CHAPTER XXXIX
SIDELIGHTS; OR LIFE IN OTHER DAYS
Page 1109

In Which Concluding Chapter the Historian Has Assembled a Number of Anecdotes, Some Grave and Some Gay, But All Interesting and Illuminative of Conditions in the Days Now Long Gone, the Collection Setting Out in Various Ways, for the Instruction, Edification and Entertainment of Readers of the Present Generation in General Picture of Life Among the Pioneers of Champaign County, as Well as Numerous Points of Interest That Could Not Well be Touched on in the Chapters That Have Preceded

      A description of early life in Champaign county may very properly be included in this chapter.  The early churches, schools, industries, organizations and many other phases of life have been treated in separate chapters, but there are a number of things, not of much general importance, and yet throwing a flood of interesting light on eh way to our forefathers lived.

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CLOTHING.
pg. 1110

FOOD.
pg. 1110

ODD GLIMPSES OF OUR FOREFATHERS.
pg.

SOMETHING RELATING TO DRESS.

AMUSEMENTS OF THE PIONEERSS
pg. 1113

AMUSEMENTS OF THE PIONEERS.
pg. 1113

A LEGEND OF PROCTOR CREEK
pg. 1115

ANOTHER INDIAN STORY
pg. 1115

WOLVES AS REVENUE PRODUCERS.
pg. 1116

THE FITHIAN TAVERN.
pg. 1116

CHAMPAIGN COUNTY AND URBANA IN 1819.
pg. 1117

NO RAILROAD OR TELEGRAPH.
pg. 1117

URBANA HAD A "GAOL."
pg. 1118

MUCH SOIL WAS WET.
pg. 1118

TOWNS THAT HAVE GONE.
pg. 1118

     The county is populous and wealthy containing 10,485 inhabitants, among whom are 2,097 voters, and a valuation of $2,445,557.  It is divided into ten following named townships:  Urbana, Made River, Concord, Salem, Wayne, Jackson Goshen, Harrison, Union, and Miami.  It also contains the towns of Urbana, the seat of justice, Mechanicsburg, Harrison, Leesburg, Winchester and New York.

CHAMPAIGN COUNTY IN THE TWENTIES.
By Dr. Thomas Cowgill.
pg. 1118

HIDDEN TREASURE.
pg. 1122

PICTURE OF URBANA IN 1849.
pg. 1125

REMINISCENCES.
By E. Ward, 1887.
pg. 1126

SYSTEM OF INDENTURE.
pg. 1127

MAD RIVER NAVIGATION COMPANY.
pg. 1129

AN OLD-TIME ROMANCE.
pg. 1129

THE HISTORY OF "O. K."
By Charles E. Gaumer.
pg. 1130

THE ADDISON WHITE SLAVE CASE.
pg. 1132

MASONRY AND MEASLES.
pg. 1135

OLD-TIME CAMP-MEETINGS
pg. 1136

TOWN RIVALRIES OF A HALF CENTURY AGO.
pg. 1138

MINGO vs. KENNARD.
pg. 1138

PASS THE MUTTON.
pg. 1139

THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY SALE IN CHAMPAIGN COUNTY.
pg. 1140

LINEAL DESCENDANTS OF METHUSELAH.
pg. 1140

WOODEN LEGS FROM CHAMPAIGN COUNTY.
pg. 1142

A COLLEGE REQUEST IN WAYNE TOWNSHIP.
pg. 1142

THE LYNCHING OF ULLERY.
pg. 1143

THE LYNCHING OF CHARLES W. MITCHELL.
pg. 1143

SENSATIONAL ESCAPE FROM COUNTY BASTILE.
pg. 1146

SOME POSTOFFICE STATISTICS.
pg. 1147

RURAL FREE DELIVERY.
pg. 1148

LIST OF PRESENT POSTOFFICES.
pg. 1149

A WHIMSICAL MAYOR.
pg. 1149

THE HOUSE OF MANY NAMES.
pg. 1150

SOME INTERESTING MEN AND WOMEN OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY.
pg. 1151

HYMENEAL ASSOCIATIONS.
pg. 1152

STAGE COACH vs. AUTOMOBILE vs. AEROPLANE.
pg. 1153

PATRIOTIC DEMONSTRATION IN URBANA, MAY 5, 1917.
pg. 1153

THE CHAMPAIGN COUNTY CENTENNIAL.
pg. 1154

PLANNING THE CENTENNIAL.
pg. 1155

THE NATION'S DAY, JULY 4TH.
pg. 1156

     Owing to the fact that the celebration was to be opened on the anniversary of the birth of the nation, the day was called "Nation's Day."  About five o'clock on the morning of that day, the sleeping inhabitants of Urbana were aroused by the national salute fired by two guns of Light Battery D from Toledo, which came down from camp on the Vance place and was posted on the high school grounds.  Early in the day was filled with thousands of residents of the county, and the incoming trains brought many more, no small number of whom were from outside of the county.
     Vice-President Charles W. Fairbanks had been selected as orator of the day, and he had graciously accepted.  At about eleven o'clock he and Mrs. Fairbanks arrived over the Pennsylvania railroad and were met by the executive committee.  Just as the train arrived at the station, however, his coming was announced by the battery in the high school yard by the signal corps, and Vice-President's salute of nineteen guns was fired.  The party was escorted to the residence of Judge William R. Warnock by Company B and Company D, Ohio National Gaurd, headed by the Eighth Regiment Band, of Akron.

THE PARADE.
pg. 1157

ADDRESS OF VICE-PRESIDENT FAIRBANKS.
pg. 1157

EVENING PROGRAM
pg. 1157

PIONEER AND HOME-COMING DAY.
pg. 1158

MILITARY DAY.
pg. 1159

CLOSING EXERCISES OF THE CENTENNIAL
pg. 1160

THE MEANING OF THE CELEBRATION.
pg. 1160

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