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Newspaper
Delphi Citizen
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1946
Page
1
Local observations note absence of speed limits and stop signs on Main and Franklin streets in Delphi, with residents crossing busy routes at risk. Advocates call for warning signs and a safer driving campaign amid planned church remodeling and community updates on events and local happenings.
Three Danville youths Ernie McCord William Fraser and the Nunn girl Phyllis Schell Nunn were involved in a attempted auto theft in Delphi Illinois on Friday the thirteenth 1946. The suspects were captured after abandoning a pickup and attempting to start a Fraser owned car. The arrest filled the local jail to thirteen inmates for the first time in history alongside other court actions including divorce suits and an auto accident suit.
Mr and Mrs Marion Thomas of Burlington celebrate fifty years of marriage with an open house at their home from 2 to 5 pm Sunday. The couple, longtime Burlington residents, are well known in the county, and Mr Thomas formerly served as Democratic trustee of Burlington township. They have two daughters Opal and Edith, both residents of Clinton county.
Jerry Haugh went to a horse show in Lafayette on Sunday night, where spectators watched competitions and noted performances at the event.
A representative group from Delphi gathered at the City Building to discuss a memorial pool estimated at $30,000 to honor World War II service members. A committee was formed to solicit engineering firms and draft plans, with Mayor Charles Wood guiding the effort and a site under review near Deer Creek Park.
Harvey Hire of Lafayette, known locally, appointed Director of the Division of Corrections in the State Welfare Department in Indianapolis. He succeeds Judge James P. Wason, who had been acting director. Hire, brother of Virgil Hire of Delphi, has eight years with the State Police and duties for the Superintendent of Public Safety. Since 1941 he has led plant protections at the Lafayette works of Aluminum Company of America.
With 86 first grade pupils enroll, the school board hires Mildred Margowski of Delphi as third first grade teacher and splits the class across three rooms. The fifth and sixth grade move to the second floor, Junior High takes a former high school room, while Thelma Lamb's class expands. Leonie Beebe of Old Lyme joins as girls PE instructor and history teacher replacing Ariel Green who returns to Bloomington.
Joseph C. Reynolds a former resident and retired executive of the West Virginia Wood Pulp and Paper Company of Chicago is reported improving at Presbyterian hospital Chicago. He was confined to an oxygen tent for heart complications and recently resided in Rensselaer with his brother Earle Reynolds manager of the Helen Reynolds Skating Girls Act. Ed Lynch the local barber received word of his illness.
Miss Dorothy Jeanne Bowen left Wednesday for Chesterton Indiana to teach art in the school system. She will oversee art classes in two grade schools and the high school. Bowen a University of Illinois graduate and Delphi native is daughter of Mr and Mrs Abner Bowen.
Miss Nancy Bowen resumes schooling after suffering a broken left wrist in a Monday mishap at the local school.
J. C. Yunker, county superintendent, announced countywide enrollment of 1995 students, a county record. He noted enrollment could reach 2000 as farming students return. Schools listed include Adams 113, Flora 383, Carrollton 112, Camden 248, and others. high schools will join the federal lunch program via the State Department of Public Instruction, with Carroll County TB association cooperative.
Graveside services were held at Yeoman as the cremated remains of Dr. George Hoffman and his wife Emma Lawrence Hoffmann were laid to rest in the Yeoman cemetery. He died from drowning in 1902 and his wife passed away two years ago in Cincinnati. The couple’s two daughters are nurses. Mrs. Hoffmann was a well known figure in the Yeoman area.
Governor Robert Kerr of Oklahoma and a Democratic National Committee member will address two district meetings today and Friday. He opens with a Lafayette Armory rally at 8 p m and will speak from Logansport High School auditorium for a Cass County rally, broadcast on WASK Friday night. Kerr was the 1944 DNC keynote speaker.
Dr. Roger Mayhill returned from New York and has assumed duties on the Purdue staff. He spent several months in the east attending school. Mr. and Mrs. Everett England welcomed a daughter born Friday at St. Elizabeth hospital Lafayette. Mrs. England is the former Hallie Lowther. Mr. and Mrs. Garnet Smith rented the Mrs. v. Smith apartment and will move in.
