Old Settlers picnic in a grove near Delphi, circa 1875 10 YEARS AGO

This past weekend Dave Mills of rural Flora shot his 6th hole-in-one at the Frankfort Golf Course while playing with a group from Flora.

The Andersons, Inc., hosted the grand opening of the new offices of the Carroll County Division of Family and Children, last week, at a ribbon cutting ceremony and banquet.

The event marked the opening of the first occupant of the Deer Creek Commerce Park, just off State Road 25, north of Delphi.

25 YEARS AGO

All systems are go for the Carroll Consolidated School Corporation's building project of a new elementary building and Jr.-Sr. high school building renovation with the sale of 12,750.00 first mortgage bonds.

The Bicycle Bridge west of Delphi in Tippecanoe Township is expected to be open to traffic this weekend after a few days delay to improve the east approach. Motorists will welcome the disappearance of the road closed and detour signs.

Plans for the Camden Sesquicentennial are being finalized.

50 YEARS AGO

Donna Tinsman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Tinsman, of Flora was first place winner with a song and tap dance act in the Tuesday night entertainment festival at the County 4- H Fair at Flora.

The Barberettes, a girls' trio from Tippecanoe township, won a first place tie in the Monday night contest. The trio was composed of Carolyn White, Maxine Rodgers and Virginia Storey.

A quartette from Madison township, Bonnie Maxwell, Kay Witter, Judy Hoshaw and Colleen Bailey was the other first place tie winner.

Second place winner was Sandra Bell, soloist.

On Tuesday night Dwight Pullen won second place with a piano solo and third was a duet by Dixie and Gary Wilson.

75 YEARS AGO

About 700 attended the first free street dance at Camden Tuesday night. Chick Mummert and his orchestra from Young America furnished the music which was highly commended by all. Donnabelle Ritchey of Camden played a saxophone in the orchestra. These dances are to be held the rest of the summer and will be sure to attract large crowds as they have always done in the past.

100 YEARS AGO

Scratch a man who cares nothing for baseball, whose pulse does not leap when the home team wins, whose brow does not grow cold and clammy when it faces a shutout, and you will find a man who puts lead quarters into the collection plate. It would do such a man a lot of good if he could be forced to attend, say, twenty-five games. It would reform and civilize him and make him walk in the path of truth and fairness. It would give him a taste of the joy of honest victory and a taste of the wholesome discipline of honest defeat. Baseball is the perfect game. It is honest, American and manly.