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Newspaper
Delphi Citizen
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1955
Page
5
Mrs Elmer Hall who passed away at her Logansport home was a former Delphi resident and is linked to Oscar Hall of Buck Creek. Mr and Mrs Harold Thayer attended funeral rites for Mrs J Frank McDermond in Attica on Friday.
Elbert York 69 of route 1 Camden died Tuesday afternoon at Memorial hospital after a two day stay. He was a farmer, born June 9 1885, in this county, son of William H and Bessie York. Survived by widow Edna daughter Virginia at home and brother William Logansport. Funeral 2 p.m. Friday at McCloskey Hamilton chapel with Rev Everett Jones and Rev W Clark officiating, burial Center U B cemetery.
Henry M. Baum 86 a retired barber died at Good Will Nursing Home Camden after two years as patient. Born Yeoman October 21 1886 son of nd Fannie Baum. Survived by daughter Mrs Holloway Yeoman and six grandchildren. son Virgil died 1941. Funeral Wednesday Jackson Funeral Home Delphi with Rev George Wright. burial Yeoman Cemetery.
We extend thanks to friends relatives neighbors the Eikenberry funeral home Rev Keith Smitley pallbearers and all who helped during the illness and death of our wife and mother Special thanks to Maggie Kirkpatrick Veil Weaver Barbara John and families
Clarence Tansey 76 of route 1 Cutler died Monday in Home hospital Lafayette after eight months illness. Born in the county he married Francis Sheets in 1900 who died in 1919. He later married Ottie Ryan in 1940. Survived by widow a son Everett of Kokomo four daughters and a stepson with a stepdaughter. Funeral rites conducted by Rev Stanley Hopper at L. E. Moore and Sons Rossville and burial in Rossville cemetery.
Mr and Mrs Carl Bushman of Reynolds acquired the 367 acre McCain farm north of Delphi from Mr and Mrs Herbert Walters of Gary. The Smiths who resided on the property will move to the tenant house on the Ruie Scott farm.
Rain or Shine class of the Methodist church will meet Tuesday evening March 8 at 7 30 in the church parlors. Hostesses will be Bertha Mears Fannie Smith Clara Sims and Laura Furst. Jessie Oswald is to give devotions.
Autos driven by Jackie Lee Black a 16 year old from route 4 Delphi and Herschel Myers 54 of Ockley collided on the George Porter blacktop Friday evening. Both escaped injury and damages totaled 450 dollars. Deputy Stone investigated.
Several Delphi high school speech department students will present at the March 15 Rotary meeting. They will discuss the need for a youth recreation center in Delphi and share inquiries from surrounding cities on how their centers operate.
Mr and Mrs Charles Geheb of Delphi are the parents of a daughter born Saturday at St Elizabeth hospital in Lafayette Mr Geheb teaches in the local schools.
Kenneth E. Ward ma unit second class machinist’s mate USN son of Mr and Mrs Charles A Ward Delphi Indiana serves aboard the attack aircraft carrier Essex. The ship with other U S 7th Fleet vessels conducts the evacuation of the Tachen Islands launching and landing Banshee Cougar Panther fighters and Skyraiders day and night to support the operation.
Elizabeth Hudson aged 89 longtime resident died Saturday at her son George Hudson’s residence in Yeoman county. Bedfast three years she was born April 27 1865 to Amos and Militney Rob inson. Widow of Willard died 1946. Survived by three daughters Carrie Pepper Dora Hudson Selbyville Ella Sidenbender Lafayette and son George with siblings and inlaws. Funeral Tuesday at Hikenberry with Rev George Wright officiating burial in Masonic cemetery.
The Ladies of Governor Morton Circle GAR canceled a bake sale planned for Saturday. Harold Caudle and Pauline Dawson Caudle became parents of a son born Friday in Pompano Beach. Mrs. Caudle is the former Pauline Dawson, daughter of Conrad Dawson. Frank Lamb Jr and daughter of Plymouth visited local relatives. Mrs. Robert Shepard and sons Gary and Mrs. Frank Shepard travel to Washington DC to visit Pitt Shepard's daughter and Gooch family. Mrs. Shepard injured her arm last week. Francis Lefler of Pittsburg was taken to the VA hospital in Indianapolis Tuesday via Eikenberry ambulance.
Mr and Mrs Robert Meador relocate from Lebanon to a farm near Dayton Ohio. Harold Meador and wife plan a move from Lebanon to the Meador farm. Mr and Mrs Robert Bradshaw and son John join Mrs Ida Gustavel in Bluffton for the wedding of John Bossert, grandson of Mrs Gustavel.
Enid Rule and Dick Trent accompanied Miss Linda Rule to Terre Haute on Sunday where she will resume her studies at Indiana State Teachers College after a seven day vacation at home.
County commissioners invite sealed bids for sheriff s redifence and jail remodel in Delphi Indiana. bids due 10 00 A M CST March 17 1955 at courthouse. documents from Lennox Matthews Associates Indianapolis deposit 5 00. bond forms required. owner may reject any bid or waive formalities.
A long list of visitors called at the Monticello home of Misses Ida May and Birdie Nelson. Names include James Nelson Cecil Jefries Mrs William Otto Harvey Nelson Mrs Arthur Gardner Remington Mrs Glae Clawson Russell Van Sickle Oscar May Rev A O Guy and family Flora Adolphia Bitier Charles Hargraves Alph Rule and daughter Myrtle Goslee Everett Warner Marley Warner Vernjie Hayes and others.
Mr and Mrs Leo Richardson returned home after a two month stay in Florida and will open Sam's Fish House in Pittsburg on Friday night. Also noted were Mr and Mrs Forrest Lynch and Mrs Paul Julien among attendees at the REMC meeting in Linden last Monday.
Mr and Mrs Leo Draper and family from Rochester visited Wednesday with their son Dean Draper and his family who recently moved to the Carney farm north of Delphi.
J. F. Arnold was transported to St. Joseph Hospital in Fort Wayne by Eikenberry ambulance on Friday following an incident.
Mr and Mrs Paul Johnson and daughter visit Miss Carolyn Johnson at Northwestern in Evanston Illinois. Miss Joyce Lamb returns home after studying at Patricia Stevens Modeling School in Chicago. Mr and Mrs Leo Rhodehamel of Flora announce the birth of a son at St Johns Hospital Logansport.
Mr and Mrs John Dempsey Ruth Rockhill Ruth Robbins Marie Haslet Dorothea Shaffer attended Friends Night at Clinton Chapter CBS in Frankfort on Thursday night.
Geraldine Soper eleven daughter of Mr and Mrs Bill Soper of Camden fell at home Friday and fractured her left collar bone. She was taken to Memorial Hospital where x ray examination was made and a cast applied. She has since returned home.
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