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GSNEW GOLF CLUB ORGANIZEDtssPiatdnee Golf Club Procures FortyAcres For Nine Hole Course\ • *-* ‘ i- T • *4* j , The following well known residentsII• of of Pistakee Bay recently organized srt- J the above golf club, namely, Fred Wilk, Sr, Fred Wilk, Jr., Fred Mueller, Mrs. Mary McRoberts, Charles W. Peters, Edwin Schillo, A. X. Schmidt, t ;re. Carl Buehler and Charles F. Glaeser. j, , Charles W. Peters was elected as pres- ^ one ident, Fred Mueller, vice president, (ast and Fred ,Wilk, Jr., as secretary and Igps treasurer. The directors elected for 13 lsjr the first year are Charles W. Peters, j, Fred Mueller, Fred Wilk, Sr., Fred een. Wilk, Jr, Carl Buehler, Edwin Schillo t] ^olf Ian^ Charles F. Glaeser. bneartea-Jhi-iayteleenastal-ngleirter,im-m’sA.\.n-en-HbFaielt;clt;01clt;eitlUmhiPihiclt;The club has procured a forty acre c] tract of land owned by Jacob Justen, 1 which is adjacent to Pistakee Bay, and is about three miles from McHenry, Before procuring the site the club engaged this services of Mr. McCracken, a well known golf course architect of Chicago, to inspect the proposed site and report as to its adaptability for a golf course. After a careful inspection thereof he pronounced it to be the best he had ever been called upon to inspect, owing to its many natural hazards, its many hills and gulleys and its naturalm f • to *drainage. The location is ideal, due to its close proximity to Pistakee Bay st-l*nd the beautiful landscape surround-0f|ing it. A nine-hole course has been laid out and prepared under the di-uaj rection and supervision of the golf course architect. Playing on the rox links began Saturday. The residents jay of Pistakee Bay and the surrounding for ‘territory are highly elated at the lei- thought of having a golf course, pronounced by many to be the very best thel*n our country, at their very doors.This will surely have a tendency to,de I enhance property values along the l if I shores of Pistakee bay and lake, the at|Fox river and other near-by waters,I as well as to encourage the settle-0j I ment in these vicinities of golf en-un- J thusiasts.iioxl The officers of the club are very tad I optimistic as to its future success, i^ed I They feel confident that. - » % •»at I ship will grow very rapidly and hope ex-1 to have many residents of McHenry tfte I numbered among them, tesl The initiation fee is (100.00. The of I annual dues have not as yet been dst I determined upon a,nd will be an-thejnounced later.of I Non-sesident visitors will be allowed to play upon the course at the rate of fifty cents per day, excepting Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, when the rate will be (1.00 per day.hifccm,thetosionwthHre
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McHenry Plaindealer
Mchenry, Illinois, US
Thu, Aug 16, 1917
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