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Looking Back
New ballots on proposed Extended Area Service (EAS) in the '564' area telephone code are being mailed this week. The first subscribers were ruled no good because of errors. When the first were mailed several weeks ago, we urged our readers to vote "No" because we felt they would not receive adequate compensation for the $7.15 surcharge per month to make calls toll-free to Lafayette. The charge would last for five years-a total of $429.00 That's a lot of toll calls from Delphi to Lafayette if you want to break even. 25 YEARS AGO Razing of the Carroll Telephone Building started Tuesday to make way for construction of a new telephone facility. The original building was constructed in 1845 by Abner H. Bowen and N.W. Bowen, brothers, and grandfather and great-uncle of Hilda Bowen of Delphi. It replaced a frame building destroyed by fire in 1844. The brothers engaged in a general merchandise and produce business which later worked into a banking business. The story goes that it became bank because of being one of the few businesses housing a large safe. 50 YEARS AGO The Roxy Theater in Delphi has been purchased by Joe St. Amand of Flora. St. Amand has operated the theatre at Flora for more than 12 years and will continue to operate it also. He has had much experience in theatre business, operating theatres in New York City and other eastern cities before coming to Indiana. A school for mentally retarded children in Carroll County has become a reality. Classes were begun on Nov. 5 in the Girl Scout rooms in the courthouse for the three happy children enrolled. 75 YEARS AGO Anyone wanting a job on the road work soon to commence can leave their name or address at any of the newspaper offices in Carroll County and they will be given the contractors. Trees are being planted on golf greens. Seventy-five native maple trees presented by E.W. Bowen to the Delphi Country Club are being planted on the fairways. The trees are being selected on the Bowen farm. Floyd Julien, chairman of the greens committee, is in charge of the planting. A turkey dinner is being offered in the Legion Rooms Nov. 24 from 5 to 7 p.m. for 50 cents. Everybody is welcome to attend. 100 YEARS AGO There seems to be some prospect of a second bank in Camden. It is rumored that a movement is on foot to organize a National Bank and it is said that a number of the businessmen and nearby farmers have agreed to take stock. It is also said that A.T. Bowen of Delphi will establish a bank there. The first election held in Carroll county was held April 28, 1822, at which time 66 votes were cast. The first presidential election was held in the fall of that same year when Jackson received 112 votes to Adams' 73.Since 1875 the county has been fighting grounds for both parties as it is today. |
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