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Newspaper
Delphi Citizen
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1937
Page
7
State highway workers nationwide were instructed not to burn roadside weeds and grass during summer. Earl Crawford, chair man of the State Highway Commission, announced the measure at the Conservation Department’s suggestion to prevent fires that could destroy timber and crops and to protect birds.
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Dr Claude Young district superintendent of the Methodist church and Mrs Young will leave Lafayette Thursday for six weeks in St Louis Their daughter Marcia will enter a hospital for plastic surgery on her nose The operation follows injuries from a prior automobile accident in which she was involved
Indiana University hosts the eleventh annual Boy Scout Day on Saturday September 25 inviting local scouts as guests. Bo McMillin and the Crimson football team will entertain them by inviting scouts to the Centre College Indiana University football game in the afternoon.
Mrs. Fern Hawkins resigns after four years at the Arc theatre and is succeeded by Meredith Gene Kirkpatrick. Richard Downs, son of Mr and Mrs Jack Downs of Delphi, takes summer work in Crawfordsville. Mr and Mrs Eddie Louther of Columbus Kansas visited last week with Mrs Fannie Smith and Mrs Harry Reed.
Joseph Hunter and Hazel Gates thank friends and neighbors for kindness and sympathy during Martha Ann Hunter’s illness and after her death. They express gratitude for floral offerings and acknowledge Rev. Howard Jenkins.
Notice is given that the Indiana Department of Financial Institutions by Thomas Yater as Special Representative has filed its Fifth Current Report in the Carroll County Loan & Trust Company liquidation in Carroll Circuit Court at Delphi. A hearing is set for September 14, 1937, the second judicial day of the September term, 1937, at which interested parties may file objections. Smith and Smith, Attorneys. 21-31 Herb Smith Phone 999.
About seventy five members attended a reception for Rev Wilbur Day and his wife at Delphi Methodist Church. The event, sponsored by Ladies Aid Society, featured fern arrangements, tea service, a program of songs and talks, plus baskets of gift items unveiled by trustees and Sunday school leaders. Day began his Delphi pastorate in 1934 and was reappointed after a Northwest Indiana conference meeting.
The Royal Four Quartet a well known Indianapolis radio group will perform Negro spirituals plantation melodies and jubilee songs at Burlington Brethren Church next Sunday morning July 18 at 10 30. Dr Frank J Niles D D sociologist and orator will deliver a feature lecture on Americas Greatest Institution and Its Present Peril as general secretary of The Lord s Day Alliance of Indiana Rev Clarence Gilmer is pastor of the Burlington Brethren Church
Francis Marion Collins died at age 85 in Knightstown after a hip fracture. Born October 6, 1851 in Clintonity Ohio, he moved to Ockley fifty years ago and later to Knightstown to live with his niece. He remained a church member until death and is survived by several nieces and nephews in Indiana.
Tom Flora has received his commission as a game warden and will be employed in the northern part of the state. Mrs. Frank Hoan and Stella Anne visit Mrs. Hoan's mother, Mrs. Stella Butler. Greeting card bargains The Citizen.
Ivan McCurdy Idaville Spurgeon Todd Camden and Marshall Wagoner Delphi attend the Indiana State Police School at Indiana University on the Bloomington campus. One hundred fifteen cadets were chosen from five hundred applicants to attend the program which began July 5 with a competitive written exam a physical test and a character check. At completion 60 of the 115 cadets will be selected for the Indiana State Police.
County Superintendent elect Harry Hatton of Camden and Delphi High School principal C A Smith led discussions at an Educational Conference today in Monticello High School. Noted speakers include Dr Thurman B Rice state board of health chief Prof C A Dammon Purdue H A Henderson Indianapolis Dr Justice Rising Purdue mechanical arts head Reed Groninger Cass County schools and Supt Robert Ross Monticello schools.
Miss Marie Foulds of Frankfort has been elected head of the art department at Central Normal College. She previously taught at Indiana University Bloomington High School and Frankfort schools and is a graduate of Western State Teachers College Macomb and Columbia Teachers College.
Indiana employment and pay rolls fell sharply from May to June as 1,881 firms reported a total June employment of 153,925, with 6.1 percent drop in jobs, 10 percent in payrolls, and 9 percent in man hours. Strikes and material shortages largely caused the declines, though wage increases continued, with 23 firms reporting higher pay for about 5,000 workers. The largest firm among those raising wages employed around 675 workers.
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