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Delphi Citizen

Location

Delphi, Indiana, United States of America

Date

Mar 22, 1945

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Menuhin to solo with Indianapolis Symphony in 1945 46 season

Violinist Yehudi Menuhin will perform as soloist with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra in the 1945 46 concert season marking his first Indianapolis appearance as a soloist. The piece is part of a season featuring eleven soloists under Fabien Levitzky.

Yehudi Menuhin Indianapolis Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra Menuhin Arturo Toscanini Fabien Levitzky Oscar Levant Miliza Korjus William Kapell Simon Barere

Two Are Fined in JP Court by Dean

Mrs Thelma Bowen of Delphi pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and was fined 10 dollars plus costs totaling 20 10 by Justice Rossie L Dern. Leonard Hayden was fined 1 dollar plus costs totaling 11 10 for public intoxication in the same court.

Harvey (Thelma) Bowen Delphi Pauline Moore Lewis Nunnally Ed Lynch Rossie L. Dern Justice of the Peace Leonard Hayden Dern Justice of Peace

Delphi Places Third in District Rotary Discussion Contest

Robert Carl Smith of Delphi High School won third place in the District Rotary Discussion contest held at the Delphi Methodist Church Tuesday evening. Perry Trimble from Boswell High School took first place and Thompson Murray of Rensselaer second. Trimble will represent the 4th Rotary group in the district contest. The topic was Peace and the Air Age Rotarys opportunities.

Robert Carl Smith Delphi High School Delphi Methodist Church Perry’ ‘Trimble Boswell High School Thompson Murray Rensselaer Trimble Rotary Edwin J. Bushjohn Robert O. Justice Harold H. Hendrickson Lee McCormack Logansport Rotary Club Eo Craig Delphi Rotarians Dorothy June Newell Della Herr Wilma Johnson

Hundreds Attend 20th Annual Cono of Youth Groups

Several hundred people attended the Carroll County Youth Association's 20th annual conference in Delphi over Friday and Saturday. Eileen Clawson was elected president with Lois Martin, Dortha Wray, David Smith, Deloris Rinehart, Laverna Zook, and Ben C. Groninger named to top offices.

Carroll County Youth Association Delphi Eileen Clawson Lois Martin Dortha Wray David Smith Deloris Rinehart Laverna Zook Ben C. Groninger Delphi Presbyterian Church

Carroll Red Cross draws up plans for new canteen corps

The Carroll County Red Cross plans a Canteen Corps with a 20 hour basic course. Mrs. Harold Thayer sera announced the unit will train volunteers in mass food service and wartime canteen work. Courses on nutrition and home economics will be taught at Delphi High School by local instructors.

Carroll County American Red Cross Harold’ Thayer Red Cross Thayer Ben Frieda Been Burrows Harry G Chloe) Foote Homer ‘Wilson Near Delphi Delphi High School de Priggs Red Cross Bencadie Are Hoping That Dorothy Arvidson, Delphi High School Seabull

Charles Eikenberry Dies. Carroll County Leader Remembered

Funeral services for Charles A. Eikenberry 74 prominent Flora resident were held Sunday at Leiter funeral home. Burial followed in Maple Lawn cemetery after pneumonia from major operation. He served Carroll County treasurer 1936 1940 and was Monroe township trustee at death. Survivors include daughter Mrs J Baum son Carl Eikenberry and four grandchildren.

Charles A. Eikenberry Carroll County Leiter Flora Ray Zook W. C. Aschanhart Maple Lawn Eikenberry Cass County Monroe Township Howard County Aaron Margaret Scott Eikenberry Elizabeth R. Roskuski J Baum Delphi Carl Eikenry Evelyn Sanderson Camden

Dayton man seriously ill with undulant fever in Miami Valley Hospital

William Schweiger of Dayton Ohio formerly of Delphi is dangerously ill in Miami Valley hospital Dayton with undulant fever per word from his wife Beulah Schweiger. Schweiger has worked at Wrightfield Dayton for several months.

William Schweiger Dayton Ohio Delphi Miami Valley Hospital Beulah Schweiger Schweiger Wrightfield

Meeting on Repair of Farm Machinery by Clawson

A farm machinery conservation meet planned at Delphi High School on Wednesday March 28 at 7 30 p m features two talking pictures Old MacDonald Had a Farm and Swords Into Plowshares. Clawson Chevrolet Sales of Delphi sponsors with Russell C Shipman Purque Agricultural Engineering Depart ment as principal speaker on tips to extend old equipment life. Public invited.

MacDonald Delphi High School Clawson Chevrolet Saies Delphi Russell C. Shipman Purque Agricultural Engineering Department

Navy Petty Officer Receives Medical Discharge

Robert Walters, Petty Officer second class, is honorably discharged from the U S Navy after three years of service. Enlisted May 1942, he served on an oil tanker and earned a medal of merit for meritorious service in the North Africa invasion. He is the son of Mrs. Bessie Walters of Delphi and a Delphi High School graduate, class of 1936.

