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Newspaper
Delphi Citizen
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1952
Page
5
Dr. Carl C Steinman of Dearborn Michigan visited for several days with his parents Mr and Mrs Harry Steinman Sr The brief note records a family visit in the local society column.
Local social updates list visits and movements among Idaville residents and surrounding communities. Family gatherings, moves to new homes, hospital stays, and travel details include names such as Elva Jackson, Bill Pratt, Wiley Smith, Earl Spear, Stella Myers, Basil Myers, and many others. A church event invites 50 men for a Men’s Brotherhood program with J. H. Baker speaking.
Thanks so very much, friends and neighbors, for your kindness and sympathy and for the floral offerings which were such a comfort to us in our sorrow at the loss of our son and brother. Mrs. Joe Fincher, Mrs. Charles Buchanan.
Reports of visits and social calls feature many households in Delphi and Monticello. The notes include Pattorm and Miss Thyrza Henry trip to the southwest, visits to the Haygood, Burke, Dyer, Fry, and Austin families, plus remarks on local niece and aunt gatherings. A Logansport Press item recounts President Truman’s Washington whistle stop tour and a Bryan joke about a manure spreader at a Missouri speech.
Local residents hosted relatives for weekend visits including Mrs James Bougher and family in Ft Wayne Mrs William Enoch and others with the Arnolds family and Mrs Evelyn Jackson in Delphi Also reports of relief foreman Dick Reef staying with grandparents Frank and Mrs Huber and an update on Selective Service test applications and Eagles Auxiliary meeting with a potluck birthday gathering October events.
Taxpayers of Democrat Township are notified that the board of tax officers will meet at 7 20 P M on September 28 1952 to consider additional appropriations. Funds include Tuition and Special School items such as New Equipment Janitor Supplies and Transportation of Children totaling about 1300 dollars. The action is described as an emergency and necessary for building care and operation.
The item lists residents visiting relatives in Logansport Delphi Russiaville and Lafayette. Notable items include Judith’s sixth birthday celebration at Mrs Henry Phillips home Edwardsburg area and the birth of a son to Mr and Mrs Ralph Wolf at Home Hospital Lafayette. Leonard Johnson stationed at Camp Chaffee Arkansas and Ed Sherlock moving to Bloomington are noted among gatherings and dinners.
Distanced relatives attended the funeral of Claude Fincher including James and Harold Smith Quincy Smith of Indianapolis and Glen Smith of Roanoke. Several families visited Logansport and Flora sites, with Detroit resident Margaret Gibbs visiting Stauffer family, plus News on a Logansport Memorial Hospital birth.
The document announces an election in Carroll County Indiana on Tuesday November 4 1952. It lists offices on the national and state ballots including Presidential Electors United States Senator Governor Lieutenant Governor Secretary of State and asks voters to decide on a constitutional amendment to extend the term of Prosecuting Attorney from two to four years.
Mrs. Jesse L. Wilson of Burnettsville joins a Pur due University basic x ray techniques course at Lafayette with technicians from Indiana Illinois Ohio Kentucky and Pennsylvania. The one week program covers fundamental principles radiograph quality and special techniques for photographing body regions. Mrs. Wilson works in Dr. George Wagoner's Delphi office.
Adams township Home Economics club will meet Wednesday October 15 at Mrs Hazel Cobles home with Mary Coble and Dessie Stofer assisting the hostess A famous Hoosier will be given in response to roll call
Ed Stuntz of Stuntz Yeo Man and H B Wilson of Metzger Lumber invite Junto Club members and their wives to a Thursday evening Construction Party on October 16. The event at the Stuntz home in Elmwood Gardens features a movie The Professor was a Salesman and a pre dinner dinner will be served at the Wel come.
Mr and Mrs Robert H Anderson Jr of Lafayette announce the birth of their son Paul Jerome born October 6. Mrs Anderson is formerly Luellen Dickison daughter of Mr and Mrs Paul Dickison Lafayette and granddaughter of Mrs O A Trent of Delphi.
The Oracle Club gathered Monday night at Mrs. A. C. Clauser’s Lafayette home. Tom McCormick led the program and read three plates by Shirley Jackson Zachary Gold and Stephen McKinley with assistance from Mrs. and Mr. Stewart Clauser and Dean Mary Matthews.
Wilbur G. Duff, 53, of Lafayette, died at home Sunday from a heart attack. He was born near Radnor and moved to Lafayette 19 years ago. Survived by two sons, his widow, two daughters, and two sisters. Funeral rites were held Tuesday in Lafayette with burial there.
Marriage licenses issued to Robert L. Hunter 64 and Lily Thomas 52 of Burrows. Charles J. Garrison 20 of Russiaville route 1 and Phyllis Cox 16 daughter of Mr and Mrs Howard Cox route 1 Bringhurst. Miss Teckla Roskuski visiting relatives in Fort Wayne.
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