Looking Back

Old settlers Daniel and Mary (Jordan) Allen were farmers in Monroe Township. They are pictured here circa 1890. Daniel was 7 ft. tall. 10 YEARS AGO

Two hundred nine lots were sold at the 1998 Carroll County 4-H livestock auction, bringing a total of $83,960.32.

A special workday, called to cleanup damage caused by excess water of Deer Creek recently, brought over thirty volunteers to Riley and Trail Head parks in Delphi, on Saturday. Due to the excellent turn-out, workers were divided between the salvage project at Riley Park Suspension Bridge, the log jam at the bridge over SSR 25, and the lower trails of Trail Head park.

The Deer Creek Presbyterian FOC, youth group gathered at Betty's Stop-N-Shop last week to begin cleaning up weeds and painting the exterior of the building. The work was the group's mission project. Eight youth from Carroll, Delphi, and Lewis Cass schools participated under the supervision of their group sponsors.

25 YEARS AGO

A black box with bold print on it saying "I object to Smut" was burned Sunday by the Delphi first Baptist Church. The burning followed two weeks of revival in which things objected to "that hindered their growth in Christ" were collected by 100 people. Some of the things objected to were rock and roll, country and western, TV programs, pornography, occult activities and more. The burning followed the church's annual picnic at Riley park.

50 YEARS AGO

The Carroll County 4-H Fair will be held at the Flora Community park, July 28 to Aug. 2 Eight hundred fourteen 4-H Club members are now completing their projects to exhibit at the county fair, which will total more than 2,000 projects. Agriculture and Home Ec leaders and Junior leaders will meet at the Fair grounds on Saturday morning to set up facilities to take entries.

This is the 20th year that the Flora Community Club has sponsored the annual 4-H Club Fair. DeVer Hoffman and Jack Driggs are general chairmen for the 4-H Community Club, which makes arrangements for the commercial and implement exhibits, The Drago Amusements and underwrite the expenses of the Fair except judges, premiums and awards. There will be a full program of entertainment each day.

75 YEARS AGO

Records in the office of the Carroll county assessor show that according to the number of diamonds given in for taxation there are just 11 in the entire county. These were valued at $720.00. There are listed 3517 automobiles in the county, 800 of these being in towns and the remaining 2717 in the country. These are valued at $344,024 and average of $98. There are listed 521 tractors this year as compared with 568 last year, the valuation this year being $58,510. There are 3212 horses this year with a valuation of $181,770.

Personal property valuations in the townships are approximate.

100 YEARS AGO

Continued from previous weeks…

A greater Bringhurst will result from the fire, as it has always been the history of other towns, and while the $10,000 loss will be sadly missed by those burned out the fire really will result in a good thing for the town. It is almost a safe prediction that in less than a year the business section of the town will be blessed with the addition of several new brick business rooms.

It is thought that the fire was caused by some rats nibbling at matches. Not long ago A.B. Cohee & Co. placed a large tank in their building and laid a pipe to the street.

This was of much assistance in gaining control of the fire in its northward sweep. About 5 o'clock a call for assistance was sent to this place and Marshal McCormick and Ross Penn took the hook and ladder cart to the scene. Hundreds of people visited the town Tuesday.