Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1916 — Page 7

INDIANA COUNTIES IN MONSTER PAGEANT

Round-Up of All Hoosiers For Big Parade and Reunions at Indianapolis. A processional pageant staged by the counties of Indiana which Will contribute floats and picturesque groups of people to it is one of the brilliant spectacles to be given as a chief feature of the great Indiana centennial celebration at Indianapolis the first two weeks of October; the county pageant to be held on Oct. 6. It promises to be the largest and most elaborate spectacle of the kind that has ever been given in the United States, and it will be one of the outstanding features of all the statehood centennial programs that have been given in Indiana this year. The speaker for this special day is to be William H. Taft, former president of the United States.

Preparations began weeks ago in counties where there is spirited interest in seeing that each is splendidly represented. Some of the counties will have historical floats, others by floats showing the chief resources. A conspicuous feature is to be a cavalcade of 93 young women on horseback, which will head the pageant, one equestrian coming from each county, and out of the 93 one will be chosen to impersonate “Indiana.” The equestrians for the cavalcade are now being selected in the counties by popular vote, many of these contests being conducted by the newspapers. The girl receiving the highest number of votes is to be chosen to represent “Indiana.” A large number of brass bands from over the state will accompany their floats in the parade, which is to mqve over the Indianapolis streets. Indianapolis people who formerly lived out in the state are forming reception committees to greet the folks from “back home” when they come to the Hoosier capital, and during the day each county is to hold a reunion. It is going to be the greatest reunion held in the history of Indiana, and the first of its kind held in ' America.

“County day” is to culminate at the state fair coliseum where Mr. Taft is to speak at night, when the counties are to be seated in delegations as at a state political convention. The bands will be massed into one for a great concert in which perhaps 1,000 musicians will take part. A musical feature of the night meeting will be a review of Indiana music covering the state’s first century. This medley will be played by a band of sixty. The musical review being with the crude songs and battle airs of the Indians, it will include the music which the first French explorers and soldiers brought into the Hoosier wilderness, the military airs of the British, the folk songs of the first settlers, the patriotic music of the war of 1812, the Mexican war and the Civil war. Old songs like “Nellie Gray” that were immensely popular in their time and which are unfamiliar to many people of this generation will be revived in the medley. This review is to close with the band and the great audience joining in Indiana state’s song, “On the Banks of the Wabash.”

CENTENNIAL OLYMPIC GAMES

Indiana Athletes In Championship Contests at Indianapolis, Oct. 7. Athletic contests for Indiana championships will make up the Olympic games program of the statehood centennial celebration at Indianapolis, the contests to be held at the state fair grounds on Oct. 7. College and high school, Y. M. C. A., and other athletic organizations, will be represented by their best talent, and the long disputed championships will be determined, the centennial year awards being especially attractive to Hoosier youth in all lines of sport. The indications are that the contestants will be in such large numbers that the day will rival the Olympic games of old Greece in magnitude and quality. The contests are being organized in divisions, the Y. M. C. A. athletic clubs and turner societies holding field sports and the men and women uniting in giving picturesque drills. Q. W. Lipps, of the Independent Tursverein, Indianapolis, is chairman of this division.

The college athletes will be in another division, the chairman of which is A. H. Berndt, of Indiana university. Bloominrton. Public school boys will make up ‘he third division, of which Charles Dyer, Indianapolis, is chairman. Still another division will be for tennis and golf players, the chairman being James Lowery, superintendent of the Indianapolis park board. The Olympic program is in the charge of a general committee, of which Theodore Stempfel, of the Fletcher-American National bank of Indianapolis, is chairman. The con. testants caji make entries through the division chairmen.

One of the day’s features proposed is a Marathon relay race, starting at the four corners of the state and ending at Indianapolis. Another is a schedule of baseball games which will determine the state amateur championship.

BOSTON GRAND OPERA COMPANY IN CENTENNIAL FESTIVAL

(Photos of Boston Grandopera Artists—Top Row, left to right:. Phyllis Peralta, Giovanni Zenatello, Thomas Chalmers, Riccardo Martin, Dorothy Fol!is. Center row, left to right: Mabel Riegelman, Tamaki Miura, Maria Gay, Luisa Villani. Lower row, left to right: Elvira Leveroni, Giorgio Puliti, Max Rabinoff, director; Paolo Ananian, Fely Clement.) Big Company With Ballet and Orchestra at Indianapolis, Oct 13-15.

