Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 171, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 December 1928 — Page 4

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COLORFUL TALES IN OLD DAYS IN STATERENEWED Tenth Annual History Conference Is Convened at Claypool. Romantic chapters in Indiana’s history held the attention of the Tenth Annual Indiana History Conference which opened today s,t the Claypool under auspices of the Society of Indiana Pioneers, Indiana Historical Society and the Historical Bureau. Events, places and figures of historical significance were the subjects of papers to be read in the course of the conferenc which will be climaxed by the annual business meeting and banquet of the Society of Indiana Pioneers in the Riley room of the Claypool Saturday night. Allan Nevins of Cornell university will be the principal speaker. Luncheon Opens Program A luncheon attended by the historical society opened the program today. Mrs. Eugene M. Fife of Indianapolis gave readings from the play, “George Rogers Clark”; Harry D. Beßrtsch of Centerville described “Old- Houses in Centerville.” The society was to elect officers after the luncheon At this afternoon’s first general session, E. W. Crecraft of Akron university was to make an address on “Sidelights on the Lochry Massacre”; George A. Scott of Terre Haute, on “The Recovery of the In-diana-Illinois Boundary Stone”; Robert La Follette of the Ball Teachers’ college, on “European Immigrants and Their Contributions to Indiana Since 1850,” arid Grover Van Duyn of Greenfield, on "The Hancock County Centennial.” Slate Dinner for Tonight Mrs. Kate Milner Rabb of Indianapolis, will preside at the dinner for members and visitors at the Columbia Club tonight when Robert Dale Owen will be the subject of addresses by Louis M. Sears of Purdue university, and Harlow Lindley of the Hayes Memorial library and museum, Fremont, O. Mrs. Frank J. Sheehan of Gary, will preside at the general session at the Claypool at 8 p. m. Otto M. Knoblock of South Bend, will speak on “La Salle in the St. Joseph Valley,” and James A. James of Northwestern university, on “George Rogers Clark—Civilian.”

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STATE HYGIENE GROUPTO MEET Help for Feeble-Minded and Insane to Be Studied. Dr. Herman M. Adler, director of the Institute for Juvenile Research, Chicago, will be one of the principal speakers at the thirteenth annual meeting of the Indiana Society for Mental Hygiene at the Claypool Monday. The program will start at 9:30 a. m. and continue through an evening session. Monsignor Francis H. Oavisk, president of the Indiana State Conference on Social Work, will intro-

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