The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-12-16
AO. CLUB ORGANIZED
HERE LAST NIGHT
MEETING IN EGGAN'S HALL MON
DAY NIGHT RESULTED IN
GOOD ORGANIZATION

Moscow is to have an ad. club, a
real, live body of live citizens who will
advertise Moscow and every business
in it, to the end that this city may Sc
cure the trade to which it is entitled
Scott Ogden is president; Ray Carter,
vice president and Cal Smith, secretary
and treasurer. President Ogden gave
the following interview on what was
done and will be done
"At a meeting held at Eggan's hall
last evening an Ad. Club and constitu-
tons and bylaws are now being
drafted.
"Their organization will be known
as The Moscow Ad Club, and promises
to be real community builder
"Its main objects will be to keep
Moscow and vicinity before the pub
lie through a system of legitimate ad-
vertising, correspondence and public
Hy which will be constant reminder
to the people within a radius of fully
a hundred miles that Moscow is a city
Of 5000 inhabitants, that it has more
street paving than any town of it's
size in the Inland Empire, that it has
many practical societies and churches,
and that it's normal tone is of high
standard, that it is the home of the
state university and agricultural col
lege; that it is located in the heart of
one of the richest farming sections
of the Northwest; that, thought we al
ready have some manufacturing
plants, there is room for more in
which transportation facilities and wa
ter power will not be a serious draw
back, that we can and will assist the
farmers in every way possible by ad-
vertising their products and assisting
them in establishing a market for eve
~rything the farm produces and orch
ards of this section, that it can and
will increase the enrolment at the
university and at the high school and
grade schools. And above all that
the merchants of Moscow carry COM
plete lines of up-to-date merchandise,
and that Moscow prices cannot be
duplicated in any town in the Inland
Empire The local slogan will be ga
Greater Moscow" while for the peo-
pie living within hundred miles we
by legitimate advertising and fair I
dealing we will make it. II trade IN
Moscow"
"ThOse behind the movement feel
that through this medium Moscow
business. should increase very mater
tally, and that the ad club will be able
because Of its peculiar system of ad-
vertising and publicity work, to render
q service to Moscow which cannot be
done through any other organization.
1t performs different and larger func-
tions than any other community or
ganizatiOn, for the purposes of the club
are distinctly different, although it is
not in any way il conflict. On the
other hand it desires to work in har-
many with them and be real help in
any worthy movement inaugurated by
either the chamber of commerce, the
rotary club, or any other organization
in society.
Moscow being the center of a great I
system of highways connecting all
points of the county will become the
natural trading center of large ter
ritory il proper steps to advertise It's
are taken.
"The ad club will also take up the
proposition of holding a county fair
here next fall and begin at once to in {
kerest farmers and live stockmen OF $
all parts of the county in competition z
Tor prices to be offered" II