Originally published in The Vidette-Messenger of Porter County on January 6, 1951.
Courthouse Records Sorting Is Going At Lively Pace
Sorting of old records in the record room on the top floor of the county courthouse building is proceeding at a fast pace under the direction of R.B. Heritage and Byron K. Henry, field examiners for the state board of accounts.
The work was started about 10 days ago and already a large amount of useless material has been called from the mass of papers in storage.
In order to deal with the disposition the old records and organization called the commission of public records was formed with judges of both courts county clerk, county auditor and county commissioners as members. Field examiners were included in the group along with representatives of abstract forms in Porter County Historical society in an advisory capacity.
It is estimated that about 10 tons of old records will be junked before the task is completed. Binders on a number of Records valued at from $5 to $7 will be salvaged and used over again.
