From The Indianapolis News, Tuesday, January 13, 1925: Yesterday’s inaugural ceremonies saw the installation of Gov. Ed Jackson, Lt. Gov. Harold Van Orman, and Reporter of the Supreme Court Emma Eaton White, the first woman elected to high office in Indiana. The inaugural festivities closed last night with a brilliant dinner in the women’s dining room of the Indianapolis Athletic Club. As the 150 invited guests entered the room, with tables arranged in a hollow square and tastefully decorated with greenery and a generous display of American flags, they passed by an elephant carved from a block of ice. Two mechanical elephants, with moving heads, one behind the other facing the speaker’s table occupied the center of the room. Among those enjoying the seven-course dinner and evening’s entertainment was Madge Oberholtzer. Also attending was former Grand Dragon D. C. Stephenson.
From The Indianapolis Star, Monday, January 19, 1925: A major plan for widening and opening important Indianapolis streets will be before the city council tonight. Completed by the city plan commission after three years of surveys and studies, the plan is designed to take care of the city’s increasing traffic problems for a period of fifty years by carrying heavy traffic around the downtown business district and diverting traffic by a series of thoroughfares around congested districts. The thirteen general proposals of the plan provide for opening new streets, widening others, and eliminating jogs at many dangerous corners and will initially be financed by a 3-cent tax levy. Once approved by the council, work will start immediately on one of the major phases of the entire plan, the widening of New York St from East St to Irvington by twenty feet.