THE WAUPACA RECORD

                                                                      Thursday, May 5, 1904

 

                                                      CHAIN O’ LAKES DEVELOPING FAST                 

                            The Chain o’ Lakes Developing Fast,  This Will be The Most Prosperous

                                       Year in Their History if Present Indications Are a Criterion

 

 

The beautiful cluster of lakes five miles west of this city have long been known and admired by thousands of visitors who voted them the most   beautiful they had ever seen, but it was not until the advent of the electric line that their rapid development began.  Since then the number of summer visitors to the hotel and cottages has been greatly augmented and now there is a well defined tide of summer guests turned this way.

     Even the people of this city are realizing that they have within easy reach the garden spot of the earth and many are putting up summer homes who have here-to-fore laughed at the idea.  A sojourn at the Lakes saves large and burdensome doctor bills in the family and the expense of a cottage or stay at the hotel is far more refreshing than the anxious wait  over the bed side of a child. Yearly people are getting more closely to nature and the getting away from home is not confined to the large city family.  Nearly every hamlet in the state has its number who go to the woods for a vacation and this woods must necessarily be on a lake.  It is not surprising that a chain of lakes with their varying shore lines and changing colors should appeal more strongly than one lake which must necessarily have the sameness in time.  Waupaca is able to furnish the most picturesque and beautiful lakes in the state and on account of its large shore area and kind of a lot desired.  Those who like to retire to the seclusion of the wilds have but to go to the upper end.  Those who like the life and gaiety of a crowd have but to be within easy reach of Grand View, Locksley Hall and Brinsmere Inn.  In the matter of cottage building, more has been done the past winter in this line than ever before and there are several who as soon as they “can make up their mind” will build.

     One of the most unique and pleasant cottages on the lakes has been built by C. W. Nelson for  E. L. Churchill and John Pinkerton on Point Comfort.  It is a cottage worthy more that passing mention, in-as-much as it

 

 

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