Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 182, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1915 — Plans Being Made for Centennial Celebration in Indiana. [ARTICLE]

Plans Being Made for Centennial Celebration in Indiana.

Plans are being made by the Indiana historical commission to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the admission of Indiana into the union. George Ade has*been made chairman of the “Home Coming” committee, which will make efforts to get Hoosiers from all over the world to come back to their native state for the celebration. Mr. Ade has also been requested to assist in arousing local interest in Newton county.

p In a letter to the editor of The Republican, which Mr. Ade wrote .before departing for the Pacific coast, he outlines the plans of the committee as follows:

“The plan of the commission is to have a large number of local celebrations throughout the state, these to be followed by district celebrations and then as a climax to have a celebration at Indianapolis in which the whole state will participate. The commission is very desirous that the celebration shall not meerly consist of band playing and speech making and the assemblage of large picnic crowds, but shall be educational and of real interest as revealing the newer generation scenes of the past Indiana. It has been suggested that at each celebration there shall be a pageant or parade, divided into sections, each suggestive of a definite period in the history of the state, beginning with the pioneer period of homespun, saddle bags and prairie schooners and leading up to the modern automobile and other recent devices. To prepare for such a pageant and make it representative and of real interest and value, will involve a lot of preliminary work. It had occurred to me that we could co-oper-ate with surrounding counties and by exchange with them secure the costumes, the vehicles, the weapons and other paraphenalia to be used. Later on this material could be used in the district celebration and possibly in the state celebration.”

“At the suggestion of the committee, I am writing to you so that if we are going to celebrate here in Newton county we may begin planning well in advance and make it something really worth while.”

Mrs. L. T. Tryon and little son, Richard, arrived today from Broken Arrow, Okla., for several days’ visit with her husband’s parents, Mr. and’ Mrs. C. H. Tryon.