The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-22
,...-.stine Meeting Held Sunday A.
+ernoon at the Young Mems
Christian Association
Rooms.
TALKS MADE
r,ose Who Represented keokuk at
the Convention in Des Moines
Told About the Big
Affair.

4Echoes of the State Convention" at
.ba Young Mems Christian Associa- 1
,ion Sunday afternoon meeting
brought forth quite a large attendance
and the talks made. by those rep
.asented Keokuk were very interest
,ng C. R. Joy, president of the asso-
ciation, presided at the meeting
q D, Streeter, who represented the
ho.rd AT the convention held in Des
Moines said that he was Influenced to
90 to the convention by. what T. 8.
wcFeeder of st. Louis told Of the
value Of attending convention to the
husiness man. He was unable to be
nresent throughout the entire sessions
II the convention, but even the little
lime he was able to spend there was
very inspiring and made 1t we'll worth
the trip. He felt that if prominent
men Of the state OF Iowa could go to
these conventions and promote the
work. he certainly could. He espee-
ially urged the men present to attend
the next convention.
Henry Strickler told of the religious
work sectional conference at whlcn
thew discussed methods used over the
state. At that sectional conference
Norris A. King read paper prepared
BY Prof P. c. Hayden on Our Present
Sunday Afternoon Plan" The pa
per was favorably commended upon
BY delegates. He also spoke OF the
Sunday afternoon meeting for men adj
dressed by Fred B. Smith, we'll known
religious worker of the association,
and at which there were 1900 men
present. At that meeting eighty ex-
pressed desire to begin living a
Christian life. 4
Extension Work. e +
R. d Chamberlin told of the adj
dress Of Frank H. Burt, of the Chicago
Training school, on "The Quality of
Men Secured as Employed officers"
He urged the association to be more
careful about the men employed to
carry on the work, as to their educa-
ton, personality and experience. He
spoke of the county work as carried
on in this country and compared 1T
with the city association work. Mr..
Chapberlin in addition told OF the
physical directors conference when
the extention work was taken up
quite thoroughly He read a paper
at this conference on the extension
work done in Keokuk.
Norris A. King told of the Lincoln
day banquet at which there were pres.
ent 400 men, including business men
of Des Moines and delegates to the
convention The program consisted
of eulogies Of Lincoln as well as talks
on association work. He spoke Of the
two meetings held on Sunday, one a
preparatory meeting in the morning
conducted by Fred B. Smith and the
other the farewell meeting of the con
vention held in the evening.
H. T. Bowers told of the address
made by DR.. Steiner of Grinnell, who
is a teacher and author of socialog
ical study. He eulogized the fac
that the association should do it, par
In bringing together the man in over
all and "the man with the white col
lar job Also he told Of the address
by Fred B. Smith on "Eyangelisti'
Emphasis of the Work" He said tina
association members should assist il
making men live more Christian
lie and If this was done many othe
problems would be settled.
c. H. Wolfe gave an excellent pho
nograph concert which was greatly en-
1oyed by those present.