The great musical festival of the Indiana centennial year is to be given by the Boston Grand Opera Co. in connection with the two weeks’ statehood jubilee .that is to be held in Indianapolis, beginning Oct. 2. The Boston company, with twenty or more of the world’s great singing stars, a chorus and ballet of 100 dnd an orchestra of 60, together with full equipment of costumes and scenery, is to give three operas—“ Andrea Chenier” Giordano’s

PIONEERS IN INDIANAPOLIS CENTENNIAL PAGEANT.

Last Great Pageants of the Year In Two Weeks’ Celebration. Typical centennial pageant scene showing how the pioneers traveled when Indiana was in its primitive state when men and women braved the hardships and dangers of the wilderness in laying the foundation of a great commonwealth. In the picture is the old Brown county ox-team and cart which is to participate in the Indianapolis pageant.

PAGEANT-DRAMA OF HOOSIER HISTORY

Wonderful Statehood Spectacla to Be Given by 3,000 . People. A great centennial pageant to be staged at Riverside, one of the finest of the Hoosier capital's chain of parks, in which 3,000 men, women and children will he cast in a dramatic picture showing the progress and development of Indiana for one hundred .years, will be one of the outstanding features of the centenary jubilee at Indianapolis Oct. 2-15. The pageant, which is to tell a thrilling story of the early sufferings and hardships and later triumphs of the men and women who have made a great state, will be given each afternoon of the first week of the celebration, beginning Oct. 2, at 4 p. m. each day, the spectacle drifting into the early twilight so that the spectators may enjoy some remarkably unique electric effects and illuminated tableaux. The pageant as written by William Chauncey Langdon, New York pageant

opera of the French revolution; Mascagni’s nrilliant Japanese opera, “Iris,” and “Faust,” with the wonderful Walpurgis night ballet. On Oct. 15, the grand finale of all the Hoosier centennial celebrations, close when the entire Boston Co. and the combined singing societies •of Indianapolis, making a chorus of 800 voices, will sing Y r erdi’s oratorio, “Requiem” at the state colliseum, giving the “Requiem” on the greatest scale that has ever marked it

dramatist, will not only be educational in its historical character, but Wrill Visualize the future possibilities of the state. There are to be ten episodes and five symlxdic scenes dealing with the state’s development from the first exploration of La Salle, the French trader, down to the present time.

All of these great events are to he depicted on a vast open-air stage by men and women faithfully costumed for the particular period in which they enter. The great Hoosier drama promises to present scene after scene calculated to thrill the blood of every loyal Indianian. Riverside park was selected because it Is easily reached from the city and besides its picturesque situation of-, sered admirable opportunity for outdoor drama. A grandstand will accommodate nearly 10,000 people. From the grandstand the spectator will have a fine sweep of the grassy stage with White river, skirted by woodland and the old canal beyond. In the presentation of this great picture of Hoosier life people from all over the state have responded to the call for pioneer relics to aid in bringing realism into the pageant. The hours for the pageant performances have been arranged so that visitors to the city may attend the spectacle and also other events of the centennial celebration.

in America. The three operas will be given in very sumptuous manner, the complete ballet Russe appearing in each. In “Iris” the title role will be taken by Tamaki Miura, the celebrated Japanese prima donna. The operas are to be given Oct. 13 arid 14, with matrnee, at Murat theater. All the artists in the photograph will be under the direction of the Centennial Celebration Committee, which has headquarters at 40 South Pennsylvania street.

