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Newspaper
Delphi Citizen
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1924
Page
5
Local notes report the Tri Kappa Bazaar scheduled for December 6 in the Democratic headquarters room. The item notes other neighborhood visits and events including visits by Mrs Ruth Hinkle Large, Miss Winnie Scott, Miss Genevieve Ryan, and Mrs Charles Dock.
Warren Bundy of Gary plans Sunday with children Margaret and Jas Bundy. Dora Lee, a four year old, stays with Drs Kennedy of Camden. Numerous visits and travels among Delphi residents include Bundys, Cartwrights, Embree, McCain, Cox, and Wilson families with Thanksgiving gatherings and Purdue events. A variety of spa, cooking, and meeting notices accompany wedding licenses and Navy enlistment news.
City adopts an ordinance restricting vehicles from hindering Delphi Fire Department operations. Violations carry fines between five and fifty nine dollars. Emergency clause declared. ordinance effective after publication on November 25, 1924.
The Quartermaster General reports 80 447 American soldiers and sailors buried in cemeteries abroad in France Belgium and England with 34 bodies returned home this year bringing total overseas burials to 46 259 and 287 unknowns identified. In homeland cemeteries 244 443 known and 153 416 unknown are buried with US national cemeteries holding 97 859 bodies.
A Duluth Herald quip recalls the Dutch boy legend with a note that a leak stopped when no reporters were present. The remark frames curiosity about reportage and hidden causes behind a famed tale.
Warren T. McCray former Governor of Indiana serving a ten year sentence in Atlanta on mail fraud charges. Luke Duffey former senator and Benjamin Anderson named in a Superior Court suit to collect 6500 on a note for ninety six head of pure bred cattle. The note passed through Duffey and Anderson to John T. Sawyer. The Oakdale dam on Tippecanoe river near Delphi shows rapid progress with core wall completed and power house foundations under way. Minor accidents reported due to strict safety rules.
The Fifteenth century poet Torquato Tasso died on Coronation Eve before Rome’s coronation ceremony and was buried on the date recorded for his own coronation.
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