Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-04-11


week, today not considered, the season
of healthgiving pleasure and recreation
at the Country Club grounds. east OF
the city, has opened up. Already golf
enthusiasts have been playing, golf
scores have begun to be talked about
and the demand for new clubs has
been appreciated by the dealers.
The Country Club has outlined some
elaborate plans for this season which
promise to make 1t one of the most
successful and popular organizations in
the city. Last year pledges for a club
house We're received from members
amounting to $3.50. The house, a pic
Sture of which appears below, is already
fast approaching completion. 1t wifi
furnish home for the club members
who play golf as we'll as delightful
resort for those who care only to enjoy
the outing the club grounds afford.
About $3.50 will be expended in It's
erection. II is fitted upwith a kitchen
in the rear, locker and dressing rooms
for both men and women, living rooms
in the second story for attendants and
the building is surrounded by porch
twelve feet wide. A large fire PLACE
will make the house CHEEKY and COM
Portable in the spring and fall.
The remainder of the money will be
spent insimproying the grounds. A new
course will be laid out and a new Sc.
of greens sodded, which will be ready
for use about the first Of July. The
grove Will be cleared up, making the
place ideal for picrics. With the golf
|;playing, dancing, golf suppers. picnics.
etc. the Country Club is expected to
furnish a continual round of pleasure
for its members this summer
1t is the intention of the management
to have a hack running within few
days on schedule time. AT stated In
tervals each day turnout the season the
hack will leave "a certain point without
variation A scent fare each way Will
be charged. which will make the
grounds as accessible as tho they We're
located on a street car line. A united
effort will be made to secure new mem
bers as With the enlarged grounds and
| Improvements now started it will be
possible toaccommodate much larger
number.
The Country Club aside from its fea e
ture of golf grounds fills the place of a
summer resort Marshalltown has no
park nor lake resort near by, but the
grounds of the Country Club afford a
very pleasant outing place. Doctors
are recommending business men to get
Isout doors this summer and play golf
as q health measure. The exercise is
Hight enough tofbe within The physical
endurance of an office man and yet it
| is iilvigorating enough to make new
man out of every one who plays it.
The fascination about the game and
| the pleasant social features of the
dub draw people out, making health
hunting a pleasure
Rules have been drawn up by the
l.club's board of ,contru, which prohibit
Presidents of theScity who are not mem
bers of the club from enjoying the use
of the grounds. However. visitors days
Twill be provided when any member
may take a friend down and u commit
tee has been appointed whose duty 1t
shall be to show the grounds and game
to any one wishing TO join the club. 1t
lis not intended To make the club8at all
lsexclusive, for an enlarged membership
| is greatly desired, but the club is COM
lpelled to deny the use CT its grounds to
/ the public. The house will be COM
lpleted within faw days. the hack will
be running this week and picnics will
begin with the coming OF the warm
4 days of May.