St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-10-02
ANNUAL MEETING OF Y. n. c. A.

An Excellent Financial Showing and
an Encouraging RepOrtfrOm the Gem
eral Secretary.
The annual meeting of the Y. M. c. A.
was held Friday evening, and all friends
Of this worthy institution must be graft
fed at it's present condition. The treas
urer's report showed there was a small
balance in the treasury with all the bills
for the year paid. The president, Robert
Mackinnon, thought this condition was
one of great qualification, and he said a
lasting debt OF gratitude was due to Rev.
Mr.. Hunt for starting the association
again, to the finance committee for get
ting the necessary funds for the years
work, and to Secretary McGown for his
faithful and successful work.
The principal report of the evening was
the secretary S which we give in full.
when your secretary commenced
work last December there were 80
names on our books wishing to become
members of the association. Since that
time SO have Joined for the gymnasium
privileges; Ga boys from 9 to 16 years of
age, and 145 men constitute our con-
tributing members. So the entire roll is
302. During the past nine months l
have served as general secretary and
gymnasium instructor. In the gymna-
SUM 80 classes were held for the juniors
with an average attendance of %; 81
classes for the Academy boys with
average attendance of 8; 21 classes for
the Academy boys with an average
atteL3ance of 70; and 21 classes
for the townspeople with an average at
tendance of II. During the winter we
had several basket ball games amongst
ourselves and the business men had two
nice spreads of good things. Special
effort was put forth along religious lines,
twenty-three Sunday afternoon meetings
were held, with An average attendance
OF Al, and our hearts were made glad by
seeing two take definite stand tor the
right, and one other was taken into the
church. Sixty per cent of the men pres
ent were members of the church. But
who can estimate the good that must
have come to the other 40 per cent, to
many of whom this was their only re.
ligious service. Our Bible class was too
late in the season in starting and had
only six sessions. The Wednesday even
ing prayer meeting was a very helpful
occasion and was we'll attended. Our
educational committee was not idle,
holding two freside or practical talks,
with an attendance OF 3S and 40. The
social committee gave reception to the
general secretary which was a big
success, and then they gave a phono-
graph experiment with an attendance of
245. Last but not least was the effort
put forth for our boys. There were two
educational trips, with an average at
tendance of 30; a turkey supper, at
which 60 hungry boys were made happy,
and sleigh ride to Lyndonville, on
which "a boys had a chance to shout to
their hearts content. These with nut
cracks and the trip to Camp Brooks
with party Of Is boys, made the boys
happy and interested. Thus the winter
and spring months were used, but when
summer came nothing seemed more fit
ting than to have garden salon. This
was opened free to the public, and scores
of young men visited our salon that
never were in the Association building
before. During the salon period two re-
ceptions were held, one to the Knights of
Pythias and the other to the st. Johns
bury band. With the salon, the boys
camp and the repairs on the building,
the year had good ending.
with no current expense bills to hand
leap us, good growing membership
and good homelike plant, and men
ready to assume possibility, and who
want to see things go, we have a very
pleasing future before us. May God
bless us and honor us with his presence,
giving wisdom and strength is my
earnest prayer. For no association or
body of men, ever had greater opportu-
nifty, than this field offers to us this win
ter. May we forget the past and lay
hold of the future privileges"
Murray E. Clifford, on behalf Of the
nominating committee. presented the
following list of officers and they were
unanimously elected:
President, Robert Mackinnon.
First V. P, L. N. Smythe.
Second v P, ]. M. Perham.
Treas, Don c. Stiles.
Sec., George c. Cowling.
Directors, Frank H. Brooks, Henr
Fairbanks, Rolfe Cobleigh, E. L. Hunt
c. c. Bingham, D. Y. Comstock, Georg
Ranney, M. E. Clifford, John o. Hale, f
l. Staples, David Knowlton, Charlie
Chadbourne.
The report of the trustees having Nj
sic Hall in charge is as follows:
Balance onhand beginning
of year, $369.10