School Commencement Notes and Graduation Dates Across Indiana
A series of spring commencement events are listed for multiple Indiana high schools. Highlights include Boia Will host April 29 address by Dr. William P. Dearing of Oakland City College, with senior class members named. Other ceremonies note baccalaureate speakers Rev. Sink and Rev. Cary, plus class officers and sponsors. Deer Creek, Camden, Carrollton, and Rockfield schools announce April 30, April 29, and April 28 graduations respectively, with rosters of graduates and speakers.
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Boia
William P. Dearing
Oakland City College
Edward Ayres
John Chittick
Mary Kathryn Honecker
Alices Imler
Katherycy Imier
Alberta Kerlin
Vada Khini
Charles Kirkpatrick
Glenn Lantz
Marjorie Miller
Jewell Musselman
Charles McCain
Dorothy Payne
Beatrick Redford
Don Rohrabaugh
Laura’ Belle Sadler
Maxine Shoff
Keith Seirist
Joe Tolen
Meredith Thomas
Jack Voorhees
Helen Woodward
Ruby Younes
Carrollton High School
H.+. Rowe
Rowe
Young People’s Association of Indiana
Wheeling Presbyterian Church
Rev. Sink
Camden High School
H. G. Rowe
The
Baptist Church
Clarence Sink
Donnabelle Beckner
Doris Beougher
I@a Mae Brown
Anna Case
Carolyn Heddrich
Mary Jane Harter
Alice Cree
Bertha Jo Lane
John Arthur Ritchey
Edray Swartz
Eugene Titus
Walter Fross
Deer Creek High School
Howard Jenkins
Delphi Christian Church
Deer Creek Presbyterian Church
W. C. Aschanhart
Flora
Clifford Joyce
Arlene Caldwell
Manford McCloskey
Daniel Downham
George I. Seward
Betty Jane Cunningham
T. D. Peterson
Rockfield High School
John J. Haramy
Indianapolis
County Beaches To Meet Here Saturday
Community groups and local residents plan a Saturday meeting at the county beaches. Attendees include Linda, Mary, Frank, Jeannette, and Kenneth along with several unnamed organizers. The event aims to discuss park use and local recreation options.
Judge Pruitt to Hear Beechfield Bank Petition
Judge FE E Pruitt will hear Monday afternoon arguments on the Beechfield bank stockholders petition to raise 23189.53 to pay remaining obligations of the closed bank. Depositors have collected about 70 percent of $100000 owed. stockholders have deposited 3775 as good faith. May 10 sets the meeting date for the last obligations with disbursement within 30 days.
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FE. E. Pruitt
Beechfield Bank
Felix
Jenkins and Jenkins of
Logans
Thomas Yater
Logansport
Pruitt
County 4-H Clubs to Reorganize and Select Action
County 4-H clubs plan reorganization with boys and girls projects including lamb projects beef calves dairy clubs and farm management for boys and home economics and canning clubs for girls. Junior leaders will run judging demonstrations and county and state contests. Burlington township girls club led the way in 1957 reorganizations with Doris Rinehart Nellie Payne as president and Mary Beck as vice president.
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Avai
Ralph Maggart
Mr. Western
Burlington Township
Doris Rinehart
Nellie Payne
Mary Beck
Agnes Thomas
Mabel Thompson
Mary Jane Marshel
Betty Huffty
Helen Crumes
Bonnie McCarty
Martha Bowman
Lorene Krammas
Marie Miller
Loy Roofing completes Dick Kent residence roof in Pittsburg
The Loy Roofing Company finishes an asphalt shingle roof on the Dick Kent residence in Pittsburg. The conper clipped hex type roof uses a red blend shade.
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Loy Roofing Company
Dick Kent
Pittsburg
William Collins to Address Tees Here at Izaak Walton League
William Collins state president of the Izaak Walton League will speak at the Deiphi chapter banquet in the Legion rooms basement court house Friday April 23. He will show a colored film on bird life from northern Indiana. Harry Roach was reelected league president with Kenneth Brubaker Wilbur Bitler Homer Myers and a board of directors named.
