Local notes and small town life amid war news
Delphi column reports on community efforts at Riley Park and social notes including home sales, a hospital update on a child with meningitis, a postal mystery tied to Bill Campbell, robins and nature musings, a library gift in memory of Lt. Russell W. Rowe, and a witty peek at wartime radio listening habits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delphi Library
James Truslow Adams
John Rowe
Russell W. Rowe
Bouganville Island
Delphi-Deer Creek hires two teachers to fill vacancies
Superintendent Lee L. Eve announced two new teachers for Delphi-Deer Creek. Evelyn Hodges Kerlin will teach grade five or six while Arden Russell, Purdue 1942 graduate, will fill the vacancy in vocational agriculture. Over fifty applications for the Delphi high school principal position have been filed, but no decision yet.
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Delphi-Deer Creek Township
Lee L. Eve
Ray Hurt
Arden Russell
Purdue University
Russell
Grant County
van Buren
Delphi High School
Vacancies Rise in Carroll County Schools
Carroll County schools face numerous openings as resignations outpace applications. Principalships at Carrollton and Burlington shift with new leaders including Allen Hunter and Ruth Evans Murphy. Staff moves include Mary Jane Harter, Doris Hollowell, Mildred Allen, and others across Flora Camden Yeoman and Washington townships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carroll County
Harry Hatton
Carrollton Township
C. V. McElhany
Mary Jane Harter
Flora
Camden
Doris Hollowell
Yeoman
Mildred Allen
New Hope
Camden Girls Become Registered Nurses
Graduates from nurses training schools include Camden residents Anna belle Hughes and Marybelle Graves. Miss Graves, daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Graves, will receive a City hospital Indianapolis diploma this month. Miss Hughes, a May 27 graduate from Muncie Memorial hospital school for nurses, is daughter of Mr and Mrs R T Hughes and will continue employment at the hospital in Indianapolis.
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Camden
Annabelle Hughes
Marybelle Graves
Miss Graves
Charles Graves
City Hospital
Indianapolis
Miss Hughes
Muncie Memorial Hospital School
Tri Kappa Initiates with Summer Dance at Delphi
The Delphi Country Club hosted a June party by Tri Kappa to initiate twelve pledges. Mary Smock led the candlelight ceremony as Naomi Theophile was named president and other officers were announced for installation in September.
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TRI Kappa Fetes
Delphi Country Club
Tri Kappa Sorority
Alta Packard
Mary Clawson
Marybelle Mount
Virginia Pletcher
Joan Hyman
Betty Jo Hyman
Marylee Zinn
Dorothy Jean Bowen
Mary Jean Hildébrandt
Elizabeth
Deb Tinkle
Logansport
Mary Smock
Naomi Theophile
Mary Ruffing
Zelpha Kramer
Betty McCormick
Club
Rotary Club Hears Kentland Speaker
The Delphi Rotary Club held its Tuesday meeting with Charles Bell presenting as county agent Russell Bell. Bell spoke on What's New in Agriculture. Leo Craig paid tribute to C. A. Smith who leaves to become Kentland schools superintendent. Smith and club member spoke briefly. Guests included Henry McCandless of Richmond and Judge Ralph Bower of the Newton county circuit court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delphi Rotary Club
Charles Bell
Newton County
Russell Bell
Zell
C. A. Smith
Kentland
Leo Craig
Mr. Smith
Club
Henry McCandless
Richmond, Ind
Ralph Bower
Newton County Circuit Court
Delphi pastor reassigned at Northwest Indiana meeting
Merlin Schwein, Delphi Methodist pastor, is reassigned after the Northwest Indiana Methodist conference’s annual session in Fort Wayne. Bishop Titus Lowe announced Dr. B. D. Beck as Lafayette district superintendent and named several other Delphi area appointments including Cox to Monticello and Barkley to Flora.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bishop Lowe
B. D. Beck
Lafayette
Delphi
Jasper H. Cox
Monticello
Theodore Roberts
Battle Ground
Mt. Zion
Eldon Farmer
Brookston
W. B. Collier
Camden-Buck Creek
W. C. Rogers
Clymers-Webb Chapel
C. W. Gant
Idaville
J. W. Barkley
Flora
Eighteen Qualify for Armed Forces in Carroll County
Eighteen young men from Carroll county qualified for military service in their preinduction examinations on June 2. Three were assigned to the Navy David Henry Calhoun Robert J Bordner and John Joseph Redwinkle. Fifteen joined the Army Leroy Wayne Beam William Ray Lennon John B Brock Marvin Junior Austin James Richard Davis William Hugh Hobb Dayton Devere Hoffman Virgil Dean Pitzer Caryle Aaron Kauffman Richard Lee Fife Raymond Glendorn Pearson Harry Max Kelly John Joe Sneathen John G Hufford Joel Aaron Nis wonger. Those inducted into the Navy were Donald Ray Duff Wilbur Earl Lane Wayne Lee Landes Max Eugene Neely and Bobby Walter Ring er entered Army service on the same date.