CENTURY OF INDIANA ART IN GREAT EXHIBIT

A feature of the Indiana Centenary celebration at Indianapolis will be an exhibit of Hoosier fine and domestic art products covering the century, and the John Herron Art institute will keep the centenary exhibit open to the public during the entire month of Oc tober. Mrs. Albert Rabb is chairman of the committee on literature and has planned some novel ideas for showing Indiana's progress in this direction. Harold Haven Brown, director of the institute, by appeal to the people oi the state, is gathering a wonderful collection of the beautiful, the antique, the curious in the way of. art. All over Indiana families are ransacking attics, trunks and closets for Hoosier arts and articles of human Interest, dating from the earliest days to a quarter century ago. The display is to be in three departments. One section will be devoted to the fine arts' in painting and sculpture, another to historic portraits and prints, the object being to show in historical sequence the more noted men and women of the state’s history; a third section will include household utensils of historic and human interest, as well as articles of the professions and tools of the trades. _ _

Happenings of the World Tersely Told

European War News Russian attempts to capture the town of llulizc, on the Dniester in Galicia, regarded as the key to the defense of Lemberg from the southeast, have been frustrated by the Teutonic forces, says Berlin. * * * A general offensive throughput tlie Balkan country, threatening the Bulgarians from tlie north and south and the Austrians in Transylvania, is on in full force. Vienna admits that the Austrian troops ha\V withdrawn, before the Roumanian advance. Bucharest claims the occupation of CsikSzedera. * * * The Bel gi seh Dagblad announces that the German authorities have seized £30,000,000 ($150,000,0(H)), which hail been placed in the coffers of the Belgian National bank, in consequence of the suspension of the moratorium. * * * “If the entente and anti-Venlzellst factious can only keep quiet for ten days and not embroil the situation Greece’s entry Into (lie war will tie u settled fact,” said a prominent Greek official to a correspondent at Athens, “If not,” he added, "it is the end of Greece.” * * * Bucharest reports to London that as a result.of bombardment the Bulgarian cities of Widin, Lom-Palanka and Rohovn wiye set on lire. The Bulgarians ure evacuating Varna, their principal port on the Black sea.

Loss of ground west of Shy pot, in the Carpathians, near Zable, is admitted by Berlin In the official wall statement. Attacks by the Russians from the sea to the Carpathians also ure reported. * * * “According to reports from Germany received at Berne," says a dispatch to London, “the dismissal of Gen. Erich von Falkenhayn as chief of the German general staff was due to ids suggestion of a Complete change in Germany’s war plans which Emperor William indignantly rejected.” * * * Official announcement, was made at Berlin that the German and Bulgarian forces that are invading Dobrudja, eastern Itoiimunin, have captured the Roumanian fortress of Slllstria, on the Danube, near Bucharest, the Roumanian capital. * * * The destruction of the American consulate at Alexandretta, Asiatic Turkey, during a bombardment by entente allied warships is .announced at Berlin in a delayed Turkish official report dated September 1. „* * * The allies have lost more than a million men in killed, wounded and missing since the gra-ud offensive against the central powers opened with a Russian attack three months ago, This estimate was made by German military experts at Berlin, who said they thought It conservative.

* * * While the German-Bulgur army which captured the forts ami city of Turtukai is attacking tin; enemy positions to the north, another Bulgur army is making rapid progress In a advance along the Roumanian Blacksea coast. The capture of three lia-I portant port cities, Belchlk, Kavarna and Kaliarka, Is announced by the Bulgarian war office at Sofia. • * * With more than 20,(X)0 Roumanians captured by the Bulgar-Teutonlc forces which stormed Tutrakan and its seven forts the invasion of Itoumania, which Is now threatening Bucharest, and the sweep across Dodrudja to cut the main Roumanian line of communication with the Black sea port of Constanza continues. The capture of Turakan is officially announced hy Berlin and con 4 firmed by Petrograd. * * * The French have captured the German first line trenches over a front of one mile on the Verdun front, the Paris war office announced. * * *

Domestic Theodore Gross, Jr., aged forty, a banker at Atwood, 111., died of Infantile paralysis. 'He had been sick three days. • • • Triumph for the woman’s suffrage cause “In a little while” was predicted by President Wilson at Atlantic City, N. J., In a speech before the anuual eonventuon of the National American Woman Suffrage association. * • * J. W. Struthers and Charles Deere Wiman of the army aviation school for civilians fell 900 feet In a naeroplane at Governor’s Island, New York. Both received injuries that may be mortal. Wiman Is a Moline (Ill.) millionaire. • • • Myron Campbell, cashier of the National bank at South Bend, Ind., for more than : 2o years, died of pneumonia. About 20 years ago he gained fame by holding himself responsible for the loss of $17,000 from the bank tlurough a robbery.

