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Newspaper
Delphi Citizen
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1932
Page
5
The Citizens newspaper asks readers to inform the office of any upcoming visits or departures. It describes this courtesy as a favor to help the paper track guest appearances and maintain accurate local notes.
Mrs. Mona Coy visited relatives in Greensburg Indiana over the weekend. Bert Clifton, county sheriff elect, is ill at his Carrollton township home. Mrs. Josephine Ives of Indianapolis will spend Thursday with home folk and dine with the Cartwrights at the Country Club.
Mrs J B Prettyman of Champaign Ti spent last weekend with Mr and Mrs Joseph T Ives and son Tommie Virgil Wolverton of Jefferson township has returned home after a three months stay in Alpena Michigan Christmas Cards at the Citizen office Order Early Charles Hargraves county commissioner is critically ill with pneumonia at home near Yeoman Mrs W H Bradshaw confined to home for several days with heavy cold Arthur Bradshaw son of Mr and Mrs Robert Bradshaw had a tonsil operation in a Lafayette hospital Friday
Dr A G Leazenby of Monticello spoke at the father and son banquet at Hickory Grove church Friday evening. Charles Kromm and John Kerlin represented Rockfield I O F lodge at Grand Encampment in Indianapolis last week. Sold only at Margowski's Drug Store.
County Clerk Wilbur Lane and Mrs. Lane relocate from Bringhurst to the Gustavel property on East Monroe street. Mrs. J A Vent of Urbana Illinois plans a Delphi visit to spend Thanksgiving with her husband, an employee at A T Bowen and Co bank.
Free tube with a new tire advertised by Sargent and Bassett in Delphi. The Carney family plans a Monticello Thanksgiving visit with Dr and Mrs John Carney. Mr and Mrs Clarence Orr celebrate their 35th wedding anniversary with a Thanksgiving dinner. Paul Rule relocates from Delphi to Flora. he serves on the state police. Mrs Harry Thompson of Ft Wayne visits her ill father Charles Wright in Rockfield.
Mrs Earl Hufford and Louise Snyder announce the birth of a son Jackie E Hufford born November 11. Mrs Hufford is from Rossville and the former Louise Snyder. Also mentions Fanny Carney and daughter Meredith delayed in St Louis by snow while en route to California.
Harry Bohannon of the American Legion will present a George Washington bicentennial entertainment and dance in the armory on Thanksgiving night. Mr and Mrs William Musselman and son Robert of Camden have returned home after visiting Prof and Mrs Musselman in Kent Ohio. William G Cowdin and Ralph Hanna drove to Fowler Tuesday afternoon to visit Tom McConnell Democratic chairman of the Second District.
A marriage license was issued Friday to Amos A. Sunthimer a grocer of Middlebury and Thelma K. Robeson daughter of Mr and Mrs Earl A Robeson of Camden. The Oak Dale Inn remains open to the public and for parties call 48 2 Yeoman Nick Willems.
C A Bailey and family relocate from Wingard property in South Delphi to Front Street home previously occupied by Jess Retherford and family. The Yeoman Methodist Sunshine Sunday school class held its annual Thanksgiving supper Tuesday evening in the church basement.
Anson Thomas of the National Livestock Marketing Association spoke at Idaville Tuesday night during the Jackson township Farm Bureau meeting. A K of C hall card partyMonday evening is organized by Anna Kempf Anna Honan Mrs. M Daly Mrs. Thomas Crosby Cletis Hoover James Clifford and George Vianco.
County principals and superintendents gathered at County Superintendent C A Bailey's office on Monday at 4 15 p m to discuss school matters and adjourned to supper after the meeting.
County officers and their families enjoyed a cooperative noon dinner in the Legion room at the courthouse. The event honored retiring officers and introduced the newly elected officers as guests.
Margowski's Drug Store offers 21 Christmas cards for 35 cents. Miss Frances Amick and classmate Miss Margaret Fraser depart Monday for Western College at Oxford Ohio after visiting Frances's parents Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Amick. Mrs. Zelpha Kramer hosts Thanksgiving guests Mrs. Ada Hinkle and daughters and Misses Emma and Ida Frushour, with dinner at the Presbyterian church.
