Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 298, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1916 — FARMERS TO HAVE COMMUNITY PARK [ARTICLE]

FARMERS TO HAVE COMMUNITY PARK

Baseball Ground, Tennis Courts and Other City Like Features Provided Sapulpa, Okla.—Parks for the fanners is the latest move for the upbuilding of rural community interest in this state. The first will be established in Creek county, distance from this city>. will beautify the grounds and use them for picnics and for community meetings. Concerts, both band and local are planned and meetings of/various kinds will be he’d in the park. It is proposed to permit the young folk of the neighborhood to use the park for Sunday afternoon gatherings. Sunday school and church jneetings also will be hell I there. “City p<<ople have parks,” was the argument of one of the promoters, “and these who in the country might as well have them, too. They will enjoy the outings at fcfoe park much moe than to gather at some unprepared place in the woods.” The park will comprise ten acres bordering bn a stream. It is nearly all covered by trees, although there is enough clear land for a baseball diamond and tennis courttfj A gblf course extending onto adjoining farms is a possibility. Nearly all the farmers in that section own autcAnobiles, and thej had been holding picnics on the grounds before they thought of buying it and turning it into a park.