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Newspaper
Delphi Citizen
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1929
Page
8
The annual school exhibit runs Wednesday and Thursday May 1 and 2 in the high school gym with rooms for receptive displays. Sun shine Society hosts tea from 3 to 4 on Wednesday while girls showcase garments from domestic art. Center programs include drills, health calisthenics, commercial demonstrations, and a high school band.
The first six grades perform The Lost Princess Be Peep at the armory on Thursday night May 9 admission 25 cents. Cast includes Bo Peep Edna Johnson Mother Goose Jack of Mother Goose and many others with a village school chorus. Proceeds fund new Victrola records for next year and county music memory contest entry.
The building will host a staged open house with a music room in the building, home economics in the biology room, health posters in the gymnasium on bleachers ends, and remaining exhibits in rooms corresponding to their subjects or classes.
Court notes show Leonard Cates and Georgia Cates admitted to an Indiana Farm colony for feeble minded in Butlerville. Various judgments awarded: Adam Grimm et al. win $127.40. A T Bowen Co. gains $268.46 against Harry Holmes. Indiana Service Corp awarded $500 to Catherine Cunningham estate. Monticello National Bank receiver Samuel Young case change of venue. divorce granted for Ester Oyler vs John Oyler. Mary Young vs Walter Young. other cases include Scot Clark bond, Wayne Overholser guardian report, and defunct bank stock suit demanding $9,300.
Ed L Ruffing attended a Majestic radio dealers excursion to the Grigsby Grunow Co plant in Chicago. The tour showcased Majestic electric radios, with a factory that tests one third of operations and produces four thousand cabinets daily, while a strong sales network moves sets to homes.
County Clerk Floyd Julien will guide a troop of Boy Scouts through drill maneuvers next Tuesday evening at 7:30 in the basement of the Methodist church. An additional hike is planned for Saturday morning.
Members of the local Tri Kappa chapter in South Delphi heard a state organization report detailing scholarships and loans. Totals cited include $21,060.33 loaned and $22,856.54 given by chapters for 1928 29, with $23,916.87 used and $11,283.71 left.
John Johnson, a gentleman of color with the Wabash railroad track crew, appealed to Sheriff Jesse Clawson on Monday claiming the commissary drew a gun on him. After Johnson reported his trouble, the sheriff intervened near the commissary car at Rockfield and the issue was resolved with Johnson paid and sent to new work.
A band of Gypsies dressed in bright colors visited Delphi merchants on Wednesday. They offered to tell futures if shopkeepers opened cash drawers and placed a coin in the palm of their hand.
The education and publicity committee of the County Tuberculosis Association met at Mrs. H. B. Wilson’s home to push an early diagnosis drive. Miss Meredith Carney distributes posters and the county board plans further steps with state secretary M A Auerbach of Indianapolis. Township chairmen attend as Mrs. J P Wason urges. The effort emphasizes early discovery and recovery through regular medical exams, comparing health checks to yearly car maintenance.
Eddie Blake, a local fan favorite, won a decision over Dynamite Murphy in Gary last Friday night and again defeated Ray Wood in Indianapolis on Tuesday. He has moved to Terre Haute and tonight faces Skipper Bugsby in Bud Taylor’s stable.
Sunday school at 9 30 A M with Catherine Peirce as president. At 10 30 a M church try out services led by Rev Long.
Mrs. Harriet Smith travels from Bradford Ohio to Pleasant Run to visit cousins Mr and Mrs Richard Crowell near Hickory Grove church. Mr and Mrs Seneca Shepard hosted Frank Shepard, Mary, Elizabeth and Orlando McDonald of Pyrmont. Isabelle and Jack Swatts of East Chicago spent weekend with parents Mr and Mrs Sam Swatts. Martha Jean Fountain ill with measles. Ora and Fyfe of Delphi wallpaper Mrs Seneca Shepard. Rosha Quinn visited Lafayette. Mrs Arthur Acheson and Mrs Harry Clawson attended home economics group.
A Pittsburg school children program at the community church Friday afternoon drew attendees including Mrs. Charles Childers and several named residents. Weekend visits included Mr. and Mrs. Charles Davis Vaughan with Miss Emily W. Guthrie, and Mary Elizabeth Shepard visiting grandparents.
Local residents and relatives frequent Yeoman as Elizabeth Burke, Clara Burke, Mildred Viney, and others visit friends and family. News notes include a birth for Meredith and Mrs. Clark of Yeoman, a Sacramento valley card from Jasper and Mrs. Johnson, and multiple calls on Burke households from Delphi, Oak Grove, Monticello, Chalmers, and Monticello residents.
Milo Wilson moved from the Wabash section to the Rockfield section. Miss Louis Nunnally of Frankfort is living with her grandparents Mr and Mrs Charles Booher and attends school in town.
Miss Edna Leffler visited friends in Logansport Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. Henrietta Downham has been ill the past few days. Walter Grandstaff and family of Fowler visited relatives here Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. John Hickman and Mrs. Laura Cottrell of Templeton spent the week end at their home here. Several from here attended the high school play of the seniors last week. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Garrison and daughter Bessiend Miss Edna Lef fler spent Thursday in Lafayette. Funeral services for Mrs. Cripe were held at Delphi Sunday. Mrs. Cripe is the mother of Mrs. Ed Cheesman of this place.
Mrs. Thomas Hughes hosted the Oak Grove Aid society last Thursday afternoon. Families of Smiths Dimmitts Mills Doolittle Carmichael and Pearsons joined in social visits across YeoMan and Delphi communities.
Mr and Mrs Hiram Ellis spent Sunday with their son Claude Ellis and family. John Magge and wife visited the latters uncle Bert Guy of Lake Cicott. Wilma and Phyllis Scott had a serge with the measles. John Dimmitt and family called on J H Roller’s parents. Mildred Maxwell of Indianapolis visits her parents the Sam Maxwells. Carl Hanna and family visited Ensley Hanna’s at Metea. Jim Shuey of Logansport spent Sunday with James Irelan. Henry Dimmitt and sister June Scott visited Cris Dimmitt and Olive Blickenstaff. John Roach accompanied by Mrs Hervie Scot called in the afternoon. Mrs Hervie Scot and daughter Wilma Jean and son Donald spent Monday with her parents John Roach.
Auto gas 18c, high test gas 20c, motor oil 20c quart. Turner’s Grocery at 408 North Washington Street, Delphi Indiana urges customers to buy for less. Date 8-3.
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