Pasquotank Tribe No. 8, Improved Order of Red Men, will have charge of the distribution of Christmas joy at the Children’s Home Christmas Eve night.
Every child will be substantially remembered together with the matron, farmer, cook and roustabout. The home also will be supplied with some needed and attractive fixings, a committee has been busy for several days in the buying of presents and clothing as well as the setting up of a Christmas tree.
“Many of the children at the home,” said Mrs. Anna Lewis, welfare officer, “have never seen Santa Claus, and his visit is looked forward to with anticipation of overflowing joy. When the prospects of this Christmas are compared with those of the past years in the lives of these children there develops a contrast of unbelievable difference. Some of these children were sleeping on the floor a year ago. But today they are receiving Christian training are comfortably clad and are receiving wholesome and strengthening food.
“The Red Men have accorded its pro rata of support ever since the home was established, and their work of Christmas Eve night is a topping off of which their endorsement of the work which this institution is performing.”
From the front page of the Elizabeth City Daily Advance, Wednesday evening, Dec. 24, 1924
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