Bicycle Run Has Good Entry in Sunday Event

From The Indianapolis Star, Friday, October 24, 1919: Hundreds of bicycle riders have registered with the thirty-six dealers for the first bike run in Indianapolis in recent years. The free event will start at University Park on Sunday at 3 p.m. and riders will follow a route to a point five miles out in Riverside Park where souvenirs, provided by Hendee Manufacturing Co, Corbin Brake Co and Continental Rubber Co, will be distributed to all participants. Internationally famous cyclist Fred St. Onge will act as marshal and captain and will show some simple tricks on the wheel and demonstrate the right and wrong way to ride. He wants all wheelmen to maintain a safe and sane pace throughout the run; this is not a race. A movie man will shoot the run, in addition to a battery of still cameras.

“Bicycle Run Has Good Entry List in Sunday Event,” The Indianapolis Star, 24 October 1919, p. 16:5

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Freshmen at Butler Stuff Ballot Boxes

From The Indianapolis News, Thursday, October 16, 1919: Newly-elected junior class officers at Butler College were surprised to learn that their election has been declared invalid by the student control board following charges that the ballot boxes were stuffed in the recent election and another vote has been ordered. Yesterday’s freshmen class officer elections at the college may have taken a lesson from the juniors in that the votes for vice president, secretary, and treasurer were also declared invalid by the student control board because of ballot box stuffing. Despite the presence of election monitors at today’s meeting of the freshmen class, more votes were cast for secretary and treasurer than the number of voters present. The election for these offices was declared invalid and the freshmen will meet a third time to hold an election vote next Thursday.

“Freshmen at Butler Stuff Ballot Boxes,” The Indianapolis News, 16 October 1919, p. 7:1

“Somebody ‘Tampered’ with Ballot Boxes, It Appears,” The Indianapolis News, 16 October 1919, p. 9:1

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City Doesn't Suit Students

From The Indianapolis Star, Wednesday, October 8, 1919: Fifteen out of 100 students in Indianapolis high schools do not expect to stay in the city after they graduate and 45 will decide after completing college. Thirteen are undecided. This is one of the significant results of the questionnaire circulated by the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce among city high school students in connection with its campaign to “Keep Indianapolis at the Front.” The reasons offered by those who do not expect to stay are, “It depends on where I’m offered the best job;” “I can find better opportunities in my line in another place;” and “There is no opportunity here for a young man.” To the question, “What can be done to prepare for your life work?” the very first answer given by the students, “Promote business possibilities for young men.”

“City Doesn’t Suit Students,” The Indianapolis Star, 8 October 1919, p. 5:2

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