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Newspaper
Delphi Citizen
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1931
Page
3
Purdue conference reveals eye test for seed corn yielded an average 70 percent correct placements. The worst outcomes include weak and diseased ears, risking poor yields. Indiana corn growers are urged to test every ear and plant only strong germination. The Flora community tester resumes March 1.
Indiana Hydro Electric, subsidiary of Midland United Co, spent 86 644 21 on plant improvements in 1930. It built 66 000 volt line from Oakdale on Tippecanoe river to Monticello New Carlisle superpower link, and added equipment at Norway plant. Hydroelectric output fell to 51 657 400 kWh from 67 404 100 in 1929 due to below normal rainfall. Revenue 714 755 57. net income 146 994 66.
Ferro-Iodized Sargon the celebrated new medicine sold by W. S. Margowski druggist. Willis’s formula praised by physicians chemists and health authorities as a world renowned treatment now available locally with pills and tonics claimed to restore health and strength.
Mr and Mrs George Riffey celebrated their golden wedding day in Madison township on Sunday. It coincided with Mrs Riffey s 70th birthday and a noon dinner for 43 relatives. The couple s four children and a son in law attended, plus three great grandchildren and two grandchildren.
A Sunday birthday gathering was hosted at Mrs. James Gibbins home in Frankfort to honor Mrs. Senéca Shepard of near Delphi with members of the Shepard family in attendance.
The Sunshine Society met in the Delphi high school gym for a hard time party with an orchestra, vocal duets by Adela Camp and Ruth Bardon, a reading by Martha Godenour, and a cornet duet by Alta Kite and Mary Belle Cripe. Gene Dyer won a rolling pin for best hard time costume as games and bingo followed, then white elephants were shared and dancing closed the evening. The Boy's Glee Club practiced, and several students attended the inter-collegiate oratorical contest in Crawfordsville. John Sanderson won the constitutional oratorical contest representing Delphi.
Elizabeth Melick attended the state commercial meeting in Indianapolis and a junior high assembly Friday morning featured a Washington program. Betty Stewart read a Washington biography after patriotic songs, with Edna Johnson and Betty Pierce presenting The Little Hatchet Story.
Grade five students performed a playlet in room five for Miss Stephen's class while Miss Carrigan's girls presented a Washington play in room four. Several pupils, including Ruth Disinger and Maude Rae, were absent due to illness or bereavement.
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