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Newspaper
Delphi Citizen
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1926
Page
1
A collection of quips on modern life and society. The jokes touch on work, love, class, aging, patriotism, and manners with wry observations about conservatism, democracy, race, and culture. The tone imitates a humorous editorial or column of the era.
A collage of polemical remarks on radio fans, luckless motorists, elections, and public behavior. It mocks listeners who claim ignorance as bliss and questions contemporary speech and morals through scattered quips.
Indiana corn growers swept regional awards at the International Grain and Hay Show in Region 7. Roy Snoeberger and son John won multiple prizes for ten ears of yellow and white corn, with John earning reserve grand champion junior corn king and high open class placing. Also noted, Taylor Fouts was elected vice president of the National Soy Bean Growers Association in Chicago.
Delphi dons festive mood as shops display clever decorations to signal Santa’s arrival. New boulevard lights enhance the Christmas atmosphere. Marion visitors note main thoroughfares lined with trees and red green white lights. Anderson shows red and green lights from courthouse to all square corners.
At a Car roll County School Principals meeting the decision was made to hold the county basketball tournament at the Community Building in Flora on Friday and Saturday January 28 and 29. This marks Flora’s fourth consecutive year hosting the event.
True to form, Santa Claus parachuted from an airplane and landed on a house roof after a misjudged wind. About a hundred Kokomo youngsters watched as he tumbled twenty feet, shook off the crash, and rejoined a city procession to open the Christmas season.
Indianapolis News and Citizen Indianapolis daily and Delaware Phi Citizen weekly, each one year for four dollars and fifty cents.
Announcement of awards in the five acre corn contest in Carroll County lists Roy Snoeberger atop with 107.17 bushels per acre. Five entrants surpassed 100 bushels per acre earning gold medals, while others producing between 85 and 100 received silver and 75 to 85 earned bronze. Names include Claude Wickard, Roy Caldwell, Tayior Fotte, and several Yeakleys, Joyce, McCloskey, Harness, Sites, Fouts, Barnhart, Whetzel, and Baum among the participants.
A snowy owl, a rarity, was killed by Charles Boller on the Harry Reed farm in Tippecanoe township. The wing span measured fifty seven inches and the bird was sent to a taxidermist for exhibition in Delphi.
By Science highlights progress in care of tuberculosis but stresses prevention through Christmas seals purchase. A small contribution by each person brings joy and helps fight a disease that often takes the young.
Mr and Mrs William H Metzger of Flora were visited by neighbors and friends Tuesday evening to remind them of their golden wedding anniversary Elmer C Metzger of the Carroll County Loan Trust and Savings comments bank Flora is their only beneficiary gift of祝?
Partial text shows Miss Julien linked with Rev and Mae’s son in the city, suggesting a social or family connection. No further details available due to fragmentary OCR.
Friday noon crowds expect a season opener between Delphi and Flora at Flora high school. Delphi’s recent victory in Frankfort has stirred local enthusiasm and 500 tickets were sent here to accommodate traveling fans. West bleachers reserved for Delphi, east for Flora, with both teams described as evenly matched after early results.
Mrs. T. B. Wilber departed Thursday for St. Paul Minnesota to visit her son Ralston and family for the holiday season.
Orien A. Trent of Peru, formerly Flora, buys the R L Eckhart Motor Co in Delphi. He secures the Ford contract for Delphi and will sell Ford tractors as Reid McCain ends tractor sales. The agency is renamed Delphi Motor Sales. Trent has prior Buick and Lincoln Ford experience and will live in Delphi for now.
The HI V banquet at the Presbyterian church drew over a hundred fathers and sons. The Tuckabatchee Sunday school class served dinner as Wilbur Hall led community singing and Watson McCormick acted as yell leader. Professor Oakes Bab of Purdue University gave the address.
Mr Hall emphasizes a father's duty to provide food shelter and moral training for his children. The son must show obedience and respect while carrying on the father's work to make him proud. He cites cases of men who failed their sons at carrying on family industry after the father's death.
