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Newspaper
Delphi Citizen
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1927
Page
6
Numerous residents and relatives from Lafayette, Oak Grove, Yeoman, Monticello, and surrounding areas visited kin in the region. Weekend contacts include the Kestle, Burke, Arthur, Viney, Gunyon, Hargraves, Schock, Reynolds, and Metz households, among others.
Mrs. Alice West returns home from Frankfort after visiting friends. The Smith property residents Jess Cripe relocate to Hammond. S. S. Hudson leaves for Alexandria to spend the summer with his children. Herbert Davis of Fort Wayne visits home folk. Mrs. Helen Sharp and daughter with Mrs. Bessie Pearson of Delphi visit Mrs. Samuel Brown. Airhart family and others plan a summer camping trip to Ohio. Clifford Bitter hosts a gathering on Wednesday marking a milestone. Ice cream and cake refreshments served. Swaim family motors to Ockley to visit. Frankfort guests visit with local families at Sunday gathering. Mrs. James Atwood of Logansport visits Pitt town with her daughter.
Flora notes state leader Paul V. McNutt will address the Flora post banquet on Friday May 20. The Christian Church Men's Club marked its second anniversary with a fish supper for 107. M R Dennison of South Bend spoke. New members brought total to 142 as an orchestra performed. Mrs Earl presided over Country Community Club elections. A frame building at Center and Columbia streets was razed to clear a Standard Oil site. William Koup will leave for Tampa after visiting Flora.
Elijah Farmer moves to Delphi with family from the Morrow property. Omar Smith and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sidell of Logansport visit. Frank Martin’s birthday celebrated with friends and baskets at his country home. Edgar McKinley moves to the Frank Seedorf property west of town. Miss Leon Brewer from South Bend spends summer with grandparents John and Mrs. Brewer. Mrs. Levi Gebhart returns home from St Elizabeth Hospital with unchanged condition. Guy Julien family visit John Julien and son. John Hickman resigns from Hammond job to work for W. Z. Runkle of Delphi. Nance and Williams families from Monticello and near Rockfield visit Mullendere west of town. Mothers Day services held at Delphi. Amanda Mikesell visits son Henry Hobaugh and family. Frank Morrow ill and unable to operate his Delphi shoe shop. Frank Brewer of Bell Telephone, now in Michigan, visits area. School posters shown at the Friday classroom gathering. Elmer Jackson and daughter of Ockley visit Mrs. Hendrickson.
East of Delphi Earl Chapman and family visited near Ockley. J E Rabon and Raber relatives from Colfax Chicago and Rockfield spent weekend with Fred Raber and others. Mrs Snoeberger and Mrs Stief visited Lafayette. Elmer Moore and Carl joined Joe Turner’s home. Turner thanks friends for flowers cards and hospital miss Vera Smith replaced at Turner home.
Dora and Russell Clauser and wives moved from the S P Clauser farm to their own Delphi farm on Monday. Miss Ruth Timmons and Howard Shaffer visited Mrs William Guthrie last Thursday. J Lehre Guthrie and son James Arthur Hildebrand and Rufus Gordon and families were Rockfield visitors Friday. Wheat oats and grass progress thanks to frequent showers. Timmons sisters sold a nice bunch of chickens on Monday. Miss Emily Guthrie shopped in Delphi last Saturday evening.
Camden residents mourn Mrs. Elizabeth Kennedy at 88 while families attend services. Bruce Yerkes and kin face scarlet fever quarantine. Local activities include trips to Indianapolis and Flora picnics. Michigan highway stone supply via Ralph Rogers & Co. ushers new Delphi Camden route to Logansport. New Camden street lights, K of P dances pause for summer. Community week raises flood relief for Red Cross. Clymers elevating plant will be county’s largest and electrically operated.
In Adams Township households hosted and visited relatives and friends over the weekend. Numerous guests traveled from Idaville Indianapolis Napoleon Logansport and South Bend to spend Sundays with local families including the Reller Shoop Peterson Collin and Garrison households. A new store opened by Jonah Frye in the Hopedale building.
Dated items note several locals attending the Jackson township Sunday school convention at the Baptist church in Burnettsville. Obituary reports Mrs. Sarah E. Vanderplaat died at home after months of illness. funeral occurred at Glen Woods residence with Rev. McCleery officiating and local cemetery interment. Also mentions Arney Billingsley visiting relatives in town and Miss Mae Vanderplaat of Lafayette attending a Susito tonies event. Virginia Harbert of Logansport visiting Everett Robbins household.
Funeral at Clymers Methodist for Mrs. John Rice. Circle Girls meet Presbyterian church basement. Missionary society hosts at Presbyterian church with Rob Bowman lesson. Psi Iota Xi sorority event at Logansport memorial home. Mrs. Lilly Ray visiting Chicago. Funeral attendance in Camden for Mrs. Elizabeth Kennedy. Mastoiditis illness in district. Mt. Pisgah church convention with lunch. Chicago visitors Sophia Rober and family. Alden Trickey hosts Burrows Sunday school. Girl Scouts nursing lessons led by county nurse. Mothers Day observed in Christian and Presbyterian churches. Sam Trickey returns from Chicago studies. Sunday school class social at Walter Coble home. Will Muflendore visit Indianapolis. Mullin family visits from near Burrows.
Lawrence Davis drives a Chevrolet coach. Mr and Mrs Sam Swatts visited Monday evening with her mother Mrs Mollie Wood and brother Will at Monticello. Mrs Harold Barnes helped with house cleaning. Haynes Burm and son James of near Lockport dined with Wilbur Bingaman and family. Mrs Josephine Bingaman visited. Paul Bingaman spent Sunday with Wilbur. James Shuey of Logansport called on Wilbur. Higgins arrived from Edgar Fountain's mother to assist while Mrs Fountain is hospitalized. Mrs Edgar Fountain underwent a cesarean at Home Hospital and is progressing well. Mrs Chalmers Peterson visited near Rockfield with her mother Mrs Snoeberger. Mrs Huldah Johnson aided Miss Mattie Irelan.
Kensington garden in London once seen as a parade of baby carriages now wanes as wealthier families favor motor car outings. The shift sparks a demand for nurse chauffeurs to transport children by day.
Arthur Symms of Linton proposes a 4000 mile Indiana paving program funded by a private corporation. The state would lease the roads for about 7 million dollars annually, retire the investment in 25 years, then take ownership. Construction would follow state specifications and be overseen by the highway commission.
White County commissioners awarded Ellis and Ellis of Yeoman land the contract to build the Wicker sham County unit road for 65,887 dollars. Five other bids ranged from 65,887 to 78,670 dollars. Construction starts immediately.
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