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Newspaper
Delphi Citizen
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1924
Page
4
The Tippe canoey Township War Mothers plan a meeting next Tuesday on September 80th at the P A C hall. A good turnout is encouraged and members are asked to bring inquiries and concerns to discuss local wartime efforts.
County Auditor R G Davidson will offer for sale 15 bonds totaling 7261.76 for the J L Caughell Drain in Adams Township at the Carroll County Courthouse Delphi Indiana on October 2 at 10:00 AM. Bonds issued Sept 1 1924, mature serially through 1929, interest 6 percent, bids at par or above. right to reject all bids.
Mrs Wm Tyler and Mrs Millissa Hinshaw plan a weekend with Logans relatives. S Hudson hosted Charles Montgomery and a friend from Alexandria. Albert Jackson and daughter Helen returned to Pittsburg after summer in Ohio. Mrs Eugene Crowder of Pine Village visits sister Mrs James Roth. Kathleen Parker Laramore and daughter from Toledo along with Mrs James Bair and daughter from Indianapolis and Claude Parker of Indianapolis visit mother Mrs Sarah Parker. George Van Der Volgen and Will Kleppinger visited Hendersons. Walter Henderson and Ruth from Lafayette spent weekend with Joe Robertson. Tippecanoe Township Economics Club met at the P A C hall. Mesdames Thompson, Smith and others attended.
Joe Robertson served on the entertaining committee. Mrs. Frank Swain returns home from Fort Wayne after several weeks away. Residents attended a farewell reception for Rev. and Mrs. Kimberlin in Delphi on Wednesday night.
West Delphi reports Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bush of Burrows as Sunday guests of David Mullendere and family. Mrs. Ben Johnson remains on the sick list. Mrs. Catharine Gebhart moved to Fowler to live with her daughter. Levi Gebhart will occupy the Gebhart residence. Andy Foster celebrated his 74th birthday with a surprise gathering of relatives. Miss May Leslie visited Edna Leffler. Floyd Schrader injured at Oakdale dam remains off work briefly. Mildred Hathaway returned home after visiting sister Mrs. Larry Mullendore West of Delphi.
Mr. and Mrs. John H. Anderson and family called at O. F. Cowger's and L. W. Ward's near Chalmers and in the Reynolds neighborhood Saturday. John Schockley visited his sister Mrs. Lucy Schockley Osborn at Logansport Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. Daniel McCain shopped in Lafayette last Friday. Chalmers Peterson was in Lafayette Sunday with his brother in law Truman Snoeberger who is home from the Home hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Swatts visited near Radnor last week. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Davis visited their sister Mrs. Roy Blue at an Indianapolis hospital last Sunday. Miss Ethel Dillman and Miss Dorothy Williams called on Miss Thelma Rodebaugh at Camden Sunday afternoon. Roger Girard works for Robert Davidson this fall.
Arthur Little was sick Tuesday and Wednesday. Budd Sterrett sows rye in the corn for W. F. Timmons. Arthur Hildebrand drills wheat in a sixty acre field rented from Wilson Sterrett. Lehre Guthrie sows rye. Mr and Mrs Vance Sterrett visit Wilson Sterrett. S P Clauser made gates to improve the farm. Paul Popejoy hauls logs to the Rockfield railroad. Emily Guthrie visits Camden Wednesday. Roads to the mail carrier and school hack need gravel as cuck holes fill with water.
Hickory Grove residents hosted and visited over the weekend including Crowel Hanna Schock and Maxwell families. Church activities were planned with Sunday programs, Bible classes, and a Rally Day on September 28 led by Rev. Proctor, starting at ten oclock.
Colonel George H Healey state printer says nine state tickets will be presented at the November election and machines can handle only seven tickets. If Australian ballot is used many political calculations may be upset.
Alma Mayhill of Santa Ana California and Robret Fry Wil son of Santa Ana announced their marriage this week kept secret until the bride revealed it at a party at her parents home Mr and Mrs Noah EL Mayhal former Delphi residents The bride is a graduate of the Ung Sas oe van eer.
A Wednesday Delphi Methodist church reception honored Rev R O Kimberlin and family before their move to Lafayette. The event featured vocal numbers, violin pieces, readings, and a gift of table linen from church women. A receiving line followed, with clergy and church leaders in attendance.
Delphi High School and Flora activities include baseball games and meetings of teachers in Carroll county. Schools report student officers and club officers for Delphi and Flora, plus updates on Flora teacher Miss Etna Peterson’s hospital stay. Purdue figures show Indiana canning crops including tomatoes and other produce used by canning factories valued at about 2.5 million dollars.
Miss Catherine Allen and Claude Gray of Overland were married at the Rossville Presbyterian parsonage last Saturday by Rev. Jones. The bride is the daughter of Mr and Mrs John Allen of Bringhurst.
Miss Gertrude Fanning McHugh announced L. R. Gignilliatt, superintendent of Culver Military Academy, will head the ex service men bureau of the Democratic state committee. A brigadier general in the reserve corps and World War I colonel, he instructed at Fort Benjamin Harrison before serving overseas. Headquarters are in Room 210, Claypool Hotel, Indianapolis.
A 1924 letter from H G Toole in Philadelphia requests forwarding Delphi Citizen to an address and notes life near the University of Pennsylvania. He mentions duties grading freshmen papers, welcomes Philadelphia’s mountain air, and jokes about college youths and Vergil.
Mrs. James Sines of Flora died at home Tuesday night from tuberculosis. Funeral services were conducted Thursday at two o'clock by Rev. R. W. Knight of the M. E. church, and burial followed in Zion cemetery.
Amanda Ellen, daughter of John and Margaret Coble, was born August 30 1841 in Adams township Carroll County. She died September 15 1924 at age 83 after a life spent in Adams Township and churchly devotion to Disciples at Hopewell and later Hickory Grove Christian Church. She married Aaron Binney on December 3 1871. he died 1914. Survived by two daughters Ota A. and Emma L. many nieces and nephews. Funeral Wednesday at two from Hickory Grove Church with Rev. Proctor officiating. interment in adjoining cemetery.
Card of thanks expresses gratitude for help and flowers after a mother’s death and for singers ministers and undertaker. Announcement reports the September 17 wedding of Myrtle May Sibrey to Donald J. Draper in Attica Indiana with Rev. Muir officiating. The couple will live with the bride’s mother and both have local occupations.
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Indiana party from Indianapolis arrives in Delphi Monday to deliver official invitation for the Second Indianapolis Industrial Exposition to Mayor Robinson and city officials. The Highway Limited miniature train will be on display for 30 minutes, offering radio messages inviting Delphi residents to the October 4 11 fair at the State Fairgrounds.
Mayor Samuel Lewis Shank of Indianapolis will marry Mrs. Eva Findley of Kendallville in early spring. Findley, widow of James Hays Findley, former York Wall Paper president, was active in supporting Shank’s gubernatorial campaign and Republican politics in Pennsylvania.
Mrs Mary M Watson mother of U S Senator James E Watson of Indiana died at her home in Winchester on Monday at age 93 after a several month illness brought on by influenza She was born in Butler county Ohio and had been ill since April
Cal Sinninger announces his resignation from the Ku Klux Klan membership as editor of the Walton Enterprise. He says the paper, which supported the Klan for two years, will continue publication with a reversed policy. Sinninger, former editor of the Camden Record, cites dissatisfaction with Klan operations.
The Delphi Citizen reports a defense defending federal officials amid congressional probes. It condemns suppression of testimony, spying on lawmakers, and indictments aimed at hindering investigations. The piece stresses honesty in office and condemns corrupt officials over external agitators.
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