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Looking Back
Customers in Carroll County will have a new place to shop for consumable basic merchandise when Dollar General opens in Flora. Approximately five to eight persons, including the store manager, will be employed at the 6,300 square-foot store located at 108 South Howard Street, also known as Hook's or Revco building. Dollar General has been a longtime supporter of literacy, and takes a grass roots approach to supporting this cause. All Dollar General Stores serve as a place where anyone can find out where to learn to read; where to take GED classes and the GED test; or where to sign up to become a tutor. 25 YEARS AGO The State Highway Department Unit for Carroll County and surrounding areas has moved into its new garage located south of Flora on St. Rd. 75. The four acre site purchased from the Flora Community Club will include an additional storage building and a salt shed when the complex is finished. Don Lowery, Flora, will begin his duties on January1 as the first animal warden of the newly formed Small Animal Control Board in Carroll County. Funds to purchase a van, which has been equipped with cages for animal pick-up, were provided by monies from Delphi and Flora, and Monroe and Deer Creek townships. 50 YEARS AGO The county may have needed a "good five-cent cigar" back in Tom Marshall's day, but Wes L. Humphrey and his Delphi high school musicians are providing more for less. For just one copper cent, they will admit you to a full evening's entertainment at the high school auditorium Dec. 14. The one-and-a-half-hour sacred and secular program will be in two parts, with a 15- minute intermission. A jug band and the concert band will be featured in the second section. Santa Claus was greeted by hundreds of children and adults that filled the town when he arrived in Delphi Saturday afternoon. More than 1,000 children received 450 pounds of candy and 11 bushels of apples which were distributed by Santa's helpers. 75 YEARS AGO That taxpayers of Indiana will pay almost $7,000,000 less in taxes next year is only the beginning of a demonstration of the public's power in the direction of lower governmental costs. The secretary of the Indiana Taxpayers' Association said such a savings was made possible through the fact that the people were aroused this year and demanded economy in the affairs of government. He said the greatest reductions came in counties where the taxpayers had strong and aggressive organizations, where they took an active part in the preparation of budgets and levies and where they took advantage of the law's provisions to appeal to the State Board of Tax Commissioners if they had reason to suspect their own officials had not made reductions low enough. 100 YEARS AGO The Flora Telephone Co. has made arrangements by which its subscribers may obtain the daily forecast and special warnings of the weather bureau of the U.S. Department of Agriculture from the central after 10a.m. These forecasts will cover the 36 hour period ending at 8 p.m. of the following day. |
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