The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-12-21
TRAVELLING MEN
ORGANIZE CLUB
They Will Boost" Paducah and
Help Each Other.
Expected to Get Every One OF the
800 Paducah Drummers on
the Rolls.
NAMES OF OFFICERS ELECTED.

An organization OF travelling men
having their headquarters in Padu-
cab has been effected with the laud-
able object of boosting" Paducah
and making the social relations Of
the travelling men In this territory
more pleasant. The name OF the new
club Is "Paducah Travelling Mems
Club" and II will be purely local. and
not an association or part of an as
ISOLATION, such as the T. =. A.
Thirty-fve prominent and hust-
ling young travelling men Of Paducah
held a meeting at Hotel Lagomarsi-
no and completed the work OF or
ganizing. electing the following Off
GERS:
Milton Sanchez. President.
Horace Van Loon, Vice President.
w. +. Shelton, Secretary and
Treasurer.
The directors are: j. II. Stagg. j.
w. MeGlathery, Say Harris. Lee Re
falski and Louis Cornillaud. in addi-
tion to the above.
This organization is something en-
trely new. and the promoters ex
pect great results from II.
There are now travelling out OF
Paducah for local houses. or having
their headquarters here, between
three hundred and four hundred
travelling men. and 1t is these who
are expected to Join the Paducah
Travelling Mems Club. and who are
certain to do Il. The organization
win not interfere in any way with
the T. p. A., which has apparently
long been in Information so far as
Paducah is concerned.
II expects to establish handsome
club rooms In the course of time,
and to enable every travelling man
living or coming here to know every
other one. One of its duties will be
to entertain those travelling men who
neither live here nor have local
headquarters. but simply make the
town from once a year to once
week. They hope to make themselves
agreeable to everyone Of these.
But better STILL every member OF
the new club is imbued with the de-
sire to boost Paducah. and one of its
raain objects will be to give Paducah
lift whenever they get the chance
out on the road. And they all have
abundant chance.
Columbus. Miss. claims to have
secured fifteen new industries this
year through the efforts of her trav-
cling statesmen, who took up the
work of boosting the town merely
as a diversion. and are themselves
stonished at their success
THE three hundred or more trav.
cling men here can do the city a vast
amount OF good" declared enc OF
the members of the new club this
morning. I'VE go almost everywhere
and can make a city out of Paducah.
and hope to at least do our part. We
are in earnest, and have nothing to
ask OF any one, no scheme or AK to
gIind-have simply organized to i'm
prove our social intercourse, make
Paducah a pleasant-in fact the
most pleasant place in the country
for the visiting travelling man-and
az a side line the upbuilding OF the
city. We intend to make a showing.
too"
The progress of this new club will
Ice watched with interest, and II GER.
trinity merits success.
The next meeting will be held at
Hotel Lagomarsino on Saturday,
January Z.
The charter members are: w. F.
Shelton. Milton Sanchez, ]. A. An
derson, C. T.. Beale. w. II. Pickney,
Lee Rafalsky, r. A. Robertson. Gay
Harris, ]. r. Stages. J. b. Johnson.
Louis Cornillaud, Harry Hinkle, r.
S. Van Low, Eugene Kahn. G. F.
buchanan. Paul Province. c. e. Rem
fro, ]. w. McGlathery, Lee Living
ston, Joe Rothschild. Tom Hall,
d. Gardner, c. w. Brown, w. V.
Green, C. C. Warren, Tom Baker, J.
d. Howell. Bryon Johnson. Ike
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