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Oracle Club Celebrates Fiftieth Year With PartyThe Oracle Club of Delphi, an organization primarily responsible for the movement which gave Delphi its library on Monday of this week celebrated its 50th anniversary. The occasion was one of tlhe outstanding events in the club’s history and one that will long be remembered by the members.It was in 1896 that Mrs. Newberry J. Howe of Delphi undertook the responsibility of organizing a group of prominent local people in behalf of a movement to obtain a library for the city. The group decided to continue meeting in behalf of the promotion of literature and has done so down through the years.At tile program Monday night, held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Yantis Wells, Mrs. E. W. Bowen and Mrs. Flora (I. Bradshaw, only surviving charter members of the club, hadcharge of the program and discussed experiences which had enriched the club meetings throughout; the fifty years. The Oracle Club members presented Mrs. Bowen and Mrs. Bradshaw with corsages of golden mums in observance of the occasion.Other program features included a tribute to Mrs. Howe, read by Mrs. A. C.. Clauser and the inspection of the year books. Mrs. Josephine Ives was welcomed back to the club, following a many-year period of being an inactive member and also welcomed Mr. and Mrs/ Edgar Stuntz into the club as new members.The buffet supper, in charge of Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Amick and Mr. and Mrs. Myron Ives, was served at individual tables, centered with bodquets of golden mums.
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Delphi Citizen
Delphi, Indiana, US
Thu, Oct 17, 1946
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