Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1896 — Summer Resorts On the Monon. [ARTICLE]

Summer Resorts On the Monon.

The Summer Resorts on the Monon Route are more than usually populax this year. West Baden and French Lick Spri gs, in Or . ange county, are overflowing with visitors, aid the hotels have all they can do. Paoli; the county seat, has opened a new sanitariu u, which is well patronized. The waters of the various springs difi fer materially m tkeir constituents, and are successfully prescribed for a great variety of maiadies. The woods in the neighborhood abound m game and all the streams teem fish, some of them having been stocked by the government fish com mission. All indications poi u t to West Baden (and the neighboring springs) as the great sanitarium and popular summer resort of the west. Cedar Lake, forty miles from Chicago, is a favorite picnic and outing spot, where the Monon has a fine wooded park of nearly 400 acres. The fishing is first rate. The long experience of Judge Healy in the Boot and Shoe trade should give him a prestige enjoyed by no other. His stock has been selected with care and backed by good judgment, and his prices can not fail to please.