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Historic MONON Newspaper Articles, Stories and Advertising => MONON Newspaper and Magazine Articles => Topic started by: Tom Kepshire on February 14, 2012, 02:14:14 pm
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Come one, come all to Cedar Lake, Sunday, March 25, 2012. The MRHTS in association with the Cedar Lake Historical Association and the Museum of the Red Cedars present a Power Point and program on the Monon Railroad and Cedar Lake. Program begins at 2:30 p.m. Central Standard Time (Chicago) and will be at the Cedar Lake Town Hall. We hope to have a packed house. This is the second time Ken Weller and I have presented a program to this group, so they must have liked us to invite us back.
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June 5, 1890
Logansport Pharos
From the City News section
The Monon railroad has purchased several acres
of ground at Cedar Lake and will build a fine depot there
this summer.
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Tom , are you going to do something like this at the convention ? It's quite a trip to Cedar Lake from down here although I would like to attend. Vic
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It is possible to run the Power Point at the Convention. I am sure we could arrange that.
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March 10, 1902
Logansport Pharos
Bad Fish To Be Killed (Excerpt)
The Monon Railroad Company will seine Cedar Lake in a short
time and will kill all the carp, gar and turtles brought up
in the seine. The work will be done under the direction of
the fish commissioner.
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June 13, 1905
Logansport Journal
Hatch 50,000 Fish Every Year
The United States Fish Commission, with the assistance of
the Monon Railroad has established a fish hatchery at Cedar
Lake. The enclosure is 40x200 feet and it is expected that
as many as 50,000 young fish, principally bass, will be
hatched every year. As soon as the minnows are large
enough to avoid destruction by the larger fish, they will
get the freedom of the lake.
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August 5th 1910
Bloomington Evening world
Excursion Trains Over the Monon
One Last Week from Chicago to Cedar Lake Had 120 Coaches and
carried 8000 people
Because of a lack of equipment, the Monon finds itself swamped
with passenger business this summer. John R. Priest,
travelling passenger agent of the road who is in Bloomington
today, states that the company has had to borrow many coaches
and yet does not have enough.
Only a few weeks ago the Monon had one excursion from Chicago
to Cedar Lake, which required 120 coaches. It was for the
employees of the two mammoth stores of Marshall Field & Co.,
8,000 in all. The store was closed for the picnic and the
excursion was run in eight sections.
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July 1, 1914
The Indianapolis Star
Moody Institute Buys Park At Cedar Lake From Monon
Hammond, Ind., June 30—That negotiations are
pending between the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago and the
Monon Railroad for the purchase of the latter’s
twenty-acre park at Cedar Lake is a report that has been
confirmed by General Manager Gaylord of the institute. Mr.
Gaylord was noncommittal as to the institute’s plans with
regard to the site, but it is reported that a summer
Chautauqua is contemplated for the summer resort. In former
years Cedar Lake was a popular excursion place for
Chicagoans, but picnics during the last two years have been
discontinued. Cedar Lake is thirty miles south of Hammond.
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August 11, 1916
Logansport Pharos Reporter
Monon Abolishes Cedar Lake Picnic
Hammond, Ind., Aug 11—The Monon railroad has
cut off a great source of summer revenue by abolishing
Chicago picnics at Cedar Lake and presenting the Moody
church of Chicago with its beautiful forty-acre park at
Cedar Lake, until recently the training rendezvous for prize
fighters.
The church has launched a religious conference
enterprise on a large scale, modeled on Keswick, England’s
famous conference center, and the Nortfield conference of 20
years ago.
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September 2, 1916
Daily Republican
Conference Is held At Old Sporting Place
Cedar Lake, Ind., Aug. 26—On ground once well known as
the training quarters of Jack Johnson, negro champion, and
favorite spot for Chicago beer parties, the Moody
Evangelistic, Missionary and Bible Conference convened
today. The site of the conference is Monon Park, formerly
owned by the Monon Railroad.
For years Monon Park was the rendezvous for members of the
Chicago sporting fraternity and beer flowed freely. Today
it appears destined to become one of the leading religious
gathering places of the Middle West.
As a thirst quenching resort it was profitable to the
Monon Railroad, but when Fairfax Harrison became president
of the road it was abandoned. The board of directors agreed
with President Harrison that it wasn’t good business to
allow one of the most beautiful lake resorts in the Middle
West, within forty miles of Chicago, to be known as a prize
fighter’s paradise.
The picnics were stopped and Monon Park, with its large
buildings deserted.
It happened that Rev. E.Y. Wooley, associate pastor of the
Moody church, passing Cedar Lake one day on a Monon train
got the idea that Monon Park would be an ideal place for a
conference similar to that started by Moody at Northfield,
Mass. Obtaining interview with Frederic S. Delano, then
president of the Monon, he explained the need of the Moody
church at his own vision of a conference center.
“We will give Monon Park, its ground and its buildings to
the Moody church,†said President Delano.
An understanding was quickly reached and a contract drawn
up which was ratified by the official boards of the
railroad and church and the latter was given possession of
the property.
In development of its conference project, Moody church
recently acquired about sixty acres immediately south and
north of Monon Park. A big athletic field has been laid
out and a bathing beach constructed.
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February 4, 1936
Vidette Messenger
From the ‘Round About section
Approximately 7,000 tons of ice making up 275
carloads, has been harvested and shipped from Cedar Lake by
the Monon Railroad company. More than 100 men have been
engaged on the project, cutting the ice which was fifteen to
sixteen inches thick. It was reported work was handicapped
by a lack of sufficient men.
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December 28, 1949
Vidette Messenger
Flood Blame
Crown Point-The Monon railroad relocation
project near Cedar Lake has been blamed for the flooding of
a residence-forcing a family out of its home. The Cornell
Carlsons said the flooding of their basement, which ruined
their oil furnace, was a direct result of the rail
relocation which causes water to run off the railroad right
of way into their yard and basement. Carlson is seeking to
take his troubles to court.
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Thanks for doing all the research Stew, keep up the good work. Vic