Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1895 — INDIANA'S FIRST CENTURY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

INDIANA 'S FIRST CENTURY.

Plana for a Great Celebration Projected by the Hooaier State. The year 1800 witnessed the separation of what is now the State of Indiana from the Northwest territory and the organiza-

tion of the territory of Indiana,. and it has been decreed that the centennial anniversary of this first step towards Statehood shall be fittingly celebrated by the giving over of a week or more to displays showing the march of progress during the hundred

years of separate and distinct existence. The first step to this end was taken by the recent session of the General Assembly in the adoption of a concurrent resolu-

tion providing for the appointment of a commission, to consist of four members from the State at large and two from each congressional district, which should examine and report to the Legislature at its next meeting some suitable plans for the celebra-

tion of the event. It was the sentiment of the Legislature that adopted the resolutions that the celebration should be arranged upon the broadest possible basis and made to include

protracted exercises in connection with displays of everything indicating the progress that has been made in the first century of Indiana’s separate existence. Pursuant to the resolution Gov. Matthews has announced the following commissioners, the members of the

body being equally divided between the two great political parties: For the' State at large—Eli Lilly and E. B. Martindale, Indianapolis; Hugh Dougherty, Bluffton, and DeFoe Skinner, Valparaiso. First Congressional District—Philip Fry, Evansville; James Burket, Cannelton. Second —T. B. Buskirk, Paoli; John Weathers, Leavenworth. Third—Charles L. Jewett, New Alband; H. C. Hobbs, Salem. Fourth —John H. Itusse, Lawrenceburg; Will Cumbnek, Greensburg. Fisth —John W. Cravens, Bloomington; J. L. Irwin, Columbus. Sixth —A. W. Brady, Muncie; James N. Huston, Connersville.

Seventh—U. S. Jackson, Greenfield; Charles T. Doxy, Anderson. Eighth—T. J. Mason, Sullivan; Frank MeKeen, Terre Haute. Ninth—Eli Marvin, Frankfort; C. C. Shirley, Kokomo. Tenth—M. M. Hathaway, Winamac; J. C. Hadley, Logansport. Eleventh —H. B. Smith, Hartford City; E. B. Goldthvraite, Marion. Twelfth—Charles McCullough, Fort Wayne; S. A. Woods, Angola. Thirteenth—James A. Arthur, Goshen; George W. Matthews, South Bend.

E. B. MARTINDALE

ELI LILLY.

GOVERNOR MATTHEWS.

FRED WHITE.