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Newspaper
Delphi Citizen
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1931
Page
1
A collage of short items notes advertising gimmicks in a St Louis garage and a midget car stunt, Kansas moving Friday the 13th adjournment, a banner about old friends, and a look at typographical errors and vital stats. It also covers Indiana laws, mail order insurance, radio ads, and U S debt dynamics with a miscellany tone.
Fourteen candidates signaled intent to share in the Delphi Citizen post campaign prize pool of 2000 dollars. Names include Kathryn McDowell Lee Orr Mary Lou McFarland James A Flora Alice Joe Lucas Haugh Ferling Swickard Florence Isaacs and others with details on merit votes and subscriptions.
The first Merit Vote offers 5 000 000 votes to the candidate with the largest total by 8 P M on Wednesday April 1. The second to fourth positions receive decreasing votes and the pattern continues for all candidates who have submitted returns since the contest began.
Mr and Mrs George VanOstran longtime Delphi residents celebrated their sixty fifth wedding anniversary at their Union Street home. They wed March 26 1866 in Green County Indiana and moved to Carroll County 42 years ago settling on a Tippecanoe Township farm. He is Civil War veteran and G A R Boothroyd Post member. Family observed the home coming day with a Sud dinner.
The Delphi Journal earned a certificate of distinguished rating in the national community newspaper contest by the University of Illinois journalism department. It was the only weekly newspaper in Indiana to receive the honor, judged on local news coverage personal items typography correspondence and editorial usefulness.
About 190 registered for the sixth annual Young People's Sunday school conference in Cutler focusing on problems of Sunday schools and churches in Carroll County. The event featured Rev H G Rowe and Everett Flora as leaders, with officers elected for next year and participants from Cutler Delphi Rockfield Bringhurst Delphi. The theme was Search for the Devotional Life.
Assessors roam townships to collect dog taxes as residents hide dogs or move them away to dodge assessments. Some owners shoot dogs to evade tax, while others turn them out briefly and return as strangers. Taxes fund damages from dog incursions on sheep and cattle.
William Lucy of Chicago, known in Delphi for his stay at the Clark residence, releases Less Than 100 Men. The manuscript, drawn from stock market manipulations, is about to hit the market this week with orders handled by Reed.
The Associated Press feature traces Delphi Indiana from its 1828 land sales by William Wilson to its renaming from Carrollton, the 1838 incorporation and first mayor William Crooks, plus early fires in 1844 1850 and the 1913 flood that displaced residents.
The fragment lists a banquet speaker arrangement sponsored by an organization, with the event to be held in a venue not specified in the readable text. Further details on date location and sponsor name are not present in the readable portion.
Sylvia Richardson 84 died Monday evening at the State Soldiers Home in Lafayette She was the widow of Civil War veteran Dr John Richardson a pioneer physician of the county She lived in Delphi until becoming blind and moved to the Home She will be buried at Blythe Funeral Home with services at St Marys Church conducted by Rev Joseph A Gubbins of Ft Wayne
Delphi city council approved specifications for improving the alley from Washington to Market between Main and Front streets and ordered the work with notice to taxpayers. Storm water, sewers, and insurance concerns were referred to committees, and a compromise in the city case with Martin Boone exchanged deeds and $100.
Funeral services were held Monday afternoon for Asa Mabbitt 65 a Flora retired farmer who shot himself last Saturday evening. A .22 caliber rifle was found beside him in the bathroom at his home and county coroner Dr C W Hunter ruled a self inflicted bullet wound. He had lived on a farm south of Delphi and earlier in Young America and is survived by his widow a son a daughter three grandchildren and two brothers. Burial was in the Delphi Masonic Cemetery. This followed another county suicide last week Stephen Kleckner of Camden.
Miss Jennie McIntosh a life long Delphi resident died Thursday morning at Methodist hospital Warren Indiana Her body will be brought to Blythe Funeral Home Delphi Funeral arrangements have not been made
Otis Smith of Yeoman was taken to a Lafayette hospital Monday for treatment. He was reported in stable condition and receiving care for injuries described as non life threatening.
William Titus chief engineer of the Indiana state highway commission says the Delphi to Lafayette road may be paved this year but funding and route choice pose issues. Routes under discussion include through Colburn Buck Creek or the Wabash Way and river paths. The commission plans to take over the Delphi Kokomo road via Flora and Burlington but not in the 1931 paving program.
Carroll county residents attend the child health and protection conference in Delphi. The 1:30 session features speakers B. A. Schnell of Indianapolis Dr. R. O Lynch of Logansport Mrs. Harold Baker of Camden and Rev. William Grant Smith. Evening speakers include Dr. Frank Crockett Lafayette Dr. Leslie Wet Jones Greencastle Dr. Ada Schweister Indianapolis and Mrs. R. D.
Delphi Chamber of Commerce reports thirty new members joined in recent weeks as officers seek to build active members to 150 by year end. Fred H. Wheeler, president, leads an intensified recruitment push while merchants division plans Booster Day revival and stages a meeting from last week.
The Federal Farm Board announces no stabilization effort for 1931 wheat and no policy change for the 1930 crop now stabilized by surplus purchases. It urges production be limited to domestic demand and cites holdings of about 200 million bushels of wheat, largely bought since last November.
Forty five students are slated to graduate from Delphi High School on Thursday evening May 21 with two others uncertain to complete requirements. Commencement speaker will be Dr Earl E Harper president of Evansville College. The town awaits the 1932 address by Dr G Bromley Oxnam.
Delphi's New State Theatre reopens after remodeling with enhanced sound, a larger screen and new seats. Two shows nightly at 7 15 and 9 30 plus matinees. Friday features Marie Dressler and Polly Moran in Reducing. Saturday Sunday added matinees. formal opening to follow.
A plot to blow up the Clinton County jail in Frankfort was stopped when 110 sticks of dynamite were found under a culvert. One man was arrested. Donald Dudley and John Hitch tied to a bank robbery are confined in the jail. Edward Doherty of Chicago was arrested near the hiding place. Two suspects fled as officers closed in. A decoy remained at the scene.
Burr Balser began duties as Delphi postmaster on Tuesday succeeding Morton Hefner who served two four year terms. Hefner stays a few days to finish reports. Balser was named by Congressman Fred S. Purnell after active service as secretary of the Republican central committee. Other applicants included William Brown and B B Mayhill.
If spring stays, Delphi Deer Creek township schools will close for two days, April 2 and 3, marking the spring vacation period.
The Carroll circuit court term will end Saturday April 4 per Judge K. E. B. Pruitt. A trial was set for the following week after plans to finish on March 28. The term may continue as needed with a deadline the fourth Saturday in June.
Dr Hubert Gros recently returned from a year as an interne in a Paris hospital arriving in New York on Tuesday. He will visit Delphi Sunday with his mother Mrs William Gros.
The American Legion Auxiliary hosts a fish fry Friday serving from 5 to 7 o'clock. Proceeds support auxiliary activities and community programs.
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