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Newspaper
Delphi Citizen
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1938
Page
3
Mr and Mrs Harvey Elless attended funeral services for Albert Elless age 74 in Ladoga Indiana on Sunday. Miss Josephine Shaffer hosted a Tuesday dinner honoring Miss Mary Frances Dobbins who planned to resume teaching duties at Cicero on Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wood return from a weeklong trip through northern Indiana and around Lake Michigan. Miss Barbara Lipp, a local beauty operator, rents a room from Mrs. Josephine Ulm. Miss Grace Stanton moves into the Been apartment recently vacated by Miss Lipp.
At eight o'clock P M the Liberty Township Budget Meeting considers emergency appropriations for 1938 to cover costs from creation and settlement with Rock Creek Township. Items include trustee salary, travel, office supplies, building repairs, sanitation, school house cleaning, and bus services. Taxpayers may speak. final appropriations go to the State Board of Tax Commissioners for a hearing within fifteen days.
Carroll county AAA official Robert Van Natta explains the wheat program rewards farmers who seed within their acreage allotments. Compliant growers gain 1939 conservation payments, Price Adjustment Act wheat payments, and potential wheat loans. noncompliant farmers face limited loan access and lower rates.
The Deer Creek and Wheeling churches held a missionary meeting at Mrs. Margaret Harmon’s home with leaders Mrs. Charles Raber and Mrs. Dewey Zinn. A parade of visitors includes Mr. Zenith McMahon of Idaho and relatives in Carroll County. Local families report travels and visits across Indiana and nearby states.
Labon Hildebran aged 82 died Saturday morning at his home southwest of Buffalo White County He is survived by two children Otto Hildebran of Guernsey and Mrs Raola Custer of near Buffalo a brother Lorenzo of Delphi and a sister Mrs Minerva Girard living at the Hildebran home Rites were held Tuesday afternoon at the home.
Dr. Albert Mock of Butler University College of Education spoke at Carroll County Teachers Institute in Delphi on Tuesday and Wednesday. His lecture titled Discovering the Child compared progressive education theories in use today with older ideas, delivered during the Wednesday session.
The Washington Township Farm Bureau will meet at the North Central School Friday evening September 2. Ed Stephens and Bert Newer will speak. The program includes guitar selections by Pauline and Wilma Hall, a vocal solo by Janet Smith, a reading by Dean Yeakley, a vocal duet by Beverly Caldwell and Marjorie Wilson, with Mrs. James McLeland in charge as S. and E. director.
Indiana closed season ends at midnight August 31. Taking any trout species from Indiana waters is prohibited by law during the closed season.
T A Dicus chairman of the State Highway Commission reported that the designation of no passing zones by yellow stripes along the black centerline on Class A roads in the state highway system is now in progress. Class A highways carry 750 or more vehicles daily.
Purdue University presents drainage exhibit titled Drainage Makes the Difference at the Indiana State Fair September 3 to 9. Two diorama scenes show Indiana farmland in 1838 and today, scaled with one inch representing sixteen feet, totaling about 1000 feet of landscape. Miss Clara Williams hosts Yeoman Ace High Bridge club at the Cobles' home Friday night.
Rev W C Aschanhart former pastor of Flora Christian church will preach at Oak Grove Christian church Sunday morning Sept 4 at 11 o'clock. Everyone invited. Several local families and relatives are noted as visiting or staying with relatives this weekend.
Claude Wall of Carroll county died Sunday morning in a Logansport hospital after a long illness. He formerly ran a Delphi grocery and meat market and farmed. Survived by wife Marie Wall of Delphi and brother Charles of Indianapolis. Funeral at Grimm funeral home Tuesday at 3 with Rev. Wilbur Day officiating. Burial in Odd Fellows cemetery.
The Arc presents Penrod and His Twin Brother featuring the Mauch twins in a Penrod style comedy. Ill Give a Million stars War ner Baxter and Marjorie Weaver with a plot about a disillusioned millionaire posing as a tramp and learning the limits of his scheme. The cast includes Peter Lorre Jean Hersholt John Carradine J Edward Bromberg Lynn Bari and Fritz Feld.
Threshing meeting held at Sam Hazelgrove home. Luther Sheets and family visited Paul Julien. Old Settlers' event attended in Monticello. Mrs Bowyer and infant daughter returned from St Elizabeth hospital to Lafayette. Larry Mullendere to Veterans Hospital Indianapolis for hernia surgery. Gay property repainted by Schultz family. Sterrett infant returned to Lafayette from hospital. Lloyd Zook hosts Herschel Newsom and others for dinner. Florence Tyler Blanton and daughters leave Logansport for Canada and eastern states.
Miss Katherine McDowell and Mrs. John Crone plan a Friday visit in Gary with Mrs. Crone’s sister. Mrs. Ambrose Clifford spent the weekend in Lafayette visiting relatives. Miss Mary Smock Ruby Lines of Delphi and Mrs. Isabelle Smock Munger of Indianapolis are touring the eastern states. Mrs. Will Baker of Ockley hosts Mrs. Georgia Conseus of New York. Mrs. Effie Lyon and Mrs. Jessie McPherson depart Saturday Sept 3 for Cincinnati to see Mr. and Mrs. George Lyon. Mrs. Esther Parks Bray and her Gary son visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Parks.
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