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Looking Back
Flora Utility Office has been expanded and occupants have moved into their new offices. Separate offices have been made for the four employees who previously shared one office. Half of what was the Fireside Room now contains the offices. The Fireside Room has been pared down, but is still large enough to accommodate small groups of 60 or less, including the weekly Rotary lunches. Flora has under construction a new well, bringing the total to three. The new 75-foot well will be capable of pumping 1,000 gallons of water a minute through a 12-inch pipe, while the older ones pump 500 and 600 gallons per minute and are 50 and 52 feet deep. The water plant can filter 450 gallons a minute, but in the event of a major fire, the plant could be bypassed, allowing firefighters to fill trucks faster. 25 YEARS AGO Carroll County Commissioners increased the rates at the county home (Carroll Manor) at their regular meeting. Effective July 1 the rates will be increased from $250 to $300 per person per month. Dr. Randall Armstrong has purchased the optometry practice of Dr. Goodwin in Delphi, effective May 15. Dr. Edward Landston has been installed president of the Indiana Academy of Family Physicians. Dennis Horn of Indianapolis, who lived in the Delphi community until going to college, assumed ownership of Jackson-Strawn Funeral Home in Delphi. The business has been renamed Horn funeral Home. 50 YEARS AGO A .10 kite attracted more attention than a circus parade for a while here Monday afternoon. John Dean Sanderson was unaware that any sensation was being created. But when the object was first sighted, high in the sky, there was much speculation as to what the weaving, bobbing object might be. Definite, serious answers ranging from helicopters, weather balloon and bird to flying saucer and some thought it might be a kite or a box kite but few believed that a kite could be so high. John Dean had made the purchase of the .10 T kite and a .25 ball of twine that afternoon. He added a second ball then started the kite skyward near his Front street home. The energetic kite went up to the end of the estimated 1,100 feet of string. He began to rewind but as he turned to comment to a companion the kite lurched and pulled the string from his hand. The kite hurtled across town getting caught up several times along the way and then breaking loose again. It finally came down on the John Shephard porch roof where it was retrieved by John Dean and his father. The kite now adorns a wall of his room as a reminder of the day business stood still as the populace was alerted. 75 YEARS AGO A car load of gypsies stopped about two o'clock Monday afternoon at the home of F.C. Hartsock, three miles west of Delphi on state road 39 and robbed him of $43. Deputy sheriff Ralph Hill responded to the call from the Harstock home taking with him Frank Houser. When they arrived at the scene of the robbery the automobile with its passengers had disappeared. The officers drove all over the nearby vicinity but failed to come in contact with them. 100 YEARS AGO The Wabash railroad has granted the Rockfield Co-operative Elevator Company a lease on a piece of ground adjoining their tracks and the company expects to erect a large elevator this summer. A large number of farmers in that vicinity are interested in the proposition and farmers in other localities will watch the outcome of the plan with great interest. |
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