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Newspaper
Delphi Citizen
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1927
Page
5
Local notice asks readers to share visit mentions with The Delphi Citizen by telephoning Number 14. The message underscores courtesy by reporting visits and any item of notice.
Mrs J C Sanders travels to Indianapolis while Mr and Mrs James Coomey spend Sunday in Lebanon. Verne Baird will visit Lafayette over the Fourth. Miss Mary Cochran weekends in Indianapolis. Ed Gerard family spend Sunday in Peru. Effie Isaacs hosted visitors from Shelby Ohio. Bessie Rothenberger visits Indianapolis this week. Elizabeth Boyles visits Mulberry relatives last week. Wilber Creek from Kansas City visits his mother at Yeoman. Hahn family and daughter visit Lafayette Tuesday. J C Pemble is critically ill on North Union Street. May Hatfield of Peru visits with Enid Trent this week. Mary Sites of Lafayette visits friends in the city Sunday.
Mrs A C Clauser hosted a small dinner Friday evening. Mr and Mrs C C McFarland will visit relatives in Fort Wayne on Monday. Harry Reed to speak at Bringhurst Methodist church Sunday morning. Miss Ruth Gurley to vacation with relatives in Logansport next week. Mr and Mrs J F Hahn and family spent Sunday at their cottage near Pulaski. Mr and Mrs Haughey Mount and family visited relatives in Lafayette Sunday. Mrs Anna A Coomey and daughter Catherine spend the week in Tipton. Auditor J L Whiteman and family picnicked at Columbia Park Lafayette last Sunday.
Robert Amick of Cambridge City visits with Mr and Mrs C T Amick and family. Miss Mary Margaret Miller of Indianapolis visits Delphi relatives. Mrs Edith Noland Fitzgerald of Peoria Ill visits with Delphi. Mr and Mrs Fred Bintz of Lafay ette spend Sunday with Mrs Bintz s mother. Royal Scepter Coffee, Smith s Groc.
The Delphi item list tracks community life with a Baptist Ladies Aid market at McFarlands, visits by Whitecomb and family to Columbian park, and guests of Delphians ranging from Mrs. Morris Huntington in Richmond to Miss Martha Flowers in Indianapolis. Travelers include Charles McCreary of Kokomo and Miss Georgia Brewer of South Bend. The Delphi band will perform at Colburn for the Fourth of July, and sermons and church gatherings anchor the week.
Miss Roberta Gardner hosted a Sunday dinner for Miss Anna Gardner of Indianapolis. Various families and friends from Delphi and nearby towns gathered for visits, bridge evenings, and a market event by the Clay township Ladies Auxiliary at Zook's Meat Market.
Mr and Mrs Thomas Morrisroe were summoned by the death of Mrs Morrisroe’s cousin Miss Winnie Kearns and returned home near Toledo Ohio Tuesday. Mrs Guy Maxwell and her son of Lafayette visit her parents Mr and Mrs B F Thayer. Mr Maxwell drove down and spent last Thursday evening with home folks. Mrs William Bray and her son returned to Gary Tuesday after visiting relatives. Mrs Everett Parks and son Ralph Edward joined them in Gary for a visit.
County Assessor C C Shock R V Hanna C V Hoover R H Million and Charles Jones with their families spent Sunday with Chester Gardner and family in Deer Creek. Edith Hunter reports son Howard Hunter at Indianapolis camp enjoying Fort Harrison life. Mr and Mrs E O Grimm and son Jack plan Lake Winona trip with Jack attending Presbyterian boys camp for a week.
Charles Wilson came home to Delphi Sunday from a several week trip in Minneapolis Minnesota. He stayed through Monday with his parents Mr and Mrs Rus Wilson before heading to Chicago. Local visits continued as Mr and Mrs C E Heiser of Elwood visited the Wolver family Sunday, joined by Mr and Mrs Thomas Ferguson who called on Mrs Charity Sain at West Delphi. Mrs Hiram Kerlin spent time with her mother Mrs Frank Mason at Ockley earlier in the week. Jean Wilson assists in the county agricultural office during Mrs Kerlin’s absence.
