Brookville Democrat, March/April 1896
Another Railroad Coming
Friday night's Indianapolis News contained the following: Articles of Incorporation filed with the Secretary of State today, announce that a new railroad will immediately be built from Union City, Randolph County, to Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County.
The road will be 81 miles long and will cross the counties of Randolph, Wayne, Union, Franklin and Dearborn. The road is to be called the Union City, Richmond and Lawrenceburg railroad (how convenient!)
The capital stock is fixed at $200,000. In incorporators are Mackey, Page, Evans, Rowland, Shoemaker, Zeigler, Howe, Palmer and Tewksbury.
Asylum News
Richmond -- The Eastern Indiana Hospital for the Insane, located here, has had a remarkable showing in the small number of deaths that have occurred within the past few months. Up to the first of this month, there had not been a death since the middle of August -- eight months.
The Enumeration Law
This year's enumeration of school children will be conducted according to the provisions of a new state law, which requires that the name and age of each child be recorded. The following are points of the law:
1. The enumeration has to be taken and all transfers have to be made between April 10 and April 30.
2. Not only are the names of the parents of guardians to be taken, but also the name and age of each child, giving the street and number of the residence.
3. The signature of parent or guardian is required, certifying to the correctness of the enumeration.
It will be seen that this will require much more work than under the old law.
NOTES: Keeping track of students was difficult, but somehow considered necessary.
They built a railroad somewhere once a month, and this one was to be built immediately! It never was, but hey ... they thought about it.
Having no deaths at the madhouse -- what a concept.
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