Ford Garage and Dame Hotel, corner of Market and Main Streets, Delphi, 1938 10 YEARS AGO

Camden Elevator closed its doors for business following many years of service to the farm community. The elevator was purchased by Jesse Zook in 1935. Elevators at Flora and Thorntown owned by the company have already closed. The Flora elevator closed in the 1980s and Thorntown was closed in June.

An auction scheduled for Aug. 20 will liquidate the real estate, personal property and other items.

Camden Lions are gearing up for the 48th Annual Tractor Pull & Fun Fest this weekend.

A lowered tax base will require Burlington Town Council to trim their tentative 1999 budget.

Clerk-Treasurer Jean Ehrman told council members at their meeting that at least $40,000 will need to be cut from the general fund and another $20,000 will have to be trimmed from the motor vehicle fund.

25 YEARS AGO

Governor Robert Orr and Indianapolis Mayor William Hudnut shared honors Friday morning when the Capitol City's new Hoosier Dome roof raising was undertaken. The two public officials pumped the first air into the dome area, which is suspended by pressure from blowers. Al Moss and Joe Moss of the Comet, along with Dave Moss, were in the structure when the raising occurred. It took only 45 minutes to inflate the 257 ton dome within a few feet of the place where it now stands 197 feet high. Completion of the Dome is expected next July.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved the construction plans and specifications and the preliminary plan of operation for the Bringhurst central sewage treatment plant.

50 YEARS AGO

Most objects fall into one of two classifications, useful or decorative. However, Frank Fitch is the proud possessor of an item which defies such easy disposition. Mr. Fitch owns a very large pickle which is encased in a very small necked bottle. Useful? No. Decorative? Scarcely. But Mr. Fitch points out that it certainly demonstrates that science is wonderful, in view of the fact that the pickle grew in the bottle. We were too amazed to argue the point. One thing is sure, If the public suddenly demands pickles which cannot be removed from their bottles.-Frank is ready.

75 YEARS AGO

A ten weeks drought was ended here Sunday evening when it rained continuously for twelve hours and the rainfall is reported as 1 1/2 inches. This is the first good rain in Carroll county since May 17.

Fourteen dollars stolen from Guy Clouser, a Carroll county farmer, by a gypsy woman, was recovered when Sheriff Bert Cliffton, Deputy Arthur Anderson and Marshall Doxie Moore, rounded up a band of nomads, traveling in six automobiles in Lafayette. Clouser went to Lafayette and identified a man who was in an auto with the woman who picked his pocket when he went to his mail box to get his mail. He had the money in his hip pocket in his overalls when the gypsies engaged him in conversation. They got a drink of water for a baby and when they drove away, Clouser missed the money. Later, the band was escorted out of the city and told to keep moving.

100 YEARS AGO

Joseph Lieb had some corn. John Julius had some chickens. Those chickens acted just like your neighbors' chickens do with your corn. John and Joseph got into a rag chewing just like your are liable to do and as a result Joseph has a bad looking face on the left side, and according to a complaint for assault and battery made by Joseph, John and his hoe had something to so with it.