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Newspaper
Delphi Citizen
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1929
Page
3
Following tuition hikes at Purdue students face higher costs for grade school and high school textbooks. Primary readers rise to 61 cents while first grade tools cost 47 cents and other grades show modest increases. Major series Scribner and Laidlaw will set new prices for upper grades.
The Christian church ladies plan a market at E W Embree’s sale room on Saturday April 27 from 8 to 2. The item list likely includes a film at Strand theatre and a high test gasoline sale at Smiths Grocery on Monday April 28.
Carroll county farmers join the Ton Litter club with twelve enrolled and nine reporting litters totaling 225 pigs from twenty two litters. Largest litter is fifteen pigs by Charles Segiber of Deer Creek. On June 30, inspectors will nominate litters for club awards with medals based on weight and rearing period.
The Tippe canoe Home Economics club marked its fifth anniversary with a April 17 gathering at Mrs. Charles Childers home. Fourteen members and three children attended a 4 o'clock vegetable dinner served by rotating groups. Mrs. Mary Spring led the business meeting and each member received a box of Giant Zinnia seed from Mrs. Childers. The next meeting is set for May 16 with Mrs. William Klepinger.
County Agent R J Maggart arranges two day visit by Albert A Hansen from Purdue extension to run field demonstrations on Canada thistle control. Each one hour meeting will explain experimental results and discuss all aspects of the problem. Farmers should bring weed samples for identification and potential poisonous plants. Watch The Citizen for dates and locations.
Post winter exchange features a Garford Fulford pupil’s March 6 1929 letter describing their village Garford four miles from the railway Abingdon Oxford Wantage buses, school life with Mr Chapman Miss Heading and a farm at College Farm five miles from Abingdon. She notes snow cold winter hopes for summer and lists school subjects and farm animals and crops.
The first of a fleet of sky diners begins service linking Cleveland Chicago and St Paul Minneapolis. Luxurious 12 passenger heated cabins offer hot meals en route with meals from Gally via electric stove. Planes push 159 mph with Pratt & Whitney Wasp engines under two pilots. Regular schedules expect growth to two planes per route with winter capacity already at limit.
The Farm Bureau program committee met Monday evening at the county agent's office to plan for the June Farm Bureau meetings. May is busy so no special township programs will be held though some directors plan business meetings. Members include Claude Wickard president Mary Kerlin secretary Ralph Maggart county agent and Mrs. Sam Sites social and educational director.
In a city park dual track meet, Lebanon defeated Delphi 54 to 44 amid clouds and showers. Event winners included Hanna and Smith for Delphi, and Williams Cook and Perigo for Lebanon, with notable marks in sprints, mid-distance, hurdles, jumps, and throws.
The Cleveland and Buffalo Transit company launches daily steamer service aboard the City of Erie from East Ninth street pier Cleveland to Buffalo. Steamer departures are at 9 P M with 7 30 A M arrivals, promoting Lake Erie travel for auto tourists and rail passengers. A free C and B folder with auto maps is available by mail.
Indiana farmers report winter wheat at 89 percent of normal, 14 points above the ten year average, rising 1 point since December 1. Last year the crop stood at 29 percent. Nationwide, U S wheat condition was 82.7 percent of normal, down 1.7 points from December.
We have just unloaded a car of creosoted posts in Jumbo size plus two smaller brace post options. Also available are four and three inch line posts and half posts six inches across the face for board fences. Get some of these sturdy materials for your fencing needs.
The text advertises fence service and rough cypress boards for home projects. It mentions Metzger Lumber Co and Brown Coffee Smith's Grocery as points in the ad.
Mrs. Anna Louder Back of Philadelphia says Lydia E. Pinkham Vegetable Compound helped after childbirth. She describes feeling run down and weak and notes an improvement after the first bottle and that she recommends the medicine to friends.
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