Flora School's 1928-29 seventh and eighth grade basketball team 10 YEARS AGO

Grand opening for the Big R store in Delphi was last Thursday through Sunday. There were door prizes and free refreshments, culminating with a hog roast for the public on Saturday.

The Flora Airport was a busy place when the Indiana Flying Farmers congregated there at a recent state meeting. Members were shuttled from the airfield to Cutler where they toured Adams Mill, Wildcat Bed & Breakfast, and lunched at the Cutler Cafe. There were 50 in attendance. Eva Sisson of Flora was named Indiana Flying Farmer Queen by fellow members of the organization. She represented the group in Louisiana where the national meeting was held.

25 YEARS AGO

Wind contributed to a fire in a field of standing corn along Prince William Road between 150S and 200S.

The fire reportedly was started by a combine owned by Paul Humbred and William Clawson of Rt. 4, Delphi, which was being used to harvest corn on the Ren Bates farm.

The fire damaged five acres of corn on the Bates farm and approximately 20 to 25 acres on the Mrs. Charles Bowen farm.

Damages to combine and corn was estimated at $35,000. The combine was believed to be a total loss, except the corn head. Sixty-five percent of the corn reportedly was on the ground following the fire.

Cause of the combine fire was not determined.

50 YEARS AGO

This is Fire Prevention Week. Preservation of one's own life and property should be sufficient reason to cause everyone to use every precaution to prevent fire. But warnings and suggestions continue to be necessary. This is a time, too, for expression of appreciation to those fire fighting volunteers who become real friends in time of need.

Many a man's name appears in the paper only three times: When he is too young to read, when he is too dazed to read, and when he is too dead to read.

75 YEARS AGO

Two schools in Carroll county still remain undecided as to whether they will play basketball this year. They are Adams township and Deer Creek. Expenses last year were more than the amount taken in for the game, so the question has come up as to whether to abandon the sport or to keep it.

Rockfield has definitely decided that there will be no basketball during the season. Adams township will probably keep up inter-class basketball but whether they will undertake the expense of inter-scholastic play remains to be seen.

Deer Creek has no gymnasium and therefore finds it difficult to practice. Last year they used the ones at Carrollton and Washington township, Cass county.

If all three of these schools drop it, there would be only six schools in the county playing; Camden, Burlington, Cutler, Flora, Delphi, and Carrollton township. This would probably mean other teams would be brought in for the sectional tournament.

100 YEARS AGO

Last Sunday the new M E church at Bringhurst was dedicated. Several needed improvements were made on the old church and today the new edifice is one of the best of its kind in this vicinity. A Sunday school room was built on the north of the old church building and a basement, with a furnace installed. The pulpit was built in an alcove on the south side and with a beautiful tower, circular seats, wall decorations, etc., a complete and modern church has replaced has replaced the old one.

The total expense of building and furnishing was $3,000, of which about $1700 had been subscribed and donated. A very pleasant surprise was the presentation of a large pulpit bible to the church.