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Looking Back
Seventeen-year-old Aimee Elizabeth Snipes of Flora was crowned Miss Carroll County 4-H Fair Queen at the 40th annual pageant. A lack of local volunteers schooled in emergency medical training means the relocation of an ambulance that has been stationed in the Town of Camden for many years. The retirement of several dedicated volunteers in the Camden area made the sporadic availability of the ambulance a problem for dispatchers handling emergency calls in the Camden area. The ambulance will be relocated to the EMS building just outside Flora. 25 YEARS AGO Talk about a small world according to Marjorie Robinson of Canton, ILL who wrote to her parents, Dr. and Mrs. James McLaughlin of Flora about and incident at the World's Fair. "Just a note to tell you we've returned from the World's Fair, and the most surprising thing is that an exhibitor was there from Flora in this huge building featuring exhibitors from all over the world." It seems that she ran into Karen Shand of Flora, a Carroll high school art teacher who had been selected to exhibit her "Batik Boutique" for a week at the fair following a national competition. 50 YEARS AGO Wheat was rolling in to the elevators this week. Even on Sunday there was a tremendous amount harvested. The Delphi Lumber Company had a car to arrive full of plaster and plasterboard but it's a day and a half job to get such a car unloaded. However, by importing trucks from Russiaville and Battle Ground, to make a total of seven trucks with a dozen men, the car was unloaded in four hours. A truck straddled the rails and pushed the car to the elevator where it soon was being filled to relieve the situation. 75 YEARS AGO State Road 25 has now been opened into Rockfield. The construction company is just entering Burrows with the pavement. Part of the strip from Rockfield to Burrows will probably nor be opened until the bridge over Rock Creek is completed which will be several weeks yet. The small one just east of town will take three or four weeks yet. 100 YEARS AGO The mammoth 'Red Tag' sale at Koonsman & Roblyer's opened with a rush Wednesday morning and hundreds of customers have visited the store since. The people of this vicinity have learned when this firm advertises bargains they have them in store and will substitute no inferior article for them at the same price. Quality is always higher than the price at this store and that is another reason why the place is such a popular one. The sale will positively end Saturday and the customers who visit the sale between now and that time will find plenty of accommodating clerks to take care of their wants. |
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