Bisbee daily review., 1906-10-21
Y. M. c. A. NOTES

The coming ten days at the Y. Nj. c. A. building promise to be very busy ones and there is to be great deal of interest for the membership. The To- cal officers have been kept very busy for the past two months getting the fall season started and now many of the activities of the association are under way.
 For the coming week. Oct. 24-26, the conference at Douglas will hold the center of interst. This is the first Y. M. c. A. conference to be held in the southwest and from reports re- ceived yesterday from Secretary ket- tie at Douglas there will be much larger attendance than has been an ticipated by the officers of the asso- citation. Las Vegas, N. M., will send IA delegates. Messilla Park. N. M., where Is situated the agricultural col lege, will send a delegation of g to represent their student Y. M. c. A. Bisbee will be in line with about 20 delegates. One to five men will come from twenty different unoTganizeo points in the two territories. The names of the men who are to repre- sent the Bisbee association will be given out Tuesday. Many are as yet uncertain as to their ability to make the necessary arrangements to attend.
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 On Wednesday night of this week the first number of the Y. M. c. A. concert course will appear. The open ing number is the Midland Opera Qnintette, which is composed of two gentlemen and three ladies. There has already been subscribed for over one hundred course tickets and it is expected that many more will be sub- scribed for before the opening num- Ter Wednesday evening. The course is to consist of five numbers, one to appear each month from now until February, 1907. Thos. McClary, the noted lecturer. is to appeaer in No vember. the Royal Male Quarette will appear in December For the January number enc of tie finest readers in the country has been SC cured in the person of Mrs. Calvin Chiffon, and Marshall Choate Crouch will close the series in February. This is proving to be very popular course with the members and great treat may be expected in the opening num- her. The program on Wednesday eve ming will consist of solos. duets, trios and cuartettes The company has with it a violinist and pianist. Iii the latter part of he program a can tata will be given.
 For the coming Saturday and Sun day the focal association is to have M- Fred s. Goodman, of the interna- tional committee of the Y. M. c. A. ill New York, for series of conferences on Bible study and the religious work of the association. On next Sunday afternoon large mems meeting will | be held in the Y M. c. A. building. | On Saturday evening it has been ar ranged to have Mir. Goodman meet the members of the a5socIat,on at tea, | following which there will be an in formal social and conference.
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 The night school of the association | has opened up with very good at 1 tendance. The Spanish classes are well under way and new members | coming in at each session. The class i in bookkeeping has been growing steadily until the supply of books mas heen exhausted and more members will be admitted as soon as the new order of books shall arrive. About the first Wednesday in the new month will see the organization of the mechanical drawing class. And 6 | few weeks later the class in first aid 10 the injured will be started. The class in English fer foreign speaking young men is meeting with every en couragement as it is quite likely that .he next few weeks will see a teach CT installed and this class begun.
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 When She Y. M c. A. took over tht building ladies were entirely excluded from the privilege of membership al the association conducts work pri marily for men. There has been quit, a demand from the members of lat, 10 have the ladies admitted to tht Gse of the bowling alleys. It has beer suggested that the alleys be reserves one night in the week for the use O both ladies and gentlemen. The bowl ing committee will hold a meetin; within the next few days and the mat ter definitely decided at that time Altogether the association building i
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