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 RELIGION. EDUCATION — FINANCE — PRODUCTION, ETC. 535

The largest cities in the State are Indianapolis (capital), with a population, according to the census of 1920, of 314,194: Fort Wavne with 86,549 ; Evansville. 85,264; South Bend, 70,988 ; Terre Haute, 66,083; East Chicago, 35,967 : Muncie, 86,524 ; Hammond, 36,004 : Richmond, 26,728 : Anderson, 29,767 : Elkhart, 24,277; Lafavette, 22,546; Michigan 19,457; New Albany, 22,092; Loganspoit, 21,626; Kokomo, 30,067; Marion, 23,747 ; Vincennes, 17,210.

Religion, Education. — The religious denominations most numerously represented are in order of rank, Methodist, Roman Catholic, Disciples or Christian, Baptist, Presbyterian, United Brethren, Lutheran, and Friends.

School attendance during the full term is compulsory from 7 to 14 years of age, and from 14 to 16 unless employed. In 1920 the public elementary schools had 15,680 teachers and 487,772 enrolled pupils. The public high schools numbered 770, and had 4,755 teachers with 78,516 pupils in 1920. Teachers are trained in a State normal school. The total expenditure for all public schools in 1920 was 35,714,749 dollars.

Indiana has many institutions for superior education, the principal being, 1919 :—

Begun

Institution Control

Professors

and Instructors

Students

1824 1837 1842 1874

Indiana University, Bloomington State. De Pauw University, Greencastle M.E.. University of Notre Dame. . R.C.. Purdue University, Lafayette. State.

140

50

81

188

3,310 1,062 2,031 2,005

On January 1, 1910, the number of paupers in almshouses was 3,114, being 115"3 per 100,000 of the population, and of prisoners in penal institu- tions 2,870, being 106-3 per 100,000 of the population. On August 31, 1917, the almshouses contained 3,416 paupers.

Finance. — In the year ending September 30, 1920, the net receipts and disbursements were as follows : —

Dollars

In hand, October 1, 1919 3,974,852

Receipts, 1919-20 5,187,539

Total Receipts 9,112,391

Disbursements, 1919-20 7,938,780

Balance Sept. 30, 1920 .... 1,173,611

On September 30, 1919, the State had a debt of 340,000 dollars. The assessed value of real property and of personal property in 1919 was 2 233,761,065 dollars.

Production and Industry. — Indiana is largely agricultural, about 94 per cent, of its total area being in farms. In 1920 there were 205,124 farms, and the farm-land had an area of 22,124,836 acres, of which 18,223,207 was improved land. The total assessed value of all farm property