WINTER PLOWING IN THE EARLY TWENTIES

The Martin Hill just west of the old railroad crossing east of town gave the highway crew an annual headache, for at this point the winter storms, weeping across the old golf course, piled up snow drifts that were often over twenty feet high. The familiar snow fence of today was unknown.

Pictured below is Milford Saunders, standing atop one of those drifts.

ROTTING DOCKS

By the late twenties most of the old docks had rotted away. All that remained was some of the piling. Above picture was taken in the spring of 1929, in the S.W. corner of Round Lake.

HIGH WATER AT THE CHICAGO CLUB

High water inundates the Chicago Club boathouse. On June 30, 1929, the lake level reached the highest ever recorded locally, and remained so until fall when it lowered rapidly. The water reached a very low level.

It is an interesting coincidence that the American economy reached its highest level in history that same summer, and remained so until fall and the catastrophic crash of 1929. The economy reached a very low level.