The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-05-22
ACTION TAKEN FOR
MAKING ORGAN|zA-
T|ON PERMANENT
Board of Directors Was Chos-
en- by Thirty-Seven Incor-
porators Assembled at Ma
sonic Temple.
A BANQUET FOLLOWED
AT REID CHURCH.
High Tribute Was Paid to the
Work of Field Secretary
Chas. BroWn-Many Inter-
esting Talks Made.

Tuesday, May II, will go down in
the archives of the Y. NJ. c. A, in
Richmond as one of the red letter
days of the campaign for a local as
sociation, which in reality has been
conducted for many years. as the board
of directors was elected, at the Com
mercial rooms by thirty-seven incor-
porators, while the banquet given at
night by and at the expense of the la
dies of the churches of Richmond. un-
der the auspices of the young men 5
committee, was fitting climax to the
labor that has thus far been done in
Richmond toward the cause.
Trustees Choice Delayed
Shortly after five O'Clock thirty-sev-
en- men gathered at the rooms of the
Commercial club 10 elect directors
and trustees. The fifteen directors
were named, but owing to techni-
cality in the law requiring the cleo
ton of trustees within thirty days aft
er the articles of incorporation are
filed the selection of the seven trus-
tees was postponed until next Monday
night at $50 o'clock. at which time
the incorporators will again meet and
name the trustees. who will have been
nominated by the executive committee
in the meantime The executive COM
mittee was appointed nominating
board and will select number of
names of men who are prominent in
Richmond's business affairs and va
ried interests and these will be bal
lotted upon.
Directors Are Chosen.
The directors elected Tuesday after
noon are Geo. II. knollenberg. Sharon
j.. Jones. E. X Shera. r. G.. McMahan.
w. S. Hiser. ID. r Ellabarger. A NJ.
Gardner. Richard Sedgwick, Arthur l..
Smith. j. S. Harris. Howard A. Dill,
Clarence Kramer. Chas. n. Moore.
William Russell and A. l.. Bramkamp.
The men who signed the articles of
incorporation and sanctioned the elec
tion of the directors were Timothy
Nicholson. Benjamin Johnson. John B.
Dougan. Geo. H. Knollenberg. Samuel
Dickinson. NJ. c. Henley, Chas. III.
Moore. Samuel W. Gaar. John II.
johnson. Thomas J. Graham. Henry
Gennett Omar Fl. Hollingsworth.
Hill. Charles s. Bond John Mccarthy.
John A. Evans, Z. G.. McMahan. Allan
l.. Bramkamp. Sharon f. Jones. Ad-
am II. Bartel. J. S. Harris. Robert l..
Kelly, Lee b. Nusbaum. John NJ
Coate. Jesse S. Reeves. C. H. Kramer.
W. S. Hiser. J. b. Gordon. Joseph II.
Mills. Howard A. Dill Arthur L.
Smith. o. Owen Kuhn, c. S. Rhoads
and Eugene Stacy.
A Representative Body.
In speaking of the number of incor-
porators of the association in Rich |
mond. f. E. Stacy. state secretary.
stated that never before in Indiana had
he seen such representative lot of
business men at an incorporation
meeting. and never before in the state
had there been as many incorporators
of like institution He said the in
terest shown in the directors meeting
was remarkable and predicted good
things for the future in that so many t
business men are so closely identi- /
fled with the movement and are TAX /
ing such great interest in the work
Objects of Association
In the articles of Incorporation the
objects of the Richmond association
are given as follows: Support and
maintenance of lectures. sermons. lii
braries, reading rooms. social and re-
ligious meetings and physical social. +
mental. moral and spiritual improve
ment of youth and young men of
Wayne county and all other youths or
young men as may hereafter be resi-
dents of said county. and all railroad /
employees residing or running into said .
county.
Secretary Stacy explained that the +
clause pertaining to railroads is In
serted because if at some future date
there is a railroad y. NJ C. a. estab- 1
1ished here. and controlled separate
1y. il would be merely n section of the i
main local association. He said III
conjunction with this that he thought
there is probability of railroad as
sociation being established here as
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