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Newspaper
Delphi Citizen
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1926
Page
5
Community notes list visitors, new hires, travels, and events around Delphi including weddings births club activities and church notices. Names such as Mrs J M Gardner Mrs Ida Gustavel Mr Russell Engle and others appear with travels to Indianapolis Monticello and New York plus farm purchases and sales at Grimm & Sons.
Local shoppers are offered a Royal Scepter Coffee 3-piece overstuffed suite on sale at Grimms for 112 dollars. County Tuberculosis Association officers plan a Saturday 8 oclock meeting at Delphi State Bank. Buell Emrick arrives in Lafayette to visit his wife at St Elizabeth Hospital. Myron Ives travels to New York on business. Miss Roberta Gardner postpones Hammond business studies. Mrs L M Pletcher visits Indianapolis wholesale millinery houses and plans a parlor millinery at her Wilson Street home. Mr and Mrs Youndt of Seattle and Mr and Mrs Shaw visit the Ulm home for Sunday dinner.
The Delphi basketball team travels this weekend to Covington to face C. H. S. varsity and then to Paoti to meet V. H. S. ew.
On Sunday evening the Ladies Missionary Society and Young Ladies Guild of the Delphi Presbyterian church will present a pageant at the church. All are invited to attend.
Supt. C. T. Amick of the city schools traveled to Indianapolis to participate in a meeting of the state association of City and Town Superintendents held there yesterday.
A son was born to Mr and Mrs Homer Nethercutt at the home of her brother Fred Temple in Adams township last Saturday. Mrs Mary Temple is caring for mother and babe.
Mrs Elizabeth Stanley state president of the W T C U canceled her scheduled talk here. Miss Esther Shirk returns to the University of Wisconsin Sunday after visiting her parents in Delphi. Miss Meda Barker, sister of Mrs James Barnes, died December 28 in Bangor Maine. A $12000 Notre Dame scholarship fund was given by E M Rowley of San Antonio for his son Edwin killed in 1925. Several local figures spoke at Rock Creek township Farmers Institute and other events. Bond issues and premiums noted for Ginn road and Bowman road projects. Several Delphi residents attended Mrs Will Rose's funeral in Rossville. County agent M C Cromer resigns to join Hancock County post in Delaware County at Muncie. Local artists Johnson and Trobaugh exhibit in Chicago. H A Henderson spoke on modern teaching methods in Indianapolis.
Harness repair shop offers old harness oiling and maintenance plus a large stock of new harness lines bridles collars pads and straps. A religious film The Stream of Life will play at Delphi Methodist church Sunday Feb 14 at 7 pm with free will offering and Bishop Anderson endorsing. The Presbyterian synod of Indiana approves Christian Education committee holding company for a Kosciusko lodge summer hotel property. John Greenwalt relocates to Detroit barber school. Mrs Greenwalt to visit Delphi before joining him. Charles Odell moves from Crosby s hotel to McFarland s.
Mrs Harper Mikesell files in White Circuit Court for divorce and custody of her minor son claiming marriage on September 4 1920 and separation in October 1925. She cites cruel and inhuman treatment and asks five dollars weekly for the child's support. The couple formerly lived in Delphi.
A petition to float a loan of $475000 for a new grade school building costing $143000 and a gymnasium auditorium 15 classrooms and showers with Jefferson High School totaling $333000 was presented to the Lafayette city council Tuesday night. The matter was referred to the council committee on schools and the city attorney for investigation.
A Frankfort man claims the federal government must replace the seat of his pants lost while working for the government. Congressman Fred Purnell is handling the claim as Elmo Merrick, a substitute mail clerk, asks for an $8 appropriation and notes his 43 inch waist and 83 inch inseam. A Lebanon Pioneer note mentions the humorous incident as a cautionary tale on public spending.
Leon Ray, 20, near Burlington, arrested in Howard county on a charge of stealing a Ford touring car at Crawfordsville in November. The car was found in Wisconsin where it is said to have been sold by Owen Rex near Colburn, brother of Ray’s wife. Rex is held in Wisconsin for complicity. Wilbur Blanchard of Chicago visited Delphi on business tied to the Mrs Jennie Case estate.
John L. Hanna, Carroll county chairman, joins school officials to prepare for third National and first International Oratorical Contest on the Constitution. J. A. Van Osdel of Anderson leads the constitutional education committee for the Indiana State Bar Association and arranged the appointment. The Indianapolis News conducts the contest in Indiana with the State Bar Association.
Prosecuting Attorney John Rothrock filed an affidavit Tuesday night for the arrest of Lloyd Kimble near the city on a bootlegging charge. Jesse Haslet was arrested for drunkenness and possessing liquor. Haslet’s bond set at 700 dollars, his sister Mrs. Chissom posted. Kimble’s bond 500 dollars. At Friday’s hearing both men were granted time until the next term to plead.
A humorous tale features an Irishman with red whiskers and a Hebrew with black whiskers in a race to pluck hairs from each other. The Jew counts biblical and famous names while the Irishman roars the A. O. H. as the final hair is claimed. Copyright notice noted.
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