The Observer du lieu suivant : Clay Center, Kansas • 1

W. CURRAN will soon move to his new quarters in the Comstock House. 1 OBS ERVER. JL JHLJj A ToiTTiiii-sr Eepoht of the WOfeK OF THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CLAY CENTER, KANSAS. ROOMS 409 COURT STREET.

No July i8S7- VOL- GREETING. The first issue of The Oijserver comes to you with a pleasant greeting, and we hope from this time forward it will receive a hear ty welcome from subscribers, members and friends. Our intention is to bring our Association before the public, and to enlist their sympathy and support just so far as our work may deserve it. -o- TO THE PUBLIC. There are scores of young men in our city who are away from home and home in-Irluences.

who need a place that they can look upon as a home, where they may find good reading mattt and where they will be surrounded by pleasant influences. The Young Men's Christian Association of Clay Center, having for its object the moial and intellectual development of '0ung men is fitting up a reading room and parlor for the use of all young men ard a lecture room in which to hold their various meetings. We hope by the selection of choice reading matter and in sults in the past have been very gratifying to us and we believe that if we plant and water, God will give the increase. Very respectfully, J. W.

Lowpermilk, President. 0 NOTES. The members of the Ladies Auxiliary are requested to meet in the M. A. rooms Saturday evening at 8 o'clock sharp.

Important business. Have you beea to see our nw rooms North side of park. Average attendance at the Sunday afternoon young men's meetings for May, 71. Mr. J.

1 Starkweather, our treasurer, would like to see those members who have not paid their membership fee for this year. Now is the time to join the Association. Costs you less than four cents per week. A good time is expected at the opning of our new quarters, July 15th. At a monthly meeting of the Association it Avas decided to raise the membership fee from one to two dollars per annum.

Our State Secretary, George S. Fisher, will be with us at the opening We are under many obligations to Dr. Karns, of California, for his services in the park last Sunday. Seventeen incandescent electric lights will be used in our new rooms. Our present membership is 110.

Sixteen members were received during the past month. Mr. F. G. Mitchell is the new General Secretary at Junction City.

Brother Schnacke and the young people of the Congregational church have organized a society of Christian Endeavor, and up to the present date the work has been very encouraging. We hope that all our members will feel the importance of being present at the Sunday 4 p. m. meeting. We need your presence and assistance.

various other ways to attract all the young men oi our city to our rooms aim xuai me influences there surrounding them shall be such as will build them up morally and men tally. For character is formed not oy occasional spasmodic influences, but by our every day's surroundings and our constant associa tions. The people of Clay Center, large hearted and liberal as they have been, have our thanks for their hearty support in the past, and we feel assured that, as they learn more fully the aims and objects of our socie ty and the means we desire to employ, they will respond to all legitimate calls for sup port. A vounerman 8 associations will be either Igood or bad, and our theory is that good so- ciety and good influences should at least oe made as accessible to him as the bad. If but one young man in a year be lifted up into a higher life, and be to feel higher aspirations, can we say that all our money has been expended in vain.

But re UAM PPlF.QT nrp PcrictArpH Pharnrmp.iftts under the State Law. We will compound your Prescriptions accurately night or day..