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Newspaper
Delphi Citizen
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1926
Page
1
A collection of aphorisms and wry observations on marriage reformers weather, marriage, honesty, class, and everyday folly. It pokes fun at royalty, gender roles, education, and punctuality with brisk, humorous quips and satirical takes on modern life.
Joseph C Carson age 70 died of apoplexy. Funeral services Sunday at 10 30 AM at Yeoman Methodist Church with burial in Yeoman Cemetery. Rev Roush officiating. Survived by widow and five children. Family details incomplete from OCR.
The Delphi school community debates a pause in building with talks of a new site and equipment. The piece reviews consolidation finances, showing township 66.1 percent ownership and city 33.9 percent, current debts, operating ratios, and the potential $148000 bond for a new building. It argues against claims that either side is being robbed.
William H. Hoover of the Smithsonian Institution visits his uncle and aunt Mr. and Mrs. C V Hoover in Adams township before leaving for Africa. At 35 he is known as an astronomer desert explorer and globe trotter. His daughter Betty Jean will sail with him next month.
Tom Ryan age 44 died Thursday night at St. Elizabeth's Hospital Lafayette after a five weeks illness. He lived in Chicago with sister Genevieve and worked there though crippled. He was son of deceased parents, brother to Will and Genevieve, with funeral at St Joseph Catholic church and burial in Catholic cemetery.
Dr J T Shelley of Oxford Indiana attended his son Dr G T Shelley s wedding to Miss Josephine Kinman of Hardin. Kinman owns St Louis Beauty Shop in Delphi and is a 3 year beauty school graduate. The couple will reside in Delphi with Mrs Wilber on Front Street while continuing respective practices.
Water notice states all metered and flat water rents must be paid on or before the 10th of July. TALMAR R ARNOLD is the water agent responsible for collection and enforcement.
Work started this week on Delphi's boulevard lighting system, a unique public improvement with no protests. When lights illuminate, a double celebration is planned for the improvement and the public spirit shown.
George Montgomery, Civil War veteran, died at his son’s home in Rockfield. He is survived by two children, a brother Joseph of Phoenix, Arizona, and two grandchildren. Funeral services were held Friday at 2 PM at the Presbyterian Church in Rockfield with Rev. Cecil Atkinson and Rev. H J Trickey officiating. Interment followed in Brown Cemetery.
A patriotic union service will be held Sunday evening at eight o'clock at the Presbyterian church under the auspices of the Charles Carroll chapter D A R Miss Lou Bonnell will preside. The program follows: Song America Scripture Reading and Invocation Rev Dale LeCount.
Cupid shot eighteen arrows in Carroll county the month of June according to the marriage records at the clerk's office. Marriage licenses issued this week were to George W Johnson of Alexand…
Carroll county Masons from seven lodges met in Flora to organize a county picnic. Donald Gassaway of Flora named general chairman and Forrest Orr treasurer with Chester Wagoner secretary. Committees cover arrangements finance publicity invitations and entertainment with members from Flora Delphi Burlington Camden Deer Creek Bringhurst and Cutler. The event aims for late August or early September and seeks to invite the ape Band from the Masonic Home Franklin Creek Flora and Burlington locations.
The Grange of Colburn organizes a big Fourth of July celebration next Monday in Colburn. The afternoon program features speaking music and athletic contests. Rev Wilbur Allen will give the address and a patriotic pageant with music follows in the evening. All are invited.
June closed with an average temperature more than three degrees below normal and rainfall about 1.14 inches, far under the 4.13 inch normal. It was the driest June in ten years and the driest since 1922.
Mrs Anna Keith of Ottawa Indiana was the guest this week in Ottawa when guests in the Eckhart home Sunday.
