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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1911
Page
7
Dekalb County's old courthouses and jails trace a history from an 1843 schoolhouse to a wooden first courthouse and 1875 brick jail. The current plan costs about 69 thousand dollars, financed without raising taxes, with W H McIntyre owner of the temporary courthouse site and long-time Auburn factory magnate.
The commissioners discuss incorporation of new towns in DeKalb County and the rising value assessments. Auburn emerges with notable manufacturing firms, while overall growth reflects a twenty five percent rise in property values from the prior period.
The article notes Wayne architects who designed the county courthouse and describes Auburn and nearby towns in a county of about 26 900 people. It lists Waterloo Ashley Corunna St Joe and Altona with populations and mentions automobile factories like W H McIntyre Zimmerman Co and Auburn Automobile, once buggy makers turned to cars.
Leading members of the DeKalb County Bar note that Mr. McIntyre owns the present DeKalb county courthouse, possibly the only such ownership in the nation.
The county temple cornerstone ceremony speaks on liberty progress and the role of the court. The structure symbolizes society’s advances toward peace, commerce, and justice, housing county records and a free, untrammeled court for all citizens. A relic box will be placed in the cornerstone containing various keepsakes.
An Auburn sidewalk collapse near Ninth and Cedic streets injures Ray Hite and about fifty others during a drum corps event at Esknart warehouse. Hite, 16, suffers severe foot injuries and likely permanent crippling after being trapped under timbers. The accident disrupts cornerstone ceremonies and alarms the crowd.
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