Delphi Lumber Company, 1900 10 YEARS AGO

Carroll FFA's first annual Christmas with the Animals was deemed a success Sunday evening despite heavy fog which blanketed the area around 5 p.m. Nearly 500 children and adults participated in various activities planned and coordinated by junior high and senior high FFA members.

For the 20th year in a row, Carroll County Pork Producers have done their part to help make Christmas better for families in need in Carroll County. Despite record low pork prices and their own hardships, Pork Producers donated a record 2,500 pounds of ground pork to families in need.

25 YEARS AGO

Christmas food-toy boxes were distributed Saturday from Delphi Presbyterian church through a united effort of many Carroll County churches to 150 families which might have been without this weekend.

An application was filed with the State Board of Health for a proposed nursing home in Delphi.

Jean Gilbert, a 4th grade teacher at Rossville, won a 2- minute shopping spree at Stephan's IGA in a contest sponsored by the Flora Lions Club. On Saturday morning her husband, David, was her designated runner to do the shopping. Mary Stayer checked the total he was able to collect. His choices ranged from a 23 cent package of chicken necks to a $34.56 ham. Gilbert was able to load the cart with exactly $305 worth of groceries.

50 YEARS AGO

People here realized their dependence on electricity Monday when the power was off for about 15 minutes because of some mechanism trouble at the sub-station. So many people telephoned to learn what the matter was, that it became necessary for telephone girls to accept only emergency calls for the brief period.

The Delphi Armory, where high school basketball games have been played for 30 years, will be the scene of the final contest expected to be played there tonight, with the Flora Badgers as the opposition.

Several people in North Delphi have been instructed to erect mail boxes in front of their homes to be ready for mail delivery soon after the first of the year.

75 YEARS AGO

The Monroe township mixed quartette which won first place in the quartette contest at the Indiana state fair this past season won second place in the National Farm Bureau quartette contest held at Chicago this week. The quartette consists of Mr. and Mrs. Ora Shirar, Mrs. Melvin Fisher and Junior McCloskey. Miss Helen Hicks was their accompanist, and William Morocco was their director.

Sheriff Bert Clifton has given notice that all slot machines in Carroll county are to be removed before January 1, 1934.

100 YEARS AGO

The Board of Trustees of the Town of Flora met in special call session to consider the proposition of granting a franchise for the operation of an electric light plant in Flora. The proposition was offered by William B. and Guy W. LaBaw, of Fountain county. After due consideration and deliberation the Board granted these gentlemen a franchise for an electric light plant in this city for a period of twenty years.

The name of the new light company will be the LaBaw Electric Company.

These two gentlemen are both unmarried, which will no doubt be good news to the young ladies of this community, as they are both gentlemen, and come highly recommended.

When our electric lights are in operation, Flora can then put on city airs, as we will then have all the conveniences of a large city.