Robert L. McCarty aged 71 died Sunday at his home west of Lex. Funeral services were held at Ball Hill church at 2:00 PM Tuesday conducted by Rev. Everett Walton. Interment followed in the adjoining cemetery. He is survived by his wife and four children Rush McCarty Flora Jesse McCarty near Rockfield Pearl McCarty near Cutlers, Russell McCarty Twelve Mile.
Homer Overley of Yeoman left Thursday for Texas where he has employment with L. E. Myers Construction Co. Mrs Grace Coble Fox and two children of St. Augustine Florida will visit July 13 at the home of Mr and Mrs Madison Arnot.
Harry Trobaugh, a night agent at the Delphi Monon railroad office, leaves for a one month visit to California and plans a motor tour through Yosemite Valley. L. I. Pierce of Lebanon becomes manager of the A and P store in the city this week, succeeding John Dickerson who led the local branch before his promotion to Logansport.
Mrs. Walter Cress and children from acremento California are visiting relatives in this county. Mrs. Cress is sister in law of Mrs. Ida Gusta vel of this city and Mrs. Frank Brewer west of Delphi.
Miss Mary Alread of near Burrows departs Wednesday for Assiniboia Saskatchewan to visit Mrs. June Been West daughter of Joseph Been. She will return with the Wests in August, traveling by auto through Yellowstone Park.
Mrs Belle Gwinn of Chicago has visited her sister Mrs J J Shultz and returned home Tuesday with Miss May Walker. The pair traveled by auto and plan to return to Delphi next week. Mrs Gwinn will extend the visit with Dr and Mrs Shultz.
Rev and Mrs E P Day and daughter Fern plan a July 19 departure from Brownsville Texas to Delphi to visit daughter Mrs Paul Quick and family. They will stay three weeks with son Charles joining from Kalon. Harry Helser of Salina and his son join a visit to his childhood home. A supper with pork and kraut was served. Attendees included W S Margowski Ed Blythe Lawrence Margowski Charles Buckley and Mr Helser. Mrs Sophia Dreifus visited Chicago then Manitou Beach Michigan to see grandson Perry Bachman. Her daughter Theresa Salmon and Mr Salmon drive there by car.
Rev. R. B. Kern, Harry Roach, Claude Wall, Merle DeLong, Her bert Smith and Leo Ulm returned Wednesday night from a Wisconsin fishing trip. The group traveled in two cars, the Kern and Wall vehicles, and they caught 77 fish in total. They note the bite was slow but the outing was enjoyable.
Mrs. Jennie Shultz Taylor and son Judson of Lafayette and Richard Barley of Cincinnati joined Mrs. Belle Gwinn of Chicago for the funeral. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor recently moved from Indianapolis to Lafayette and Judson will enter Purdue University this fall.
Dr Ione Shultz Clayton and her daughter Virginia and son Bill will motor west from Arkansas City Kansas with possible accompaniment by Dr Harry Clayton. In late August Ione and her son will visit her parents in Delphi and Ione will take a short medical course in Chicago. Also visiting will be Mrs Helen Shultz Voak and her two sons Judson and Stanley from Devils Lake North Dakota. Virginia plans to attend Kansas City College Kansas next year.
The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company announces from Jersey City an increase of $500,000 in its advertising appropriation for the coming year. The extra funds will be devoted mainly to newspaper ads to support local retail business in communities where A and P stores operate.
George Smock leaves Friday for White Sulphur Springs Virginia as De Pauw University delegate to the annual Beta Theta Pi fraternity convention.
The court orders E W Bowen receiver to file an amended report detailing all actions and disbursements by October 1. Multiple cases cover monetary judgments, estates, sales, and guardianships. notable items include a $35 suit money and $6 biweekly support for Anna Bougher, estate executors appointed, real estate sales planned, and various dismissals and allocations.
A fragmentary diary entry recalls a Friday Washington visit ending with an agricultural day theme. The narrator meets Mrs. William Jardine, secretary of Agriculture, and notes courtesies with cabinet spouses amid a busy schedule before the evening train from Delphi.
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