NEWS: Standard Refractories' Claysburg Club, 1918, Blair County, PA

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CLAYSBURG CLUB IS LAUNCHED SATURDAY
Standard Refractories Company Opens Fine Quarters for Officials and Employes

  There were big things doing last Saturday afternoon and evening at 
Claysburg, when the new club house for the Standard Refractories company 
officials and employe members was opened with a banquet to the employes and 
their families, as well as out of town people who received invitations.
  The big dinner was held at the noon hour, to the dulcet strains of a ten-
piece orchestra.  In the afternoon the large assembling room was cleared for 
dancing, which continued till supper time.  Ice cream, cake and coffee were 
then served and the big club was opened for inspection.
  The purpose of the club building is two fold.  It will serve as a living 
house and hotel to the twelve or fourteen officials of the Standard 
Refractories, who up till this time have been forced to find board about the 
town; it will also make the nucleus of a first class up to the minute club, 
with a membership of all employes who may wish to join it.
  Miss Marjorie Jordan is the head of the welfare committee and will 
superintendent the social activities and pleasures of the refractories 
employes.  She came from the Consolidated coal fields of Kentucky, where she 
was welfare director over 110 little coaling hamlets and towns.
  There are some 650 men employed at the Standard Refractories company works 
and the company prides itself on having the best industrial relations 
association in Central Pennsylvania, second only to that of Mt. Union, which 
is a little larger.
  The medical department naturally comes under the head of the Welfare 
committee and is well prepared to give efficient care and treatment to 
employes and their families.  There is a large, well organized first aid 
station and hospital adjunct to the refractories mills, employing several 
doctors and nurses.
  The athletic equipment has not fallen behind the medical, and there is a 
large baseball field and many tennis courts, while in the club are swimming 
pools and bowling alleys.
  There will be a dancing teacher this fall to conduct a series of classes 
for both men and women on the large dancing pavilion erected there for the 
employes.
  The industrial relations department is to be congratulated on the excellent 
progress obtained and the prosperous conditions it is instrumental in 
creating for the people of Claysburg.

Altoona Tribune, Tuesday, September 10, 1918, page 6