Looking Back
From the files of Hoosier Democrat, Delphi Journal, Journal- Citizen and Carroll County Comet. Photo provided by Carroll County Historical Museum.

10 YEARS AGO

Camden Lions are gearing up for the 47th Annual Tractor Pull & Fun Fest this weekend.

The Friday pull is open to anyone with a tractor meeting the established guidelines. Many will return on Saturday for additional competition in an invitational pull. The 17th annual Antique Tractor Pull will be Saturday morning.

The Deer Creek Festival and Hog Roast will be Saturday at the Community Center.

The public may view the DCHS mural painted by Mike Floyd at an open house being held in conjunction with Meet Your Teacher Night. The artist, who lives in northern Carroll county, spent nearly 300 hours on the mural.

25 YEARS AGO

It was a happy day for the more than 200 individuals attending the groundbreaking ceremonies held at the Carroll High School site which initiated the long awaited elementary and Jr. High building project.

The project would provide an expanded media center, industrial art area and classrooms to complete a Jr. High wing. The outdoors sports facilities including tennis courts, football field, baseball diamond and all-weather track will be completed for use by the fall of 1983, along with the wing. The elementary school will not be ready for occupation until the fall of 1984.

50 YEARS AGO

The Herman Neff, Sr., family of Flora, grows champions. For the second year a Neff boy flashed first over the finish line in the annual Soap Box Derby. Last year it was Herman Jr., who won the honors that were this year gained by his younger brother, Myron.

The winning racer was light blue with a strip of natural wood around its mid-section, carrying the phrase "In God We Trust", inscribed just above the steering wheel.

Myron who will be this year's entry at Akron, Ohio from this area, hopes to better his brother's record of fifth place.

In addition the all expense paid trip to Akron, Myron was awarded the Cole victory plaque and a number of other prizes.

75 YEARS AGO

At the meeting of the Delphi school board held Monday night it was decided to take over the John Miller residence in West Delphi and remodel it into a school building for the West Side children. The people there had filed a petition objecting to sending the children there to Delphi as had been thought of after the building burned there last spring.

Many persons in the county went fishing and hunting in July, at least they planned to at that time and got their permits, for a total of 239 Resident licenses and 9 non-resident licenses were issued by County Clerk Floyd Julien.

100 YEARS AGO

The biggest crowd that Rockfield has seen in recent years was out last Friday night to hear the Delphi band and see the "boom train." Four cars left Delphi at about 7:30 and it is estimated that 500 people went from there and when they arrived they found the town full of people. George Ives made an address of 20 minutes, setting forth the advantages that Delphi merchants offer to the people of that territory to make Delphi their trading place.