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Deiphi
Izaak Walton League
Legion Rooms
Court House
William Collins
League
Collins
Ikes
Indiana
Tippecanoe River
Harry Roach
Kenneth Brubaker
Wilbur Bitler
Homer Myers
Herman Weaver
Wilbert Hurley
Grover Kite
Haughey Mount
Wabash Valley Gun Club
Americus
Adams Orchestra Receives Warm Reception At Local Church
The Adams Township Orchestra directed by Glen Tom presented an excellent morning program at the Mere Church. Patrons from the school attended as Tom completes his first year after teaching in Valparaiso schools.
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Adams Township Orchestra
Glen Tom
Adams School
Tom
Funeral today for Mrs Vandervolgen 79 in Carroll county
Mrs Vandervolgen aged 79 died Tuesday morning at the family home in Jefferson township after a seven year illness. Born November 15 1869 in Deer Creek Prairie Carroll County she was married December 9 1880. Surviving husband three sons Freeman and George in West Virginia and Charles at home several grandchildren. Funeral services by Rev Harry Parker this afternoon from the residence with burial in Pittsburg cemetery. Blythe and sons in charge of arrangements.
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Tee Vandmaics Ven
Jefferson Township
Vandervolson
Deer Creek Prairie
Carroll County
Harry Vandervelgen
Carroll
Freeman
George Vandervelgen
West Virginia
Charles
Mrs. Vandervolzger
Harry Parker
Pittsburg
Blythe and Sons
Kathryn Kauffman Weds Oscar Hall
Miss Kathryn Kauffman of Delphi and Oscar Hall of Buck Creek were married Saturday evening at 8 at the home of Rossie Dern justice of the peace. Attendants were Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kauffman. Hall is a Wabash railroad section foreman with 34 years in service. They will reside at Buck Creek. It is Hall's third marriage.
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Kathryn Kauffman
Delphi
Oscar Hall
Buck Creek
Rossie Dern
Tion
Wabash Railroad
Mr. Hall
Kraus Announces Sale Saturday and Monday
The Kraus store in Delphi will hold a bargain sale Saturday and Monday. Proprietor M. S. Kraus says the sale will set new local records in rock bottom prices. Details of the sale appear on page 8.
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Kraus
Delphi
M. S. Kraus
Rock-Bottom
Flora woman injured by porch fall during remodeling
Mrs. Oregon Crume of Flora fell from her back door through a remodeled porch. Taken to St. Joseph hospital in Kokomo, X Ray showed a broken knee and torn ligaments. Carl Hamilton of Lafayette was fined here for driving with improper license plates, $1 and costs.
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Oregon Crume
Flora
St. Joseph Hospital
Kokomo
Xray
Carl Hamilton
Lafayette
Loren Ayres
Hamilton
Rossie L. Dern
Bradshaw Body Works Theater Bus Carries Many Children
The item notes Bradshaw Body Works builds a bus body larger than a box car, carrying many children. Charles Bradshaw hints it may be state’s largest but won’t comment. Mrs. Mayme Crosby of Liberty Indiana’s 1887 class recalls 18 of 19 classmates alive for a Golden Reunion in May. Nearby, Joe Loy is stuck in mud with a new car near Ideal Beach while geese fly north and Sheriff Arthur Anderson delivers news to prospective jurors and Marshall Charles Randall faces delays from a slow freight.
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Bradshaw
Charles Bradshaw
Mayme
Ma) Crosby
Liberty
Indiana
Joe Loy
Ideal Beach
Sheriff Arthur Anderson
Marshall Charles Randall
Combine Two Counties In Recreation Shift
Cass and Carroll counties WPA recreation projects were combined Monday. Lester Campbell of Logansport named supervisor of the two county program. Allen Bailey of Carroll had requested relief from duties. Clifford Parr of Lafayette made the change. Campbell is regarded as a capable supervisor and has not announced summer plans for the county program.
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Cass
Carroll County
WPA
Lester Campbell
Logansport
Allen Bailey
Campbell
Clifford Parr
Lafayette
Unemployed Registering Here April 22 at Court House
Unemployed workers and job seekers will register in the G A R room at the courthouse on Thursday April 22. A Kokomo Indiana Employment Service representative will conduct the session from 9 AM to noon focusing on skilled workers and those unemployed seeking better positions.
