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Newspaper
Delphi Citizen
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1934
Page
5
Local families and friends traveled between Logansport Bedford Lafayette and Monticello over the Easter weekend visiting relatives and attending church events. Highlights include multiple hospitality visits and a large Oak Grove Easter program drawing a large crowd. several local residents listed as guests.
Mr and Mrs William Carter visited Ora Johnson and family. The senior class play There Goes the Bride comes April 18 and 19 with 15 and 20 cent admission. Commencement exercises are April 27 in the auditorium. Junior and senior reception is April 20. Ruby Brant returns to Ohio after visiting her parents. Ed Spangler and Charley Zeck celebrate anniversaries. Charley Campbell is listed as ill.
Local residents hosted and visited relatives from Plymouth Kokomo Battle Ground Frankfort and nearby communities on Sunday. Attendance included Clawson Kites Redman Maxwell and Wise families with visits to Bringhurst Pittsboro Cutler Flora Delphi Eaton and other areas amid a Poppy poster contest and a May primary registration deadline.
The Women's Union of the Christian church will meet Thursday afternoon April 12 at the home of Mrs. Henry Hastings with Mrs. Marshall Weaver and Mrs. Hester Willaby assisting. Marshall Weaver will lead the lesson. Includes many community notices and local social events from Rockfield and surrounding towns.
The Burlington News reports the local school music department will stage the operetta Hearts and Blossoms this Thursday in the gym. Miss Olive Duncan directs with Louise Peters, Garnett Oyler, Jane Hufty, Jean Ferguson, Margarette Bronson, and Claude Ridenour in key roles.
Sunday and Monday visits linked residents around Chalmers, Monticello, Anna, Lafayette, Hoopeston, and Cissna Park. Guests included Alfred Peters and family, Mr and Mrs Chas Ballard, Mrs Delmar Clark, Mrs Anna Carson, Mrs Thyrza Henry, Miss Viney, John Burke and family, Francis Wann, Daniel Wann, and families from Yeoman, Lafayette, and surrounding areas. Mrs Thomas Schnepp returned from St Elizabeth hospital after four weeks as a patient.
A group of friends were entertained by a Kokomo social visit on Sunday evening. Mrs A F Striker and her children returned from Rochester. Mr and Mrs El Gilbert of Young America visited Rush Gilbert and family Sunday. Mrs Walter Replogle fractured her left arm after slipping on a back porch while at her brother J H Dunn's home. Mrs E R Mitchel of Windfall visiting Mrs A F Striker and children.
Homer Myers, chairman of the Delphi Izaak Walton League game committee, arranged state cooperation to procure pheasants for release at Delphi Park and Flora. The project includes several hundred eggs from local stock and state-provided birds. The group also pursues fish plantings in Carroll county waters and leases Grantham ponds for rearing, with contracts to fund fish production. A prize event on April 25 seeks public participation, with Judge Hillis possibly delivering the keynote. A play by Mt. Olive and Yeoman Methodist youth groups was staged Friday night.
At a county board of education meeting in the superintendent's office, Ralph Maggart outlines the new F. E. R. H. relief program to 10 trustees. Blader Bartlaw from the State Rehabilitation department speaks briefly and Esther Gregg reviews plans for examining prospective primary students. The trustees approve plans for awarding attendance and honor certificates.
A large number of friends and relatives surprised Ruth Timmons on her birthday Sunday with a dinner. Guests included George Lowery, Mrs. Dave Biddle, Carl Sayers, Florence Sterritt and son, Jack Jones, Will Wray and sister of Rockfield, Harvey Dilling and family, Woodrow and Martha Dilling, Frances and Gene Price, Otho and Seneca Shepard, James Gibbons of Frankfort and Robert Shepard.
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