Growth of Indiana public schools marks a century of progress
Indiana’s centennial of statehood highlights a century of school growth from early township schooling to a unified system. The article notes rising enrollment, teacher numbers, schoolhouses, and the 1913 vocational education law, plus a 1915 teachers pension fund, framing education as a state pride and model to future centennials.
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Indiana
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Caleb Mills
New Hampshire
Wabash College
Mills
Whitcomb
Samuel Perkins
Supreme Court
Byron K. Elliott
Uiso
Fashion dictates new male attire in Dame Fashion decree
The poem mocks fashion's power over clothing trends, noting bunions from tight corsets and the i mpact on both women and men. It hints at skirts, hemlines, and the uncertain look of men under fashion's rule, all conveyed with humor and irony.
Hoover and Wood Attend National Republican Convention
T. E. Hoover and Walter F. Wood left for Chicago to attend the National Republican Convention. Hoover will stay to join a dinner in honor of his mother Elizabeth Hoover's 90th birthday hosted by Mrs. W. J. Smith in Chicago, with five generations expected at the celebration.
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T. E. Hoover
Walter F. Wood
Chicago
Hoover
Elizabeth Hoover
W. J. Smith
Smith
Thomas Aydelotte
Carlisle
Thomas R. Hoover
City
Jennie Root
Miss Gertrude Hopkins Loses Eye in Chicago Hospital
Miss Gertrude Hopkins of Rensselaer Indiana, a familiar visitor in the city, lost the sight in one eye after a lens shard from her glasses penetrated the eyeball. She was treated in a Chicago hospital where the eye ball was removed.
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Gertrude Hopkins
Renssalear
Ind
Miss Hopkins
Chicago
County Board elects new attendance officer
The County Board of Education met at the County Superintendent Park's office on Monday and elected Alva Hadden as attendance officer. Hadden, formerly Hamilton township assessor, won alongside Frank McClanahan of Curry township and George Love of the city who each received two votes.
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County Board of Education
Park
Alva Hadden
Hadden
Hamilton Township
Frank McClanahan
Curry Township
George Love
Elks Lodge Plans Flag Day Celebration
S. W. Snively editor of the Terre Haute Star visited the Sullivan lodge of Elks Monday evening to arrange attendance at the Flag Day celebration to be held in Terre Haute next Wednesday evening under the auspices of the Terre Haute lodge. Mr Snively is the esteemed leading knight of the Terre Haute lodge.
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S. W. Snively
The
Terre Haute
Hays' Baby Given Convention Delegate Badge
Will H. Hays Jr., six months old and son of Indiana state chairman, was named delegate No. 31 at the Chicago meeting. The badge was authorized on motion by Fred A. Sims.
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Hays
Chicago
Will H. Hays, Jr
Indiana
Fred A. Sims
Social notes from New Lebanon area meetups and visits
Mrs Dan Arnett and daughter Bernice spent Tuesday with Mrs Sam Sandusky. Marie Neal and Rachel Bicknell of Bicknell visited Clyde Schaffer. Lucile Austin Florence Dodds and Ralph Brown attended an Ep worth league convention at Logueotee. Clyde Schaffer Marie Neal and Rachel Bicknell spent Friday in Terre Haute. Mrs Harry Bolenbaugh and daughter Hattie visited Sullivan Saturday. Doris Weir stayed Saturday night and Sunday with Elizabeth Phillips. H E St Clair and family Willie Mengs and family and Jake Prose spent Sunday with Arthur Brown and family.
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Elizabeth Phillips
H. E. St. Clair
Willie Mengs
Jake Prose
Arthur Brown
Renewal of Liquor License in Sullivan County Indiana
Notice lists Harrison Ashcraft of Jackson township Sullivan county as applying for a one year renewal of a liquor license to sell spiritous vinous malt and other intoxicating liquors at retail under a described one story frame building fronting a public highway. Application to the Sullivan county Board of Commissioners begins first Monday in July 1916.
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Jackson Township
Sullivan County
Indiana
Board of Commissioners
Section
Township 8
Harrison Ashcraft
Transfer of Liquor License to New Room in Jackson Township
Charles G. Burriss, a white male resident and liquor retailer in Jackson Township Sullivan County Indiana, seeks to move his licensed retail liquor business to a new room within the same township. He requests permission from the Sullivan County Board of Commissioners at the July 1916 session to transfer his license and relocation of the premises described as the tower front room of a one story sheet iron building on the listed parcel. The notice is dated with first insertion June 7 1916.
