The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

Y. When Xenophon marched his con- quering cohorts over western Ania, he setup huge stone memorials to mark hie progress. Those “para sangs.” as he termed them, remained to after ages to tell of his achieve~ menta. So Saturday's opening and dedication of the Exmoor Club grounds and buildings will stand in our local calendar as nutrking the beginning of a new epoch in our _so- cial life and history, as well i as our material development. nrs'rorzY. Briefly told it is this. In the sum- mer of 1896 the happy idea of a home golf club and grounds occurred to two of our bright young men. Their idea was to have a (listinctixey home institution. WhateVer such young men as E. L Millard and Vernon Cassard delilwrately plan. goes. and they soon had some 5U names pledged for membership. A corporation was at once organized, and efforts in operation for grounds, buildings, etc. Two of our Wealthy and liberal citizens, with character istic far-sighteduess, saw at once the advantages of such a club to our city and provided the means, some $18,. (XX), for the purchase of the 97) acre Stupey farm, nearly half a mile northwest of the milway station, the most beautiful spot for such a pur» p030 THE EXMOOR DEDICATION. : on the whuie North Shorern der the energetic personal manage~ rnent of W. A. Alexander, ably sec- ended by such men as S. M. Millard, J. McGregor Adams, Hugh T. Birch, C. W. Fullerton, Vernon Caesard, J. W. Wakern and others, an ele- gant and imposing club house 40 by (St), in old classic Greek Doric style of architecture has been erected, a fine likeness of which has already been published in the News, besides a bachelor’s quarters and the spacious private double house of Messrs. Vernon and Morris Cassard. These beautiful structures are on the wooded blufl’ or park overlooking the broad bottom lands where are the links, as fine as any in this westâ€" ern world. Fine old, first growth THE HIGHLAND PARK NEWS. oaks abound all over this elevated Jyark. A large barn, with ample carriage sheds, stands a little apart from the hachelom’ quarters. Sew- erage, city wan-r in a Hix~iuch main. with fire hydrants, electric lights (in the grounds and in the buildings, and a fine. first class umcademized road leads to the grounds. One of the most unique features of these picturesque grounds is the, old prim- itiVe log house, erected some fifty years ago, in which two of our Stu- pays were born. It was carefully , A . . , I n’ , taken down, piece by piece, and moved north a few hundred feet and rebuilt with a huge natural stone and boulders fire-place and chimney, all ready fur the nmlirona and (nun Exmoor country elub. foot logs, and is used as a storeâ€" house for the implements of the game; A fine living spring of med- icinal water has been found near the club house,over which Judge Fullerâ€" ton in having a $500 pavilion erect- ed. It is named Bethesda, from the fatne<l,spa of that name, on ac- countAuf the similarity of their waters, as shown by analysis. < Saturday, the 26th, was fixéd for the grand opening, with a members‘ handicap game. Invitations were sent ouLby the hundred, great pains being taken to reach our Highland Park people, and if any were omitted it was by mistake, and not intentional. THE OPENING.