100 Years Ago: Dec. 20-Jan. 2

From The Indianapolis Star, Thursday, December 25, 1924: Hundreds of carolers traveled throughout Indianapolis — from home to home, hospital to hospital, and club to club — last night raising their voices in singing Christmas songs and spreading the yuletide spirit by this age-old custom. Caroling began at 7 p.m. as a massed chorus, braving a cold wind, sang from the steps of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument before boarding a bus to travel about the city stopping at homes where candles had been placed in the windows indicating that someone within was ill. Among groups taking part in the municipal caroling program were the Indianapolis Gospel Chorus, which sang at the jail, the Phyllis Wheatley Y.W.C.A., which sang at the City Hospital, and the recreational training class, which sang at Union Station.  Twenty-two automobiles with carolers circulated through the outlying suburbs.

From The Indianapolis News, Saturday, December 27, 1924: An army of 500 or more Warren Township farmers, stirred by the loss of chickens to several red foxes roaming the township, gathered today at the boundary of fox infested areas in a three mile-diameter circle formation, and steadily walked in a closely formed line toward the center. From hilltops, the narrowing circle presented a picturesque scene across the snow-covered fields. Carrying only clubs, the hunters crossed creeks and carefully climbed over barbed wire fences drawing the circle threateningly smaller until a shout went up in the vicinity of Buck Creek that four of the chicken thieves had been spotted. Children tagging along with the hunters were sent into the narrowing ring to stir-up the foxes who raced back and forth until with a wild surge the pursuers felled the wily creatures.