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Show fill CHEZ SPEAKS ! BEFORE MEN'S CLUB METHODIST GHURCH The Men's Club of the Methodist church held itn regular meeting In the church parlors last evening, wilh a large number of members and their friends present The ladies of the church served a splendid hot dinner at seven o'clock after which several vocal selections wero given by members mem-bers or the club. Dr. Hay Palmer, pastor of the First Baptist church and tho pastor of Uo Methodist church gave short talks on (he purposes and work of men's clubs. The speaker of the evening was Senator Sen-ator Joseph Chez, -who spoke on "The Czecho-Slovak Republic". Senator Chez staled one of the important results re-sults of the great war was the long-expected long-expected dissolution of the dual monarchy mon-archy Austria-Hungary. From this break-up of Austria-Hungary several independent republics were" established. establish-ed. Czocho-Slovakia being one. This republic claims an area one fourth the size of France and a population nearly one-third as large as the French nation. na-tion. The Czechs are said to be among the best-educated people of Europe and were pioneers in many of the leading industries of Central Europe. oo |