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Show COMMERCIAL CLUB OF DEAF ISJCJIOUET Unique .Gathering' Will Be Held in This City Saturday Satur-day Evening'. GOV. SPRY TO TALK President of the Organization Discusses Its Objects and Aims. What will be, without doubt, the quietest banquet ovor hold at the Commercial Com-mercial club will be given Saturday night by the Utah Comuicrcial (Jlub of the Deaf. Whiln not a vocal sound will be heard, except when somo non-member, non-member, unacquainted with the sign language, makes u speech, the dinner will be anything but dull, and there will be after dinner talks, brilliant repartee and much fun, all in tho sign language. Frank M'. Driggs of Ogden, superintendent, of the State School for the Deaf and Blind, will preside, and will act as interpreter of the speeches to be made by the invited guests of honor, Governor William .Spry, W. J. rialloran, A. G. Mackenzie, of the Commercial Com-mercial club. Profciisor Maud May Bab-cock, Bab-cock, and others. All Members Are Deaf. This rather peculiar C'ommorcial club composed of all deaf members, many of whom also arc dumb, has only been organize'! a short time, but already has twenty-fivo dues-paying members. The club now has an official paper issued monthly and this is the first official of-ficial entertainment that, tho club has given. It is called the " Let's Get Acquainted Ac-quainted Banquet," M. J. Matheis, chairman of the banquet ban-quet committee, is prosident of ' tho club, editor of the paper, "Utah Dixie,'' Dix-ie,'' and in general is leader of the deaf in Utah. He and his wife, both deaf mutos, reside in a pretty home at 729 Second Eaststrcet. Mr. Matheis works in a printing oflico in the daytime day-time and puts out Ins own paper in spare moments. When seen at his home last night by a Tribune representative, Mr. Matheis Math-eis carried on an interesting converssi-tion, converssi-tion, laughing and joking with pencil for the reporter and with the sign languago for his wife. Object of the Club. "Our object," wrote Mr. Matheis, "is to advauce the causo of tho deaf, to give the public right impressions of the deaf and to enable us to take care of ourselves. Wc hold meetings each month to talk over affairs and to try to keep abreast, of the times with tho hearing people. Our coming banquet is the first, I believe, ever given bv a deaf organization and, it being so expensive, we have about reached the goal of our ambition.'" President Matheis says that there are more than 150 deaf persons in Utah. These arc scattered all ovor the state. Most of the club members, howover, live in the city. During the tiine tho organization has been in tho field it has finatfeed its own affairs. He says that it has also made it oasicr for the deaf to obtain employment. |