Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-02-02
Authorities Locate 1t on Salt
Creek, Brown County. In
deanny, B'Gosh!
From the New York World.

FROM the New York World.
The "nnouncement is made with
commingled pain and pride that the
center of population of the United
States has hiked across the line from
Bartholomew into Brown county. Ind,
and is now to be found near the head
waters of that oft-traveled stream Salt
creek, and not on the banks IF that
other considerable waterway long and
favorably known to lyrical fame, the
babbling Wabash, as state-pride Hoos-
icrs had wished and prayed.
Finding just where to cut a nick in
a sycamore, as in the case of Salt
creek, to drop a fishline to mark the
center of he 81, 600, 900 of us is no roll
licking pastime. The government is
very serious about it. When the EN-
which, as every one knows, means
here's the very spot" they'll do it
by means of two lines cutting across
the United States from Maine to south
ern California and from Alaska to the
Everglades of Florida. keeping in mind
people instead of acres, and where
these lines meet will be the spot. 1t
will be found. as stated above, in the
Salt creek district of Brown county.
possibly where Farmer Perkins stacked
his summer crop of hay.
There's an abundance of room at the
center-no crush at the subways and
never an occasion for hanging out the
on a metropolitan basis the entire
county could be moved over to one
town and not made to feel uncomforta-
BILE. They carry the equal to the full
of Brown county Owe Brooklyn bridge
in two-fifths of a rush hour every
day. The nearest they come to this in
Brown is when they crowd three in a
buggy, which is seldom. for two is
company all through Indiana, as we'll it
might be.
Brown county makes no claim to dis
tinction, unless it be that it grows a
whOpper crop of beans, such as mother
used to bake and recognize the value
of venerable cider as a stomach tonic.
1t lies south of Indianapolis, the dis
lance being great enough to be entire
ly satisfactory to the good folk of the
county and duly appreciated by the
citizens of the state capital. 1t is not
on the hne of railroad to any vast
extent. AS indicating TOY free it is
from guile and the benign influences
working elsewhere in the
wealth it can be said on the authori-
ty of the gentleman himself that not
a door in all Brown county has ever
been opened to George AIDE. His eff
forts to give Indiana an identity have
never appealed to Brown.
With Senator Beveridge, however, it
is different. He has crossed the border
on several occasions, n has pointed
with pride and likewise viewed with
alarm on several stumps in the coun-
~. Any one wishing to take the stump
for his party is advised to visit Brown.
The stumps are ready.
Booth Harrington has heard of
Brow county, but nothing, positively
nothing. to it's discredit. He speaks
we'll Of 1T, too, but not with enthusiasm.
There are two creeks in Brown coun-
ty-Salt creek. which is referred to
every year after election, and Bean
Blossom-but from unexplained rea-
SON they spend all their time running
away from it. In this they have SEN
timents in common with part of the
population. In 1890 it was the proud
boast of the county that it numbered
1O,30s people. In 1900 there were only
9,727. a matter of 5S1 having put the
reverse English on the popular saying
and gope down Salt creek" Cupid
beckoned to a considerable number
Bean Blossom, Beveridge, Beck, Lock-
man n S~pearsville. themselves CEN
ters of county population, failed to hold