Robert Walters U. S. Navy Naval Service Walters North Africa Bessie Walters Delphi Delphi High School

Carroll County REMC elects officers at annual meeting

Coy Shanks was reelected head of the Carroll County Rural Electric Membership Corporation board. Elm er Rieff was named vice president J Dale Maxwell secretary treasurer Lloyd E Zook assistant secretary treasurer and Clarence Cleaver joined the executive committee.

Coy Shanks Carroll County Rural Electric Membership Corporation Elmer Rieff J. Dale Maxwell Lloyd E. Zook Clarence Cleaver

Delphi Teacher Undergoes Kidney Operation

Arden Russell of Delphi underwent a kidney stone operation Monday at Home hospital in Lafayette and is recovering satisfactorily. Russell is the vocational agriculture teacher at Delphi High School.

Arden Russell Delphi Lafayette Mr. Russell Delphi High School

Metropolitan Opera to perform Barber of Seville at Purdue

The Metropolitan Opera plans a one night Indiana visit at Purdue University on Monday April 23 featuring Enzio Pinza and Patrice Munsel in The Barber of Seville. A 100 person company with 60 musicians will perform with Wilfred Pelletier directing. Tickets available April 4 from Purdue cashier, price range 1.20 to 6.00.

Purdue Barber of Seville Metropolitan Opera Company Indianapolis Visi State of Indiana Purdue University Delphi Purdue Music Hall Metropolitan Enzio Pinza Hall of Music Indiana University Music Building Indiana J. T. Gunn Pinza Patrice Munsel Dorig Doe Bruno Landi Francesco Valentino Salvatore Baccaloni John Baker Richard Manning Wilfred Pelletier Prof. Gunn

Lt. Robert Clawson Awarded Bronze Star for France Service

Lt. Robert N. Clawson of Delphi receives the Bronze Star for meritorious service during operations against the enemy in France from June 14 to October 31, 1944. He entered service in 1941 and is a Coast Artillery Corps graduate. overseas service totaled one year.

Robert Clawson Bronze Star Robert N. Clawson Coast Artillery Corps U.S. Army Earl Claawson Delphi France Lieut Clawson Lt. Clawson Army Coast. Artillery Officers Delphi High School

Musselman Named Trustee in Carroll County

Hoy Musselman of Monroe township was appointed trustee by Carroll county commissioners in special session to fill the unexpired term of the late Charles Eikenberry. The appointment marks the fifth such appointment by the board in two years. An American Red Cross executive committee meeting in the Red Cross room at the courthouse is set for Monday March 26 at 2 30 PM. members are urged to attend.

Hoy Musselman Monroe Township Carroll County Musselman Charles Eikenberry American Red Cross Red Cross Court House

Delphi Churches Plan Holy Week Services

The four Delphi churches the Presbyterian Christian Baptist and Methodist join for a Union Palm Sunday service at 7 30 p m next Sunday March 25 in the Methodist church Rev Earl Lashiey of the Baptist church will be speaker Special music led by Mrs Edythe Dickison with Irene Jacoby organist On Good Friday March 30 churches unite in a 2 to 3 p m service at the Baptist church Rev Howard G Jenkins will speak A choir from cooperating churches under Mrs Ralph Melin directs will sing.

Merrill B McFall First Methodist Church Bloomington Wrs Presbyterian Church Miles A. Freeman Christian Church John Witter Delphi Methodist Church Vernabelle Pope Miller W. C. Aschanhart Flora Russell Ford Ev. W. H. Nibbelink First Baptist’ Church Lafayette Laveerna Zook Delphi Methodist Churches Earl K. Lashiey Baptist Church Edythe Dickison Irene Jacoby Howard G. Jenkins Ralph Melin

Welker Receives Bronze Cluster for Unit Badge

Sgt. Robert Welker 21 of Delphi Indiana is authorized to wear the Distinguished Unit Badge with one bronze cluster as a member of the 15th Air Force bomber group cited for outstanding performance. The group earned a gold rimmed blue ribbon for Regensburg February 25 and a bronze cluster for a Ploesti mission April 5.

15Th Aaf Italy Robert Welker N. Wilson St. Delphi Ind 15Th Air Force Bomber Group Prufening Regensburg Germany Ploesti Romania

County Expects Red Cross Drive To Exceed Quota

Charles L. Bell county Red Cross chairman reported by noon Wednesday that the county would go over the $12 000 quota. All townships including Delphi and Flora reported sizeable excesses though some areas were still unreported.

Red Cross Charles L. Bell Carroll County Delphi Flora

Delphi Cinder Squad Begins Work-Outs For Spring Events

Delphi high school the Cinder squad has started spring practices at Deer Creek park track preparing for upcoming track meets. The schedule lists meets with Jefferson Lafayette Logansport Rensselaer Monticello Frankfort Delphi Peru and West Lafayette culminating in a sectional at Lafayette and the state meet in Indianapolis.

