Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 190, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1916 — Indiana Pictures At Gayety Pleased Audience Tuesday. [ARTICLE]

Indiana Pictures At Gayety Pleased Audience Tuesday.

The Indiana pictures produced by the Indiana Historical Society, which were shown at the Gayety Tuesday night, pleased the audience greatly. The pictures were very instructive and educative, showing ihc entire,history of Indiana from its birth until the present time. James Whitcomb Riley, recently deceased, was shown throughout the pictures with little children at his side, as the story teller. The hardships which the early settlers were forced to undergo in order to make homes for themselves in the wilderness of Indiana were shown. Other features were the showing of the raids of Morgan into Indiana during the civil war, Abraham Lincoln during his residence in Indiana and the working of the “underground railroad,” which was so instrumental in allowing so many negro refugees to pass into Canada and freedom, and the battle of Tippecanoe, at Prophetstown, near Lafayette.