Interurban track and Loy's station, Delphi, 1910 10 YEARS AGO

The Carroll County Communications tower at the county jail fell Monday morning and knocked out power to a fourfive block area.

The tower fell on top of a telephone pole and power lines. No buildings or vehicles were struck. The northwest wind was blowing approximately 8mph at the time.

Upon investigation, the leg on the third section of the tower was found to be corroded and rusted through.

The power outage affected ambulance, police and fire communications, as well as the courthouse and other businesses around the square.

25 YEARS AGO

Spend your vacation dollars on the thing that counts...your vacation! It makes good cents, and dollars too! Shop locally before you leave for your vacation. Why pay resort area inflated "tourist" prices for the very same goods and services you can buy right here at home...and for much less? You'll save in other ways, too. When you shop before you go, you'll save valuable vacation time that you could be spending funning and sunning. Local shopping saves the high-priced, hard-to-find items. Make your vacation a real vacation. You'll enjoy it more, save time, money, and energy by shopping locally before you leave. No need to roam...the best shopping's right here at home!

50 YEARS AGO

Ralph Bradford, a deaf mute, landed in Delphi Monday and says he will stay a week. It is the 6,901st city he has visited since 1928. He intends to write a book, "How A Deaf Mute Finds Things with 'Hearing People," after he completes a one-million-mile tour of the world. He has made 700,000 miles of that trip and has made three trips across the United States, Canada, Mexico, Honolulu, and Tokyo, Japan. He never hitch-hikes, he says, and always has a post office employee stamp a cancellation mark in his book to show the exact date he was in that town. His experiences must be many and interesting and if he gets them properly recorded, should come up with a best seller.

75 YEARS AGO

Fire starting from an unknown source destroyed the large barn on the Isaac Yost farm near Clymers Sunday night. Fifty bushels of corn, an equal number of bushels of oats and farm implements were included in the loss. The damage was estimated at $2,000.

Indiana State Fair offers $9,797.75 to 4-H'ers. 4-H Club members who show winning exhibits at the fair this year will divide $9,797.75 as prize money. This amount includes cash prizes, 30 trips to the National 4-H Club congress in Chicago during the International Livestock Exposition, four trips to the National Dairy Show at St. Louis and two scholarships to Purdue University.

100 YEARS AGO

In the sand of Democrat township there is a new kind of bug or fly that has not yet been identified by scientists and the people of that neighborhood are waiting patiently for an opinion from them. A few days ago W.S. Blatchley, State Geologist, received a small bottle in which were a number of these little flies. A letter that came with the bottle said they were found in the sand near Cutler and were in such large numbers that the people thought they should find out what they were. Mr. Blatchley was unable to determine the species so he sent them on to the government scientists at Washington, with a request that they examine them and advise him as to their identity.