Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-07-17

CLEAR LAKE.


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In the first place carry no more bag
gage than you can possibly help, taking
an every day suit to fish in and good
suit for an evening dress after the days
fishing isover. The gents should take
light buck gloves, broad-brimmed
straw hats, and shawl or overcoat.- -
The ladies should take emily two suits,
an every day calico and an evening
dress suit, sun bopnets, light buck
gloves, good thick shoes, and water
proof cloaks. This is all the outfit
needed for stay of a week. If you
expectto stay longer then you can take
a Saratoga trunk, and mountain of
frills and furbelows, but 1t will be I'M
necessary unless you expect the wind
and waves to be admirers of them, as
all who 60 to Clear Lake are too intent
on fishing or their own amusement to
pay any particular attention to dress,
or the commonplace conyentionalities
OF the drawing room.
And after you have provided your
self as indicated above, go to j. H.
Waugh, and for $1,000 cash, purchase
a round trip ticket to Clear Lake,
(Which by the bye is getting ride on
one of the best conducted and fastest
running railroads in the State at an
extraordinarily low price.) At IL: 30
p. M, you get aboard the D. v. train,
run to Eddyville aud are transferred
to the Iowa Central, and then 60 bowl
ing along toward Mason City at the
rate Of 80 miles an hour, passing thro'
Oskaloosa, Grinuell, Marshalltown
Eldora, Ackley, and many other pretty
but less important towns. At 10; Is
.. m, you will arrive at Mason City.
one OF the most beautiful town sites in
Iowa, where you will have hours
rest. You can either go to the st.
Charles Hotel, which 10 run by Doc.
Dyer in the most admirable manner,
look around the city and take dinner
there and wait till the $3.50 train for
Clear Lake, or the Doctor will get
fine carriage and pair of stately bays
and carry you oveg to Clear Lake to
dinner. When you get there stop at
the Lake House, enquire for Jaques,
and tell him you want fish--then il
you are like our party, you'll take
some moro fish, and for desert you'll
take-some fish. After dinner you
can board the Island Queen, magni-
ficent little iron steamer, aud run over
to the Island House, where you will be
received by Mr.. Brown, and treated to
the best room in the house, Of which he
has plenty. Don your every day suit,
enquire particularly for W. F. Bowie
as oarsman and guide to the fishing
places, and then give yourself wholly
up to the glorious sport of angling for
the inhabitants Of the beautiful waters
of the Lake. Fish until shutdown then
return to the Hotel and eat some more
fish and any other good thing you may
desire, of which you will be provided
with an abundance, that is cooked in
the very best style,-no Chicago or
st. Louis hotel excelling the Island
House in the matter OF its cuisine. In
the morning, If you want to 60 fishing,
Mr.. Bowie will call You at or 5
o'clock, and away you 60 on another
fishing trip till Z o'clock-and here is
where the overcoats and water-proofs
will come in, as of mornings and after
dusk the lake breezes are quite cool.
After you return and breakfast you
can go fishing again or go on an excur-
sion on the steamer up and down the
Lake, or the ladies and children can 60
in search Of moss agates on the
beach, pebbles, flowers, or bath
ing as they may choose. And
SO every day if you were to stay q
month there is round of varied pleas
ures that makes the days seem as but
an hour, and they are gone before you
realize it.
Our party consisted of G H. Shelf
fer, wife and two children, Mr.. w. B.
Bonnifeld, ourself and wife, and the
last day, Mr.. Harris, of Harris Bros,
Joined our party. To say that we we're
pleased and enjoyed the trip, would
convey very imperfect impression
fit. The ride on the Central, through
one of the most magnificent countries
in the world is enough to pay You for
your trip, especially if you get on one
of the express trains, which are in
charge Of conductors G. H. Norton
or Service, for two more accom-
modating or gentlemanly railroad mon
are not to be found anywhere. Our
party started on Tuesday night, re-
turned Saturday night, were three
days at the lake, had all the sport we
could desire, fish in abundance, and
started home with 80 pounds of clean
fish to divide with friends who had
served us the same trick. But alas for
human calculations, "The best laid
plans of mice and men gang aft aglee."
When we arrived at home, our ish
had shrunk up until there were not
over so pounds. The only cause for
this that we can possibly divine, is the
shaking up they got on the railroads,
for number of large fish which we
caught and marked particularly, like
the nigger's fish, had "swumped up"
until they were so small that we hard
ly knew them.
N. B.--If you expect to get your
fish home, take an iron bound box,
with a lock that can't be opened, or
they will shrink or get out at one OF
the many streams you cross on the
road.
P. S.-If you want to have real en-,
joyment, don't go to hot and dusty
city on an excursion, when you can
have Won health and strenpth re-invip.