The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1917-08-16
VAN PATTEN AT.
Y. M. CA. SUMMER
SCHOOL WRITES
STUDENTS DO HARD WORK TO
PASS EXAMS. MR.. VAN PATTEN
WILL RETURN TO CANON NEXT
WEEK.

Secretary C. W. Van Patten, who
has been in attendance at the Y NJ. C.
A. summer school and officers con-
ference at Estes Park for the last two
weeks. is expected home next Mon
day. In the course of letter written
a couple of days ago. Mr.. Van Patten
says:
Thursday of this week was exam
ination day and all of US tried to
make as good grades as possible. but
with what result we have not yet
been informed. There was a lot OF
hard work done in getting ready for
the exams and il there were any fail
ures it will not be thru Indifference in
preparation for the ordeal.
About fifty of us went to the sum-
nit of Longs Peak the other evening
1t is six miles from the "Y'' camp and
some pretty stiff hiking" had to be
done to get there. We had Enos Mills
as our special guest at one of those
celebrated chicken dinners where one
gets all OF the fried chicken he can
encompass. with wild raspberry jam
and other "fiixins.' At the close OF
the dinner Mr.. Mills gave a very en-.
;ertaining talk on animal and plant
life in the Rocky Mountain National
Park, much TO the delight OF his au-
ditors. One of the interesting things
he told US was that he had made the
ascent to the top of Longs Peak.
which reaches a height of 1880 feet
above sea level. more than three hun
dred times.
THE party returned to camp by
moonlight. which is exceedingly bril-
liant at this altitude.
Bishop Francis ]. Mcconnell. of
the Methodist Episcopal church Is to
speak here on Friday and the students
are looking forward with pleasure to
hearing him. We also have here Rev.
Z. B. Pratt. the former evangelist.
whom many Canon City people will
remember. He is now with the Y. NJ.
C. A. secretarial force and has charge
of the religious work at the military
cantonment at Fort Riley, Kansas.
Mr.. C. G. Lord. who has supervision o
the army work at Fort Riley is also at
Estes Park this week He Is here for
the purpose of lining up men for asso.
citation work at Fort Riley. They are
erecting eight buildings there for Y.
N. c. a. work which IL will take forty
men to take care of.
"Joe Greenway, whom everybody In
Canon City knows. has been assigned
10 Fort SILL Oklahoma There is GO
ing to be tremendous and urgent
call within the next few months for
trained secretaries to do the " NJ. c.
A. work in the army concentration
camps.
Last Saturday night we had our
annual minstrel show with General
Secretary Page OF Houston. Texas. as
interlocater. II was "A bowling sue
cess"
Last Sunday John Timothy Stone
OF the Fourth Presbyterian church OF
Chicago. preached to an assembiage
OF about Ave hundred people In As
sembiy hall. We had In the congresa-
ton millionaires from Estes Park vii
iage. etc. People stood up around the
edges OF the hall during the service.
AT this meeting they raised about
$4,000 in fifteen minutes for the Estes
Park conference work. People gave
more. and with better spirit. than
In any previous year. This shows
that giving is largely matter OF edu-
cation The more we give for such a
purpose the more we xnnf to-"