Delphi Delphi High School Deer Creek Park Jeff Lafayette Deer Creek Kenneth Pitts L. H Sonny) Victor Jefferson Here Frankfort Logansport Peru Monticello Central Indiana Crawfordsville West Lafayette State Indianapolis

Minutes Of Music Presented By Delphi Students

Delaware township school presents minutes of music festival Friday March twenty third at eight in the high school auditorium. Clarence Marocco directs with senior band featured The Three Bears with Don Anderson as narrator junior band performs Yankee March How Can I Leave Thee Happy Farmer Poet And Peasant Junior Joins The Band with Donnie Holmes on drums March On solo by James Dickinson Boys Glee Club presents several numbers Bill Campbell directs a vocal comedy piece Girls Glee Club with Geneva Hawkins soloists also plus eighth grade group selections readied by Dick Grantham Dorothy Newell Gerald Quinn and others Accompanists are Grace Grantham Dorothy Newell and Mary Carolyn Clauser.

Three Bears Don Anderson Happy Farmer Junior Donnie Holmes James Dickinson Glee’ Club Bill Campbell Glee Club Girls’ Glee Club Geneva Hawkins Dick Grantham Dorothy Newell Gerald Quinn Dick Smith Patty Brewer Joan Wise Douglas Hatton Donald Pauley Harold Sprague Dorothy June Newell Della Herr Wilma

Tri Kappa Art Exhibit Delights Delphi Residents

The Tri Kappa Gamma Alpha chapter hosts a three year running Hoosier Salon art show in Delphi at the Methodist church drawing over 400 attendees. Notable works include Georges La Chance’s In the Harbor and Floyd D. Hopper’s White Sands of Alamogordo.

Gamma Alpha Chapter Tri Kappa Sorority Delphi Delphi Methodist Church Robert VanNatta Tri Kappa Burton Honan Miles A. Freeman Herman Theophile Abner Bowen Dorothy J. Bowen Georges la Chance Tri Kappa Sorority of Indiana Indianapolis White Sands Alamogordo N. M Floyd D. Hopper Eva M. Yoder June Burkholder Lafayette Alberta Schulz Homer G. Davidson Marie Goth Alice

Burnside Haynes Struck by Automobile in Delphi Incident

Burnside Haynes, 82, of Delphi, sustained bruises and a broken right leg after being struck by a car driven by Henry Beebe around 9 30 p m Wednesday on the Howell corner west side of the square. He was taken by Blythe ambulance to St Elizabeth hospital Lafayette.

Burnside Haynes Delphi Henry Beeke Howell Corner Beebe Haynes St. Elizabeth Hospital Lafayette Blythe

Delphi Baptist Women Reorganize Elected Officers

The Women s Missionary Society met at Mrs Earl Lashley s home and re organized with Anna Russell as president Earl Lashley as vice president Beulah Glass as secretary treasurer. The next meeting is set at Mrs Anna Russell s home on the first Tuesday in April at 730 PM. Mary Katherine Doerr Fife filed for divorce from Harold Fife in Carroll circuit court attorney Jason Been for the plaintiff.

Women’s Missionary Society of the Mary Katherine (Doerr) Fife Carroll Circuit Harold Fife Jason Been

Camden Soldier Killed in German Front on March 5

Pvt. Junior L. Sherman, 22, son of Mr and Mrs Calvin Sherman of Camden route 22, was killed in action in Germany March 5 per a War Department message received Friday. He served since December 17 1943, went overseas in November 1944, and fought in England France and Holland before Germany. Survived by wife Geneva and two daughters Judith Kay and Jacqueline May, his parents, three brothers Leland Dwight and Foster, and four sisters Mary Popejoy Flora Trapp Lucy Burton and Chloe Rivers.

Junior L. Sherman Calvin Sherman Camden Germany War Department Geneva Sherman Logansport Carroll County Put Sherman Rockfield High School England France Holland Judith Kay Jacqueline May Leland Dwight Foster Mary Popejoy Delphi Pearl Trapp Flora Lucy Burton Clymers Chloe Rivers

Wickards Welcome Grandson William Vincent Pickard

Announcement reports the birth of a son, William Vincent, to Lt. J. W. Pickard and his wife at Maywood on February 24. The mother is Ann Wickard, daughter of Secretary Claude Wickard. Mrs. Emma Akers of the Soldiers Home in Lafayette is visiting Delphi.

William Musselman Camden Robert Atlanta, Ga William Vincent Jr. G J. W. Pickard Maywood, Til Ann Wickard Secretary of’ Agriculture Claude Wickard Ofe Emma. Akers The Soldiers Home Lafayette Delphi

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MAIN U. S Navy Marine U. S. Army Marine Corps Air Corps Belgium Lafayette Esquadrille America 103Rd Aero Squadron Eddie Rickenbacher Uncle Sam Dean Hexne Sions H. C. Stolldorf Holy Trinity Lutheran Church E. E. Flora Peoples Carroll Red Cross Company of Direct Monroe Sgt Bob Welker Sergeant Welker Harlingen Tex S. C. Welker Jackson Clarence Marocco Delphi-Deer Creek Township Gerrard Roy Trobaugh Hoosier Salon School of Fine and Applied Arts University of Ilinois Rufinia Frederick Ogansport Hoosier VanNatta Theophile Society Wickards
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