The Monett times., 1921-09-16
A WEEK END IN WHITE
RIVER COUNTRY

| one 10 tne Wnlte River country
around Branson and Hollister. Such a
trip was made last Saturday by a
party composed of Misses Pearl Peters
Nellie Mills, Bertha Jeffries and Ethel
| Wilhelm.S
They left Monet on tn. 5:45 train
Saturday morning. At Aurora they
had to wait until 9:10 for the Missouri
Pacific train to take them to Branson.
They arriYed at that picturesque lit
/ tie town on White River before noon
and hunted up the boarding house o.
Mrs. Mary Breeder, which had been
recommended as the place to get good
meals. There they found that Mrs.
Breeden's fame as cook had not
been exaggerated A nice clean airy
room at Mrs. Boyle's near by was Sc
cured for the party. They left i'm
mediately after dinner for the Sammy
Lane Boat Landing to take the trip
down Lake Taneycomo to the big dam.
DOdI Tic
They secured passage on the
"Shepherd of the Hills" at $1.0O each
for ticket and left Branson at 12:45
for the wonderful float down this
noted stream. The lake is crystal
clear and winds around past mighty
bluffs, mountain streams and beauti-
full woodlands. The lake is one mile
, across at the widest point. The
shepherd of the Hills" carried pas
senders, mail and freight to the camps
along the lake and made stops at
various places on the way to Power
site. The largest crowd left the boat
at Rockaway Beach, beautiful resort
with modern cottages in artistic
models.
Arriving at Ozark Beach, with
tenderfoot confidence they asked the
boatman when the boat returned, eX-
pecting him to say "in about an hour.
Instead he replied "At s o'clock to-
morrow morning" There was nothing
to do but to hunt up man with a
Ford to take them back to Branson,
which they did. They visited the big
dam and walked across under the big
concrete structure. AS the lake was
low, no water was going over and they
had a fine view of the wonderful
engineering feat.
The return trip to Branson was
made through Forsythe. where they
were ferried across the river. They
went through the post office villages
Of Mildred and Kirbyville and to Bran
son over Presbyterian Hill across the
Coon Creek bridge and the bridge
over White river Though the roads
are extremely rough in some places
and wind around in many curves to
get around the ridges of hills, the trip
overland is one we'll worth taking, for
the wonderful views of hills and bluffs
en- the way.
c. |. Williams Road.
c. l. Williams, who has the con-
tract for building five miles of state
highway in the vicinity of Branson,
was a boarder at Mrs. Breeden's and
offered to take the party over his
road, of which he is very proud. He
expects to complete the HOLSTER
Kirbyville road by November l and
the HOLSTER Branson road by Decem-
her l.
The road between Branson and
Hollister is on the side of the big
bluff across the river from Branson,
with sheer drop of hundreds of feet
toward the river and bluffs towering
above on the other side. The building
of the road is one of the most diff
cult undertakings made in the state,
but Mr.. Williams is making good and,
with the road more than one-thlrd
completed, he finds that he is within
$50 of the original estimate of cost
up to this time, with the hardest part
of the work about finished.
The work has been done under many
difficulties. The road along the bluff
is built in solid rock. The bluff of
blue flint rock and rock contain
ing large quantity of iron ore must
be blasted off to make the road the
required width. Drains must be cut
out in solid rock for much water,
drained from many acres, falls over
the bluff and must be disposed of.
To add to the difficulty of the work
traffic over the road could not be
stopped as this is the only road be-
tween Hollister and Branson. During
the height of the tourist season, Mr..
Williams counted as many as 1000
cars an hour over the road.
The road goes at the foot of Pres
byterian Hill, past the Y. NJ. c, A. !
camp, into Hollister and in the direc-
tion of Kirbyville, passing success