Sometimes the tone of a report in the Pantagraph is such that we know the people featured are not people "like us" or people who are respected by the Pantagraph. These people are spoken of in slighting tones and their dirty laundry is put out to be picked over with a long stick.
On this date 100 years ago a couple, JA Lucas and Etta Rush Lucas were summoned to court for the truancy of their daughter, Luvetta Rush. The Pantagraph observed that Etta Rush had been on the widow's pension, but that she had been married less than a month ago. Her marriage seemed to give her a new haughtiness that the court did not find attractive. Luvetta had not been to school and when the truancy officer came to question the family he did not meet the respect that his office merited. On the date of the hearing, the parents reported that Luvetta had gone out at 7 and they did not know where she was.
Upon further searching I believe I found the reason for the tone of the report. At the time of Mrs. Lucas' death, the Pantagraph recorded that she was a member of the Mt Pisgah Church. One now begins to understand the condemnation of her haughtiness and the sly references to the mother's pension. I would suppose that Mrs. Lucas resented the tone taken with her when the authorities paid her the pension and the tone taken when investigated for her "charity worthiness." With her independence from such munificence she must have felt impatient with accepting the correction of the officers.