Serving Carroll County, Indiana since 1974
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Looking Back
The 20th annual Flora Hog jog with a Cruise-In and Hog Wild Cook-Off, will take place Saturday at the Flora Community Park. The Ron and Mandy Cowart family is living their dream of traveling through the country by wagon. The wagon, pulled by eight mules, traveled through Carroll County heading to Logansport. Normally the wagon travels an average of 20 miles a day. Two horses, two dogs and a cat complete the entourage. Cowarts are accompanied by a truck which carries supplies of water and hay for the animals. Along with teenage daughters Becky and Kate, Cowarts began their journey last November from their home in Louisiana, and plan to go to Canada before traveling back home via a different route. They anticipate being gone two years. 25 YEARS AGO Sixty plus Airsteam trailers camped out in Flora Community Park over the weekend in a rally organized by the Central IndianaWally Bryan Caravan Club International. Carroll County again led the state in the number of hogs and pigs with an inventory of 181,200 in 1982. This was about 8,000 less than the county's inventory showed a year earlier. All Carroll County Police Reserve officers have been qualified with handguns through a certified and registered National Rifleman Association Police Firearms course. 50 YEARS AGO The "weather" is always a subject for conversation but this week it meant much more than a hearty greeting as you met a friend on the street. The past several days have provided many varieties of weather conditions that combined for much damage over a wide area on all sides of Delphi. There was a great natural concern but through it all an atmosphere of calmness or perhaps it was stunned helplessness. Persons who had suffered severe losses ceased fretting over their own conditions when they saw the worse plight of others. Boys who found it great sport to swim in the new baseball diamond in the park annex, Monday, would have been foolish to attempt it on Tuesday as even Riley Park became completely submerged. 75 YEARS AGO Dr. Hubert Gross of this city has hung out his shingle to doors west of the Journal and has a mighty fine modernly equipped physician's office, in fact, one of the nicest in this section of Indiana.A big corn beef and cabbage dinner will be served at the Carrollton Inn, 5 miles north of Delphi, next Sunday for 50 cents. This place is well known all over this country as one of the best eating places to be had anywhere. Contracts have been signed by the Delphi-Deer Creek township school board and presented to each of the teachers who taught this past year in the Delphi schools. This is the formal method of asking them to return for another year. During the summer months and the band concert season, the barber shops of Delphi will be open on Thursday nights until 9:00 p.m. and on Saturday nights until 10:00 p.m. 100 YEARS AGO Flora's new base ball park, on East Main street, near the Flora school house will be opened Saturday in a double header with the Logansport Ottos. The first game will begin at 9:45 a.m. and the second at 3 p.m. A fine new grand stand has been completed and the grounds put in first class condition for a fast article of ball. The "Merry Widow" hats promise to be plentiful as many ladies will be in attendance. They are the best rooters. |
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