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SOCIETIES "..
Reliance ,
, : The Reliance held their meeting in
school room No. 7 Thursday evening.
- The President called the house to order,
after which the Secretary called the roll.
An election of new officers followed, the
result being: President, Alex Covington;
Vice-President, Hugh Jackson;. Secre
tary, Frank Rosenberger; Sergean't-at-Arms,
Milton'. George; Treasurer. Andy
Walker; Reporter, Seymour Goudy.
The new officers took their seats and
business was discussed for a few minutes.
Mr. Fickle then gave us instructions as
to what should be done, after which wu
adjourned.
Y.'W. C. A.
The members of the Y. W.'C. A. held
their regular meeting last Wednesday
evening. The meeting was opened by
a song, after which the secretary called
the roll.. There were seven new names
on the roll, all of whom we' were glad
to welcome to our association. Another
song was sung. Preparations were then
made to observe the World's Universal
Day of Prayer. We selected the following
songs to sing on that day : : "Sweet Hour
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of Prayer," "Blessed Hour of Prayer"
and "What a Friend We Have in Jesus."
Ella Brewer then spoke a few words to
the members. We then sung our clos
ing song, repeated our watchword and
adjourned.
Nonpareil. 1
The Nonpareil Society met in its us
ual place last Thursday evening. The
new officers presided. President Allen
called the house to order and the roll
was called. On account ox so much
business we dropped the program. New
speakers were picked to represent our
society in the third debate and other
business relating to the debate was
settled. After hearing from our critic we
adjourned,. ' '
BAND NOTES."
John Taylor has a broad smile nowa
days. Do you know why? Because he
wiil soon have a new helicon . bass in the
Band.
The Band boys. held a meeting Sunday
morning at the band hall and discuss d
the band concert and party to be given
in the near future.
The band will have at least thirty
members when the new instruments
come. At present it has twenty-two
members, who are supplied with instru-
nients. -
The band boys are taking music lei
sons one by one now'. Each' one en
titled to half an hour's practice each
week. Mr. Larsen is kept busy till
week teaching music. There are 30
members just at the present time. Seme
of them are beginners and are not yet
able to play in the band.