. Summer of 1904 on the Wisconsin central railway. Illinois and Wisconsin .. . ORE LAKE, NEAR LAKE VILLA, ILL. 10 Antioch, 111. JUST south of thedividing: line be-tween Illinois andWisconsin is thequaint old village ofAntioch. On everyhand are beautifulhills, forest clad, look-ing down upon asbeautiful scenery ascan be found any-where in America. Petite, Grass, Marie,Channel, Bluff, Cath-erine, Silver, andCross Lakes are all reached from Antioch, and it is no exaggera-tion to say that a more beautiful group of lakes than this cannotbe conceived. Grass Lake, with its Lotus flowers, floating isl
. Summer of 1904 on the Wisconsin central railway. Illinois and Wisconsin .. . ORE LAKE, NEAR LAKE VILLA, ILL. 10 Antioch, 111. JUST south of thedividing: line be-tween Illinois andWisconsin is thequaint old village ofAntioch. On everyhand are beautifulhills, forest clad, look-ing down upon asbeautiful scenery ascan be found any-where in America. Petite, Grass, Marie,Channel, Bluff, Cath-erine, Silver, andCross Lakes are all reached from Antioch, and it is no exaggera-tion to say that a more beautiful group of lakes than this cannotbe conceived. Grass Lake, with its Lotus flowers, floating islands of wildrice, myriads of water lilies and its devious channels, has a never-ending charm. Petite, like a jewel set in the emerald verdure ofthe surrounding hills. Bluff, Marie, Channel, Catherine, Silverand Cross, each have a charm no pen can portray. As elsewhere in this hospitable country nearly every door isopen to the rest and pleasure seeker, and dozens of finely equippedsummer hotels care for the multitude of guests who boat and fishand idle away the drowsy Hotels CAPACITY 150 PER DAY $ PER WEEK $ 8-12 Sylvan Beach Hotel (Channel Lake) . 125 10-14 Lake View House (Channel Lake) . 50 7 Queen of the West (Petite Lake) . . 125 10-12 Petite Lake Hotel (Petite Lake) . . 30 7 Bluff Lake Resort (Bluff Lake) . . 100 7-8 C. E. Hermans (Bluff Lake) . . 60 7-9 Paddocks Hotel (Bluff Lake) . . 60 7 Lake Marie Hotel (Lake Marie) . . 40 8 Toby Inn (Lake Marie) 50 8-9 75 6 Lakes Channel Lake. Bus 50c size l^xK mile Petite Lake. 1 x Vz Bluff Lake. 44 % x Y2 Grass Lake, 3 xl^ Lake Marie, . . l^xl Pickerel, Pike and Black Bass caught in above lakes. 11 HOTEL AT GRASS LAKE ) „_ A _ nnHOTEL AT LAKE MARIE f NEAR ANTIOCH, ILL. 12 HOTEL AT LAKE MARIE 1 NEAR ANTIOCH, AT PETITE LAKE j 13
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