Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1916 — CENTENNIAL DAY HERE OCT. 21 [ARTICLE]

CENTENNIAL DAY HERE OCT. 21

Jasper County Will Celebrate One Hundredth Birth of Indiana On October 21st. -- • ' t Jasper county will have her centennial, program, commemorating the one hjHidredth birthday of the state of Indiana on the 21st day of October. It is planned by the committee in charge to have a celebration on the night of the 20th and throughout Saturday. - Various towns and cities in the state of Indiana have been having their celebrations during the oast few months, and the centennial program at Indianapolis is now in progress and will last until the fourteenth of the month. A feature of today’s program at the Indiana capital is a parade in which ninety-three of Indiana’s prettiest girls will take part, one from each county in the state. Each county conducted a contest among its young women to determine who would represent it in this pageant. Miss Mary Furste, of Huntington, receive! tiie liighestVote of any of the contestants and will Have tho honor of representing Indiana and vvill lead the cavalcade. Miss Elsie Miller was chosen from Jasper county, but we have been unable to learn who she is. There is a county committee at Indianapolis composed of people who formerly lived in various counties in the state and it is probable that Miss Miller is a former resident of Jasper county bu£ now lives in Indianapolis.

" Superintendent Dean. of the Rensl selaer public schools, Ernest Lamson, county superintendent, and Prof. Wildrick, of the Remington schools, are the head of the centennial committee in this county and have decided upon the 21st as the day for holding the celebration in this county. The committee has been retarded in the.r work owing to the uncertainty sis to when the new hospital in this city would be dedicated. It was planned to have the corner stone laying of the new hospital in connection with the celebration, but since the hospital will not be. finished before December, the committee has decided that it will be impossible to wait that long. The committee has offered some suggestions as to the program given by Jasper county and ask that the people think them over.

It is their idea to have the moving picture “Indiana” here on that day and to secure the services of one of the members of the Indiana Historical Commission to come here and lecture on the same day, if this meets with the approval of the people, and then to have a display of fireworks in the evening. Owing to the lateness of the date it seems to us that this plan of celebration would meet with the approval of the people, and should serve to show that Jasper citizens are Interested in the centennial program. Kentland held a one-day program w r hich proved to be very satisfactory. Ex-Goviemor Chase Osborne, of Michigan, spoke at their celebration and a fire works display and the collection of relics were other features of their prdgfanrr' Monticello also held a similar celebration and were very well satisfied with the results obtained and there is no doubt that this celebration will be just as successful as the ones at Kentland and Monticello.