Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-06
Address to Be Read Here Last
Sunday in December.
CLOSING OF TWENTIETH CENTURY.
The Wce-President-EIe Will Speak
in New York City at Same Time the
Same Address is Being Read
Turnout the Country.

AT the mems meeting at the 7. M. y.
A. on the last Sunday of December,
the people of this city will listen to
all address by Vice-president-elect
Theodore Roosevelt. 1t is recognized
by the officers of the association that
the last Sunday of the year is one up
on which vast amount of good may
be accomplished, and this being the
last Sunday Of the great twentieth CEN
tuIy, the officers of the Ottumwa as.
ISOLATION have effected plan whereby
the occasion may be observed in fit
ting manner.
How He Will Talk.
Vice-president-elect Theodore Roose-
welt will address the young men of the
continent, at the close of the century,
setting standard of manhood and
citizenship with his unique skill and
forcefulness, and the Y. M. G. A., with
its unrivaled equipment for the pur.
pose, will give him the greatest audi
ence ever addressed by any man in
the history of the country. He will
speak at Carnegie hall, in New York
City, Sunday, December 30,at o'clock
under the auspices of the international
committee, which will in advance send
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the associations in the United States
and Canada, to be read simultaneously
at their meetings. In every city and
town the cooperation of leading men
will be had and the foremost citizens
will gladly listen to Gov. Roosevelt's
address.
Passing of the Century.
To pass from one century to an
other is an event experienced but once
in lifetime: to pass from a century
of such marvellous achievements as
have been witnessed in the nineteenth
into century of such vast promise
as the twentieth is an experience for
this generation alone, and the fact
that our people can listen to an adj
dress from Governor Roosevelt upon
such fitting occasion, is an event
that will doubtless be taken advantage
of by many. No advance copies of
this address will be furnished until af-
ter it has been read, and the newspa-
pers will be unable to obtain it be-
fore then.
Arrangements have been completed
for I. D. Foster, president of the
Y. M. G. A. of this city to read Cover
nor Roosevelt's address and elaborate
arrangements will be made for the pro-
vision of singing that will make an en-
tertainment worthy of eyeryones at
tentlon. 1t may be possible that the
Grand opera house will be secured for
this purpose as it is thought this
event will draw an audience that will
more than fill the Y. M. C. A. audi.
| torium.
Religious Work Committees.
The regular monthly meeting of the
| different committees of the religious
work department of the Y M. G. A.
was held last night in the Office of B. C.
Wade, general secretary of the associ'
alton. The work of the past month
was discussed and new plans formulat.
ed in regard to the work of the future
The reports showed that unusual ac
tivity is being displayed by the differ
cnt committees. The following were
in attendance last evening: G. w
Messenger, chairman of the religious
work department; J. R. Young, H. A
Graham, c. E. McElroy, T. B. Kidd and
e. DUNCAN, each a chairman of sub
department.