Looking Back
From the files of Hoosier Democrat, Delphi Journal, Journal-Citizen and Carroll County Comet. Photo provided by Carroll County Historical Museum.

Delphi H.S. teachers in 1941 are pictured above, l-r: Seated - C.T. Amick, Bertha Moore, Mary Ann Bieber, Elsie Bucklew, Grace Stanton, Marion Robey, Genevieve Green, Charles A. Smith. Standing - Clarence Eyer, Karl Kraft, Benjamin Drake, Emerson Aldrich, Louis Kent, Lloyd Wagner, Carl Adams, Samuel Skomp, Thomas McCormick.

10 YEARS AGO

"Delphi's my choice." These are the words of James W. Proffitt, president of P.T.I. Machining, Inc. as he signed the final papers for the purchase of a new manufacturing plant and corporate headquarters from Gerry Underhill, Delphi.

"I believe Delphi and Carroll County offers to our company, and its present and future employees, the kind of community that we can work and grow in," Proffitt said.

Proffitt said his company expects to move and be in operation by Sept. 15.

25 YEARS AGO

Carroll County Conservation Officer Ed Houston said about 3000 fish are dead in the Tioga Bridge area and Lake Freeman. About 90 percent are catfish; other species include bluegill, buffalo, carp, suckers, smallmouth bass and rock bass.

A one-time influx of a toxic waste or other pollutant flushed into Lake Shafer is being considered as the cause.

50 YEARS AGO

Saturday will bring to Delphi approximately 360 students representing 92 different schools in this area who will be trying for first division rating and medals in the annual district piano and vocal contest. All told, the contests should attract more than 500 people to the local high school to perform or to observe. Local students to participate are Bill Million, Glenda Fisher, Marta Porter, Betty Bitler, Sue Ann Sieber, Pat Coghill, Skip McMurray, Patsy Dick, Martha Rainbolt, Nancy Rainbolt, Marcia Mason, Patty Talbert, Carolyn Thomson, Patty Thomson, Joyce Snoeberger, Susie Johnson, Tommie Miller, Helen Crosby, Nancy Simons, Sara Johnson, Mary Lou Parks, Ned Rule, Nancy Rule, Ed Wagoner, Mike Johnson, Paul Laprad, Joan Coomey, Louise Gros, Ted Williams, Jim Landis, David Eis, Joe Clawson, Mary Reifert, Nancy Echler, Virginia Peterson, and Carole Welch.

75 YEARS AGO Fifty attorneys from various

places in the Ninth District of Indiana were in attendance at the meeting held Tuesday at the Delphi Country Club. Judge E. E. Pruit of Delphi presided.

A fried chicken dinner was served by the ladies of the American Legion Auxiliary. This was followed by a splendid program. Hon. Fred S. Purnell gave the principal address, telling incidents of his fifteen years in Congress; Miss Mary Lou Gerard sang accompanied on the piano by

Mrs. Josephine Ulm. The entire group were guests of the local bar association.

100 YEARS AGO

The democratic county central committee met in Delphi Saturday and agreed on Saturday, August 18, as the day on which to hold their county convention. It will be held in Delphi and will be a mass affair as in former years. The date selected is between the old Settler's meeting at Delphi and at Burlington and Monticello.