Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1916 — PRESENT PARK TO LAFAYETTE [ARTICLE]

PRESENT PARK TO LAFAYETTE

Mimlock Brothers Give City Properly Worth $:to,ooo. Lafayette, December 27. C. M. Murdock, a banker of this city, and Samuel T. Murdock of Indianapolis have deeded Barbee grove, in the northeastern part of Lafayette, to the city as a Christinas gift. The gift, is made in the memory of their father, the late Janies Murdock. The grove Vontains thirty-nine acres and is beautifully located. If is valued at about $30,000. It will be known as Murdock park. The elder Murdock bad , expressed },: -• intention just before his death to buy the tract and present it to the city.