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Newspaper
Delphi Citizen
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1931
Page
5
The Citizen invites residents to mention visiting friends and their comings and goings. Readers are asked to inform the publication of expected guests to help showcase local social activity and community connection.
A collection of brief items notes visits by Mrs. Josephine Mears Will Martin Irvin Kendrick and others around Delphi Indiana They mention Miss Marjorie Isaacs Robert Bacht Miss Mary Angel Cartwright and Miss Jessie Murphy visiting Indianapolis Riverside Park Ideal Beach County fairs and social gatherings The 30th Anniversary Sale at C O Julius Your Clothier ends Saturday
John Smith Jr. is in the Home hospital Lafayette after a mastoid operation. Mrs Mae Busteed Carter and Mrs Alice Toole returned to Chicago last Friday after visiting her brother George Busteed and family.
Mrs Wayne Aldridge and Mrs Fred rick Morrison host a small gathering at the home of Mrs Aldridge. Friday James Viney and spouse open a new Yeoman restaurant formerly run by Mrs Hazel Myers and sons. Patton threshing ring votes to carry lunches rather than have women serve hot meals.
Miss Ruth Kleinman of Shreveport Louisiana, visiting Delphi for the summer, will enroll at the University of Alabama in the coming year.
Curtain panels offered at 79 cents each in five colors. Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Sowers return from Bourbon Indiana to Delphia. Ada Lee Wishing of Hamburg visits sister Mrs. Howard W. Bradshaw. Carroll County Young Peoples chorus to rehearse at Camden Lutheran Church Friday. Lizzie Cox files divorce suit against John A. Cox with attorneys Albert D. Obear and George Smith. Herman Ewald returns home after eight years in the west to visit mother Sarah Ewald. Cutter bank liquidations trustee Charles N. Lang files note suit against William Fetterhoff and Hannah E. Fetterhoff. Mrs. Robert Ehlert and Nada Dean of Monon visit Reid Schweiger family.
MENS SUITS on sale to clear space for fall items at QUICK and CLIFFORD MENS SUITS. Miss Mary Guthrie of near Rockfield visited Lafayette Saturday with Mrs Clara Guthrie and children. Rev Paul Beck and son began a motor trip east last Sunday and he preached at a Fort Wayne church Sunday evening. Radio tubes Herb Smith.
Mr and Mrs Walter Ringer and their sons from Camden and Miss Ruth Haderly of Delphi attended the Layman family reunion in Logansport on Sunday. Miss Mary Cochrane a librarian and Mrs N J Howe visited Wells City Library and Purdue University Library in Lafayette on Tuesday.
The Girls' Band gave a splendid concert in Delphi last Saturday and will present regular performances at Royal Center this summer. Mrs. Walter Utterback returned to LaCrosse Wisconsin after visiting local friends. Mrs. June Pearson Bowen and her Wisconsin bound son visit Mr. and Mrs. Larry Boone. Bowen plans an auction of household goods on Friday, July 31.
Roger Mayhill Charles Black Fred Sites and Devon Smith took Thomas Mayhill to Peoria Ti Sunday where he will stay for a two week visit with Bobby and Warren Eckhart. Adam Grimm Grimm & Sons visiting son Walter family in Winona Minn now at Goodwill Landing Cook Minn. Mr and Mrs Fred Morris and daughter Beverly Jean and Mrs Mary Morrison spent Sunday at Lake Maxinkuckee with Mrs L D Haun and family Burlington.
The Indiana Department of Conservation announced the season opens August 1 and closes October 15, fifteen days shorter than last year. It notes the hunting period applies statewide and is for squirrels.
Mrs. John Hamling Jr and Mrs. Roach entertained fifty friends at a bridge party Wednesday evening at the home of Mrs Hamling Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Arnold and Mr. and Mrs. John Emrick visited Miss Viola Emrick at Michigan City last Sunday. Miss Emrick works as a Western Union telegraph operator there.