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Carroll County
Navy
David Henry Calhoun
Robert J. Bordner
John Joseph Redwinkle
Army
Leroy Wayne Beam
William Ray Lennon
John B. Brock
Marvin Junior Austin
James Richard Davis
William Hugh Hobb
Dayton Devere Hoffman
Virgil Dean Pitzer
Caryle Aaron Kauffman
Richard Lee Fife
Raymond Glendorn Pearson
Harry Max Kelly
John Joe Sneathen
John G. Hufford
Joel Aaron Nis
Donald Ray Duff
Wilbur Earl Lane
Wayne Lee Landes
Max Eugene Neely
Bobby Walter Ringer
Harris Gets Prison Time for Gasoline Theft
Harry Vincent Harris, 36, of Lafayette, pleaded guilty to gasoline theft in Carroll county circuit court. Judge William B. Smith sentenced him to one to five years in Indiana state prison, fined $200 plus costs, and disfranchised him for five years. Harris has a long criminal record and was caught draining two cans of gasoline from a truck at a local filling station.
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Harry Vincent Harris
Lafayette
William B. Smith
Carroll County
Indiana State Prison
Tippecanoe County
Robert Moore
Sanford Allen
Goyer
School band meeting announced for June 13 at 1 30
Clarence Marocco director of music at Delphi High School says all new students and last year junior band and advanced players taking private lessons must meet in the band room at 1 30 Tuesday June 13. Bring instruments or come if without one. Subscript for The Citizen.
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Clarence Marocco
Delphi High School
Delphi Graduates Plan University Attendance in 1944
Several 1944 Delphi graduates plan college study this summer and fall. Virginia Gregg will enter Purdue July 1. Joan Patton and Dorothy Ann Clifford will enter Indiana University in fall. Jacqueline Ruffing will attend Indiana University Medical Center for nurse training. Gene Penn and Bill Mahanna Jr. will begin AS T university training in July after passing army scholarship exams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia Gregg
Purdue University
Joan Patton
Dorothy Ann Clifford
Indiana University
Joan
Harold Patton
Dorothy Ann
James Clifford
Jaqueline Ruffing
Indiana University Medical Center
Indianapolis
Gene Penn
Raymond Penn
Burrows
Bill MaHanna Jr
Two Injured as Car Hits Telephone Pole Near Rockfield
Mrs Margaret Dienhart age 75 of Lafayette and her daughter Lucille of South Bend were injured when their car turned over in a ditch and struck a telephone pole on road 25 east of Rockfield. The daughter, driving, lost control while passing two motorcyclists. Mother suffered arm and leg injuries. daughter injured in chest. Vehicle damage estimated at 300 dollars.
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Margaret Dienhart
Lafayette
Lucille
South Bend
Road 25
Rockfield
War Loan Drive to Begin Next Week in Carroll County
Next Monday June 12 volunteers in Carroll County begin the Fifth War Loan drive seeking 729 700. Ora F Shiraz chairman urges citizens to subscribe to the limit and support the war effort by investing in bonds and paying taxes as the home front backs the United Nations усилия in Rome and western Europe.
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Carroll County
Ora F. Shiraz
Carroll County War Finance Committee
Rome
Bible School Plans Announced for Two Week Period
Union Daily Vacation Bible school scheduled for June 12 to June 23 across three churches. Sessions run Monday through Friday 9:00 to 11:30 for ages three to fourteen, with separate departments at Methodist Presbyterian and Christian churches and staff led by superintendents such as Mrs Woodrow Whiteman Catherine McCain Ruth Carney and Mrs Howard Bradshaw. Registration opens June 11 at Sunday schools and again June 12 before 9 for a 25 cent fee covering mid morning lunch.
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Union Daily Vacation Bible School
The
Presbyterian
Methodist
Christian
Methodist Church
Woodrow Whiteman
Presbyterian Church
Catherine McCain
Freeman Redding
Francis Humburger
Mary Clawson
Ruth Carney
Earl Thompson
B. F. Drake
C. F. Sheets
Will Smock
Mary Robinson Begins Training in Waves at Hunter College
Mary E. Robinson daughter of Mr and Mrs Ray Robinson Delphi is in training at Hunter College New York as a WAVE. A 1942 Delphi high school graduate she has worked at Air Service Command Dayton Ohio for a year and a half. Her brother Arthur V Robinson petty officer in the Navy is home on leave from a merchantman in the Pacific armed guard crew.
