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Moses Fowler's home and grounds at 10th and South Streets were extensively remodeled and updated in Italianate style instead of the original English country style.
Randolph Township authorities built and opened an addition to Romney High School. And just east of Dayton, the County replaced the Wildcat Creek covered bridge, opened in 1863, with an iron structure.
Local investors, headed by Ferdinand Dryfus, with $150,000 in capital started the Lion Tire & Rubber Company in the old Heinz plant on Union Street, and expected to hire 200 making rubber automobile tires and tubes.
Fire at the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity house on North Salisbury in West Lafayette routed 19 sleeping boys wakened by the barking of the house pet, "Bob," a collie, who survived fire and smoke in the basement.
The epic motion picture Birth Of a Nation opened in the Victoria Theater.
Jefferson High School's boys' basketball team won the annual state tournament. It defeated Chalmers 48-13, Monticello 29-22 and West Lafayette 56-13 on March 11 to qualify as one of the "sweet 16" finalists. On March 17 at Bloomington the "Little Boilermakers," as some called them, beat Hopewell 39-27. On March 18 starting at 8 a.m. the Lafayette team beat Liberty Center 60-10, then Martinsville 29-17, then Crawfordsville 27-26.
Purdue University professor Thomas F. Moran presided over the first Lafayette Rotary Club, chartered with 14 members in the Lahr Hotel.
A contract was let for construction of a place of worship on North Seventh Street for the Sons of Abraham Synagogue members.
With World War I in progress in Europe, Battery C of the Indiana National Guard, an artillery unit, departed for possible guard duty near the Mexico-Texas border. Lt. R.W. Levering commanded the 180 men. A Purdue branch of the Guard, Battery B, was organizing.
Battery C men, sworn into service June 30, left for Texas.
The Prohibition Party convention in St. Paul, Minn., nominated former Indiana governor and Lafayette lawyer J. Frank Hanly for U.S. president on the first ballot.
Erasmus Weaver, Lafayette native and U.S. Military Academy graduate in 1871, earned promotion to major general after 41 years' Army service.
A Courier story told how Dr. Eva Harding, a Democrat from Kansas who lived in Lafayette as a child, was running for Congress. She was believed to be the first woman to do so.
The Boston Braves major league baseball team, with Lafayette native Walt Tragesser on its roster, beat the Lafayette Red Sox 4-1 in an exhibition game in League Park. Former Purdue athletic star Elmer Oliphant, now a U.S. Military Academy cadet, played for the Red Sox.
Charles Evans Hughes, Republican, campaigned for U.S. president at the Lincoln Club before an outdoor crowd of about 8,000.
President Woodrow Wilson won re-election over Republican Charles Evans Hughes, New York lawyer, judge and governor, 9,129,606 to 8,538,221 and 277-254 in electoral votes. Marshall won re-election as Vice President. Tippecanoe County backed Hughes, 6,386 to 4,918.
Lafayette Life Insurance Company announced plans to build a 10-story office building at the northeast corner of Third and Main streets.