Serving Carroll County, Indiana since 1974
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Looking Back
The last of the American flags will be mounted this week along Columbia Street in time for Fourth of July festivities in Flora. Over 40 flags will be seen flying from one end of town to the other. Flora Lions Club initiated the project and with the help of town employees have mounted the poles. Flora Fire Department will be celebrating 90 years of service at an open house on July 4 at the fire station. Early records show that the Volunteer Fire Department was created in1908. Phyllis Moore, curator of the Carroll County Historical Museum, will be the grand marshal of Delphi's Fourth of July parade. The highest temperature for June was 95 degrees. The lowest temperature was 40. There have been five days above 90 degrees. Total rainfall was 7.38 inches for the month. 25 YEARS AGO
It's happened again! The Bill Schmidts of Delphi, who were visited by a female mallard duck which entered via the chimney several weeks ago, have another story to tell. This time a strange sound came from the far end of the basement, near a dryer. When Schmidt checked he could hear a scratching noise but could find nothing. A vent pipe which carried the hot air outside seemed a likely spot. When Bill tapped, the noise stopped. Finally he found a baby fox squirrel! The theft of a phone booth on a pole taken from the intersection of Ind.29 and 18 in Carrollton Township was investigated by State Police. 50 YEARS AGO
Wednesday morning saw an easing of the flood situation which had existed in Carroll county during the past four days. Volunteers helped with attempting to stop levee breaks and also in moving furniture from flood-threatened homes. Government gauges on Wednesday morning recorded the depth of the Wabash river at 24.8 feet. The disastrous high reached in 1913 was 28 feet. Operating on the "stitch in time" theory, the Carroll county sheriff's department has made arrangements to store the 10,000 unused sandbags sent into the are Tuesday, in the Assembly room of the court house. It has been said that if sandbags had been immediately available, some the damage caused by water this week might have been avoided or at least reduced. 75 YEARS AGO
Six young people from Carroll county were among the 798 graduates in the 1933 class of Purdue University, who received diplomas at the 59th annual commencement exercises held in the University Armory. The list of graduates included representatives from 78 Indiana counties. Those from Carroll County were: Delphi - Elizabeth Wasson, Bachelor of Science in Home Economics; Stuart T. Guthrie, Bachelor of Science in Agriculture; Merton N. Baird, Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. Camden - Truman H. Cline, Master of Science in Electrical Engineering; Carl O. Penn, Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. Bringhurst - Beulah E. Langston, Bachelor of Science in Home Economics. 100 YEARS AGO The advisory Board of Clay township with Trustee Wm. Campbell met in the school house at Owasco last Saturday night and the question for a new school building to be erected at Pyrmont is to have a two-room school building, which will be built of brick, and will cost in the neighborhood of $4,000.00. More ground will be purchased and added to the school ground already owned. The new building will be built west of the old one, on higher ground.
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