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had done and have feed for their cows near at home, and they 

 said the}" didn't know that they couhl. iUit now nearly every 

 street in AVymore is soAxed to clover or blue grass, and they 

 are moAved and kept clean, too. And at this time two mowing 

 machines have been kept going constantly for over two weeks 

 in the parks and streets of our town. 



Our park sj^stem was started a good many years ago, and at 

 that time I contributed |10 toward buying a park. One of 

 our parks is a beautiful piece of woodland lying just east of 

 the Blue river. We are tr^dng to get that in shape so it will 

 be one of our most beautiful parks and of value to the future 

 generations. The overflow of the river is a serious question 

 there, however. The Burlington railroad has a dam across 

 the Blue river bottom there at Wvmore that is three- fourths 

 of a mile long. They say this is all right, for they have raised 

 the bridge four feet higher. The river bottom is dammed 

 up there by two railroads though, and there are other things 

 I might mention. We are going to keep on with what we 

 have and do the best we can. Here at P»eatrice j^ou people 

 have the Blue river and at Wymore we have the river and 

 Indian creek, too, and along these streams there are many 

 beautiful and shady gi'oves. There at Wymore we could have 

 many more beautiful spots if we could get the obstructions 

 removed and let the water go on east. After we had gotten 

 the Riverside Park and had it overflow a couple of times we 

 thought we would get a better place. This is a very beautiful 

 spot, though, and covered with fine timber. When the Lin- 

 coln Land Company laid out the town there was a beautiful 

 piece of timber on Indian creek. There were twenty acres in 

 that piece of timber, and the title of that land was with the 

 Lincoln Land Company. It has been used as a park ever 

 since the town was first started, and it is tlie one park in 

 Wymore to which the city does not have title now. These 

 parks, though, are both (Ioanu on the river and creek and 

 are not accessible to the y)e()ph\ We do have otlier ])arks 

 that are more accessibh\ \A^e have a park called Arbor Stat(^ 

 Park, so named because we liad a paper by that name, which 



