorium glowed with red decor and festive flowers for services. A choir performed a Christmas anthem as attendees noted solemn decorations and the season’s spirit filling the space.
Christmas was observed at the High Street church with Rev. Huntington delivering a sermon from Behold the Man. Music featured the regular choir joined by four guest singers and a cellist. Organist Miss Coburn stood in for Miss Anna Melendy. Decorations by Whittet included palms and ferns. Evening hosted a Christmas Sunday school concert led by Mrs. C. C. Ober with child performers and duets. The annual Christmas tree and supper for Sunday school children are planned for Thursday, Dec. 27 at 4 and 5 p.m.
Rev Geo Johnson speaks of Christmas joy needing a child to feel true wonder. He contrasts worldly appetite with a child’s gaze at windows and dolls, urging spiritual reflection over material pursuits and the path to righteousness.
The church hosted festive decorations and a Christmas concert by Sunday school children. Participants included Mary Underwood Maud Whiting Harry Davis Alice Freeman and many others in multiple classes under Miss Page Miss Silcox and Mrs Howes. Rev W G Poor delivered talks and soloists Mrs Park and Mrs Roberts gave enjoyable solos.
Christmas Sunday services at First Trinitarian Church drew a large crowd with an orchestra, organ music, and a children’s choir of about 50. The morning sermon by Rev. George F. Kenngett centered on Luke 1 32 34 proclaiming the greatness and divine kingship of Christ, and the story of the Christ Child was told touchingly.
Yesterday morning and evening the Epworth League held Christmas services and a concert. The program featured organ preludes, songs by the primary and junior departments, recitations, and multiple choirs. Notable performances included “Holy Night Peaceful Night” and “Jesus Went Once a Little Child,” with many participants named among the students and teachers.
A large audience filled the church last night for a vesper service replacing the usual Sunday school concert. The programme, published in Saturday's Citizen, proceeded creditably with a chorus of well known singers including sopranos Bertha G. Wilcox Daisy Ripley Duncan Flora B. Morse Carrie L. Philbrick Grace L. Farrell Eva Lombardaltos Elizabeth Thorne A F Salmon Mabel E Hunt Georgia T. Storey Lillian M. Wool Laura Moore tenors J F Slater Carl Noyes Albert Whitworth Rupert N. Brissett Arthur Johnson basses Frank Morse J Gordon Lee Harry J Maguire W H Worcester with Filla M. Gale organist. Arthur H. Sater director. Sarah Bernice Gilman reader. Mabel Hunton violinist.
At St Pauls M E church Sunday evening the Christmas exercises of the Sunday school featured a canopy frame Bethlehem Bell with white lights and a central red glow. The program emphasized readings and music with infant recitations and a young chorus led by Mr Murphy and Mrs Jenkins guided by Rev L W Staples. Assistant events set for Tuesday at 6 39 oclock.
At Centralville Methodist Church last evening a Christmas concert featured a dialogue exercise by Misser Nettle Bowen and Lillian Dunce with singing and recitations. Miss May Davies gave the welcome, and Duniny Cluer Elia Mariel Albert Edmeonde performed. a trio by Mrs C W Johnson Mise Daley Cluer and Mise Com Titus impressed the audience as Rev John Peterson spoke to the children.
Central M church celebrated Christmas Sunday with joyful spirit. Altar railings, evergreen and young spruce trees adorned the circle area and decorations hung around the church. The event reflected a tone of cheerful observance reminiscent of past forefathers.
The scriptural cantata at the Primitive Methodist church proceeded as planned with chorus singing by children and a largely attended program.
The Sunday school Christmas program titled First Christmas Story featured readings by Misses Watson Thorne Gregory Sidebottom and others. Children performed dialogues Light of the World and recitations as Rev A E Kenyon addressed the congregation. Vocal solos by Watson Locke Thorne and a charming infant chorus, under Bertha Locke, rounded out the program organized by Kenyon Penn Thomas with organist Winifred Kershaw.
A Christmas program features a series of readings and recitations by Helen Stephens Eleanor Dows Stella Fairweather Helen Hills and Helen McGregor, with carols and hymns including The Chorus of Old Christmas Night and Bethlehem. Students Nellie Gooch Georgianna Overton Laura Cook and Ruth Foss join in songs and exercises under Miss Eloise B Hills and Chester Dows with remarks by the pastor.
Choruses were finely given by the junior and primary departments at the Paige Street church Christmas concert last night. Mra. Batchelder and Miss Wilson led the program with songs, carols, and recitations by several named participants. The event featured multiple class exercises, an address by the pastor, a church quartet, and a congregational hymn.
The junior and primary departments presented a Christmas concert last evening under superintendent Roscoe Thomas. The First Christmas Story was the program title, with recitations and songs excellently performed by four part chorus and the church choir assisting. Pastor Rev. H. W. Gee spoke briefly and fittingly.
Readable fragment notes a First Presbyterian service featuring organ voluntaries, carols, prayers, and hymns ending with Glory in the High. Mentions Herall Angels and generic concert elements in a worship context.
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