The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-28
Pine And STONE LAKES
RESORTS NEAR LAPORTE ALREADY
ENJOYING A SUMNER BOOM.
ing Club tn he Held Next Week.
New Gardens Popular.
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LAPORTE, Ind. June H.-The Laporte
summer resorts are on the boom this year.
due more particularly to the fact that cleo
trio cars now connect the town and Pine
lake. The water in Stone and Pine lakes
is higher than for years and this has
furnished added inspiration for those who
have already sought its shores. Many OF
the cottages are already occupied and after
the Fourth it is doubtful If there will be
an empty house at the Chautauqua. j. S.
Hoffman, of Chicago, has opened the Chau-
tauqua Hotel and is booking many parties
for the summer.
The first large party at the Chautauqua
Hotel was the reception of the junior class
of the Laporte High School given the senior
class. 1t was very enjoyable affair and
was attended by about $50 persons. The
banquet was followed by a programme
of toasts and musical numbers and after
ward there was dancing in the dining room.
The decorations in the rooms and on the
lawn were i'm the colors of the two classes.
A Laporte orchestra furnished the music.
Parker veauvelt and family, of Chicago.
have arrived and are stopping at the Chau-
tauqua Hotel.
Part of President w. T. Stott's family
has arrived and the cottage is open for
the season.
Several Laporte parties are camping In
the grove at the Chautauqua. The other
night as the member of one camp was
handing a revolver to Benjamin o. Way
the weapon was discharged. the bullet en-
tering Ways left leg above the knee and
nos ri 0lya mr.,
the camp. DR.. Martin. who was called out
from Laporte. dressed the injury. Young
Way will be around in few days.
The young son of Parker yeauvelt, whose
family is stopping at the hotel, met with
a painful accident in attempting to ride
down the steep bluff that runs to the lake
on bicycle. When about half way down
the embankment his wheel came in con-
tact with a stone and he was thrown from
the bicycle, receiving several bruises on
the face and head. Young Veauvelt re-
Quired the services of a physician, but he
was out the next day looking for more
trouble.
William C. Weir has just completed the
erection of two cottages.
President j. j. Burns, of the Chicago &
South Shore Company, has purchased the
Harding cottage and is having it remodeled-
He will take possession early in July.
Mayor barrow and Attorney Z. Z. Weir
have erected very fine pavilion at Pine
lake. and Wednesday afternoon the
Wednesday Club from town was enter
tanned there by Mrs Weir.
Prof. Herbert Smith and family have ar
rived from Nashville. Tenn. and are &C.
eupying their cottage.
Mrs. L. Kirtley and son Charles. OF Ma
rietta, o., opened their cottage this week.
Dr. L. Kirtley. who is pastor OF the First
Baptist Church at Marietta, will arrive in a
couple of weeks to join his wife here. How
ard p. Kirtley. who Is studying at Rush
Medical College, Chicago. was down over
Sunday to see his mother and brother.
The Payne cottage will be taken posses
sion of the first week in July by party of
young ladies from Chicago. Valparaiso and
Michigan City. Miss Hanson, of Michigan
City, will chaperon the party.
Chicago and Michigan City guests were
entertained over Sunday by Mr.. and Mrs.
e. F. Michael at their cottage.
The Chicago & South Shore Railway
Company has made a small park along the
northeast shore of Pine lake and has named
II Beachside Bluff. A pavilion has been
erected and settees provided.
The new summer gardens at Pine lake
grove on the east shore of Pine lake are
proving popular, thousands Of persons Wis