| Show AT HAMMOND HALL A Rare Literary and Musical Treat Tendered The Y 1 C A Debating and Literary Society lKsens es I limcly SuljVci Report of the Young Ladles Aid Ji oclety Mr and Mrs Oscar F Davis assisted by Miss Grads Flanders entortained avery a-very highlycultured aUdience last evening at Hammond hall with a most select literary I liter-ary and musical programme Miss Flanders ability as n pianist is too well known to need comment She accompanied ac-companied Mrs Davis in her several renditions ren-ditions in 1 manner that added much to tho performance Mrs Davit has recently come to Salt Lak and promises to become a very prominent figure in musical circles The lady tins a very clear soprano vcice ot excellent compass and it > was beard to the best advantage in Abts Cuckoo song She also rendered a selection from Lucrezia Borgia in a thoroughly artistic mariner and took tie audience by storm with the ballad Whos at My Window and in answer to a tumultuous encore oho gave Home Sweet Home without nc compauimeni witu exquisite expression Of Prof Davis the principal of tho academy it is only necessary to say that his elocutionary efforts wero both entertaining enter-taining and instructive From The Statue of St George to The Hero of the Tower and amid the imaginary smoko and din ofTho Battle of Lookout Mountain Moun-tain bis audience followed him to The Old Grapevine Swing of his boyhood days and at last knelt in prayer by the sido of the poor nameless prospector called Rough as he welcomed The Light From Over the Range while the revisit to the spot Where still stands worn to decay The old fashioned school house vacant today and the depicting in a graphic manner of the incidents of a country debating society in years gone gave ample scope for the full play of his varied talents as an instructor in-structor Tim audience was charmed and the words of praise fell from tho lips of all ihn j Y 31 i A Dcbatlne and Literary Society Held its regular weekly meeting last even ng at its rooms and there was an audience of twenty present members and visitors President D J Brown was in the chair and Ei r Young was elected secretary protein pro-tein in the absence of C A Reed The t question Resolved That the interests of the United States would be best subserved by a nationalist form of government was taken up and Mr F Plaisted the leader on the alnrmatlvo side of the question mace his side of the question and aho ed the good results which would flow from the nationalization of the various industries and tho taking them out of the hands of monopolists He was followed by Scott Anderson who led on tile negative and the opposite side of the question was shown up and the Nationalists were likened unto Socialists Mr W H Chase in the ten minutes allotted time ably followed fol-lowed up the arguments of his principal and then wade way for Mr A N Walters who also presented the disUnionist sido After the summing up by tho respective leaders tbe decision of the judges was rendered Two decided for the afllirmullvo and ono for the negative nega-tive After tho decision many of the members mem-bers in the extemporaneous debate added their arguments to the respective sides Tfao report of the critic Mr Hendricks was very good and was well received This was one of the most enthusiastic private vate meetings that has been held in sometime some-time and the members were well pleased Messrs F Plaisted and A 1T Walters will meet two of tho members of the Ogden Og-den Lyceum club at that place on Erlday next to debate the question Resolved t > at national revenue should bo collected by indirect taxation Young Ladle Aid Society Report of tho Young Ladies Aid society for December 1891 DisbursementsRent for poor fomilIesS 86 25 Cash 2375 Merchandise 61 00 Coal U5 00 Total 2 05 NAOMI A CONKLIN MARGARET ZANE President Secretary |
