Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 249, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1911 — Methodist Preacher Has a Bad Opinion of Town of Shelby. [ARTICLE]

Methodist Preacher Has a Bad Opinion of Town of Shelby.

In the district reports made superintendents at the Northwest Indiana conference which was in session at Terre Haute, last week, two spots in Indiana were designated as the “worst spots” in the state. One of them A. T. Briggs, of Hgmmond, says is Shelby, 52 miles south of Chicago on the Monon railway and in the Kanka kee bottoms. “This is the wickedest spot in Indiana,'* said Mr. Briggs. Supi. Campbell of the Greencastle district says a slum worker who had visited some of the worst places in the world, asserts that Taylorsville, across the Wabash river from Terre Haute is the worst he ever saw, as there was an utter lack of morality. In a house of two rooms, he found nine persons, members of different families.