The Delphi Christian church extended a call to Rev L E Knox of Converse Indiana and he accepted the position moving to Delphi within a month. He has rented rooms on Monroe street in the F E Barker property. A T B clinic will be held in Flora on Thursday Dec 16 instead of the 15th as announced.
Calvin Dale Johns four month old son of Ray and Mrs Johns of north of Rockfield died November 28 from pneumonia. Survived by parents three brothers and two sisters and other relatives. Burial held Tuesday at I O O F cemetery.
J. H. Mount and L. M. Pletcher attended the Implement Dealers meeting at the Claypool Hotel in Indianapolis this week. Mrs. Pletcher accompanied her husband to Indianapolis and returned home Thursday evening.
Delphi Christian church ladies cleared 125 at their market and bazaar on Wednesday and Thursday. A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Glen Eikenberry of Bringhurst on Wednesday morning.
Mrs. and Mr. Arthur Shaffer welcomed a daughter named Marjorie Ann in Camden on Monday. At a Logansport American Legion party on Tuesday Miss Mary Allread of Burrows performed whistling solos.
The Rockfield Horse Thief Detective Association met at the Groningers home for an oyster supper and business session. Forty-one attended and all enjoyed the gathering.
Three men Robert and George Scheffee and William Weigand were jailed in Lafayette after an attempted hold up at Standard Oil in Delphi. Weigand confessed the stolen car aided the plan and that the Scheffees aided in two prior robberies, with one more attempt last Sunday night.
Olaf Jackson and Chris Ridder were at the filling station during the election night robbery. Jackson knew William Weigand years earlier but did not recognize him the night of the incident.
Bob Sheffee and Chris Ridder spoke about their feelings during the holdups this week. Both admitted they were scared. Sheffee said he would have run if Ridder had called his bluff and that he held a gun during the incident.
The Delphi Chamber of Commerce will banquet at the Baptist church Monday evening December 13. A full attendance of members is desired.
Sam Bolinger, living near Rossville, was feeding a corn shredder at Frank Marsh’s farm when his right hand was caught in the machinery. His thumb and forefinger were badly mangled and doctors in Clinton County Hospital at Frankfort feared amputation. Mr and Mrs W B Wason returned Wednesday from a few days in Chicago.
A series of Farm Bureau meetings will run December starting Monday evening December 6 in Tippecanoe Township. Wentz Kreigh of Ossian Wells County will address farmers with two reels of pictures at each township session. The schedule lists dates and towns from December 6 to December 22 across Tippecanoe Monroe Adams Deer Creek Madison Clay Jefferson Democrat Carrollton Rock Creek Washington Burlington Jackson townships.
Lee Henderson was elected county purchasing agent to replace Harry Holmes of Deer Creek township at the Farm Bureau Directors meeting. Holmes reported over 5000 tons of county fertilizer and 500 bushels of seeds were handled, with farmers receiving more than $3,000 in refunds. Lloyd Beard outlined the membership campaign meetings starting December 6, and A. A. Never was named delegate to the Producers Association meeting in Indianapolis December 14 with Holmes as alternate.
Thomas Benner Fred Sites and another rider have entries in the Second Annual Junior Livestock Show to be held in Cleveland Ohio. They will depart Sunday by Special from Ft Wayne over the Nickel Plate Railroad. The Benner and Sites boys were top winners in the county fair this fall with Jesse Benner accompanying as chaperone from Carroll County.
Dr. R C Julien met with the Farm Bureau board and is scheduled to address the annual meeting in Delphi on December 14. He has long shown interest in Carroll County and was reported continuing his ties as the article notes pending continuation on page two.
The narrator reflects on December wishes in Bar Harbor Maine during a Wish I Had season. The speaker recalls packing for a trip to Hancock County noting overprepared gear yet missing simple picnic items and a spoon or cup from the enamel ware.
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