Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1916 — Hoosier News Briefly Told [ARTICLE]

Hoosier News Briefly Told

PLANS FOR THE DUNES PARK Association Starts Campaign to Get sloo,ooo Hope to Get 100,000 Membership at $1 Each Throughout the Entire Nation. Gary. Plans for a nation-wide campaign to raise SIOO,OOO by popular subscription to aid the government in the conservation of the Indiana sand dunes developed following the federal inquiry, conducted at Chicago by Assistant Secretary of the Interior Stephen T. Mather, to determine the advisability of making the dunes Into a national park. The campaign will be conducted by the National Dunes Park association, organized several months ago at a Joint meeting held here by Chicago and Indiana societies interested in the dunes project.