The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-08-13
CANTON OUTING CLUB
Pitched Tents on Banks Of Lake
Ploss-Members Report Out
ing Best Ever.
Special to Morning News.

ing best ENer.t
Special to Morning News.
Oxford, Mich, Aug. 9.-The menu
bers of the Canton Outing club, who
are here spending their vacations in
tents stretched under the boughs of
mighty pines and oaks on the banks
of Lake Ploss, a silvery sheet of wat
er, hemmed in by stately trees. are
having the best outing ever enjoyed
by them. This is the fifth successive
year that the club has pitched its
five tents on these moss-covered
banks and each visit to the place
seems to add additional charms. AS
yet no big fish have been caught, but
plenty of blue gills, perch, sunfish
and catfish have been landed to supply
the table Turtles do not appear to
be as plentiful as they have been in
past years, but fifteen or twenty good
ones have already been placed in the
live box or have been devoured The
frog hunters are having good luck
also-some of those hooked being
very large.
The weather here was extremely
hot for a few days during the past
week, but good breeze is generally
blowing in the grove, which has an
elevated position
The club landed on August 1 and
matters were past shaping themselves
properly, when miniature cyclone
struck the camp August 4. The main
tent in the group-one 1Sx36, in
which the male members of the party
sleep-was blown down and consid-
erably damaged. This storm was ac-
companied by thunder and lightning
and when the tent was struck by the
wind 1t resembled the starting of the
balloon "Ohio," with so or more ropes
dangling on the ground. Luckily no
person was in the tent at the time,
for the storm, lasting about fifteen
minutes happened about seven in the
evening. All the wearing apparel in
the tent was water-soaked, likewise
the beddings and the campers were
compelled to sleep in a little frame
cottage and under smaller tents.
Those who have composed the party
thus far are: Morris Schmeier. Geo.
King, Orrin ]. Fielding, John Mobley,
Arthur Lennon, Herman Raedel,
Emory Yoder, Will Thorn, w. w.
Fielding, Mr.. and Mrs. James Bern
ard and Mr.. and Mrs. w. o. st. Clair,
Chief of Police H. w. Smith, wife and
daughter Helen, Mr. and Mrs. H. Au-
gust Smith and Mr.. and Mrs. s. F.
Talbot are expected in a few days.
Other members of the organization
and invited guests will join the party
during the present week.
Sunday was an unusually quiet day
in the camp, although a number of
visitors were present While Oakland
county was one of those to go dry"
at a recent election there seems to be
as much beer as ever sold within
it's borders. Open saloons, without
the payment of any state tax what
ever handle beer in bottles. but it is
called "Vin." If a person presents
himself at a bar in Oxford he sim
ply tells the barkeeper that he wants
a glass of that and the red am
Der fluid stands before him. If he
desires a nip Of good liquor, all he
needs to say is Give me a ginger
ale" and there you are. The dispen-
ser of wet goods has his stock of of
that" shipped to him in sugar bar
rels and enough of this kind Of sugar
is sent into the county to sweeten the
entire state. FIELDING