Show CLUB IS IN NEED OF FUNDS richfield commercial club in straits dire directors rs trying hard to inject life into 0 tills this needed organization members are passive the richfield Rich held commercial club is the nearest to bei ig a defunct organization of anything krown in this ibis reck neck 0 the woods for months til the e club has remained in a state of innocuous di desuetude that is anything but flattering to this c community om the aim of a c commercial 0 club should be to aid and a assist in bringing about activity in all lines of a cites progress Move movements menth for farm improvements for good roads for a sugar tugar factory for improved railroad faculties facil ties for manufactories manu factories in fact every thing thine that will promote the c commercial 0 growth of a city should have a public body such as a commercial club is designed to be at its head to drive force or coax results for a shuit time the richfield richlie I 1 d lub was a pretty wideawake wide awake institution several enterprises had the r inception there for two years or ao 0 the c club ab has b been ee n practically dead and has only been awaiting quiet but peaceful interment to make of it only a niem nry the past week has seen two attempts on the part of the directors to devise some borne means to either cither re burrece the club or put it out of its I 1 misery by sharp and sudden means the disgrace of the latter method is 19 the anle i thing that prevents action intending the richfield corn com mercial rne reial club the fact is that the club is heavily in debt for expenses epen ses that have accumulated euring during the period of somnolence that has wrapped the club as in a mantle these debts must be paid before the chubis entitled to pece peaceful ful death and decent burial the directors have discovered that the commercial club being an association and not an incorporation any member is 13 liable for the entire indebtedness debt edness of the club if the worst comes to the club suit will probably be instituted against the entire membership to recover money enough to pay ur up the indebtedness of the club and then the end will come it is a lasting shame and disgrace to the ambers that this condition prevails nut not only i the city deprived of the aid which a good club can give gine but it looks as though the end of that organization will be en sh in disgrace the directors are anxious to avoid unnecessary hardships on members and these officers are willing to go as far as any member towards the liquidation of the but something has to be dune in a hurry the present quarters occupied by the club are bringing br ingine no revenue to the owners and the latter have an all excellent opportunity to secure a permanent occupant for th the e rooms A proposition is being considered of a big social rally for the members whereby the tin financial ancial difficulties can te le partly reduced and the members can probably be awakened to a sense of the conditions of the club another directors meeting will be held beld next tuesday night when it is expected that definite arrangements will be decided upon for the awakening of the club members mrs F C larbin entertained a number of her lady at dinner lat a friday the table was adorned with hand handsome bome cut flowers those were mesdames J 1 L miller albert bird C al hansen A K noil neil 11 W M J A shnte morton mortn n L L noes and alia nii en |