Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1915 — Centennial News Notes. [ARTICLE]

Centennial News Notes.

Wayne county has outlined a plans for county and township celebrations for next year, by which the several townships are to contribute each a unit, or single act play, the collective units to be fitly co-ordi-nated in the county pageant.

One of the best organization meetings yet reported was that of Montgomery county at Crawfordsville. Nearly one hundred people from over the county were in attendance and manifested great enthusiasm. .Montgomery is planning a grand pageant as the central feature of its Centennial celebration.

On Friday, Feb. 4, Centennial celebration exercises * will be held in every school district in Harrison county. It is the plan of County School Superintendent A. O. DeWeese that on this date the patrons will bring dinner with the children, all spending the day together in the celebration of Indiana’s one hundredth birthday. Mr. De Weese offers his teachers suggestipns for a suitable program for the day. Hats off to County Supt. De Weese. May his tribe increase in Indiana.

The Union county centennial committee is holding regular weekly meetings in planning for a grand centennial celebration. This is approaching the matter in the right spirit. No worthy observance can be gotten up on a few weeks’ notice.

The Terre Haute city park board has secured the planting in various parks of hyacinth, crocus, tulips and other bulbs in designs symbolical of the centennial anniversary. These plants will begin to blossom early in the spring and the planting in this manner is part of the general scope of celebration, says the Terre Haute Star, as planned by the centennial committee.