Business Picnic of Country Club
Saturday, February 18th, 1911Members Will Have An Outing and View Their Prospective New Grounds
The march of progress has pulled the ground out from under the Country club, and that somewhat famous social institution is scouting around for a new foothold. It thinks it has found one at the north end of Central avenue, where a beautiful eight-acre tract snuggles up against the Arizona canal, and the man who holds 200 acres on the other side of the big ditch has placed at the option of the club for golf grounds…
Club members will assemble at the Central school grounds, opposite the post office, at 1 o’clock sharp this afternoon. Arrangements have been made with the street railway company for a special car for those not having other means of conveyance, and autos will meet the car at the north end and convey the excursionists to the grounds…
Some time ago the land now used for golf links and on which the clubhouse of the Country club is situated was sold and the club remains undisturbed only through the kindness of the new owners. The grounds were leased, but the clubhouse belongs to the club. It is hardly the sort of a structure to move to new grounds, and teh club has received an offer for it. The committee has selected the grounds at the north end of Central avenue as being the most desirable place thus far presented…
– Arizona Republican, 1911-02-18, p.10
