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Show If. C. A. BUILDING fl CORNERSTONE m Bjjjlll Be Laid 2Text Sunday, With 9yropriate Ceremonies of Ad-dresses Ad-dresses and Music. m .j.-plitT Sunday afternoon at 1:30 the V&Sev. Elmer I. Goahen will deliver Cjllie address at the fourteenth annl-yjyrsary annl-yjyrsary cxcrclsea of the local Young .?en'8 Christian association In the rfifko Theatre. Fourteen yearns ago, S'' 1SS' ln tn0 sum. Placo was bold .lt open meeting of the Y. SI. C. A. ;;;$lclty. Tills was addressed by the IcJipJ E. Alien. The records show that 'i&Vit meeting was well attended nnd ..WJie four-fold work of the organlza-at organlza-at the time set forth by different 4l.JtW. ..tichang-s have come to the aseocla-&;vfCe aseocla-&;vfCe that tlm, It having moved from .Zjildt rrn.eu rooms to another, being at tl Kaat S-ond South iH then In th Ilnlrnes Work. Inter In U. fF. Wali.fr building, and still later In the UtahNatIonal Bank building. Hero It remained until last May, when these quarters were closed and tho announcement announce-ment made that tho association would never open Its doom again In Salt Lake until It had a suttablo building In which to conduct Ita work. This courso was mado necessary by the fact that In tho Inefficient rented quarters quar-ters the association was unable to do tho work necessary ln tho city, nor to secure revenue to meet ltn expenses. Some 555(0 Indebtedness having accrued by tho fall of 1M2, this has now been paid, and, ln addition, addi-tion, a very largo part of the funds necessary neces-sary for the erection, of the now building. Mrs. Charles O. Plummer and Miss Agatha Bcrkhoel, whoso names alone Hpeiik for music of tho highest character, will each furnish a solo for Uio abovo occasion. Just prior to tho anniversary meeting will occur the laying of tho cornerstone of tho association's new building, at 4 o'clock, at which Frank Plerco will deliver de-liver tho address. .Mr. Plerco was for four consecutive years president of tho association, nnd that during Bomo of tho most trying perloda ln Its history. The many friends of the nroclatlon are most cordially Invited to attend both of theso oxorcIsoB, which mark an epoch ln tho Salt Lako City Y. M, C. A. Althouch tho flnanco committee, of which S. V. Sholp la chairman. 13 now prosecuting a vigorous canvass for the completion of tho building, build-ing, neither of these occasions will bo used In anywise to solicit or ask for funds Tho committee In chargo has forwarded to George Fostor Peabody an invitation to be present and participate In the laying of tho cornerstone of tho building whoso prime friend and greatest benefactor he Is. Somo of those closely ln touch with Mr. Peabody aro very much In hope that he will accept, on account of his great Interest Inter-est ln Utah affairs and association work In particular. |