Around Home was a column that always appeared on the 4th page of the paper -- the editorial page -- in 1915. Sometimes this column was rather run of the mill, announcements of marriages, anniversaries and travellers. Sometimes the reports were rather grisly. But other times, the reporters definitely had a sense of humor.
A municipal Christmas Tree is again to be a feature in the Champaign-Urbana celebration of the Yuletide.
Miss Mary Fohrer, who was born in Fulton County in 1873, died at her home in Canton Sunday after a brief illness.
Lester Warner, of Mahomet, went to Mansfield Thursday evening. He ran over two black cats and killed a horse on the way.
A T Wheeler of the soil survey department of the University of Illinois, was married thanksgiving afternoon to Lucile Voorin of Waterloo.
Courtland Andrews, who had lived in Urbana for 14 years, died Sunday following an operation for obstruction of the bowels which was performed Saturday.
Following an illness of almost three years, Mrs. Sarah Jane Mosher of Canton, died Saturday night. She was born near Cuba and had lived in Fulton County nearly all her life.
William Firke, the Mansfield "goose king," now has a rival in John Davis, a young farmer of that vicinity, who has gone into the business of fattening geese for the New York market.
Bronislaw Aitokaitis, of Moline, is now in jail carged with beating his wife into insensibility and attacking a neighbor and his wife who came to her assistance. He is a former saloon keeper, who was put out of business because conditions in his place were so bad.
The cemetery scandal at Hoopeston is again being aired in the suit of Mrs. Moses Watkins against Widow Wright for alienation of her husband's affections, the amount being $5,000. The scandal was unearth sometime ago by Mrs. Alice Frisinger, who was employed to "clean up" the town.
As you can see, the less salubrious stories were interlaced with the truly intriguing. HOW did Mr. Warner kill the horse? And were the cats travelling together or did he happened upon single cats? Was it better to be ill for three years and suffer, or better to submit to the surgeon and die immediately? Moral lessons were contained here -- note the natural relationship between being a saloon keeper and domestic violence.
Who was this Mrs. Frisinger and was she really hired to clean up the red light district? And why was this a "cemetery scandal?"