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G. A R
Court House
Kokomo
Indiana Employment Service
Freshman Jack Orr to Direct Purdue WBAA Programs
Jack Orr of Delphi Indiana a Purdue University freshman has been selected from over 100 applicants to direct two weekly WBAA broadcasts. He will oversee Saturday morning and Tuesday afternoon programs with the Tuesday slot from 3 30 to 5 o clock. Orr is an honor student in the Purdue Pharmacy School and the first freshman at the university to win this honor.
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Jack Orr
Delphi
Purdue University
Purdue
WBAA
Orr
Forrest Orr
University
Church Luncheon Hosted by Woman's Missionary Society
The Christian church will host a Sacrificial luncheon at the church at 2 3 Thursday April 22. Rev W C Aschandert of Flora will be the speaker.
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The
Woman's Missionary Society
Christian Church
W. C Aschandert
Flora
Mrs Esther Gregg and Miss Rothenberger at state TB conference
Mrs Esther Gregg Mrs Claude Wall and Miss Bess Rothenberger attended the state TB Conference in Indianapolis on Wednesday held at the Lincoln Hotel.
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Esther Gregg
Claude Wall
Bess Rothenberger
Indianapolis
Lincoln Hotel
New Operator at Florence Beauty Shop
Miss Mary Tillett resigns from Florence Beauty Shop and purchases the equipment of Mrs Glenn Rakestraw who formerly ran a shop in Mexico Ind. Rakestraw takes Tillett's former position at the Florence shop.
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Mary Tillett
Florence
Glenn Rakestraw
Mexico
Ind
Rakestraw
Miss Tillett
TA Movie and Amateur Show on Friday Tonight
Local listings announce a TA movie screening and an amateur show set for Friday night. Details are unclear due to OCR errors but indicate entertainment events at a theater with possible musical or variety acts nearby.
Felix Case Strikes Snag in Third Trial Jury Selected
The noon verdict reported a jury panel for the Frank Felix arson case at Radnor elevator in 1931. Charles Myer and other 11 jurors chosen amid long voir dire while 30 plus prospective jurors were excused through the Wednesday session.
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Frank Felix
Radnor
Altose
State Tax Board to Decide Fate of New Bridge at Lockport
The State Tax Board will review the $95,000 appropriation for a concrete three span bridge on the old route from Rockfield through Lockport to Burnettsville. If approved bonds are issued with three days for remonstrance. The project costs include 57,000 set aside last year and a possible future PWA grant to cut bond burden. The 100 foot long bridge would sit in Adams township about ten miles north and east of Delphi.
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State Tax Board
New Pridge
Lockport
State Board
West Stey
Leekpore
Crete
Rockfield
Burnettsville
PWA
Wade Farr
Adams Township
Delphi
Mary T and Willa Bowen Trio Featured
Fragmentary OCR lists names Mary T and Willa Bowen with Ruth Hoffman and a girls trio. No clear event or place present due to incomplete text.
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Mary T
Willa C. Bowen
Tette
Ruth Hoffman
Technicality delays final agreement on Delphi factory site
The Delphi Chamber of Commerce and Chicago Garment Company postponed finalizing a contract for a garment factory branch in Delphi. The paper noted the agreement lacked worker payroll contributions to fund chamber support. Mr Meyer of the company met Delphi officials and agreed to amend the contract for signing by Monday, enabling construction to begin.
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Delphi
Delphi Chamber of Commerce
Chicago Garment Company
Chamber of Commerce
Meyer
Garment Company
Mrs Elizabeth Bohm Flora Resident Dies at 77
Mrs Elizabeth S Bohm 77 died at her Flora home Tuesday after an extended illness. She was born in Indiana on April 29 1859 to Eli and Mary Beard. She is survived by her husband and three brothers Everett Rock Ne John Oakley and Dave Beard Indianapolis. Funeral services will be held this afternoon at the Flora Methodist church with Rev Hinkley and Rev Volker officiating. Burial will be in Maple Lawn cemetery.