Ask for your Hosiery by name and be sure its Rollins Run Stop or Gotham Gold Stripe. Mrs. G T Hoshaw, mother of L D Hoshaw, left for Laporte for an extended visit with Mrs A D Pollock and Mrs Ralph Robinson who have been critically ill. Lillian Rothenberger, 12, broke her right arm again at the same place. Mrs. Mary B McReynolds, now in Washington, D C, moves to the Blue Ridge mountains near Snicker Gap for summer. Mrs. Robert Conn and Mrs. Gerald Barmouth hosted a shower for Mrs. Alfred Conn of Delphi. about twenty-five attended from Flora and this city.
Mrs George Spaulding and her daughters Virginia and Patricia return to Appleton Wisconsin after a two week visit with her parents Mr and Mrs P E Reef. Mrs Reef accompanied her daughter to Chicago. Mr and Mrs Gerald Barmuth travel to Bloomfield after a week with Mrs Bermouths sister Mrs Robert Conn and family. They plan to return to Delphi after a week in Bloomfield. County Nurse Elsie DeLaney and Mrs John Ratcliff took five year old Robert Ratcliff to the Indiana State Hospital near Rockville last Friday. The Ratcliffs report their son is a patient at the sanatorium and Flora? tentative note.
Royal Scepter Coffee Smiths Grace Eliess and Orr announce a Duco paint demonstration on July 5 and 6. The report also notes Mr and Mrs Joe Turner and Mrs Fred Raber of Rockfield visiting Delphi en route to Lafayette for Mrs Turner to take another examination at St Elizabeths Hospital and Mrs Raber meeting Mrs J C Schermerhorn nearby Flora who is a patient at the hospital.
Mrs Leonard Simons and daughter Mrs William Julian and Mrs William Sharpe and daughter returned home Sunday after a week in South Bend. Mr Simons, Stanley Julian, and Mr Sharpe and daughters motored to South Bend on Saturday and accompanied the party home.
Mr. and Mrs. L. Scales and their son John along with Doris Holloway and Alice Ford from Indianapolis visited Mr. and Mrs. James Obear and family in Delphi on Sunday. Scales, former Delphi school superintendent, is remembered by many friends here.
Miss Birdie Nelson formerly ill with a tonsil abscess since tonsil removal at Home hospital in Lafayette on June 2 is convalescing. Dr. C. C. Cramp ton and Drs. Arnett Daugherty and Simpson were present Thursday for a second operation at the Nelson home.
Dr Roger J Hanna and Ralph E Hanna traveled to Buffalo by car on Tuesday. Dr Hanna will become superintendent of internet at Buffalo City hospital on July 1. Ralph Hanna plans to stay a few days with his brother before returning to Detroit by Great Lakes steamers and rail.
The Rev. R B Kern with Rev J J Wilson and Rev Frank K Daugherty depart for a two week fishing camping trip in northern Michigan. Mrs Lettie Pruitt and daughters Naomi and Jean head to Winona Lake with Jean staying two weeks. The Flagners mix vaudeville success with relatives in Muncie and Indianapolis. Delphi residents host Fire department members for Mr Baer birthday. John D Stone and wife visit South Bend relatives and take a Bloominton trip. E V VanOstran of Riverside California returns to Delphi for a ten day visit with Carroll County relatives and reports his fruit acreage thriving.
An item notes a one year period for the Indianapolis News and The Citizen newspapers. The brief mentions publication term and ongoing availability.
A mistaken visitor learns about a Minnesota state lunatic asylum inmate claiming to be a victim of family greed. He asserts he is conducting a grand scientific literary work, hoping justice will honor his name worldwide.
Four years ago ten pairs of stockings were made per woman over ten in the United States. By 1926 each woman averaged twelve pairs, with eight silk and four other materials, reflecting a doubled silk hose output and a shift in style as skirts shortened.
We thank friends and neighbors for kindness and sympathy after the passing of our sister and cousin Miss Winnie Kearns. We appreciate the beautiful flowers and those who helped in the funeral services.
Carroll County Treasurer warns tax delinquents of new law requiring full tax collection. An extra $1.50 delinquent demand charge and 10 cents per mile travel cost apply. If taxes are not paid by July 1 1927 additional costs will be added.
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