Delphi and Carroll County schools will have a two day break this week. Dismissals occur Wednesday afternoon with students resuming Monday morning for the Thanksgiving vacation.
Mr and Mrs Gene Million stay at the Lanty Armstrong residence in Jefferson township while Mr Armstrong recovers from surgery in Logansport hospital.
A union prayer meeting was held at Wheeling Presbyterian church on Sunday afternoon for the Deer Creek U B Wheeling and Sharon churches. The event served as an advance gathering for the union revival set to begin Thanksgiving night at Sharon.
Mrs Lauretta Gardner returns to the home of her daughter Mrs Rube Norris in Logansport after a visit with Mrs J H Allen. She plans to go to Kent Ohio the first of the year to be with her daughter Mrs Fren Musselman. William Lucey of Chicago spent last weekend with Mr and Mrs Joe Clark of Delphi. Lucey is connected with the western finance division of the Democratic National Committee with offices in the Congress Hotel Chicago.
Prof and Mrs C T Amick will spend Thanksgiving with their daughter Mrs C E Walbert and family in Chicago. Loyal Hoshawk and family will spend the holiday with her brother O J Stone in Camden. Miss Mary Jo Arnold and Miss Lora Briggs will visit from Chicago with Mr and Mrs Logan Arnold to see Mr and Mrs Harry Arnold.
Glenn R. Slenker of Monticérlo, defeated by Claude R. Wickard in the county race, came home Sunday from a Lafayette hospital after ten days as a patient for influenza and complications. Mrs. Laura Aldridge, Wayne Aldridge’s mother, is seriously ill at her Lafayette home, and Wayne and his wife visited Sunday with plans for Mrs. Aldridge to stay through the week.
Mr and Mrs John Todd will host Thanksgiving with their children Everett Mathieson and George Todd along with Mr and Mrs Gerald Clawson of Delphi and their families. Dr and Mrs G V Fulham of Frankfort will entertain Mrs L Rothenberger Miss Bess Rothenberger Mrs Mayme Sharp and Miss Jean Sharp of Delphi plus Mr and Mrs Don Rothenberger and Mr and Mrs Sam Warner of Logansport.
En route in California Miss Merediths inform friends of their safe arrival in Clinton Oklahoma. They anticipate spending Thanksgiving with Miss Kathleen Kerlin in Winston Arizona.
A 120 acre Burlington township farm was sold at sheriff's sale Saturday afternoon. Attorney George Smith bid in for Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co. at 8165 dollars. The owner listed as Charles C. Coulter et al. Sixty two men with eighteen teams and wagons helped neighbors husk and crib about 2500 bushels of corn for Ed Miller, who is recovering from appendicitis at Home Hospital Lafayette.
Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Harvard University president for 23 years, resigns effective upon a successor’s appointment. He is Harvard’s second president since the Civil War, following Dr. Charles William Eliot who served from 1869 to 1909.
Kalamazoo shoppers are urged to visit Delphi Sheet Metal and Furnace at Co. North Side Square to explore a range of stoves and furnaces. The display highlights durable heating options and modern efficiency features for home warmth.
Henry Eding's funeral was held Monday afternoon at Blythe Funeral Home with Rev. GC Grimes officiating. Due to bad weather, grave side services were canceled. Pallbearers included Harry Baum Clarence Orr Kenner Stewart Frank Lyon Ray Nelson and Will S Smith. Mr and Mrs Harry Vandervolgan of near Yeoman plan their fifty second wedding anniversary on December 9. Their sons George and Freeman of Tams West Virginia will attend. Mrs Vandervolgan visiting Miss Florence Stankard and Mr and Mrs Vandervolgan will stay to join them on the trip home.
The case Doris Garner Hall versus Delphi Deer Creek township school corporation and Delphi school board was dismissed in Carroll circuit court. The suit claimed breach of contract seeking 2500 dollars against defendants Margaret Afflis Lawrence Pletcher and Charles Black.
Sixty persons attended a dinner meeting of Lafayette district church officers and Sunday school workers at Delphi Methodist church Friday evening. Speakers were Dr Nathaniel Forsyth and Dr C W Longman of Chicago, members of the Methodist Board of Education. Present was vouhk Hse Beae.
