Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 204, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1916 — WHO WILL BE JASPER COUNTY QUEEN? [ARTICLE]

WHO WILL BE JASPER COUNTY QUEEN?

Queen to Be Selected From Each County in State for County Day in Centennial Celebration. The camical of the counties, scheduled as a feature of the celebration of Indiana’s centennial, in Indianapolis for the 6th day of October, is going to weld Hoosierdom’s ninety-two counties into a genuine brotherhood of happiness. The program for that day, which will be featured by an address by William H. Taft, fonner president of. the United Statesj *t the coliseum, takes on a glow as the days pass. The centennial commission is receiving enthusiastic letter? approving the idea of holding S carnival of the counties in which each of the ninety-two counties can exhibit her fairest daughter, a county queen, and bring all “us folks” together to prove that she indeed is the fairest. The plan is to have each county to

select a queen and send her to Indianapolis to ride in triumph in the carnival of the counties pagent, is going to give each county an opportunity to show the stuff that is in it. The scheme is to have a voting contest for queen in each county, vutes selling at ten cents each. The money derived from the election will be used in providing the queen with a gaily bedecked float, chariot or other conveyance for use as a royal equipage for display. Out of the array, of ninety-two counties comes a queen of Indiana. She will be selected according to the votes registered by her county. The queen receiving the 'highest number of votes according to the population of the county vvill be selected as a queen of Indiana by the centennial commission. That will mean that the young woman who ran second in her county will be the county queen of that county. It is to be hoped that Jasper county does not fail to take an active part in