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Newspaper
Delphi Citizen
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1932
Page
5
A courtesy note requests readers inform The Citizen of visits and departures to include local guests in forthcoming notices. The paper invites readers to share coming and going details to help feature social events.
Social notes report Mrs. Ashba with mumps and visits by the Gibbins and Cartwright families. Delph i residents attend picnics, surgeries, reunions, and visits with relatives in St Louis, Jackson, Pittsburgh, and Chicago.
Mr and Mrs Raymond Cope of Boston Massachusetts arrived Wednesday night for a short visit with Mrs Cope's brother Wayne Coy They plan several days of fishing on Lake Freeman in what locals describe as a relaxing outing with family.
L. M. Fletcher attends the Retail Hardware Dealers Association national convention in West Baden as vice president of the Indiana Association and a delegate to the meeting. Mr and Mrs William Corns of Delphi were guests of their son Harry Corns in Indianapolis for a Sunday automobile trip visiting Lake Maxinkuckee and Lake Manitou.
Ask Meaunt and Son in Delphi provide sass to cook with. Prof and Mrs Fren Musselman depart for Kent Ohio for summer teaching at Kent College then return in September for a one month Carroll county visit. Mr and Mrs Jesse Retherford and son David travel to Indianapolis for Butler College baccalaureate and commencement. graduate Lavaunne Retherford is among the grads.
For Sale The Arcata cottage at Sunset Park Lake Freeman features spring water indoor toilet and all modern conveniences. Completely furnished and ready to move in.
Miss Naomi Pruitt of Delphi travels with Lorene Stumbaugh and Ruth LeMasters of Goodland on a motor tour through Nashua Iowa the Black Hills South Dakota and Rugby North Dakota.
Ralph Hanna of Delphi will speak at the Flora Community Club banquet on Wednesday evening June 22 at 7 at the community building. Wives of members are guests at the event.
Delphi area notices cover travel of Mrs. James A. Shirk and daughter Esther to Madison Wisconsin for a master's degree. Mary Allread of Burrows attends Franklin college events. Mary Stonebraker graduates and taught at Franklin. Axtell daughters Berneice and Dorothy wed in South Bend to Dr. J. L. Tanner and Donald Grant. 4 H club leaders meeting in Camden with 55 present. Dr W C Parker transfers to St Louis with family visit planned. Wilson family reunion marks 57th annual gathering and Henry B Wilson Sr birth anniversary.
Mrs. Nancy Knight Thomas, formerly of Delphi now in Chicago, had leg surgery at Methodist Hospital Indianapolis to halt diabetes. Her son Raymond Thomas stays beside her daily and hopes to move her to Franklin. Two Delphi sheriff sales totaled 315 and 3195.28 dollars for farms in Democrat and Jefferson townships. Four Carroll County students graduated from Indiana University including Flora and Delphia residents. class set a 963 student record.
A Republican national convention outline portrays the Democrats as unfit to govern and the nation’s revival as possible only through Republican leadership. Speaker Bertrand Snell praises Hoover’s record while assailing Democratic unity and cohesion as feuding and ineffective.
At the Indiana State Fair September 3 9 the Boy and Girls 4 H Club will compete for prizes including educational trips scholarships to Purdue and various livestock and clothing awards. Prizes total 9567 75 with categories for dairy beef pigs chickens and contests plus two Purdue scholarships and trips.
The riotous Hollywood comedy Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood stars George Sidney and Charlie Murray with June Clyde Esther Howard Em Dunn Norman Foster and Dorothy Christy. It screens Wednesday and Thursday June 22 and 23 and offers behind the scenes glimpses of studio life and the film capital as the Cohen and Kelly families discover the craze of Hollywood.
Victoria Mellinger, age 10, daughter of Mr and Mrs William Mellinger, living southeast of Pyrmont in Clay township, died Friday morning at St Elizabeth hospital Lafayette from scarlet fever and diphtheria. She had been ill since last Saturday and is survived by several brothers and sisters. Burial was held Friday evening at Pyrmont cemetery.
Plans are laid for the Battle Ground assembly summer session lasting 31 days from July 10 to August 14. The program features a school of missions July 10 17 an Epworth League institute July 17 23 a school of religious education July 25 to August 1 and a Bible conference and ceutauqua August 6 14. The 1932 session has been shortened.
The schedule runs two days for the league institute and two for the school of religious education, creating a five day gap before the Bible conference and chautauqua. Camps for Three M girls and juniors occur July 25 to August 1 during missions school. A six day chautauqua marks the Bible conference. Deans include Mrs. C. H. Taylor, T. F. Williams, Rev. R. M. Millard, and B. D. Beck.
Tom Keene stars in a brisk western at the State Theatre. Fred Allen directs as Dick Barstow befriends a peddler's grandson while a mortgage money sparks a murder plot. Eight year old Bobby Nelson shines as the boy partner.
The annual pea packing at the Great Western Canning Co plant runs at full speed with night shifts to harvest ripening peas. The crop is reported to be of fair quality and yield.
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