Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1916 — Centennial Gleanings [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Centennial Gleanings

Clay county has decided upon a i pageant as the form of celebration, l to be given at Brazil September 29 and 30. Marshall count yis preparing to' erect grand stands to accommodate' 5,00 u people at the pageant which is to be given on August 9 at Plymouth. With celebrations planned at Tell City July 2<D22,' at troy August ' 10 and Gann el ton September 3-9, Perry county may be said to be surging with centennial enthusiasm. Garrett has a surplus in tlte treasury after its centennial celebration, hart of which will be used to take the school children to the Dekalb county celebration at Auburn October 1-0. '- The Sister? of St. Benedi't of the Convent or the Immaculate Conception at Ferdinand conducted a centennial week June 11-18 in connection with the closing exercises of the academy. Jackson county ii planning ambitiously for its celebration to be held at Seymour September 11-16. Miss Kate Andrews, principal of the Shields high school, is writing the pageant story. E. P. Hawkins, Fayette county’s energetic chairman, has secured the Pathe moving picture people to film the celebration scenes at Connersvills July 3, 4 and 5. This is centenniai spot light for certain. The Cornelia Cole Fairbanks chapter, D. A, R. publicly unveiled on June 21 the marker which it had erected at the corner of Washington street and Southeastern avenue, Indianapolis, marking the crossing of the old National and Michigan roads. .It is a case of "on again” with the Tippecanoe county celebration. At a citizens’ mass meeting held at

Lafayette June 6 the centennial idea was resuscitated and Judge H. H. Vinton named to lead in plans of observance. Teachers and pupils of school No. 45, Indianapolis, recently unveiled a stone placed in honor of Camp Morton at Alabama and Washington streets near what was probably the southern entrance to the historic camp of Indiana’s Civil war heroes. Grant county, under the leadership of Mayor James O. Batchelor of Marion, is planning for a bona fide county pageant and celebration August 2-3. Boy scouts will be sent with trumpets throughout the towns and countryside of Grant, to herald the celebration. O. J. Neighbours, chairman of Wabash county, reports that, a feature of their celebration, September 3-6, will be the formal visiting on one day of the points of historic interest in the county, which will be appropriately marked and at some of which public exercises will beheld.

Oakland City, the home of the historian Col. W. M. Cockrum, author of “A Pioneer History of Indiana,” and ‘‘The Underground , Railway,” put on a pageant June 14-15 on the Oakland City college campus, under the direction of Grover W. Sims. Incidents described in Col. Cockrum’s books were presented in the pageant. It will he open season for governors at the Boone county celebration September 11-16, at Lebanon, Of course, Governor Ralston will he ‘at home” to all on that occasion • i and in addition Governor Pleasant ! of Louisiana and Governor Bilbo of Mississippi will participate. There’s a reason A live newspaper man in the person of Ben McKey is guiding Boone’s centennial activities. i F. A. Miller, chairman of St. i Joseph county, admits that the celei bration at South Bend October 3-5. , will eclipse all comers. South Bend j people have been taking the measj ure of their friendly rivals and know what they have to do. A big j feature planned is the singing by a chorus of (5,(t00 voices of the new | centennial hymn, written for the j occasion by the pageant master, Henry B. Roney of Chicago. I Several centennial pageants and , celebrations are scheduled for July !4: Fayette county at .Connersville, July 3-5, pageant on the sth; John- ] son county at Franklin, a pageant; , Spencer county a t'Stock port July 3;4, pageant on the 4th, written by | Mrs. Kate Milner Rabb of Indianapj olis; Winona assembly, Koscuisko county, week of July 3-8; Swayzee in Grant county, processional pageant illustrating transportation, settlement and development. Michigan City is planning for a big celebration some time in August in which nearly TOO organizations are Said to be represented. The Indiana state prison is considering the presentation of a pageant during the week of the celebration. The Earl’nam college Quaker pageant netted a profit of between S4OO and SSOO, which will probably be turned over to the new gymnasium fund.

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