Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 276, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1916 — Sensible Suggestion For Preservation of Park Land. [ARTICLE]

Sensible Suggestion For Preservation of Park Land.

Kent] and Enterprise. A lady who sees more beauty in a wooded tract of land than in a continuation of oats and corn fields, laments the fact that the real beauty spots of Newton county, heretofore found along the Iroquois and Kankakee rivers, are fast being wiped off the map by the dredge and the axe, and suggests that a tract of some forty acres be secured on each of these rivers and preserved for park purposes. The lady's idea is for the county to buy these tracts and hold them perpetually for the benefit if the public. The suggestion is sound. The county could scarcely expend its money for a project more meritorous. When all our timber is gone and our rivers converted into unsightly ditches the people will awaken to the fact that the scenic beauty of Newton county is limited. In these days of automobiles a park on the Iroquois river and one on the Kankakee would >e convenient to all the people, and would bring increasing joys to the coming generations. The idea is in perfect harmony with the new movement for a greater opportunity for recreation and outdoor life.