Distribution of 1943 Spring Tax Installment Completed
Carroll county auditor records show 105 percent collection of half of the 1943 taxes, totaling $266,248.57, up from $226,031.60 last year. State share $21,543.23, county share $35,547.77, public welfare $28,547.09. Checks mailed to townships and towns include Adams 6825.05, Delphi 13332.60, and other listed amounts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carroll County
Russell M. Harter
Adams
Burlington
Carrollton
Clay
Death and memory mingle in wartime letters and Delphi ties
A column reflects on loss of young lives, wartime separations, and consoling memories. It notes Virginia Winslow Shonk’s husband in Burma, a traveling Indian boy bound to American servicemen, and Delphi connections including Ensign Frances Wingard Mahoney in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dora Wingard
Delphi
Frances Wingard Mahoney
Washington, D. C
Navy Department
Miss Sarah McKinley Joins Sears in Indianapolis
Sarah McKinley daughter of Mr and Mrs Clarence McKinley will travel to Indianapolis on June 26 to begin employment with Sears Roebuck in the personnel office. A 1944 Indiana University business school graduate she has worked at Union Bank and Trust since graduation this spring. She is a Delphi High School alumna.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence McKinley
Indianapolis
Sears, Roebuck and Company
McKinley
School of Business
Indiana University
Union Bank and Trust Company
Delphi High School
Herbert DeVitt Weds Leona Geise in Elmhurst Ceremony
Announcement reports Ensign Herbert DeVitt of Janesville Wisconsin and Miss Leona Geise of Elmhurst Illinois wed June 3 at St Peter Evangelical church Elmhurst. The marriage follows a Carleton College romance amid family ties to Delphi Indiana and Mary Cochrane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
IL. N. Cochrane
Delphi
Ensign Herbert DeVitt
Herbert DeVitt
Janesville
Wisconsin
Leona Geise
Elmhurst
Fred Geise
Ensign DeVitt
Mabel Cochrane
Mary Cochrane
Carleton’ College
Minn
St. Peter’s Evangelical Church
Ruben
Final Meetings Of Caravan To Be Held Thursday Friday
The Thursday meeting of the Methodist Youth Caravan in Delphi begins at 7 30 pm with worship recreation and classes for intermediate high school and older youth and adults. Friday marks the caravan’s end with a dedicatory service added to regular activities and an invitation to parents and adults to participate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methodist
Delphi
Merlin Schwein
Special Program Set for Carroll County Farm Bureau Meeting
The Carroll County Farm Bureau will meet Tuesday night June 27 at the Camden Baptist church. Devotionals begin at 8 p m with Rev. Miles A Freeman of Delphi Presbyterian church. Music by Orvel Schock Howard Smith Clawson girls and Mrs Gale Crowell. Speaker Hubert Ellison of the state Farm Bureau.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carroll County Farm Bureau
Baptist Church
Camden
Miles A. Freeman
Delphi Presbyterian Church
Orvel Schock
Howard Smith
Clawson Girls
Rural Youth Organization
Gale Crowell
Adams Township
Hubert Ellison
State Department
Farm Bureau
Guthrie to Teach at Reitz High Evansville
Stuart Guthrie, former vocational agriculture teacher here until 1939, has accepted a position at Reitz high school in Evansville Indiana. He will assume duties July 1 and move his family from Peru to Evansville. He is the son of Mr Lahrie Guthrie, former Carroll county commissioner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stuart Guthrie
Peru High School
Reitz High School
Evansville
Ind
Pera Goon
Lahrie Guthrie
Carroll County
Psi Iota Xi Beta Psi Flora chapters attend Indiana convention
Delegates from Beta Psi chapter Mrs. Margaret Afflis and Margaret Mabbitt and Flora delegates Mrs. Winifred Bishop Mrs. Margaret Ayres attended the forty second annual state convention in Indianapolis June 13 14 at the Severin hotel. The sorority voted to continue support of the Indiana University speech pathology clinic, having contributed thirteen thousand dollars and funded examinations of 4948 school children. An award cup went to the Kokomo chapter for selling the most tickets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beta Psi
Psi Iota Xi
Indianapolis
Severin Hotel
Margaret Afflis
Margaret Mabbitt
Flora
Winifred Bishop
Margaret Ayres
Russell Harter
Mildred Brimm
Indiana University
Kokomo
Tomorrow's The Day For Baby Portraits In Delphi
Waltz Studios of Des Moines will set up in Blythe Furniture in Delphi tomorrow June 23 from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. to photograph babies at no charge. Pictures will be cut for publication in The Citizen. All children must be with a parent. no age limit. Wives of servicemen are urged to bring babies for sending to service members worldwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waltz Studios
Des Moines
Delphi
Blythe
Fourteen Carroll Youths Enter Naval Service
Fourteen Carroll county youths left Delphi on Tuesday June 20 for induction into the navy and marine corps at Indianapolis. From Delphi and rural routes were William Benefiel Charles Smith Eugene Sanderson Orville Berkshire Wayne Clawson. From Flora routes Joseph Kirkpatrick Max Landes Robert Smith. From Frankfort routes David Calhoun George Ehrman. Other inductees include John Cornell of Lafayette Howard Smith of Logansport Alonzo Brady of Monticello Wayne Cripe of Camden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carroll County
Delphi
Navy and
Marine Corps
Indianapolis
Herman Theophile
Selective Service Board
William Marion Benefiel
Charles Alex Smith
Joseph Eugene Sanderson
Orville Berkshire
Wayne Louis Clawson
Flora and Flora
Joseph Merrill Kirkpatrick
Max Junior Landes
Robert G. Smith
Frankfort
David Henry Calhoun
George Parker Ehrman
