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Newspaper
Delphi Citizen
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1942
Page
4
Burnettsville hosts Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Criswell for a Sunday visit with Mr. David Conklin and daughter Lois. Several residents plan trips and relocations including Miss Lucille Cohee and Miss Doris Peterson to Portland Oregon for two weeks, and Mrs. Ethel Shaffer hosting the Smith and Shaffer family for the weekend.
Mr and Mrs Charles Delaney and their son have moved into the Lyons property on Front Street from the Julia Schilling property. Mrs Schilling plans to move back into her home.
Mrs Nolan Howell of Chicago spends the week with her parents Mr and Mrs Frank Brewer near Delphi Indiana.
Mrs Arthur Saffron and daughter Phyllis of Gary visit Mr and Mrs George Smith of South Delphi. Mr and Mrs Melvin Hemmig Brian Hemmig and John Kohl of Hammond will be weekend guests of Mrs Nora Hemmig and family.
Mr and Mrs Robert Clawson entertained a number of friends at a wiener roast Tuesday night at their home near Pittsburg.
Forest Sprague spent several days in Chicago on business. Members of the Social Twelve Club were entertained Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Alta Gos less near Yeoman. Miss Edith Hemmig will spend a week in Hammond next week. Mrs. John D. Carmichael and son James Henry of Chattanooga Tennessee are guests of Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. Wilson in Delphi. Miss Dorothy Shaffer will entertain Will Agree bridge club at her home Thursday evening August 13.
Mr and Mrs Conrad Dawson and their family have relocated to the Barker property located on East Franklin Street.
Eddie Wingard will visit Logans Port on Saturday as a guest of Susan and Guthrie Blue. Hi Lo bridge club members will be entertained at Mrs. Sarah Bloyds home Thursday afternoon August 13.
Mr and Mrs Lou Brock of Stafford Kansas concluded a two week visit with Mrs Catherine Easter of Delphi and left Tuesday for Green Bay Wisconsin where Mr Brock, a former Purdue football star, reported for training with the Green Bay Packers.
Mrs Joe Maxwell and her daughters Norma Jean and Patty Lou of Muncie are visiting the parents Mr and Mrs L A Thompson in Delphi.
Mrs. William Townsend from Detroit visits Delphi relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas McCormick of Delphi plan a August 11 departure for Los Angeles to visit children at the naval base in San Diego. Miss Aileen Jackson of Indianapolis visits Delphi parents. Robert Denk to begin Navy basic training at Great Lakes. Mrs. George Marley of Detroit comes for ill sister Lola Hanna. David Wood of Delphi works for Pioneer Hi-Bred at Flora. Mrs. Robert Martin of Monticello visits Kansas husband in army camp. Virgil Gwinn resigns as Cutler High principal to take Bunker Hill School post.
Mrs Merrill Plummer formerly Miss Marjorie Harrison of Delphi was honored at a stork shower Tuesday July 28 at Mrs Boris Metoffs Delphi home. Twenty eight guests attended with pink and blue streamers. prizes went to Rose Ann Vianco Gladys Mullendore Mrs Charles Roskuski and Mary Sylvester. Out of town guests included Thelma Page Lafayette Betty Randolph Flora Mary Sylvester Catherine Jenkins Bringhurst Leila Clawson Bringhurst and Lyd Landis Tipton.
Duane Lamb and Gearold Clawson returned Sunday evening after a week of business in Des Moines Iowa.
Russell W. Hanaway has filed a petition in the Carroll Circuit Court to determine his date and place of birth. The hearing is set for September 18, 1942. Dated August 4, 1942. Chas. L. Bell, Clerk of the Carroll Circuit Court.
Plans are set for the seventh annual reunion of teachers and pupils from the old frame school in Pittsburg to be held next Sunday August 9 President Mary Tyler announces A noon basket dinner precedes a program with the national anthem pledge to the flag a welcome by Mrs Mary Tyler memorial reading by Mrs Fannie B Smith reminiscences roll call special music by the Village Choir of the Nineties American Legion quartet Bettie and Robbie Brewer instrumental duet Keep the Home Fires Burning and a closing prayer by Rev Fred Watkins
Second district leaders held a Tuesday noon luncheon at the Sportsman hotel near Monticello. Ira Dixon from Kentland and Mrs. Mabel Fraser from Delphi led the event with other county attendees. Mrs. Emma Porter of Camden was later admitted to Cass county hospital.
Miss Mary Margaret May of Lafayette wed William O. Nisley son of Mr and Mrs Bert Nisley in Rockfield at four with Rev Reuben L Anderson reading the ceremony. The couple will reside at 914 South Twenty first street after a wedding trip.
Mrs Qoal Swisher of Delphi was appointed matron of the courthouse Monday by the county commissioners to fill the unexpired term of Mrs Edith McCain. McCain resigned Monday and has gone to Anderson where she accepted employment.
Winners of first and second places in Carroll county home economics judging will compete at a district event in Purdue Friday August 7 at the Home Economics building. Contestants include Annabell Smith Eva Rhine Dorothy Bowman Norma Dyer Martha Fountain Rosemary Heffling Margaret Ramey Marjorie Shanks and Mary Lee Loy. Roster details and schedule follow with registrations at eight and contests from nine to twelve fifteen.
Mrs. Gwendolyn Baldwin sues for divorce from Benjamin Baldwin in Carroll circuit court claiming cruel and inhuman treatment. Married in April 1933 and separated August 8 1940. She asks restoration of maiden name Gwendolyn Loy. Julien and Kerlin represent plaintiffs. County Clerk Castel L Bell issues marriage license to Kenneth Sutherlin and Maxine Griffin.
Mr and Mrs Roy Newland move from the Haugh apartment to Clinton as Mr Newland a state excise officer is transferred there.
Mr and Mrs Watson McCormick and daughter Marilyn of Delphi spent the weekend in Indianapolis as guests of Mr and Mrs Spurgeon Johnson and their son.
Rev. and Mrs. Harold Smith of Kendallville are the parents of a son born July 20, with the Rev. Smith formerly serving as pastor of the Baptist church in Delphi. Charles L. Bell, county clerk, issued a marriage license to James H. Crisler and Rosemary Jones of Indianapolis.
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