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Jackson Township
Sullivan County
Indiana
Board of Commissioners
Section 12
Township 8
Charles G. Burriss
Bids Open July 1 for Gill Township Levee Work
Sealed bids for concrete facing three inches thick at river side slope, concrete footing at toe, and enlarging the earth levee in Gill township Sullivan County Indiana will be received by the Board of Commissioners until 2 p m July 1 1916 at Hays and Hays Sherman building Sullivan Indiana. Work located on left bank of the Wabash River below Riverton with about 70000 square yards of facing 880 cubic yards of footing and 85000 cubic yards earth work. Bid deposit five hundred dollars. Right to reject bids reserved. G C Graeter Engineer Briggs Building Sullivan Indiana. First insertion June 7 1916 2t
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Board of Commissioners
Gill Township
Sullivan County
Indiana
Hays & Hays, Attorneys
Sherman
Sullivan
Wabash River
Riverton
G. C. Graeter
Briggs
Notice of Sullivan Church Trustees Election
In Sullivan Indiana on June 5 1916 notice to members of the Church of Christ of Sullivan Indiana that a meeting will be held at the Church House on East Jackson Street July 5 1916 at 7 30 p m to elect three trustees for the church. Deacons. First insertion June 7 1916 4t.
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Sullivan, Ind
Church of Christ of
Sullivan
Indiana
East Jackson Street
Rev S I Long Out On Chautauqua Tour
Pastor Rev S I Long of the Baptist church delivered his last sermon Sunday and left for an extended chautauqua tour after a prior leave of absence. Rev Blanchard Davis will fill the pulpit in his absence. Mrs Rena Crosson and son Wayne of Terre Haute visited south of town with sister Mrs Thos D Ellis as her husband handled Detroit business. Ed S Sparrow has returned from Knoxville hospital where blood poisoning lingered. he is recovering but still weak. Don Cochran went to Newcastle Saturday for business matters.
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S. I. Long
the Baptist
Blanchard Davis
Rena Crosson
Wayne
Terre Haute
Thos. D. Ellis
Detroit
Michigan
Frank Sweeney
Dugger
Town
Ed S. Sparrow
Knoxville
Tenn
Mr. Sparrow
Weather week ending June 5 in Farmersburg
Miss Glenn Yeager, co operative weather observer, reports for the county a week of June 4 to June 5 with daily notes. Cloudy days on the 29th to 30th and 1st, 2nd, 4th with a total rainfall of 1.05 inches on the 29th and a trace on the 4th.
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Farmersburg
Glenn Yeager
Co-Operative Weather Observer
Illinois Farm Lands for Sale Near Rail Line
Good level well improved farms underlaid with coal near railroad for sale at 40 to 100 dollars per acre. For particulars address Telford and Schwartz Salem Marion County Illinois.
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Illinois
Telford & Schwartz
Salem, Marion Co
Iron collection contest offered by David L Kaplan
Community notice invites residents to bring in iron and rags for a 30 day contest. The person delivering the largest load of iron will win a five dollar prize. Address 502 N Court St provided for participation.
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David L. Kaplan
N. Court St
Wool buyers invite farmers to sell at Section street
Farmers are urged to bring wool to T. E. Springer Jr. at T. E. Wyne's place of business on Section street for sale.
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T. E. Springer, Jr
T. E. Wyne
Section Street
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By Ellis Searles
General Assembly
Indiana University
Hanover Academy
Hanover College
Wabash Manual Labor College
Teachers’ Seminary
Thetholics
University of Notre Dame
South Bend
Baptists
Franklin College
Franklin
DePauw
Manual Training High School
Indianapolis
Science Hall
Texas
Dame Fashion
New Lebanon
M. Burkhart, H. M. Raines
A. K. Boyll
Hettie Burris
Edward M. Burris
Cincinnati Enquirer
Don Cochran
Newcastle
DIX Lumber Company
Whitman Steel Queen
Mattix & Foster
State Bank
Union Office
Crib
Narrows
John Wisener
Chicago, Terre Haute
Southeastern
R. R
L. O'Neill
Thorre Haute
Peoria
St. Louis
Beehunter
Vandalia
Vincennes
Bedford
Monon
Seymour
Pennsylvania
Louisville
Cincinnati
Whitport
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