The junior class elected Edward Brown as president Kathleen Fife as vice president Roy Sheets as secretary and Joan Bradshaw as treasurer Officers for the school band include Bob Mills as president Joan Clifford as vice president and Della Herr as secretary treasurer Freshmen girls elected Barbara Weaver as president Barbara Stankard as vice president and Betty Rhine as secretary treasurer Officers for the freshmen will not be elected now
Dr Roy Ewing Vale of Indianapolis will be guest speaker at a county wide Presbyterian rally Sunday September 29 at 8 p m in Delphi. Lay leaders from Flora Rockfield Burrows Deer Creek Wheeling Cutler and Delphi will attend. The visit supports a $12 000 pledge toward the Restoration Fund targeting 27 000 000 to rebuild churches schools and hospitals across 20 countries and expand US work to 1 000 000 new Christians before 1950. The meeting is open to the public.
Miss Patricia Brewer will be presented by Mrs. William P Heath in a Tuesday evening recital on September 24 in Duncan Hall Lafayette She has studied music over two years and will enter Western College in October She is a member of the Paul Fincher Smith Memorial Choir of West Lafayette and has appeared as guest soloist in Delphi Lafayette and Logansport The public is invited to attend.
Mrs. John Kirkpatrick returns to South Delphi after visiting Mr. and Mrs. Thayer Maxwell in Columbus. Mrs. Bernadine Maxwell Eastwood and daughter depart Indianapolis by plane for Miami and Aruba to join Mr. Eastwood. Mrs. Eastwood and daughter have summers with Harry Maxwell and relatives. Mrs. Gertrude Heflong and daughter Miss Mary return from Indianapolis after a weekend visit. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Wittlesey of St. Charles Illinois enjoy two weeks at Kennard Cottage on the Tippecanoe. Sunday Kennard family hosts a reunion with sixty attendees.
Freshmen at the local institution took on male roles during initiation day with girls in dresses. An onion on a string accessory was worn, and a Friday night dance followed a sophomores reception in the high school gym. The event had no hazing reports, with guests including Sheriff Robert Moore and others in attendance.
Final rites for Dorotha Mae Parrett 29 will be held Thursday at 2 30 p m from Flora Church of the Brethren with Rev Ray Zook officiating Burial will be in Maple Lawn cemetery She was born in Flora September 3 1917 daughter of Ross and Edith Briggs married Sami Parrett October 1 1988 and is survived by her husband one son Ned her father a brother two sisters and other relatives
The infant daughter of St Commander U S N Ret and Mrs John S Moyer was buried this afternoon after a brief graveside service conducted by Merlin Schwein at Masonic Cemetery. Survivors include the parents, maternal grandparents Mr and Mrs Raymond Loudon of Delphi and Indianapolis, paternal grandparents Commodore John Moyer of San Francisco and Mrs Marion Sib bitt Moyer of Coronado, California, great grandparents Mrs Mae Stitt and Mrs Joseph Clark of Delphi, with Grimm Funeral Dom in charge of arrangements.
Carroll county native Mrs Biase O Farrell Martin aged 74 died Saturday at St Elizabeth hospital Lafayette after an extended illness. She lived in the community all her life and is survived by her husband Esta a brother Dennis O Farrell and three nieces and nephews. Final rites were held Tuesday from St Joseph church Delphi with Rev Paul Anderson officiating. Burial followed in St Joseph cemetery Patrick Mortuary had charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Queen Zimmerman 54 of Toledo Ohio and Flora Indiana died at Cass county hospital Logansport after an extended illness. Born January 24 1892 in Andrews Indiana she was the daughter of George W Washburn and Alice Richardson. Survived by husband Arthur a daughter Mrs Clarence Watson Flora granddaughter Sally Ann Watson two brothers Paul Logansport Frank Peru. She belonged to Flora Eastern Star and the Toledo Presbyterian Church. Funeral from Leiter funeral home Friday at 2 pm Rev Lee Jackson Peru and W C Aschanhort will officiate. Burial Mt Hope cemetery Logansport. Friends may call at the funeral home.
The body of 94 year old David Eikenberry will arrive at Leiter funeral home Flora on Saturday and rites will be conducted Sunday at Flora Church of the Brethren with Rev Ray Zook and Rev William Angle officiating. Burial will be in Maple Lawn cemetery. He was born January 5 1852 in Flora and married twice. He leaves three children Mrs Ralph Russell of Laverne Califoria Mrs Newland of Pomona and Galen B Eikenberry of Port Towns Oregon. Also surviving are several nieces and nephews.
Mrs. John E. Moyer, formerly editor of the Citizen, is reported improved at St. Elizabeth Hospital Lafayette after a stillbirth on Tuesday night. Dr. John Z. Kirkpatrick was in Chicago Tuesday consulting a bone specialist about a fracture in his right wrist.
Tax notices for installments are ready. Pay now to avoid last day penalties before the November deadline. Carroll County Treasurer PUTHER COHEE urges prompt action.
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