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H. G. Kolb
Camden
Indiana
Cutler
Everett McCauley
Navy
Burlington
Marie Linn
Marjorie Yeager Bailey
Washington Township
Luman Hawkins
Flora
Ruth Evans Murphy
Mary Margaret Schreimm
Delphi
Stanley C. Moyer
Star City
Miles A. Freeman
Presbyterian Church
Miss Schreiner
Alice Groninger
Howard Bonnell
Mayer
Virginia Pletcher
Darwin Sayer
Schreiner
Urge Schreiner
South of Delphi
Indiana State Teachers College
Terre Haute
Epsilon Delta Sorority
Press Club
Delphi High School
Mary E. Robinson
Ray Robinson
Hunter College
New York
Air Service Command
Dayton
Ohio
Miss Robinson
Miami Jacobs Business College
Arthur V. Robinson
Pacific
Mrs Virginia Winslow Shonk Home After Auto Crash
Mrs Virginia Winslow Shonk, injured with a neck cast from an auto accident on the Carrollton hill, has been sent home to Rock Creek township from Cass county hospital in Logansport and is reported much improved. Mrs Jeanne Bailey departed Saturday for an indefinite visit with friends in California.
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Virginia Winslow Shonk
Carrollton Hill
Rock Creek Township
Cass County
Logansport
Shonk
Jeanne Bailey
Fighting Men Of Carroll County Series LOI Service Details
Private Charles Clay Briggs son of Mrs Eda Briggs Carmichael of Delphi served overseas after basic at Fort Bragg He trained in ski troops at Fort William Henry Harrison Camp Blanding and Gruber Oklahoma He enlisted August 1942 and previously worked for Grimm furniture and Lafayette Aluminum. Robert Martin Eaton Navy since April 4 1943 from Flora son of Mr and Mrs Henry Eaton after boat training at Great Lakes assigned to hospital corps and naval hospitals overseas in the New Hebrides Wilbur Earl Lane Navy reentered this week from temporary medical discharge He trained at Great Lakes Gunnery school and served aboard a battleship son of W E Lane Delphi attended Delphi High School member of Hi Y club Indiana State Guard and Delphi Methodist church.
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Charles Clay Briggs
Eda Briggs Carmichael
Delphi
Clay
Fort Bragg
N. C
Fort William Henry Harrison
Montana
Robert Martin Eaton
Henry Eaton
Flora
Navy
Great Lakes, Ill
Great Lakes
Eaton
Naval
California
New Hebrides
Wilbur Earl Lane
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Philadelphia
Penn
W. E. Lane
Delphi High School
Indiana State Guard
Baker Home
Camden High School
Alpha Omicron Pi
Tri Kappa
Butler University
Purdue
Lafayette
Naval Armory
Michigan City
Ind
Burial for Mrs Idabelle Seagraves in Logansport
Burial services for 57 year old Mrs Idabelle Seagraves were held Sunday in Logansport with Rev H L Greenwalt officiating. She took her own life and is survived by husband two daughters Mrs Emma Black and Donabelle Seagraves at home a son Charles Francis in Italy two sisters and four ex-relatives. Burial followed at Deer Creek cemetery. She was born October 20 1886 in Carroll county.
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Idabelle Seagraves
Logansport
H L. Greenwalt
Deer Creek
Emma Black
Donabelle Seagraves
Charles Francis
Italy
Myrtle Johnson
Columbus, O
Goldan Wallace
Cass County
Rosemary Ruffing Weds Thomas S Hannell in Camden
Miss Rosemary Ruffing daughter of Mrs. Mary Ruffing of Delphi marries Thomas S Hannell son of Mrs. Lena Hannell in a Saturday evening ceremony at the Baker home in Camden. Rev Miles Freeman officiated as guests watched a white jersey dress bride and lavender corsage. The couple plans teaching and engineering careers with future assignments announced.
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Rosemary — Ruffing
Mary Ruffing
Delphi
Thomas S. Hannell
Lena Hannell
C. E. Baker
Camden
Miles Freeman
Delphi Presby
Marvin Packard
Marion Pullen Dies of Heart Attack in Garden
Marion Pullen Tl a farmer near Young America died of a heart attack Monday morning while working in his garden. A well known Carroll county resident he is survived by his widow Naomi Smith and three sons Keith Arthur and Herbert.
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Marion Pullen
America
Carroll County
Naomi Smith
Keith
Arthur
Herbert
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