Just a quick search for the Club brought up multiple old newspaper articles, most from the 1930s. Apparently the club owned what was described in the newspaper accounts as "lakes and lands" along the Missouri River in Chariton County. Many of the articles focused on the legal issues involving some club land that was in dispute of ownership because of a shift in the Missouri River that changed the boundaries of Saline and Chariton Counties. The case went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
There were accounts of the election of officers over time, with some names that I recognized from the area. It also made the Moberly paper when a member killed a 20 pound goose that is reported to have had a 7 foot wingspan. If only our newspapers reported that kind of news today!
Apparently the Club was quite well known in its day.
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