The Rose Chapter Order of the Eastern Star inducted Mrs. Benjamin Drake Mrs. Victor Porter and Mrs. John Smock. A 2.50 donation to the Red Cross was reported and plans for a fruit barrel to the Masonic home were made. A dinner for the Commandery, committees named, and guest visitors from Flora and West Virginia were noted. The auxiliary met afterwards with a cooperative December 15 noon dinner planned and officer elections to follow.
Dr Caldwell's syrup coupons redeemed at Margowski's Drug Store. J W Eikenberry Mrs Loyd Beard Lee Henderson Ross Wagoner Ralph Maggart county agent and Mrs Mary Kerlin county officers of the Farm Bureau will entertain at an oyster supper Saturday night at 6 30 at Dame's Delphi. Directors of the Farm Bureau and their wives directors of purchasing department and their husbands social and educational directors and their husbands.
Boston University professor develops an electrical device to judge lobster edibility. The Massachusetts fish and game department adopts the test to condemn lobsters that fail to respond to electric shock with a tail contraction or claw movement.
The Ladies Aid Society of Delphi Christian church held a meeting at Rev. L. E. Knox's home last Wednesday. Members brought covered dishes and ten cents. husbands paid twenty five cents for dinner. The event cleared six dollars and fifty cents. A comfort knotting is planned for Nov. 30 and a market for Dec. 10.
The Rockfield Home Economics club met Friday at Mrs. Mae Clark’s home with assistant hostess Mrs. Nina Robinson. Members began with Thanksgiving songs and a memory service for Mrs. P. W. Van Gundy.
Members memorialized a deceased Quaker with a poetry tribute and prayers. Mrs. Fred Sanders presented the poem Quaker of Olden Days while Mrs. Marie Logan sang and Mrs. Monroe Brechbiel offered prayers and tribute. Mrs. Charles Raber read a poem her mother wrote. The club voted one membership to the Red Cross and a picture contest was enjoyed.
Mrs Ruby Mabbitt will entertain the Larkin Club on November 30 postponed due to the death of William Corns. She will also host the Four Times Four club at a cooperative dinner and comfort knotting on December 2.
Frank T. Hines administrator of veterans affairs said he seeks a plan to pay the present value of the soldiers bonus to World War veterans. A method to raise funds and whether to recommend Congress depend on finding money. Proposals include repealing non service disability allowances and creating a sinkite fund through economies. Immediate full payment was urged by the American Legion at its Portland convention.
Mrs Robins visits Asheville hospital after two and a half months of Col Raymond Robins missing in the Smoky Mountains as a mining prospector. A third reunion Monday night breaks his amnesia and he recognizes his wife.
Col Robins vanished after leaving for a Washington conference with President Hoover. A nationwide search began when he failed to reach Washington and inquiries proved fruitless.
Miss Ruby Gard daughter of Mr and Mrs Samuel Gard Rossville and John Bowerman son of Mr and Mrs Charles Bowerman Camden were united in marriage at the home of Rev Ja Cob Skiles Saturday evening They will live with the bride s parents until March 1 then reside on the Maynard Gard farm north of Rossville
Walter L. Gumm 76 a renowned peony grower died Monday afternoon. Funeral services were set for Wednesday at 2 30 at Remington. His Gumm peony gardens drew many Carroll County visitors and he bred several new peony forms.
Fire caused heavy damage to a two story home of Thomas Schnepp two miles north of Yeoman on Sunday morning. Flames spread from the living room flue to the upper floor and ceilings before neighbors subdued the blaze. Monticello fire truck arrived after the flames were nearly out. insurance coverage is noted.
The marriage of Elizabeth Baumgardt of the Del vicinity to Joseph Leon Brown of North Oxford Mass will be held Thanksgiving morning at 8 o clock at St Joseph Catholic church with high mass celebrated by Rev Clifford J Reed. Mr Brown has arrived and is staying with the bride elects parents Mr and Mrs Younker.
The Corns family expresses gratitude to friends and neighbors for kindnesses shown during illness and after the death of the husband and father. Sincere appreciation from Mrs. William Corns Mrs. Fred Baker and Harry Corns, who say such deeds will be remembered.
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