Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1903 — Indiana Leads. [ARTICLE]

Indiana Leads.

Indiana is a good state and the fait is recognized probably to a greater extent outside her boundaries than inside. At Washington the state is given first consideration by the postoffice department in establishing a complete rural route service. Prof. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor-of the telephone says in the use of the telephone on farms Indiana leads the oountry. R. F. Ramsey learned while in the East that Indiana ie oonceded to be the coming center of theinterurban business of the oountry. In literature the Hooaier state has of late years taken high rank Indiana is in fact the gar den spot of the world, and in all her broad area there is no finer spot than Rensselaer and Jasper oounty. The further you travel from home the more you realize this.