Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Weekly Star, August 23, 1919, p. 8. "Y" PLAN IS UNSUPPORTED Bowles Hotel Was to Have Been Leased for Organization. The proposition to organize a Y. M. C. A. in Bloomington on an elaborate scale has been dropped indefinitely, it is announced. J. F. Schumann, one of our best known citizens, was unable to interest citizens in the project. It was planned to lease the Bowles Hotel building, equipping it and running it as a "Y" for all business men of the city and county. Constance T. Shotts, Ed.D., CG(SM) CG and Certified Genealogist are Service Marks of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license by board certificants after periodic evaluations by the Board and the board name is a trademark registered in the US Patent and Trademark Office.