John Wesley Cornell
Lafayette
Howard Stephen Smith
Logansport
Alonzo Curtis Brady
Monticello
Wayne Lee Cripe
Camden
Fifth War Loan Drive Launches With Large Totals
The drive announces a $16 billion goal with $281 million already raised. Officials urge rapid victory, citing Admiral King and global armed forces progress while promoting Treasury instruments including 114s 2s 214s 7 percent Certificates of Indebtedness and Series C and E Savings Notes for collateral and retirement planning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
King
Treasury
Kenneth E Pitts Appointed Delphi School Principal
Delphi attorney Kenneth E Pitts was sworn into the navy as a lieutenant junior grade last Thursday. He will report for indoctrination on Saturday July 1 at Camp McDonough on Lake Champlain New York. He is a DePauw graduate with an Iowa LLB and has worked with Obear and Obear since 1933. Mrs Obear and daughters Judith and Martha will stay in Delphi for now.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delphi
George Obear
Elmer McCall
Richard Sears
Meredith Gene Kirkpatrick Sears
Camp McDonough
N.Y
Navy
Lake Champlain
New York
DePauw University
University of Iowa
Obear
Billy Lamb Drowns at Lake Freeman Sandy Beach
Nine year old Billy Lamb son of Mr and Mrs Duane Lamb drowned Sunday evening at Sandy Beach on Lake Freeman. He went into the water with his mother and sisters and friends. his body was recovered twenty minutes later by Mr Anderson of Frankfort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delphi
Billy Lamb
Duane Lamb
Sandy Beach
Lake Freeman
Charles Woods
Walter Clawsons
Charles Wood
Mr. Clawson
Anderson
Frankfort
Delphi Mothers of World War II unit severs national ties
The Delphi unit withdraws from the national Mothers of World War I and becomes a local club named Mothers of the Second World War. President is Mrs. Eugene Crowden with Mrs. Paul Quick chairing the constitutional committee. A meeting at the high school will read the by laws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delphi
Eugene Crowden
Paul Quick
Margaret A Afflis Named Presidential Elector in Second District
Mrs. Margaret A Afflis, second district vice chairwoman, chosen as presidential elector from the Second district at the Democrat state convention. Carroll county chairman Guy Coplen selected as one of two delegates to the national convention in Chicago on July 19. The other delegate from the Second district is James McGill, a Valparaiso, Indiana manufacturer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret A. Afflis
Carroll County
Guy Coplen
Chicago
James McGill
Valparaiso
Ind
Dairy subsidy payments close June 30 for March April 1944
The War Board of the War Food Administration announces dairy production subsidy payments for milk cream or butter produced and sold in March and April 1944 must be mailed or delivered by June 30. Payments for May and June production start July 1. Mrs. Laura Stedman is visiting in Chillicothe Ohio with her son and family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Board of the War Food Administration
Laura Stedman
Chillicothe, O
West Lafayette hires Kenneth E. Pitts as high school principal
Kenneth E. Pitts of West Lafayette signs to lead Del Phi Deer Creek township high school replacing C. A. Smith. Pitts, Purdue naval training instructor, Marion College graduate with an Indiana University MS in education, has 14 years in teaching and administration, and will start duties in early August.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenneth E. Pitts
West Lafayette
del Phi-Deer Creek Township
Lee L. Eve
Pitts
C. A. Smith
Kentland
Naival Training
Purdue University
Marion College
Indiana University
Waldron
Ind
The
University High School
Bloomington
Boswell High School
Purdue
West Lafayette Methodist Church
Phi Delta Kappa
Sigma Pi Sigma
Methodist Group Are Rotary Guests Here
Members of the Methodist Youth Caravan spoke at the Rotary luncheon describing their work with youth. Speakers included Mrs. D. Russell Heisler, Katherine White, Mary Lou Broyler, Mable Nance, and Harvey W. Morley. Next week's meeting features an evening picnic at Lake Freeman with Rotary Anns as honor guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methodist
Rotary
W. Merlin Schwein
D. Russell Heisler
Linden
Indiana
DePauw
Curtis McCain
Haughey Mount
Lake Freeman
Rotary Anns
Frankfort Engineers Move Equipment Here
The Stuntz-Yeoman company of Frankfort, engineers and contractors, buys a 14 acre tract near Pittsburg, moves equipment from southern Indiana where they worked on Camp Atterbury, plans to open Harley-Hubbard quarry, builds an office, and gains permission to connect to the nearby power line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stuntz-Yeoman Company of
Frankfort
Frankfort Rendering Company
Indiana
Camp Atterbury
Pittsburg
E. F. Stuntz
Harley-Hubbard
Water rents due July 1 with 10 percent penalty after July 10
The notice states that water rents whether flat or metered are due by July 1. A 10 percent penalty applies for nonpayment after July 10. Receipts are being issued and rents may be paid now. Curtis McCain, Water Agent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clonci c
Curtis McCain
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Deer Creek
Democrat
Jackson
Jefferson
Liberty
Madison
Monroe
Rock Creek
Tippecanoe
Washington
Yeoman
Duane Lambs
Billy
Virginia Winslow Shonk
Ordnance
Burma
Shonk
India
Stilwell
Arthur Shonk
Orient
Marjorie Shonk
Mrs. Orvil Shonk
Dorothy Newell
Joan Bradshaw
Marilyn McCormick
John Payne
Claypool
Paul Whiteman
Jeanne Crain
Miss Crain
Sarah McKinley
I. N. Cochrane
Psiiota XI
Carroll
Waters OF Freeman
Great Lakes Hospital
Great Lakes
George Popejoy
Purdue Navy School
Methodist Group
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