James Whitcomb Riley son of Mr and Mrs Frank Riley of Tippecanoe township leaves Monday to take a government inspector of tomatoes job in Trafalgar.
Detroit physician Dr W C Parker and his wife visit Mrs Parker’s parents Mr and Mrs W L Cowdin. Parker has been here for some time with Mrs Louise Parker of Fowler Lake staying at a local home.
A harness set valued at 62.95 dollars was stolen from W. H. Havens who lives on the Wolf farm one mile northeast of Americus. Mr Havens offers a reward for arrest and conviction of the thief.
A crowd of friends and relatives gathered Monday evening at Mr. and Mrs. Zollie Martin’s home to honor Mr. Martin’s birthday. Miss Marjorie Isaacs won the euchre prize, and refreshments of ice cream and cake were served.
Mr and Mrs Coble entertained at their home in Monticello Monday evening for dinner with guests Laz rue Coble and son Dick Amel Spring of Delphi Raymond Coble and Ruth of Brownsville Texas and Frank Burns of Fort Lauderdale Florida all attending together with Mr and Mrs Coble and Mr and Mrs Laz rue Coble.
Mr and Mrs Glen Crook of Dayton Wash announce the birth of a daughter on July 20. The little girl weighed 6 pounds 0 ounces and has been named Mary Anne. Mr Crook is a brother of Mrs Reid Schweiger of this city. Dr and Mrs N F Forsythe and Dorothy of Hammond visited Rev and Mrs Benjamin Rist.
A proposed overnight trucking line would connect Fort Wayne and Indianapolis to Delphi merchants if sufficient business is pledged. The plan envisions nightly through service with potential local economic impact pending commitments.
Charles N. Wilson announces the Delphi Insurance Agency will relocate from the west side of the square to the Crone apartment above the Kroger store. Mr and Mrs Wilson will occupy the vacated apartment this week formerly held by Mr and Mrs Wayne Lee.
Mrs. Robert Hendrickson was moved from the Monroe Street residence to her father John Sales's home. The transfer was by Grimm's and Sons ambulance. She has been confined to bed for three weeks.
Frances Light, prominent east of Elkhart farmer, will become master of the Indiana State Grange to fill the vacancy caused by Newsom's death. Light, state alliance overseer, assumes the post and the next regular election is set for October at the Delphi meeting.
Delphi business leaders led by Fred H. Wheeler pressed Indiana officials to permit mussel hunting. The Department of Conservation announced the river will remain closed to mussel harvesters after their Indianapolis trip.
Judge B A DeVol granted temporary custody of the children to Forrest Schall starting July 29 and lasting until August 7. The order was extended again on August 1 and applied through the week of the 16th.
Local notes list cheap electric irons and curling irons while citing a 4H boys camp at Camp Tecumseh with 118 attendees from neighboring counties. Freeman Baum of Yeoman is said to be the first Carroll County farmer planning fall plowing with limited wheat and a possible feed crop. Edith Cochrane of Jackson, Michigan visits Delphi residents and travels to St Louis to visit Rev. and Mrs. Ray Heritage.
John and son from Detroit return from a western motor trip with Pearl Hanna. Edward H. Blythe hosted dinner at Dame's Hotel with Dr. Dunbar Col Phelps Col Swain and General Gray. Mrs Grace Coble Fox and two daughters visit Logansport from Savannah after staying with the Arnotts in South Delphi. Mrs Fox formerly Delphi staff member.
Mrs Lorel Blickenstaff and her daughter Isabelle return from an auto trip to Ohio. They visited Ella B Kehrer sanitorium in Anderson and met tuberculosis patient Clifford Rogers of Cutler. Blickenstaff, county TB nurse, is touring the county this week preparing for the free tuberculosis clinic to be held here Friday.
Advertising notes include Fing flashlights claiming half mile light with 59 cent price. Witnesses listed for Cubs Phillies game in Chicago. Trustees of thirteen Carroll County townships prepare annual reports to the county superintendent. Radio tubes Herb Smith.
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