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Show A Neglected Pleasure For puro children's enjoyment, unalloyed, un-alloyed, we, know of no better thing than to tako them for a week's camping camp-ing nt old Murdock Resort on IHru Lake, now owned by Edward South-wlck. South-wlck. Thero Is a sandy beach a mllo long, with a gentlo sandy slopo ou Into tho water for bathing, a bunch of big willow trees for shade nnd a grassy plot for tho kiddles to romp on, When you ndd to this n row boat nnd a raft for them to dtvo from, It forms a combination that Alls tho soul of any child brim full nnd running over. Sovornl families during tho past several sev-eral weeks have taken advantage ol Mr. Southwlck's generosity nnd pitch, ed their tents there for n week nt i time. Somo havo sucgested that the, to should buy n strip, say fifty acn. along the lake shore, from A, II. Anderson's An-derson's enst lino to tho mouth o Dry Creek, plant It out with big w. low trees and use It for public purposes. pur-poses. Willow trefts seem to thrlw abundantly In this damp low land and attain a slzo of three feet la diameter dia-meter nt tho trunk. Wo nro Informed that tho county still owns n contlnu ntlon of tho road leading south from tho City I'ark, also a continuation to tho lnke, of tho next threo roads west. If this bo truo nt least these three roads should bo opened for the put tic's uso at once. If tho public pnrk Idea conuot , carried out It Is suggested that If ti. present owners would enrry out tin Idea, plant several thousand , trees ami erect n hundred house tents, thoy could every one, bo rented at j per week for threo months In tho year. |
