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Newspaper
Delphi Citizen
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1937
Page
1
Around 120 seniors from eight Carroll County high schools prepare to graduate as life moves beyond school days. The column muses on commencement, work experience, and the parody of idealized student life, with notes on local sermons, the American Legion, and spring rains boosting lawns while forecasting a hot dry summer.
Delphi high school entrants dominated the Monticello event winning multiple firsts. Charles Thompson led in vocal with Gypsy Love Song, Meredith Gene Kirkpatrick topped girls reading, Kathryn McCain won violin The Indian Love Song, Clayton Cripe took second in oration Permanent Peace, Paul Robert Andrew placed second in piano Matushka.
Nine high schools including Delphi Brook Earl Park Frankfort Jefferson of Lafayette Knox Monticello North Judson and Rensselaer will compete in the Delphi Invitational at Riley park field this Saturday with 200 plus athletes. Trials start at 10 a m finals 1 30 p m medals awarded by local business sponsors.
Dewey Zinn head of the county Soil Conservation committee says farmers may plant sweet corn for canning beyond the county limit. State chairman L M Vogler notes sweet corn is not in the standard limits and will be counted as soil depleting for the 1937 Conservation program. May 1 is the deadline to file 1936 Soil Conservation program payment applications.
Mrs. Mary Leslé and her son O. B Leslie of Rossville were hospitalized in Lafayette after a Sunday crash at a crossing four miles north of Rossville. Their car was struck by a north bound Monon freight train while en route to Mrs. Leslé's daughter's home. Mrs. Leslé is in critical condition with back and leg injuries. Mr. Leslie has chest wounds.
Constant rain over several weeks pushes back spring work by two weeks or more. Farmers worry about late corn and oats planting as fields stay waterlogged. some fear a hot dry summer after a wet spring. Local farm families like Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Wilson visited Indianapolis for the Home Show.
Lloyds Of London, acclaimed as one of the greatest British made films, plays Sunday and Monday nights at the Arc theater. Tyrone Power stars as Jonathan Blake with Freddie Bartholomew as Blake as a child, Douglas Scott as Nelson, Sir Guy Standing as Angerstein, and Madeleine Carroll as Blake’s love interest. The film depicts the rise of the famous insurance house and a pivotal era in English history. Benjamin Franklin appears in a scene with Sam Johnson and James Boswell.
The Frankfort and Logansport Izaak Walton League chapters host a Friday banquet at the Clinton County Legion rooms with William Collins state president as principal speaker. He will show reels from Tippecanoe last summer. About 100 WPA bird houses will be on display and later distributed by local Boy Scouts. Mr and Mrs E O Grimm attended a district funeral directors meeting at the Sportsman hotel near Monticello.
Delphi Tri Kappa will represent at the 24th convention of the sorority in Indianapolis April 23 and 24. Sessions are at the Lincoln Hotel with the banquet and dance at the Columbia Club. The Delphi chapter formed in 1921 focuses on charity scholarship and art and loans funds to deserving girls for education.
Orvel Schock of the state tax board will review 74 reassessment petitions filed by Carroll county property owners. A May 1 hearing at the courthouse will decide which petitions are approved for reassessment between May 1 and May 15 by township trustees acting as assessors. Appeals from reassessment go to the county board of tax review in June, then to the state tax board.
The Rural Electric Administration in Washington will approve a $2.50 minimum monthly charge for Carroll County REMC signers. Of 1322 county members, 1116 will be served, with 291 houses along the line未 signed, and 85 percent of members expected to obtain service. Maps of the proposed lines are available in Delphi REMC office Jamden Farm Bureau Oil plant and Yeoman Lumber Company.
The Delphi bowling team led by Homer Caughell Paul Carney and others travels to South Haven Michigan May 27 and 28 to defend the championship won last year. The squad that won the Michigan State Duck Pin team event at Greenville Michigan includes Crosby Julius Dow Bell and McNutt with Bell and McNutt now managing alleys in Iowa and not entering.
The Felix arson trial continued into its second week with Glen Hoshaw testifying that he visited Felix at his home during the night of September 19 1931 to obtain a drink. The fire at the Radnor elevator is alleged to have started while he was at the house. Prosecutors rested after calling multiple witnesses and Felix took the stand describing the confession he signed under police inducement.
The annual Flower Sale to benefit the American Brotherhood for the Blind will be held in Delphi on April 24. Proceeds fund free Braille reading materials and support home made goods from blind workers. Local sponsors include Mayor C W Hunter and several clergy and civic members. Headquarters are in the courthouse.
Chicago Garment Company and the Delphi Chamber of Commerce plan to finalize terms with representatives arriving Monday. No differences reported. officials expect signature to occur that day.
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