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Newspaper
Delphi Citizen
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1931
Page
3
The Office of the County Agent Ralph Maggart advocates improved farming through more legumes and better dairying. It highlights Boys and Girls Clubs and home economics efforts to assist the community.
Friday November 27 Delphi hosts final Home Management Project session for local leaders of the Home Economics club. Miss Inez Kent from Purdue’s Home Economics Extension will teach on laundering methods and equipment. Leaders must bring pencils and paper as plans for Achievement Day and next year’s projects are finalized. The meeting begins at 9 45 A M. Official Five Acre yields from M O Pence list top performers in Carroll County with medals forthcoming at Purdue during January’s corn growers banquet.
Harold Bowen of Democrat Township a 4 H Beef Club member shows a shorthorn senior at the International 4 H Club Show in Chicago on December 1.
The notice lists games across three dates with teams Jefferson Two on Monday November 23 Jackson Two on Tuesday November 24 and Washington Two on Friday November 27. Local venue and start times not provided.
The Rockfield High School announces a Camden basketball doubleheader against Burnrettsville on Friday November 20 with a separate girls game possible. A post game Armistice Day program, the Chatter Box school paper staff, and upcoming plays are noted while Deer Creek defeats Rockfield 21-8 in Friday’s Camden game and 13-11 in the preliminary.
Creek boys scored one basket to seize the lead and held it until the final gun. The article praises Rockfield athletics relying on the second team whose backers claim they usually perform better than the first team.
The Red Cross, vital to disaster response, asks all citizens to support the annual Roll Call. The appeal targets families nationwide and runs until Thanksgiving, urging prompt assistance to sustain its services.
Mrs James P Wason president of the Carroll County Tuberculosis Association explains there is no official link between Tuberculosis Seals sales and the Red Cross Roll Call held from Armistice Day to Thanksgiving Day. Christmas Seals sales run from the day after Thanksgiving through Christmas. The longstanding accord between the American Red Cross and the National Tuberculosis Association supports separate programs nationwide.
Mrs Wason notes advance distribution of Christmas Seals to businesses using them on bills mailed before November end. She says no duplication with Roll Call and Seal Sale, as Red Cross finances emergencies yearly. Carroll County and Indiana National Tuberculosis Associations back December sale to fund ongoing prevention and cure efforts.
The Christmas Seal story traces Elinar Holboell’s Danish post office idea in 1903 to fund a tuberculosis hospital. Emily P. Bilse raised funds in 1907 in Delaware, and by 1910 the National Tuberculosis Association led the effort. Since 1919 the stamp bears the double barred chess emblem and the seals promote health through prevention.
Harold Thayer a local dairyman won fifty dollars and court costs in a one hundred dollar personal damage suit against David L. Cramer in the Herman A. Masson justice of peace court at Lafayette Friday. The suit stemmed from an auto collision on February 8.
James Popejoy aged seventy three died Monday night at his daughter Mrs. Fred Moore’s home four miles north of Idaville. He leaves two daughters Mrs. Moore and Mrs. Leslie of Delphi. Funeral services set for Thursday at 1 30 pm at the Middle York Methodist church with burial in Grace cemetery west of Middle Fork. The Red Devils Patrol of the Lafayette Grotto plans a strong showing at the national convention in Buffalo New York this year and is raising funds for the trip. On the evening of
The Lafayette Armory hosts a public dance on November 28 with Reifers 10 piece orchestra providing music. A grand prize Plymouth coach will be awarded during the evening event to a lucky attendee.
Indiana State Police will conduct winter checks on lights brakes titles and licenses under Secretary of State Frank Mayr Jr and Chief Grover C Garrett. A pilot at Anderson last week examined 700 cars with 120 ordered for repairs. The effort includes sheriffs city and town police cooperation to target reckless drivers near schools and buses.
Mrs Mary Scott 69 wife of Silas Scott died Friday morning at her Jefferson Township home after a long illness. She was Mary Herron before marriage and survived by her husband and a brother George Herron of Delphi. Funeral services were held Sunday at Hickory Grove church with burial nearby.
Benjamin F. Eisenhart 76 retired tailor and dairyman died at 9 Friday night at his Bringhurst home. Survived by three sons George of Cleveland Clint and Charles at home and two daughters Anna Davis Moran and Ella Heaton Florida. Funeral held Monday burial Maple Lawn Cemetery near Flora. A quiet title suit filed by Lenna M. Powell. George Hawk et al. Smith and Smith attorneys.
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