Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 295, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1916 — INDIANA IS PROUD STATE TODAY [ARTICLE]

INDIANA IS PROUD STATE TODAY

Is One Hundred Years Old December 11, .Since She Was Ad- • mitted to the Union. The state of Indiana ie very prouJ today, for this is the day on which she was admitted to the union*, just one hundred years ago. .It was on the 11th day of December, 1816, that it was admitted to the union and the legislature, under Governor Jennings, in the state hoyse Corydon, began to provide for the needs of the commonwealth as they presented themselves. , Just as there were thirteen original states in the union, so Indiana began with thirteen counties. The most northerly was Wayne, all * the others being south and southwest, ftnox ■ being the northern organized boundary on the west. This Accounted for the selection of Corydon as the capitol. More than threefourths of the states’ territory was held by Indiana at that time and the white citizens were not planning for the settlement of that region. When a glance backward is taken over the century closed and the Events that have taken place in it, a great and wonderful panorama is disclosed. ,The world itself has traveled far in that time mid Indiana has kept pace. It has enjoyed material prosperity, but its richness has been in men and woriien. It had the fortune of securing an early permanent class of settlers, mainly of American stock, rather than the advanturous, ; nomadic class that made its way into the then practically unknown westjmd it did much good service there. They came to make homes ip the new state, and they stayed. t All along dowrt the histbry of the state-tuns a record otfnen in each and every department of activity equal to the special demands upon them. Indiana, a hundred years old, has more than fulfilled the‘ promise of youth. It is a state of which to be proud. It enters on the new century under brave and beautiful auspices, and no better wish can be made that the people who celebrate its second centennial anniversary may have as great reason to rejoice over its conditions and prospects as we have today.