The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-03-23
ROUNDUP CLUB IS
HELPING FARMER
FORMER COMMERCIAL CLUB
SECRETARY AS DYNAMIC
AS LOUIS BLODGETT.
Man Who Did Much to Put Mussel-
Shell Mart OH Map Has Accepted
Call From Miles City Chamber;
Made Roundup Organization Cen
sor and Dispenser of Charity.

The. "Lewistown idea," as worked
out by l.. ID. Blodgett, secretary of
the Lewistown Chamber of Com
merce, has been adopted by the eight
year old city of Roundup, 1.-The mir
acle of the Musselshell," with results
little short of miraculous. Like the
Lewistown chamber, the Roundup
Commercial club includes in it's
membership a large proportion of the
total population of the city. AL
though Roundup has less than 5000
inhabitants, it's commercial club
boasts a total of els active members,
who contribute nearly $1,000 to the
budget, or as large a proportion of
that sum as is required for running
expenses.
AS in the case of Lewistown,
farm bulletin is published monthly
and distributed free with sale, ex-
change and wanted lists, through
which many deals are made without
expense to anyone. Nearly 1000 far
mers obtain copies of this bulletin,
which contains suggestions for the
development of the community.
Free Employment Bureau.
AS in Lewistown, free employ
ment bureau is maintained for the
mutual advantage of employer and
employee.
The Roundup club, like Blodgett's
organization, also acts as censor and
dispenser of charity eliminating du-
plication and relieving the business
men of the opportunities of subscrip-
tion frauds. No one is permitted to
solicit the merchants for any pur-
pose, not even including program adj
vertsing, without a permit from the
board of directors of the club, and
the records show that 10 out of 20
applications are refused. In other
words, the subscription that each
member makes for club purposes re-
lieves him from any further drain on
his pocketbook for community pur-
poses except on rare occasions of
especial merit.
All community celebrations and
entertainments are handled by the
club and paid for out of the club
treasury.
Sales Day to BE Instituted.
A monthly sales day is about to be
instituted--the last Saturday of the
month--when the farmer who takes
8
p services of an experienced auc-
tioneer, the commercial club furnish
8 ing a clerk for the sale. The day
q chosen as sales day is the last Satur-
j. day in, each month.
= A dairy club is being formed
among the farmers to encourage that
G business. with the idea of establish
: ing a creamery and eventually a
, cheese factory when the output be-
> comes sufficient to Justify them.
Many other lines of development
will be initiated as fast as they can
, be reached, the purpose being to give
service that can be seen, felt and ap-
F preciated.
AS in the case of the original de-
velopment of most of these ideas at
Lewistown, there is one man who is
entitled to the greater part of the
credit. He is IT. M. Robinson, who
has been secretary of the Roundup
Commercial club for the greater part
of the last two years. He recently
resigned this position to accept the
secretaryship of the Miles City Cham
Der of Commerce. His successor at
; ; Roundup is Sam S. Josephson, for
! merly secretary of the Roseburg,
Ore, Commercial club.
Found Club Disorganized.
AS Blodgett went to Lewistown at
the call of reorganized chamber
that desired to escape the stigma of
, inaction, so Robinson, in coming to
Montana from Centralia, WASH,
found at Roundup commercial club
that was more or less disorganized
and proceeded to make it indispensi-
bile alike tO citv folk and farmers NV
multiplying it's activities.
Roundup is the county seat and is
, the most important distributing point
in Musselshell county. Its 1000 min
ers produce upward of 5000 tons of
coal daily and the payroll totals near
ly 100000 a month.