Three high school teachers, Mln'° Edith Kllenborg of Murion, 111.; Miss Anna Kirkland of Urlianu, 111., and Harold Gent veil of Beaver Dam, Wik, were struck by an interurban car and Instantly killed at Muncie, 111. A * • - • R. L. Murphy, internal revenue collector for lowa, announced at Dubuque, la., that, effective at midnight September 8, schedules A and B of the war revenue act are repealed. This covers bonds, debentures, deeds, notes, bills of lading, telephone and telegraph messages, cosmetics and perfumes. • * * Two persons were killed and fifteen Injured at Palmer's crossing, one mile south of Rives Junction, Mich., when two passenger cars on the Michigan railway met head on. * * * Master bakers, representing numerleally -tit per cent of the baking establishments of tlie United States and controlling about 00 per cent of the output of bread, “recommended” at t’hieago that bakeries cease to make five-cent loaves of bread andvqontine their standard output to u ten-cent loaf.

* * • Maine went hack to the Republican fold by a decisive margin in the biennial election. The Republicans made a clean sweep, electing a governor, two United States senators, four congressmen and the legislature. The Republican candidate for governor, Carl E. Milliken, was elected governor over tlie incumbent, Oakley C. Curtis, Democrat, by about 12,000. ■ * ** * President Wilson received word at Asliury Park, X. ,l„ from New London, Conn,, that tlie condition of Ills sister, Mrs. Annie S. llowe, who is critically 111 at her home in that City, had taken a turn for the worse. * * * Muster and pay rolls for the First and Second infantry regiments and Battery F of the federalized I. N. G. have been delivered to Springfield, 111., with orders from central division headquarters to proceed with the mustering out of the militia units front federal service as rapidly as possible. * * * President Wilson and Mrs. Wilson arrived at New London, Conn., from the summer White House at Long Branch to go to the bedside of the president’s sister, Mrs. Ilovve.

Washington Orders to reinstate immediately all employees of tin- post office department with flic _Nu(tonal Guard in the liehl upon theft- discharge from the militia, without awaiting formal approval of (lie department, were issued at Washington to all postmasters by (lie postmaster general. * * * In a statement issued at Washington following the adjournment of congress, President Wilson called attention lo the “helpful and humane legislation” passed and declared that while lie regret ted additional legislation dealing wit It tlie recent dispute between the railroads and flielr employees had not been completed, lie had every reason to believe I lie question would Do taken up immediately after congress reassembles. * * * A resolution by Senator Curtis of Kansas directing the senate lobby committee al Washington to In vest Igute the activities of the alleged foreign lobby opposing the retaliatory provision of tin- revenueJiili against Canadian fisheries was passed by the senate. * * * President Wilson signed the shipping bill at Washington. It authorizes government organization of a corporation or corporations With capitalization of not more than $50,000,000 to buy or lease ships and put them in trade If they cannot be leased for operation to private capital.

Sporting Charles Evans, Jr., of Chicago, dethroned Robert Gardner, last year’s winner, 4 and 3 over the 36-hole route on the links at Philadelphia. Now Evans wears the double crown, amateur and open. Never before, either in this country or Great Britain, has the same man won both the amateur and open title in the same season. • * * John Aitfcen, piloting a Peugeot, won all three of the events of the Harvest auto racing classic at Indianapolis. The time was 1:07:05.04, an ayeruge of 89.44 miles an hour.

Mexican War News General Pershing’s troops south of the border have again taken up the chase of Pancho Villa. General Pershing reported to General Funston at San Antonio, Tex., that his anen had already passed through Santa Clara canyon, 50 miles south of the punitive expedition’s field headquarters at El Valle. * • * Foreign A report was Issued at Berlin through the semiofficial Overseas News agency denying that there have been any food riots in Germany. * * * Gen. Alvpro Obregon, Mexican minister of war, has been stricken with Bright’s disease and is In a serious condition. according to reports to San Antonio, Tex. Gen. Francisco Serrano, chief of staff, Is in charge of the war office at Mtwlco City.