This Day in History: 1913-12-22

The Christmas entertainment of the Reformed Church Sunday School featured a play: The Greatest Gift” presented by 25 pupils. A series of costumed “pleasures” were brought before Goddess Bountiful until the greatest Gift, Christmas, brought the play to its climax. The cast consisted of: Ethel Sisco Goddess Bountiful), Minnie Hopper (Peace), Helen Moessner (Plenty), David Winter (Columbus), Emma Hopper (Queen Elizabeth), Bessie Mabie (Betsy Ross), Richard Wanamaker (Sailor), Celia Bante (Florence Nightingale), Mary Kennedy (Dame Fashion), Melvin Lane(Newsboy), Ratie Lawrence (Dame Fortune), Evelyn King (Cook), Olive Valentine (Cupid), Hazel Winter (Moonlight), Hazel Cooper (Night), Lizzie Lawrence (Daylight), Helen Scherer (Christmas), Margret King, Dorothy Valentine, Eva Doremus, and Mabel King (Pages), Jesse Slavin and James Glasgow (Heralds), Andrew Hopper and George Scherer (Soldiers). Gifts were given to worthy scholars and every child got chocolates and an orange. The pupils gave the Dykema Mazda lamps and a Seth Thomas clock. (Bristow)