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Looking Back
Words of appreciation for twelve years of service were bestowed upon Commissioner Bill Duff during his last meeting as a Carroll County Commissioner on Dec. 27. The special session was scheduled to dispense with any old business and approve the last claims of the 1996 business year. Duff passed the torch to new Commissioner Donald Rhine, as items of new business were brought before the Commissioners for discussion. 25 YEARS AGO Sheriff’s Merit Board includes Cullan Eikenberry, Monroe Township, whose term expires in 1984; Dennis Zook, Jefferson Township, 1985; Vaughn Snider, Monroe Township, 1986; and Donald Harvey, Burlington Township, 1987 and Frank Fitch, Deer Creek Township, 1983. At it’s reorganization dinner meeting, Eikenberry was re-elected president, and Fitch, secretary. Under a new Indiana law which went into effect January 1, there are to be five members of the Carroll County Sheriff’s Merit Board with two appointed by the sheriff’s deputies. 50 YEARS AGO Several Delphi people were searching for and inquiring about the big explosion Saturday afternoon. Some thought their own furnace had exploded, others looked to see which neighbors’ house may have been blown to bits, others checked on the filling stations and accusations were pointed at concerns for using over charges of dynamite. Houses shook, plastering cracked and one local business man who had been called to repair a furnace, arrived at the home just as the “explosion” occurred and thinking he had arrived too late, rushed to the furnace room with his fire extinguisher, only to find everything spic and span. The son rushed from his upstairs bedroom, where he saw the ceiling crack, thinking too, that the furnace had exploded. Later it was deducted that a low flying jet had “cracked the sound barrier”, causing the earth-shaking explosion. Other homes also reported plaster damage and frayed nerves. 75 YEARS AGO The new school at Pittsburg in Tippecanoe township was used Wednesday for the first time, when approximately 100 pupils gathered there to begin their semester’s work. The building was built under the direction of Frank Riley, township trustee, and cost about 430,000 without one cent of graft. It is said to be one of the finest township buildings in the state. The building is built of brick and stone. The main floor has four classrooms, toilets for boys and girls, and separate toilets for pupils of the primary room; also 98 lockers, a supply room and rest room. Drinking fountains are in the wide hall which divides the main floor. In the basement is the gymnasium or assembly room, with 144 metal seats; also a stage with foot lights and a kitchen with cafeteria serving shelf. 100 YEARS AGO The first poultry show of the Carroll County Poultry Association will be held in Flora. This show is open to the world. The outlook is extra good for a big show. The poultry receipts are the greatest of any farm products in the United States. All parties wishing to advertise or sell or show poultry can enter same in this show and have them scored free. Everybody is invited to come and help make this the best show of the kind that has ever been within your reach. Start for Flora next week and never stop until you have carefully examined all the fine poultry in the show and learn all that you can. |
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