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Newspaper
Delphi Citizen
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1934
Page
8
The Procter and Gamble Company announces a nationwide Camay Soap contest open to all women with a lifetime grand prize guaranteed by sponsors. Running about three months, it includes over five hundred other prizes and will be promoted in 1,800 weeklies and thousands of dailies with a nationwide radio campaign.
Miss Josephine Connelly of Delphi has been accepted by Methodist Hospital of Indianapolis as a student nurse. She will begin her training in September.
The Delphi Girl Scouts under Mrs. Helen Orr and assistant Miss Eloise Dyer announce a camping trip planned for the end of the month. Mr. and Mrs. William Afflis, their son, and Miss Meredith Carney return today from a weeklong visit to Washington D C.
The article recalls the Crawfordsville Methodist Mission in Delphi, Carroll County, with early preaching by Henry P. Buell. Jonah T. Hopkinson funded the lot and frame church, completed in 1840. W. O. Wyant led a major revival and oversaw the brick church completed in 1870, later altered in 1897 and 1926.
The Carroll County schools will receive 20400 this week from state gross income tax distributions calculated at 200 per teaching unit. Statewide units total 4007200 with 102 units allocated to the county, down from 105 in January when the county got 21457.80. Experts note unit counts vary with average daily attendance and that full state distributions total 55720.32 to the county via replacement tax laws. If funded by local property taxes an extra 23 cents would be added to the rate.
The Deer Creek Township 4 H Club Girls will provide the program at the Farm Bureau meeting at the library Monday July 16 at 8 00 pm Mrs Will S Smith 4 H Club leader leads the event Arthur Mullin county Farm Bureau president will speak Refreshments of ice cream and cake follow the program and business meeting.
In a recent session the Carroll County Board of Commissioners granted petitions for admittance to Robert Long hospital to Loren M. Pruitt and Elizabeth Widner of Deer Creek, and J. T. Miller of Carrollton township. The public road in Tippecanoe township over Susie Dasher and W. G. Klepinger land was ordered abandoned. Miss Eva Hargraves of Monticello spent Friday with her niece, Mrs. Ross Austin.
Mr and Mrs Orvel Schock and son Louis have returned from a short trip to Washington D C Miss Lorene Schock completed a post graduate nursing course at the Washington Sanitorium Hospital and returned with them for the summer Another daughter Mrs Maurice Duncan joined them at Fort Wayne for a three week vacation at home
Indiana officials announce due date of July 1 for industrial licenses covering employers five or more workers and all hotels and theaters. Fees scale by employee count from 1 to 10 up to 10 for large firms, with hotels and theaters rated by rooms or seats. A misdemeanor with $50 fine applies for noncompliance by October 1 or 60 days after notification.
Senator Fredrick Van Nuys at a Claypool Hotel luncheon in Indianapolis praised Roosevelt recovery efforts and dismissed critics as lacking a sound basis. He argued the program avoids radical changes, saved business from collapse, and will endure as the nation moves beyond Hoover era policies while aiding workers and families.
The Delph i Methodist church junior department will hold a picnic tomorrow afternoon at Battle Ground. A swimming party and a weiner roast are planned with Miss Frank Sheets as superintendent, assisted by department teachers.
The Clarence Wiles unit of Post 222 American Legion Flora hosted twenty orphans from Knightstown home at Russell Miller’s country home near Moran. A Sunday picnic followed by a program was held for 26 attendees, honoring the visiting orphans.
The Ladies Aid of Delphi Christian Church met Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. Wm. Trobaugh. They planned a church dinner to be held Tuesday noon on July 24 and invited the public.
Clayde C. Crook son of Mr and Mrs Charles E Crook of near Yeoman earned a Master of Arts degree at the University of Washington Seattle at graduation exercises on June 18 Mrs Glen Crook and daughter Mary Ann of Seattle attended the ceremony Mr Crook departed Seattle early July to visit Mr and Mrs Bert Misner in Los Angeles
Mrs Barbara Ellen Lesh died last Thursday after a brief illness. Funeral held Sunday at 10 from Old Order Brethren church in Flora. She is survived by husband Daniel Lesh a daughter Mrs Joe Krammes of Burlington and two sons Orville of Deer Creek and Jennings of Flora.
Funeral service for Henry Wilburn age 70 held Sunday at 2 pm from his Idaville home with Rev Warnock of the United Presbyterian Church officiating. Survived by widow two sons Edward Logansport Roy Burnettsville a daughter Myrtle McVey Camden and niece Mary McCall Idaville.
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