December Meeting Y. M. C. A. Auxilary

DECEMBER MEETING Y. M. C. A. AUXILIARY

To see things move always lends zest to effort. So thought the members of the Women's Auxiliary of the Y. M. C. A. as they were gathered in the association rooms Monday afternoon for their December meeting.

The Auxiliary had recently held a memorable social event for its members at the home of Mrs. Wm. Goodyear, long to be remembered for the pleasure of the occasion and of untold value in strengthening the organization. During the fall the ladies had also assisted in promoting the association Bible classes, which in attendance, interest and results had been the best in its history. They were as much surprised as pleased, however, to be presented with $10 in gold by the members of the leaders' class in appreciation of the services they had rendered.

Another home had been offered to the Auxiliary for a chocolatiere and it was thought this might be held early in the new year. The proceeds would go into the fond for furnishing the new association building. An eagerness was apparent on the part of the ladies for the time to come when the empty rooms and bare walls of the new structure would be committed to them to be made cozy, home-like and fascinatingly attractive.

The state secretary, Mr. L. E. Buell, was present and when called upon, recounted briefly some of the recent developments in the association movement throughout the state. The first county work (for young men in small towns and country districts) had been opened up in Lenawee county. The canvass for a new building in Lansing had been encouraging. Industrial associations would probably soon be organized among the miners of the Upper Peninsula. Bible classes were being conducted with success at the noon hour in factories and railroad shops at Port Huron, Saginaw, West Detroit, Calumet and Hancock. A conference was soon to be held at Battle Creek for boys--the first attempt of this kind in Michigan. The next state convention would meet in Saginaw in February.

As always happens, the recital of things accomplished proved both interesting and inspiring, and the ladies present declared they had been well repaid for coming out on so cold a day.