Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1916 — Centennial News Letter. [ARTICLE]

Centennial News Letter.

Randolph county is taking its measure for a county pageant to be presented in October. Culver, in conjunction with the Culver academy, has outlined a varied and interesting celebration for July 27. Aurora, down in old Dearborn, is looking forward to giving a celebration and pageant the first week in October. Fike county will celebrate the centennial at Petersburg, August 3-4, with a pageant, which, like that of Evansville, will take two nights for presentation. The Bartholomew county celebration to be held September 4, will center in a pageant, under the direction of Professor A. W. Mason. The various episodes will be supplied by the different townships of the county. The graduating class of the college and academy of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods made a splendid success of their dramatization at commencement of “Alice of Old Vincennes.' This was the first event of their centennial observance, to be continued in the fall. The Tipton centennial log cabin being erected by the Tiptcn “senate’’ from logs contributed from all over the county, is well on the wa: toward completion. It is located it. the city park and will make an ideal home for the county museum of pioneer relics. As its part in the historic parade in the Tell City celebration, the sewing circle of the Evangelical church will present a float representing the stork bringing the firs baby to Tell City. “Keep your eye on the stork!’’ is their slogan and not half bad either. Marshall and Fayette counties ape arranging to display: tneir pioneel relic exhibits in the show windowsof their stores at the time of their celebrations. This solves the question of a good, safe exhibit space, distributes the interest and is an excellent advertisement for the business men who back the celebrations. The pageant of Troy! No, gentle reader, this is no Hellenicized portrayal of old Ilium’s tragedy. It is just a sure enough Hoosier pageant of a Hoosier town in Perry county and written by a 33d degree Hoosieroon in the person of Thos. James de la Hunt, Ferry’s resourceful chairman. He has already written the county pageant to be given at Cannelton in September.