For many years Grand Island has been without any regular country club. Men interested in the formation of a country club failed to get their plans crystallized before the war came on. The proposition was revived during 1918, but the presence of so many needed war activities held it back, but after the armistice was signed it rapidly materialized into the formation of a country club. A holding con cern known as the Grand Island Country Club was formed to buy ground south of the city, and this organization selected eighty acres off the Hagge property, on the banks of the Wood River, and had a golf course laid out there. The committee of heavy stockholders designated to incorporate this enterprise, were J. A. Donald, to whom a great deal of credit is due for its successful promotion, Henry Schuff, Joseph D. Martin, J. E. Dill and J. L. Cleary.

During the summer of 1919 it was decided to change the name of the social organization to "The Riverside Golf Club." Trustees elected (see list below).

An architect has been, employed to draft plans for a club house to cost $10,000 to $12,000. Cofistruction is to start during the summer of 1919. The initial stock subscription to the club was necessarily heavy as it involved each stockholder's proportionate share of the cost of buying ground and building such a club house as they will desire. The requisites and cost of membership in the social club have not yet been publicly announced.

Another group of men, also inclined toward golf and cooperative recreation but feeling they did not want to invest so heavily, in June, 1919, organized the Woodlawn Golf Association. This organization is not, at this time, at least, essaying to purchase grounds or build a club-house, but has been content to charge only such a moderate stock-subscription price or

entrance fee as necessary to rent a tract of ground and lay out a golf course adjoining the Riverside grounds on Wood River, three miles south of Grand Island. The incorporators of the Woodlawn Golf Association (see list below).