Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-09-14
MEMS MEETINGS A PIG FEATURE
Secretary FeIIingham Has Secured
Notable Speakers For Sunday Ad-
dresses.

Rivaling the brilliant speakers who
will address the Searchlight Club. and
second only to 1t as a feature of the
Y. M. C. A. for the fall and winter,
| will be the Sunday afternoon meet
ings. For these meetings, the first
of which is to be held next Sunday
afternoon, Secretary Fellingham has
secured a list Of more than a dozen
speakers who would shine on any en-
tertainment' course. No such an effort
to provide attractive meetings and
speakers has ever been made by the
local association. The plan Is entirely
different from any ever followed be-
fore. The details of these meetings
are in the hands of a committee of
thirty young men, sub-divided into
four committees.
Each meeting will consist Of a mu-
steal program, the religious, service
proper, an hour for c%ultivating socia-
bility and personal intercourse and
lunch, all of which will last from 3:15
to 6 o'clock each Sunday afternoon.
For fifteen minutes, beginning at 3:15
o'clock, there will be given each Sun
day afternoon a program by an orches-
ira or mandolin club. The religious
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noon will last from $3.50 to 4:30 o'clock.
The hour from 1880 to $3.50 o'clock witt
be for the cultivation of sociability and
promoting fellowship between h men.
At $3.50 o'clock a fellowship tea" and
lunch will be served by young men Of
the association. The serving of the
lunches will be in charge of III. F. Ech-
ternacht, 1. o. Kemble, T. B. Woolson.
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Gilbert, c.. A. Newcomer and Will
Dickey. Some of the meetings may be
held in the gymnasium. owing to larg-
err seating capacity, and If that is not
large enough they will be taken to
some larger hall in the city.
The series will begin next Sunday,
with e. w. Peck, of Minneapolis, state
secretary Of the Minnesota Y. M. G. A.,
as speaker. Other speakers from out Of
the city! who have been engaged for
these meetings are Governor John H..
Mickey, of Lincoln, Neb.; President A.
B. Storms, of Iowa State College,
Ames; Professor Sylvester A. Long, Of
Dayton, o., a popular lecturer; Judge
w. S.. Kenyon, of Fort Dodge, who
scored such a hit before the Search
light Club; Rev. Merle N. Smith, of
Ackley, who may be assigned to the
local Methodist church: Rev. w. b.
Sanford, of Nevada, who has preached
at the Presbyterian church; Rev. O.. Fl.
L. Mason, of Boone: Roger Leavitt,
cashier of the Cedar Falls National
bank, and a member Of the board of
trustees Of the Iowa State Normal
College and Grinnell College; Mrs. 1sa-
belle Garghill Beecher, the noted read
err and entertainers; Miss Eva M.
Shontz, president Of the American
Young Peoples Christian Temperance
Union, and a sister of Chairman
Shontz, of the Isthmian Canal Commits
sion. and Professor w. e. Hamilton, of
the chair Of philosophy, of Simpson
College. Indianola. Besides these, all
OF whom have been secured at such a
price that 1t is believed the collections
will pay for their services, leading
local speakers will assist.
Today Secretary Fellingham closed
an arrangement with President George
e. Mclean, of the state university,
Iowa City, to address the mems meet
ing on october "a