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Newspaper
Delphi Citizen
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1938
Page
1
A Delphian column urges gratitude for prosperity and recalls 1929 dreams while urging awareness of world hunger. It notes volunteers offering blood for a Cass County hospital emergency and reports an Indiana writer planning a book featuring the court house elm tree.
Henry Mayo of the state 4 H Club department will speak at the Carroll County Corn Show in Delphi on December 8 and 9. He is on the Thursday program, discussing records feed care and management of beef calves and lambs on both morning and afternoon sessions.
Robert Hanna, Delphi attorney and candidate for prosecuting attorney, filed a complaint alleging counting errors and seeking a recount. Mahlon Kerlin, the contestee, will file an answer by next Monday. Recount would proceed after three commissioners are appointed by Judge E. E. Pruitt, barring snags.
Reed Schermerhorn, county chairman, reports a generous response to the Red Cross Roll Call held between Armistice and Thanksgiving. He urges members to renew affiliations and recruit new ones as local calls for Red Cross services are expected in the coming year.
Mr and Mrs Lawrence Strasburger of Otterbein are the parents of a daughter born Sunday at St Elizabeth's hospital. The infant is named Ann Marie. Mrs Strasburger is the former Mary Margowski of Delphi.
If Germany seeks war with the United States it should come to American soil to fight. The speaker notes Americans fought abroad last time at great cost and argues the next contest should be staged on U S land. The mention of a Lafayettesan who named his Thanksgiving turkey Hitler mocks Nazis and their grievances.
At the organization meeting in the court house commissioner's rooms William Klepinger was elected president and W. O. Pearson sec retary.
Mr and Mrs Frank Brewer and George Brewer travel with James Sanderson and Doris Doolittle to spend Thanksgiving with Mr and Mrs Noland Howell in Chicago.
Carl Pete Hargraves a leading Oldsmobile dealer in Indiana is a Delphi High School graduate and son of Carroll County citizen Charles Hargraves of Yeoman. He co owns with his brother Floyd and has a son Charles. The article also notes West Robert Davidson Delphi coal company owner and former Carroll County auditor who served in World War I and now operates Haugh Coal with wife Eva Davidson and is adjutant of the Harry Bohannon Legion post.
Frank Hedderich, secretary treasurer of the county soil conservation committee, asks farmers planning to seal 1938 corn to cooperate to speed up the process. Eligibility requires adherence to 1938 allotments and insurance to cover corn at 57 cents per bushel plus 4 percent interest. A sealing fee of one cent per bushel with a $3 to $20 minimum and maximum applies. Cribs must be boarded or protected with wire or netting as part of Secretary Wallace's Ever Normal Granary program.
Announcement this week notes the marriage of Miss Marjorie Thompson daughter of Mr and Mrs Cloyd Thompson of Delphi to Bur dell North of Lafayette. The ceremony occurred Wednesday evening November 9 at the Christian parsonage in Lafayette. Miss Thompson is a Delphi High School alum now working in Lafayette. Bur dell runs the Owl Cigar Store in Lafayette. They reside at 1526 East 25th Street Lafayette.
About 30 members of a threshing ring south of Delphi, including the late Charles Sieber, gathered at the Sieber home Saturday to harvest the complete corn crop for Mrs. Sieber. Wives of the workers prepared and served lunch at noon.
Miss Anna Hardy and Mrs. Julia Irelan of Delphi mourn the death of their uncle Joseph Montgomery aged 89 in Mesa Arizona. He was born at Rockfield and moved to Arizona in 1898. Relative F C Martin of Delphi also mentioned.
The Union Bank and Trust Company announced the retirement of Miss Nellie Haughey, a Delphi bank employee of more than 30 years. Her long service marks a milestone for the local financial institution and the community.
Frances Roe 13 died Monday in Lafayette after an appendectomy due to peritonitis. She was in the sixth grade at Delphi public school. Survived by parents Mr and Mrs Robert Roe three sisters and three brothers. Funeral Wednesday at 2 from the residence with burial in Odd Fellows cemetery. Grimm and Sons in charge.
Betty Wason describes travels through Budapest and Vienna during postwar reoccupation, noting the Belvedere conference in Vienna, glamorous staging at historic hotels, and contrasting attention given to German delegation leaders with Czech officials, amid wartime era atmosphere and crowds.
Mrs. Larnard Hayden of Delphi improved after hospitalization for tularemia. She and her husband Mr. Hayden fell ill last Thursday after dressing and eating a rabbit. The illness was first thought to be ptomaine poisoning before tularemia was diagnosed. This marks the first local cases as Indiana reports a rise in rabbit fever.
Mrs Neva Thompson wife of Earl Thompson Carroll county assessor underwent a second blood transfusion Tuesday night at Cass county hospital. Her condition has somewhat improved since this morning but remains grave. Ralph Hill Delphi night policeman supplied blood for the second transfusion. An earlier transfusion was not successful.
Delphi Christian Church hosts a special Women’s Day service on Sunday at 7 pm. Seven women perform the drama Challenge of the Cross, portraying an evangelist and six disciples, with special music and an open invitation to the public.
Charles R. Walters, 25, of Lafay ette, R.R., pleaded guilty before Justice of the Peace Rossie L. Dern to a charge of killing a raccoon Sunday and was fined $23.50. The arrest was made near Camp Tecumseh by three state conservation department officers: Capt. Charles Weser, Logansport, and Wardens Clyde Silvers, LaGrange, and C. E. Baxter, Lafayette.
Dr and Mrs John Carney and son of Monticello entertain Dr and Mrs Cal Carney Miss Ruth Carney and Mr and Mrs Paul Carney and family in a social event reflecting community ties and family networks.
Joseph C. Herron, 72, judge of the Howard circuit court at Kokomo, died Sunday at his home after a heart attack. He and Mrs. Herron had been in Delphi for lunch. Herron had testified in the Miller vs Robards case in Carroll county circuit court last week.
Royal Center, with four of last year’s starting five, meets the Oracles Wednesday in a major early season test. Led by Johnny Nehr and Marvin Nehr with Rice and Henry, Royal Center won the Cass county sectional last season and lost to Berries earlier this season. The Oracles face Monon Friday, carrying a projected edge in the odds as Delphi shows improving practice under Coach Pete Williams.
Carroll County delegates Cora Belle Pearson Ray Robertson and George Seward attended the first state Older Youth convention in Indianapolis November 16. The Carroll County meeting is at Camden community hall on the fourth Monday, November 28. Eldon Robeson is the 1939 chairman. Indiana University students Rosemary Ruffing Marjorie Roach Frank Liebert Wilbur Smith Jack Swickard and Joe Lee Maxwell will spend Thanksgiving with their parents here.
Hassil Schenck president of the Indiana Farm Bureau will be principal speaker at a Carroll County Farm Bureau gathering in Camden on Thursday night December 1. The event at the community hall begins at 7 o'clock with program notes from Mrs. Lloyd Beard and local Farm Bureau members, plus refreshments.
Local families plan to host and visit relatives for Thanksgiving with guests from Detroit Indianapolis Kokomo Lafayette Delphi Cicero Purdues area and Champaign Illinois. Numerous households extend hospitality to relatives including Johnson Lamb Raber Julien Houk and others across Indiana and Illinois for a day of family reunion travel and meals.
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