The Clayton news. (Clayton, N.M.) 19??-1954, 1918-07-27
The CLAYTON ROTARY CLUB
THE BOOSTER CLUB FOR CLAYTON AND
UNION COUNTY

On Monday, the 8th day of July,
about twenty of Claytons boosters
net in the rooms of the Council of
Defense for he purpose of getting a
bunch together to so to the annual
meeting of the Colorado to Gulf
Highway Association at Dalhart to
boost for Clayton and the route
thru Union County. At this same
boosters meeting the fact taht Clayton
had no ORGANIZED force to boost
the town and county came up for
discussion.
We have a ggod town-one of the
very best business towns in the state,
but absolutely no organization to
keep this fact before the outside
world.
One of our leading boosters got up
and moved that some kind of a Conn
mercial club or Rotary be organ
lied and that DR.. Mills be put at the
head of it and assured of all the
moral and financial backing ne
cessary to make it go.
The motion was enthusiastically
seconded and carried. DR.. Mills
accepted the responsibility and as
sured the boosters present that al
though bis hands were already full
of his own work. he would get into
the harness and orgapize whatever
seemed best for the business interest
Of the town.
The boosters all went to Dalhart
and saved the Highway to Clayton
and Union County. This proved to
all concerned the adyisability of
pressing the proposed Boosters club
of some sort into an Immediate or
completed organization. SO the or
ganizajion committee got together
Tuesday Gftetrnoon and afer care
fly going over the matter decided
to organic the Clayon Rotary Club.
The Rotary is not only state and
national but international, and is
the ont business mans club that
binds not only the leading men of the
one community but all communi-.
ties into one great hustling and in
iluential commercial association.
Therefore the members of the Clay
ton Rotary will find a welcome
among the leading business men
whereeVer their business or pleas
ure may take them.
The Rotary is selective. Only one
man of each profession in a town.
city or community can belong to it.
One grocer, one heberdasher, one
dry goods merchant, one hotel man,
one surgeon, one dentist, one general
practitioner, one hardware man, one
lumber man, one cattleman, one
farmer, etc, and the name of the ap-
plicant must be presented by the
memberhip committee and voted
upon at regular meeting.
The following are the officers for
the first six months:
Carl Eklund, President, NJ. C. john |
son, Vice-president, H. r. Mills, Sec
retary, Simon Herzstein, Treasurer.
Membership Committee; G. G. /
Granville, Ira Pennington Simon
Herzstein, ]. A. WikOff r. w. Isaacs
and G. C. Smith.
The officers constitute the exc
cutive committee.
The one object of the Clayton Ro-
tary club will be to boost Clayton
and vicinity. It's working tools will |
not include the hammer and there
will be no place for the knocker in
its membership. ,.
DR.. Mills is establishing an office
in the rooms of the Council of De-
Tense where he may be found most
every afternoon.
The membership in Clayon and the
county may possibly be limited to
hirty for the present at Ieastfo not
over forty.
This begins a force for co-opera-
ton, boosting and advertising that
should do the city and county much