This article originally appeared in the Valparaiso Daily Vidette on Tuesday, August 30, 1916.
Will be Placed by Townships and Judged According to Arrangement and Historical Value.
Committees Named
Margaret Cameron Beer, chairman of the historical exhibit of the celebration of the Indiana Centennial in Porter County, announces that the exhibit will be ready the 24th of September and will be open to the public throughout the week. This exhibit will be placed by townships and will be judged* according to arrangement and historic value. It will consist of jewelry, coins, pewter, silver, china, pictures, manuscripts, books, handiwork, and all other articles of interest. There will be also a history of Indiana from the beginning down to the present time. This will include geography, civil, social, religious, and educational life, literature, music, and art. Porter County will be treated in the same way.
A committee at large has been appointed, whose duty will be to aid the township chairmen in their work. The committees are:
Boone Township—Mrs. Jay Buchanan
Center—Mrs. S. C. Billings
Jackson—Mrs. T. K. Whitlock
Morgan—Mrs. Ransom Conover
Pine—Miss Mildred Carver
Pleasant—Miss Kathryn Kring
Portage—Mrs. Lewis Robbins
Porter—Mrs. Lewis Stevens
Union—Mrs. A. O. Dobbins
Washington—Mrs. Isaac Cornell
Westchester—Mrs. J. N. Busse
Valparaiso—Miss Narcissa Hamell, Miss May Hamell Stickney, Mrs. Will J. Henry
At large—Mrs. Peter Horn, Mrs. H. H. Loring, Mrs. Alex Lippman
Indiana history—Mrs. W. E. Harris, Mrs. Eugene Parker, Mr. Lee F. Bennett; Mrs. M. A. Gregory, literature; Mrs. John Oldham, art; Miss Ruth Evans, music.
Porter County history—Miss Ella Vincent, Miss Anna Gillespie
The historical exhibit will be in the public library. Members of the committee will be in attendance and they hope to see there every man, woman and child in Porter County.
* Official judges for the exhibit were Myra Finette Pinney, Minnie McIntyre, Mrs. Harry Pagin, Hon. Edgar Dean Crumpacker, and Calvin Snyder Hoover. J. Lowenstine & Sons provided a prize for the township having the best arranged exhibit and Specht, Finney Co. provided a prize for the township having the exhibit of greatest historical value.