The sun., 1900-11-28
MAKING EXTENSIVE
PLANS FOR THE
HOLIDAY SEASON
Y. NJ. G. A. Will Observe Sum
day, December % as Christ
mas Sunday.
NEW YEARS DAY RECEPTION
This Annual Event for the Young
Men of This City Will be
Made Unusually Inter-
esting. Building to
be Decora ed.

Extensive preparations arc being made
holidays. Sunday, December 90 will be
observed as Christmas Sunday. The
speaker Of the day will be/1,eg. II. y.
Cook, the wcll-k1own pastor of the
Calvary Baptist Church. The program
for this service &ilL-Se Of more than
ordinary interest.
IN earnest cndeayur will lie made to
make annual New Years Day reception
| the event Of the year for the young men
Of the city.
Ihr building will be decorated through
out and every Young man in the city will
be urged TO visit the building and enjoy
the excellent program which viii be
rendered and partaEc OF the light re-
frcshments which will be served by the
Ladies' Auxiliary Of the Association
With the greatly increased facilities
which have been added the building is
becoming more popular every day and is
being frcquented by a large number
of men.
The gospel services at the young mems
Sunday meetings are becoming more
poular every week and the program
which has been arranged for next Sun
day will serve to bring out larger mum
ber of men tnan has been in the hall
for several weeks.
The speaker will be Rev. w. III. Got
nald, ID. D., of Washington, d. c., whs
will make an address of special interest
to young men and as he is an interest
ing and helpful speaker his address will
be listened to with great interest A
special program of song will be rendered
by the Y. NJ. 6. A. male quartet which
has been recently organized and they will
render number of the best of gospel
songs.
The religious work committee of the
Association outlined number of very
interesting services for the next few
weeks and Il partial list is as follows:
Sunday, December 9Th, State Secretary
c. Il. Trihbtts of Washington, ID. G.,
who will also address a meeting for boys
on Saturday afternoon, December s. Mr..
Tribbitts is an excellent speaker and
has many interesting and attractive
topics which he will discuss at these
meetings.
Sunday. December 16 will be observed
as Temperance Day and there will be
number of interesting addresses by a
number of we'll informed temperance
workers of our city and very attractive
program is being arranged for the SER
vice.
Sunday, December 80 will be observed
as Decision Day and very interesting
program is being prepared for the SER
vice en- that day. Being the last Sun
day of this year the service will be of
more than ordinary interest.
The coming week will be observed by
the members of the Association as a
week of prayer and short prayer ser
vices will be held at 1890 noon and 9.15
p. M, commencing with Monday, De
cember and continuing until the Sth
They will be of especial interest to young
men and any who desire are invited to
attend any of the services.
The gymnasium classes are being
largely attended and the members are
becoming proficient in the intricate drll
and apparatus work which is given by
Physical Director McEldowney. On ac-
count of the large number of business
and professional man desiring to use
the gymnasium special classes have
been arranged as follows: Monday, Wed
nesday and Friday, students class ut 4
p IN. and business mems class at D. m.
The exhibition class is preparing an
interesting program for the next indoor
athletic events which will be held on the
evening of December 49,
The second and fourth Friday of each
month have been set apart as ladies
night mt which time the friends of the
members can visit the building and view
The work Of the gymnasium classes
from to p. IN.
The various committees of the Assn-
citation are actively at work arranging
for number Of interesting and novel
events in the near future.
The Woman's Auxiliary Of the Asso-
clation held an interesting meeting on
Monday afternoon and reports were
had from the bazaar committee which |
reported that the results were very en- |
and the prospects are that the |
Association will receive large sum of |
money from the proceeds of the affair. /
The ladies have furnished room in the |
Association building which will he used |
as parlor and meeting room for the
auxiliary and the committees.
The auxiliary wishes to extend the
hearty thanks of the Association to all
who have aided in any way in making
the bazaar n success.
All the departments of the Association
are now complete and the bowling alleys
which were opened on last Saturday are
very popular with the members and there
is talk of organizing teams among the
business men. educational class men and
committee men TO compete for the
championship of the Association.
As Thanksgiving Day is on Thnrniay
Of this week the mechanical drawing
class will not hold its session.
Ne aIGsEticna. uiaSsc, are 5ai..; at