10 YEARS AGO

A second meeting of the Carroll County Domestic Violence Task Force was held recently at St. Elizabeth Healthcare Center in Delphi to coordinate plans for a countywide awareness program.

Law enforcement and social service agencies are already aware of the issue. The focus will primarily be on schools, churches and the media.

Carroll County Office of Emergency Management will present a Tornado Preparedness Seminar at 7 p.m. March 5 in Flora. 25 YEARS AGO

In a busy session Monday, Carroll County Commissioners made plans to repair the skylight in the courthouse at Delphi.

City Glass Specialties, Inc. of Ft. Wayne was given the job of repairing the stained glass windows, which are sagging, and to reinforce and clean them.

William Freeman, manager of Globe Valve Corporation’s plant in Delphi since late 1946, was honored at a surprise retirement party Friday night at the Carroll County Country Club in Delphi.

The council gave Mayor Wayne Van Sickle approval to enter into an agreement with an engineering firm to perform services for their preliminary studies on the water and sewage system for West Delphi and the north part of Delphi, both recently annexed. 50 YEARS AGO

Few times have Delphi residents seen an angrier fire subdued than the one which threatened the old I.O.O.F. building on Main Street a week ago Wednesday night. An alarm was turned in from the Orville Yates apartment in the building in the 100 block east on Main, occupied on the ground floor by the Lynch Barbershop. 75 YEARS AGO

A meeting was held by the citizens of Tippecanoe Township at the community building in Pittsburg Tuesday evening for the purpose of discussing the erection of a new grade school building in that township. Over one hundred people attended and a free discussion of facts was had.

The building contemplated is estimated to cost $27,800 and is to be a modern fire proof four-room building with an assembly, where any meeting in the township could be held.

Legislative approval of a bill to provide pensions for aged persons was completed today when the house by a vote of 61 to 30 passed the measure and sent it to the governor.

The bill provides for the payment of $25 monthly to indigent persons of 70 years or over. Adoption of the plan is optional with each county of the state. The counties adopting the pension are to provide one-half the funds for putting it into effect. The state is to provide the other half. 100 YEARS AGO

The Rival Creamer Manufacturing Co., of Camden, has troubles of its own, and dissolution of partnership has resulted. Asa Cline has the machinery and equipment for building them and Zana L. Truesdell has the patent for the creamer. The business is at a standstill.

Thursday the Delphi Herald was 9 years old and it enters this new year full of hope and confidence.