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The test run against Goff, the Tribune archive and the Gazette file · the found gathering: October 30, 1948
The test, stated: The checklist's one-off set — a homecoming, an international delegation's dinner, a historic pageant, each dated, placed and sourced — was tested against the sources the audit named: Max Goff's History of Harris Township (1980), the South Bend Tribune's archive, and the Granger Gazette back file at the Mishawaka-Penn-Harris Public Library. None of the three forms appears for this ground in any source reached. No township history reached records a homecoming celebration; no delegation — sister-city, agricultural, or otherwise — is recorded dining in Granger; no pageant, historical or otherwise, is recorded staged here. The forms belong to incorporated places with civic committees to stage them, and the negative is printed at that size.
What the gathering record actually holds: The documentary trace of Granger gathering as a community is smaller and better than the checklist's forms — it is a schoolhouse Halloween. The Township News of October 21, 1948 (preserved in the Michiana Memory collection of the St. Joseph County Public Library) carries the Granger PTA's Halloween party for the school children of Granger: Saturday, October 30, at 8 p.m., with a grand march, prizes for costumes, a patrol posted for the school grounds, and — in the same column — the Camp Fire Girls of Granger holding a paper drive on October 16. That is the one-off gathering at its true documentary size on this ground in the era the township histories cover: a parents' party in a schoolhouse, printed in a township paper, one column long. It stands here whole, and no homecoming is inflated out of it.
Sources:
- Township News, October 21, 1948, p. 4 — Michiana Memory, St. Joseph County Public Library: the Granger PTA Halloween party of October 30, 1948 (grand march, costume prizes, grounds patrol); Camp Fire Girls of Granger paper drive, October 16, 1948.
- Tested with nil yield for homecoming / delegation dinner / pageant: Goff, History of Harris Township (1980), as indexed; South Bend Tribune archive; Granger Gazette back file (MPHPL) — searches run November 2026.