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Elizabeth S. Bohm
Flora
Mrs. Bohm
Eli and
Mary Beard
Indiana
Everett
Rock
John
Ockley
Dave Beard
Indianapolis
Methodist
Hinkley
Volker
Buriel
Maple Lawn Cemetery
New Auto Store to Open Here in May
E. A. Bleakley of Lafayette will open a Western Auto Association store in the Bradshaw room on Frank street about May 15. The Bleakleys will move to Delphi soon to start remodeling the building. The store will feature modern metal and glass fixtures and will be home owned.
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E. A. Bleakley
Lafayette
Western Auto
Cynthia Porter Dies Tuesday At Lebanon
Cynthia Porter a Lebanon resident and former Delphi teacher died Tuesday after a December paralytic stroke. A Democrat active in local politics she served as government clerk in Washington during Grover Cleveland's administration and was connected with Delphi social circles. Funeral services are in Lebanon today.
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Cynthia Porter
Lebanon
Delphi
Miss Porter
Miss’ .Porter
Washington
Grover Cleveland
Mary Howe
James Whitcomb Riley
Porter
Leban
Police investigate thefts at Rockfield garage and bike
Sheriff Arthur Anderson and the state police probe the Fidler garage theft in Rockfield on Monday night. About $25 in cash and merchandise were stolen. A car owned by John Kerlin of Rockfield was targeted. A Rockfield boy’s bicycle was stolen and found near the Wabash viaduct by a railroad worker near Delphi.
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Arthur Anderson
Fidler
Rockfield
Anderson
John Kerlin
Wabash Viaduct
Delphi
Jefferson Birthday Dance Draws About 300 Couples
Approximately 300 couples attended the Jefferson Day Hop at the Delphi Armory on Tuesday evening. Sponsored by the Carroll County Young Democrats, the event was led by Mrs. John Kirkpatrick and Eleanor Guckien with Marjorie Lou Weaver and Marilyn Holloway of Yeoman presenting several dancing numbers.
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Delphi Armory
Carroll County Young Democrats
John Kirkpatrick
Eleanor Guckien
Marjorie Lou Weaver
Marilyn Holloway
Yeoman
Farmers Urged to Donate Seed Corn for Flood Relief
All farmers with extra seed corn or ordinary corn are asked to donate one bushel for flood relief. The donated corn will be sold and the proceeds sent to the flood district to aid affected farmers.
Dog Tax Tags Available At City Building
Dog owners may purchase a 25 cent dog tag at the city building. Bring your dog tax receipt to complete the purchase as required by local authorities.
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von. C. W. Hunter
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Dorabelle Pearson
Dean Shankland
Dorothea Garrison
Helen Maxine Davis
Mary Ellen McCarty
Henson Hicks
Harry Dishon
Eva ’Xikey
Marjorie Barber
F. Snider
Charles E. Lippitt
Wesse Witter
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J. A. Flaugh
Camden
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Eva Been
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Jean Edging
Frieda Ftkattery
Cleo Haynes
Donald Horn
Allene Horn
Pee
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Pyom Anderson
Mary Sprinkle
Frank McCain
Frances Lybrusk
Mabek Davidson
Jeannette Hyman
Kenneth Stook
Actio de Wah
Wasstaszy
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Msembersh
Burlington
Pheorie
Eva Ward
Ailen Bailey
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Oldsmobile
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Myron Johnson
Rethford
Gerald Clawson
Tees
Roach
Adams
Vandervolgen
Mainstreet
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Cris
Mob
Vesndee
Saul
Eee
Catia
Felix Case
Fey
Charles FE. Myer
Russell Bell
Harley E. Landis
Charles Tansey
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Geneva Hummel
Walter E. Wakeland
Ray Davis
Orpha FE. Meade
Courtney FE. Chanson
Fred A. Rush
Earl Bowman
Wilbur Grantham
Luther Ross
Harold Patton
Robert L. Hedde
Harry A. Temple
Charles A. Cline
George Fross
Andrew Gerbens
Chester Maxwell
Rolla L. Barnard
Larry A. Stong
Chester D. Bowen
Walter Neff
Eugene Burkle
Opal McCain
Fredrick Voorhees
Thomas O'Farrell
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E - Tirhij
Elizabeth Bohm
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