| Show john no dd 11 IS iff an A ew le d 0 ift M 0 club the vernal commercial club held its annual mooting meeting irk in their club rooms thursday evening as formally lor mally announced to elect now new tor lor the ensuing year and transact any other business that was properly brought belore before the club one of the chief matters brought up at the and favorably acted upon was that ot of making all uintah county bus boa who had bad been la in the service vi 01 their country during the war to become honorary members of the vernal commercial club tor for a period ot of six months arter after their return home it was hoped by this plan to inject ct some liew blood into the club another matter ot of gr arve ye importance discussed vaa s that ot of memorial services both tor the bos who made the great supreme sacrifice for or their country and the many vernal people tailing victims ot of the influenza disease dl Bease it was thought that the tb club later aill hold a large memorial service lor for all who ho died and was unable to hold public funeral services tor for ahe 1 he erecting of a monument elther either at the court house or in the new federal building was proposed by secre daiy wm win M anderson in his report to the members and which we print in full the report portrays the excellent record ot of the club tor for the past year and la Is as follows mr air president and gentlemen I 1 take pleasure in offering the annual re ort of if tho the transactions and accomplishments ments ot of the vernal commercial club during the calendar year 1918 at our last annual meeting I 1 reported 84 live members during the present year we have lost several members at the same time having taken in a tow few new ones but at the close cloae of business today we have only 74 14 live ra members embers sixteen ot of these only are paid up to date the balance 68 owing various sums to the club from 1 3 to 3 30 0 each I 1 he sum total owing to club from members as dues aggregates gre gatea gates a total ot of during the car ar wa vie collected from our tables and from our buffet 1601 this however boever includes moneys that veuve collected from other sources such as aa a 50 contribution irom from uintah county at to pay tor for our preb peak road assessment cash received from I 1 our annual show of 55 and cash received from tho friends fiends of dr to purchase pur chasa a floral tribute 68 we have collected in dues 1 40 making a sum total revenue ito the sum collected this 5 ear ot 0 4 0 i tac the expenditures dining the th yr yar 1 have been made tor for tho maintenance of the club advertising and entertainments tain ments without ada an expense to the club except lor for materials and stamps we have carried on 8 a regular correspondence have written a good many letters and sent out a good deal of oc descriptive literature advertising this action we contributed 60 to the pikes peak highway association we paid ga for a floral tribute to dr wolhurst lol hurst we finished paying tor for the motion pictures of this section which we now have in our pes possession session during the year we completed the balance of payment on our piano and thought that the deal was entirely loosed until recently when ilia kompany company notified me that an interest charge had bad been made all the way through and that we still owed them interest to the amount of detore before however this la Is paid the original contract must be presented and if our president at the time we purchased the piano agreed to art an interest charge in the contract then we auit py pu thy mhd interest although 1 I 1 am informed that this la is a procedure out of the ordinary with most ost music companies the following list will outline to iou approximately the value of our assets baseball gland stand 2 ISO 20 baseball equipment on hand band 30 piano secre desk 20 two tuo pool tables 90 linoleum on the floor 25 refrigerator 16 15 deer in club room 60 50 stationary and maps 25 other furnishings and fixtures buthot supplies on liand hand 50 our equities in the ball park fence 80 music for the piano 30 back dues duea owing to the club cash on hand and in the t tink link ink apking a total assets 2 2123 I 1 in approximating the value of our kropi property arty I 1 have mu a liberal allou allowance ance for wear and ar during the past year the 1 ot of the in most ways ul estly have haab been minimized minimised sed Led by the war condron cond hon A at a matter 11 t fact act most ul t he members haie hae been very to any at talas except the p hj ct cl winning the war the governing tarl have hava club busada bus aea r fan every turn in order to aai ft in ur activities tivi ties red cross yol aej booi bo oi we endeavored endeavor cill to dj very in much lich advertising figuring that it we maintainer maintain ea our club a pol po l standing we would be doln doing about all that could be expected there are boneer bo ho weer since the war i continued on page ight eight ANNUAL MEETING OF commercial CLUB continued from page c one ine ended a number of uial macaira that I 1 must necessarily necea be by tile the commercial club of any town and ts B specially pec lally ally this section duthil the re construction period it as s that a lot of now new bullai bus lai lasa will ivill be and new laabs be put pul under cultivation as a P f r I 1 mst fuance the duties of a commercial dub vich undoubtedly intensity luto nalty and in conclusion I 1 want to lite cite for dour our a fj things that in tuy luy estimation should bo be given attention I 1 wish aidt to call your atten attention tiou once 1 luc jacj to tile ehlt that a lew law members ol of mis ais club aru arc still carrying the burdena ot of keeping up the activities of ue tle ills majority of tte tta mom berm bera do not give auy any operation cooperation co lo ILO speak of once more ji 1 ille to cite ou to the fact that not lot ito gether gather on the collection of due and successful handling of the tha affairs does the lite ol of your cub da pend liend but to a large extent on the operation cooperation co and llo we members give tho the another matter that I 1 should like to call attention to Is tho the obligation that it seems beams to me ine devol devolved vei up m tills this or ol of furnishing bogits adud of it a welcome home lor for our returned soldiers now that tile the allu situation la is cleared somewhat I 1 also have hau baa in mind lor fur so joao time a proposal that we erect some and of a monument either at our Lour courthouse grounds or la in the new federal building that wo we anticipate will be erected in the near future in commemoration ot of the boys boya of uintah county who sacrificed their lives in the late war and I 1 sincerely recommend me nd that this matter not ba lost sight of and some action be taken in I 1 the no far distant tiro t iro respectfully submitted WM al M secretary 11 john N davis was elected president ot of the club with benj I 1 P kelly as vice president and as tile the board of governors chas S carter jr lawrence allan L L colton ben critchlow and dr J W stevens Sl ovens president allan in addressing the members tor for the last time as club president thought a little praise was due dr christy S D colton dr at stephens epheus L L colton and wm win M anderson Ander sou the secie iary tary ot of tile the club for their untiring efforts to keep the abo club up to its standard mr air anderson Ander fion lie he said bald had worked with ith tile the club for the past six years und la Is due praise for the great way in which he has handled bandied the financial and natural interests teresta In of the club prest frost allan said bald he deserved hot only thanks of the vernal commercial club but the community in general for the aid in the influenza situation the club been as all dead as supposed and social activities had to be forgotten to taye care of red lied cross belgian relief war saying saving stamps and other war work all these naturally distracted its attention undoubtedly the next years year a record will be the greatest year the club has ever soon president allan hoped that the new officers would have the tha support of averone ove ever rone one and that the faction who vas not with them would soon be eradicated the presidents chair was turned over to the new elected officer jolla john N davis and thus releasing an ot of alcer that had given tho the best that wit was ll 11 in him in promoting the interests 0 of f the vernal commercial club al mr r bavis spoke of the presidents of alu club of standing of many years and dually anally touched upon the outgoing out going officers who were leaving tho the in such a good condit condition ioa in part ho said that tho the enmity and reeling feeling towards I 1 ards the club was practically stamped led out and people tire are seeing more of the lood merits of the organization that the club will grow as great industries dus tries are being dev developed elope 1 I in the basin one of which la Is that of ol 01 and one ona of the biggest drawing cards that has ever happened the need cl a hotel irk in vernal w wai 3 r a toi lc in 11 tle the speakers Bp eakers re miika aloo ala and lie he said it would be hla his aira aim to give this and others his consideration |
