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Newspaper
Delphi Citizen
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1931
Page
8
A damaged excerpt shows a barber shop announcing evening hours, open every Wednesday until 8 pm and Saturdays until 10 pm, with other nights closed. The fragment references contact names and a neighborhood setting, indicating a small business notice in a local paper.
Memorials offered by Gamble Monuments Works in Delphi Indiana with phone contact 152. Patent selling service invites inventors to present devices and drawings for buyers in Chicago at the International Patents Exposition Merchandise Mart with free pamphlet from B Hamilton Edison. Rates described as very low and model unnecessary.
The Board of Commissioners of Carroll County Indiana will receive bids Tuesday at 2:00 p m for coal for county institutions. Sealed bids must state tonnage and mine of origin with size and screening details. Deliveries from September 1931 to Court House County Farm and County offices. Bids may be rejected. WHITEMAN Auditor dated August 4 1931.
Fragment reports Carroll County official actions in 1931 involving agriculture. Limited readable text references a county officer and agricultural matters amid deteriorated OCR.
John W. Clark Pree, 73, of Rockfield, died Saturday at home after illness. He was a telegraph operator for the railroad, a Presbyterian church member, and held in high esteem. Survived by wife and son in St. Louis. Funeral Monday at 2 from the church with ministers H Cecil Atkinson and Hugo officiating. Burial in IOOF cemetery.
Nathaniel Cy Martin aged 68 was found drowned Tuesday evening in a large watering tank on his Burrows area farm. Mrs Gibbs discovered the body at six o clock and Dr C W Hunter of Delphi investigated. Martin had reportedly joked about bathing in the tank and officials deem the drowning accidental. He is survived by brother William and sister Mrs Mary Robertson of Burrows.
Mrs Nellie Marie Spalding a former Adams township resident died Monday at Ross sanitarium Lafayette aged 25. She left a husband three children and her parents with sister Mrs Vern Plunket of Delphi. Funeral services were at the family home Lafayette. Pythian Sisters plan a meeting August 11 at Castle Hall with district deputy Mrs Abbie Dunk to attend.
The last local American Legion meeting before the state convention was held Tuesday night. Forty and Wight activities will headline the sessions opening tonight. A 6:30 banquet is planned at Stillwell Hotel for Forty and Wighters. The Auxiliary convention convenes at Central Christian church tomorrow morning with a 1:30 p.m. parade featuring over fifty bugle corps and at least 200 floats. Mrs. William D. Evans Hoyal of Douglas, Arizona, national Auxiliary president, will be honored at a reception Monday evening at Grand View Country Club.
Funeral services for Mrs. Rachel Downs were held Saturday at the Presbyterian church in Idaville. Born in Carroll county, she was 85 last May and lived in Carroll and White counties all her life. Her husband William Downs died about eight years ago. Surviving children include Edwin Mishwaka, Frank Decatur Indiana, Samuel Los Angeles, James Wabash, Jennie Haywood California, and Bite Downs, a teacher.
Willis B Unroe of near Cutler and Miss Nettie B Swisher a graduate nurse of Indiana Christian Hospital in Indianapolis were married Tuesday at 10 oclock by Rev L E Knox pastor of the Delphi Christian Church They will reside on a farm near Cutler The single ring ceremony was used.
The Delphi Brethren church declined after community removals and was abandoned. The building was recently purchased by the Grays. The Delphi Presbyterian Church organized in 1828 and met in log houses and schools before occupying a handsome new brick church in Delphi.
A lingering old physician’s meeting place becomes a Christian Science gathering spot. The writer, an Old Settler, notes unity in divine love meeting human need across beliefs and homes and praises the landmark’s new keepers for keeping it spotless and clean.
The Carroll County board awarded multiple road contracts with Harshman and Jarrell of Frankfort securing the Peterson road bid at 7450.00 and Charles M. Harvey plus others vying on Johnson road. They also ordered sale of lot 13 in section 30 west of Delphi to satisfy a school mortgage with a September 8 private sale date. Tuberculosis association representatives urged county funding.
In Indianapolis Aug 6 reports discuss Burt Thurman eyeing 1932 GOP governor nod as Hoover and Granite vote shifts boost Republicans. Sevent d istrict chatter hints at internal rifts while women in party leadership push for equal influence. Separate Stephenson pardon drive highlights public interest as key legal figures and cause celebs fade from page.
Miss Adaline Groninger daughter of Mr and Mrs Frank Groninger Burrows and Clayton B Waller son of Mr and Mrs Charles Waller Gaston united in marriage at the Methodist parsonage in Muncie on July 23 Announcement states the bride a Delphi High School alumna now teaching in Henry County and pursuing postgraduate work in Muncie The groom a Shideler High School graduate employed with LG A in Muncie and active in the Mispah Shrine They reside at 207 Rector apartment.
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