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Newspaper
Delphi Citizen
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1961
Page
5
Twenty six women practice under Mrs Daniel Brown Flora and Al Stewart Purdue. They perform with choruses and at the Chicago Music Festival to raise funds for a hospital emergency suite. Thirty seven antique dealers from six states join the Fair with profits aiding the Home Hospital fund.
About 130 volunteers from Carroll County contribute time and talent to the Home Hospital Fair at Tippecanoe County Fairgrounds Lafayette opening Friday September 15 at 10 am. Delphi acts include Champtees Pep Band Top Twenty and Jackie Walters ventriloquist with other Delphi talents and the Delphi Teen Six. Carroll County Demonstration Chorus performs Sunday afternoon with a chicken barbecue 11 am 2 pm in Heritage House.
Dr. A C Offutt announces U S Public Health Service license of Type 1 Sabin oral polio vaccine from Charles Pfizer & Co with plans for Type 2 rollout soon and Type 3 later. Full immunity requires three doses across types in order Type 1 3 2, given four to six weeks apart. Until all types are available Salk vaccine remains the primary protection.
Miss Sandy Gee returns to her parents Mr. and Mrs. Orville Yates after several months in Florida with her aunt Mrs. Harve Stonebaker. She plans to pursue schooling to qualify as an airline hostess.
A 12 year old Camden boy, Clayton Leon Flora, fractured his face and suffered a shoulder injury with multiple abrasions when he fell from a moving truck on In-218 near Camden. He was riding atop a load of tree limbs with Allen Burns, 14, when the load shifted and the pair were thrown to the pavement. Burns sustained minor injuries and was released after treatment at Memorial hospital. State Trooper Tom Pitstick investigated.
In Carroll circuit court an agreed support order is set in the divorce case Richard vs Margaret E Max of route 4 Delphi. Mr Max must pay 30 dollars weekly for support to the defendant, cover house and all utility heat and telephone bills, and continue payments on a 1957 Cadillac convertible. Vernon E St John represents Mr Max and Mark L Thompson represents Mrs Max.
Mrs. Ethel Snipes 81 of route 2 Flora died Sunday at home after two years illness and two weeks bedfast. Born December 25 1879 in Warren County Tennessee she was married to George W. Snipes who died January 19. She was a member of Flora Methodist Church. Surviving include three sons Tillman Paul Frank five daughters and numerous relatives. Funeral Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Lester Funeral Home Flora with Rev. Paul Hedden officiating burial Maple Lawn Cemetery.
We express deep appreciation to friends neighbors and relatives for acts of kindness beautiful floral offerings food and sympathy during the recent illness and death of our mother Ella Clawson Mrs Richard Fife of near Sleeth has been a surgical patient in St Elizabeth hospital Lafayette
Mrs Luella Pritts 79 died Friday at Goodwill Nursing Home Camden after a lingering illness She was born April 4 1882 and had ties to Delphi Christian church Tippecanoe township Home Demonstration club Her marriages were to Charles Dillman and Alva Pritts both predeceased her Survivors include four children and several step children along with siblings Funeral rites were held at Eikenberry funeral home and Maple Lawn cemetery Also noted was the death of Mrs Dott B Tolen 64 Flora resident who died Monday at the Tolen Cottage Lake Freeman Born September 3 1897 she was the daughter of Frank and Bertha Waltman Married Everett Tolen in 1917 She belonged to the Flora Church of the Brethren Surviving family includes husband two sons three daughters thirteen grandchildren and two great grandchildren Graveside services were held at Maple Lawn cemetery with burial there.
Daniel M. Miller 94 of route 3 Delphi died Saturday in Home hospital Lafayette. Retired farmer born Elkhart Sept 5 1886 son of Daniel and Susanna Ganger Miller member Old German Baptist church. Wife Hanna died 1937. Survived by one daughter Mrs. Mary Yost route 3 a grandson two great grandchildren. Funeral at Old German Baptist church with Jesse Wagoner Daniel Yorer Raymond Wagoner Max Geiser officiating. Burial was in cemetery.
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Nellie Rance of Logan sport aged 69 died Tuesday morning in St Josephs hospital Logansport after a lingering illness. Born August 24 1892 in Carrell county she was daughter of Abraham and Hanna Porter. She married George F Rance and is survived by her husband and three sons and a daughter. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 9 a m at St Bridget's Church with burial in Ever Rest Memorial cemetery Logansport.
Funeral services were held Saturday at Jackson funeral home for Will C. Smock of Delphi. Rev. Miles Freeman of Auburn and Rev. James Wm. Rankin officiated. Burial in Masonic Cemetery included graveside military rites by Harry Bohannon Post No. 75, American Legion.
Cecil G. Fowler retired Lafayette banker died in a San Francisco hospital while on a west coast trip. Funeral services were held Friday at Rogers-Myers funeral home in Lafayette with burial in Springvale cemetery. Survived by his widow and two sons including Joseph C. Fowler of Delphi.
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