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varied scenery, will be popular for those who wish to 

 take an after-dinner ride in their automobiles during 

 the long evenings of May, June and July. The words 

 "river road' suggest something interesting. Our 

 native forest growth is becoming every year more 

 and more precious and this forest if preserved for 

 one hundred years or more will be priceless in value. 



The birds that frequent the river and the woods 

 will be objects of interest to those who watch for 

 them. The kingfishers will be sure to be on hand 

 and occasionally one will be fortunate enough to 

 see a blue heron, a few ducks or other water fowl. If 

 one goes into the woods and sits quietly in the eve- 

 ning, one may be rewarded with a song of a wood- 

 thrush and at other times in the day one may be 

 fortunate enough to see robins, catbirds, orioles, 

 tanagers, indigo birds, rose-breasted grosbeaks, blue- 

 jays and occasionally cardinal birds. During late 

 spring and early summer, whippoorwills, night hawks 

 and swallows ma}- fill the evening with sound. 



From this highway, roads branch toward the 

 south. At first it was thought best to restrict the 

 driving along the river road to pleasure vehicles, 

 but later it was concluded to allow all the farmers 

 who would use this road as the most direct route to 



