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Looking Back
A critical shortage of help and mounting paperwork has spelled the end for a 108-yearold Flora business. Helvie House Movers, Inc. closed last Thursday, ending a family enterprise that spanned four generations. Considered to be one of the best in the business, they do almost all the house moving within a 60-mile radius of Flora. They are one of three main companies which do most of the moving in the state. A constant throughout the years has been Helvie House Mover's reputation for dependability. That's a legacy that can never be taken away from the Helvie family. 25 YEARS AGO Meeting last week officers and directors of the Maple Lawn Cemetery approved opening the new east section. Spaces in the old section have always been sold as a 5-lot package and the new section will sell individual lots at $150 per burial plot. Rita O'Farrell,19, of Rt. 1, Delphi, showed the champion barrow of 233 pounds at this year's Indiana State Fair. A coalition from Carroll and White counties attended the auction with the intention of buying her animal, but was outbid by Production Credit Association for $3,100. 50 YEARS AGO News is a comparative thing. Yesterday's big story gives way to today's. Friday's near tornado has paled beside Tuesday night's storm. However, even though Friday's wild combination of wind and rain does not rate the front page treatment, it was still a lulu. Trees were scattered over the county like a huge game of pick-up-sticks, and electric and telephone poles were knocked down like ten pins. Everyone spent the weekend cleaning up the debris, and it was done patiently somewhat like a mother straightens up after her children. But when there was a repeat performance Tuesday, that was too much. High water and short tempers are the order of the day as we go to press. 75 YEARS AGO Charles Dodge and John L. (Tod) Lowe of Monticello, while fishing on Lake Freeman this week, caught a 17-pound snapping turtle, the largest of its kind captured in local waters for some time. Mr. Dodge was fishing for bass with soft craws when he hooked the turtle. At first he thought he had a live log. When he pulled the turtle beside the boat, the tow fishermen could figure no way to land it, knowing the line would break if they attempted to jerk it into the boat. Almost as soon as the turtle landed in the boat the hook dropped out of its mouth, whereupon it went right after its captors, with its head stuck out of its shell about 8 inches, and almost drove the fishermen into the lake. Asnapping turtle with a good temper is not to be taken lightly. Anyway Mr. Turtle has now been properly beheaded and dressed, and will grace the table for Sunday dinner, and there must be great rejoicing among the finny tribe in Lake Freeman for a turtle of that size has a tremendous consumption. 100 YEARS AGO Attorney James Obear and Fred Smith of Delphi, have completed arrangements for making the plat of the town of Camden. The county commissioners will then be petitioned to order an election and the citizens will be given an opportunity to vote for or against incorporation. |
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