Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1904 — Indiana World’s Fair Notes [ARTICLE]

Indiana World’s Fair Notes

Indians Day at the exposition, September 15. Agricultural exhibits are arriving at the headquarters in Indianapolis in large quanities. Manual training work of the students in the low grades of ihtpublic schools will be an important ieature of the educational exhibit from Indianapolis, A number of furniture manufacturers of the state have written to Chairman Ball of the building committee offering to furnish furniture to be used in fitting up the Indiana building at the ex position, Histories ot their respective counties, or of certain township, which were written by pupils io the public schools will form an interesting part of the state ed uoatiunal exhibit. State Superin tendent Cotton says some of these histories show remarkable ability in the writers. Wireless telegraphy and tele phony will be one of the features of the exhibit in the electrical department. A wireless telegraph station will be erected in the electrical building from which messages can be sent by visitors to surrounding cities. It is the intention to erect several of the stations for these messages in this state. Bids have been asked for from architects to design the plans for the stone exhibits to be made at the exposition. The building stone will be used to make an ornamental wall about the space reserved for the mineral display. Chairman Wicks of the committe on building stone has the promise of the stone operators that they will furnish all the material needed f ir the exhibit.