The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1912-03-07
CANVASS
TO BEGIN
FRIDAY
CANVASS FOR s5o,ooo FOR Y. Y.M.C.t.
TO LAST ELEVEN
~ DAYS.


.,Y. NJ. C. A. building for Canon City
win begin next Friday. March sth.
The effort Will extend over a period
of eleven days. continuing to Marcn
18th inclusive
On the evening of March 7th the
complimentary banquet will be given
to the workers and such men as Geo.
D. McDin. of Chicago. and VIM. E.
Sweet of Denver. are expected as
guests of honor. On the following
morning the various business mems
teams headed by Mr.. Archie White. ..
Denver. and the young mems teams,
4 captained by Mr. C. w. Van Patten.
Awill go forth 10 secure the desired
funds with which 10 erect an adequate
plant for the local Young Mems
Christian association.
This organization had its inception
Canon City twenty years ago next
September in the building which s;
now owns. In a prayer meeting in the
4 upper front room OF the then Cum
berland Presbyterian church the Can
on City Y. VI. c. A. was born.
How gratifying II Is TO the admirers
Of this worthy organization that such
promising prospects are Immediately
before IT. How very appropriate i
viii be 10 build handsome structure
for this organization which has Just
-roomed around or been inadequate
A ly housed for the past twenty years.
In the twentieth year Of its life
Like a young man without a home
this friend OF men has been un-
/ able to make the most OF Its life. A
few years ago those Cody people
the Cumberland Presby;erians. do
mated to the Association their much
beloved property. This was the great
est real gift the Institution had re-
. ceived. and Immediately adapted itself
TO the church building to which I, fell
heir. inadequate az It vas for It's
needs.
For a number OF years the friends
OF the institution have realized the
handicap under which it has been la
boring and have earnestly hoped, for
the time TO arrive when an adequate
piant-a building adapted to the three
fold needs OF the organization could
be secured.
Twenty years Of favorable existence
In community will make an individ-
uai. or an institution many admirers.
and now seems to be the time TO moro
comfortably house this friend OF hu-
manity whose paramount purpose Is
TO edify tho souls OF living men and
boys. The development OF spirit. mind,
ebody. is Its worthy ihree-fold aim. An
open door inviting men and boys to
wholesome. salubrious Christian en-
J vironment 365 days and nights In the
year is it's objective.
What worthy citizen would In any
way discourage the men OF Canon
City in an effort to make such an M
stitutlon OF greater benefit in the fu-
ture than II has been in the past with
the prominent business and profess
sionai men named in last evenings
paper at the helm surely the under
taking will be safely launched, sue
ccssfuily manned and securely land
ed.
Every citizen OF Canon City will
surely lend n helping hand and aid Ia,
building this house by the side of
the road SO In the voice OF the poet
our friend the Y. NJ C. A. pleads D
Canon City citizens:
let me live In house by the side of
the road
As the race OF men 20 by,
Tho men who are good and the men
who are bad
As good and as bad as I.
7 xonld mt ait In tho eeorner'n eoat