Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1910-04-03 | Page 44 | New Club for Deaf

I NEW CLUB FOR DEAF 4 5 g n x a d r o 3 34 Q SA t a 4 S SS Sk h t S S k f o ot iY t L Y r Hay r R rax a ax x 4 Y t r et etz ety z y 2 M J 3 L MATHEIS Organizer of Utah Comm School of the Deaf r mw br G 4 C a ax x 5 i ST CLUBHOUSE PO FO R DEAF PEOPLE Bungalow of Utah Commercial School of the Deaf in South West Temple Street I NE week ago last night the Utah ONE O I I Commercial School for the Deaf a club made up entirely of men and women of 0 Utah who have defective hearing or who are unable to talk moved into Its new club house in South SouthWest SouthWest SouthWest West Temple street The club Is be believed believed to be the only one of its kind In Inthe Inthe inthe the country While there are many deaf deB organizations scattered throughout the United States and in foreign countries none has embodied the feature of com commercial commercial mercial instruction and this is what the tho Utah club has as one of its chief ob objects objects objects The club has a membership of about but this will be materially Increased now that at comfortable e quarters quarters quarters have been beon provided As soon as the membership and funds warrant it is planned by the club to secure uptown headquarters The Th present club chib cl b quarters quarters quarters arc are located in the cozy bungalow of M J Matheis the organizer of the club and Its present secretary and treasurer Mr Mathela Matheis is an ardent worker on behalf of the deaf deB not only of Salt Lake and Utah but of ot the country in gen general generaL general eral He came to Salt Lake from Call Cali California fornia about five years ago The club which had its inception last January plans to hold regular meetings and social gatherings in its new quarters quarters I At the formal opening a program of unusual merit was presented and the club members made merry until an early hour Sunday morning Many more of these social gatherings will be beheld beheld beheld held and when the uptown quarters qu are opened the general public will wUl be in invited invited invited to see how the deaf and dumb of ofa a city pass away their idle hours