Indiana auditor highlights strict state finances and prison upgrades
The auditor of state reports a rare balance in Indiana accounts with no overdraws for a decade under Republican rule. Prison expansion proceeds with a new cellhouse nearly finished and walls to double capacity. Governor Hanly appoints Harvey C. Cheney executive accountant to standardize bookkeeping across state institutions.
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Guy Gorar
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Hanly
Harvey C. Cheney
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Indiana
Cheney
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Tippecanoe County
Hills
State House
Steadfast Republican Policy Aims At Indiana Reform
Indiana Republicans tout a program of modernizing education, penal, correctional and benevolent institutions. They cite a bi-ennial commission inspection system, the epileptic village near Newcastle, a proposed state hospital for consumptives, and strict new criminal laws including longer sentences, higher age of consent and sterilization provisions as advances for public welfare.
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State Board of Health
Indiana Legislatures Expand State Charity Laws
The 1890s to 1907 Indiana legislatures passed numerous charity laws expanding township city county and state care. New rules place public support under juvenile court oversight, restrict neglect penalties, fund orphans and education, regulate institutions boards and appointments, and create a tuberculosis hospital site. The trend shows strong Republican efforts to aid dependents.
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Indiana
Normal School
Indiana Girls’ School
Indiana Woman’s Prison
Fort Wayne
Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans
Knightstown
House of Mercy
Reformatory
Shelburn News Briefs Highlight Local Visits and Events
W O Kirkham and Guss Morris visited Shelburn and Farmersburg respectively. A son born to Mr and Mrs Jess McCrocklin. Typhoid illnesses reported for John Lewis’s son and Mrs Floyd Lowery. A hunting trip to Mississippi planned by Jess McCrocklin and others. Shelburn Mason lodge conferred first degree. third degree to follow. Terre Haute and Sullivan figures noted among visitors and locals attending church trial in Sullivan.
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Farmersburg
John Lewis
Floyd Lowery
Jess McCrocklin
Missisippi
Roosevelt
D. M. Sebring
Jas. Osburn
William Bledsoe
James McHugh
Os Piety
Jerry Sebring
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Old York
Shelburn
Shelburn Masonic Lodge
For Rent: Residence Suitable for One or Two Small Families
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