Looking Back

2009-01-21 / Looking Back

From the files of Hoosier Democrat, Delphi Journal, Journal Citizen and Carroll County Comet. Photo provided by Carroll County Historical Museum.

Staff of the Citizen-Times, Delphi, is pictured in 1910, l-r: Frank Heiland, John Oats, Nora Brahony, June Scott, Mindwell Crampton Wilson, unknown person, Henry B. Wilson, A.B. Crampton. The building is the current location of the Delphi office of the Carroll County Comet. Staff of the Citizen-Times, Delphi, is pictured in 1910, l-r: Frank Heiland, John Oats, Nora Brahony, June Scott, Mindwell Crampton Wilson, unknown person, Henry B. Wilson, A.B. Crampton. The building is the current location of the Delphi office of the Carroll County Comet. 10 YEARS AGO

Purdue's Ag Alumni Fish Fry has a change in menu this year. For the first time in 50 years, fish will not be served, pork will be instead. Indiana Packers Corp., Delphi, has donated 1,500 pounds of boneless pork loins for the meal.

The U.S. Postal Service, USPS, implemented a new postage rate on Jan. 10. The cost of first-class letters weighing up to one ounce went from .32 to .33.

Touchdowns had special meanings in different ways to Pat Meade of Flora, Drew Brees, Purdue quarterback, and Sue Kirtz of Bringhurst. Meade and Kirtz, both Boilermaker fans attending the Alamo Bowl, were on an airplane which came close to making a crash landing in San Antonio, Texas, but ended with a successful touchdown instead. Brees threw the winning touchdown pass which made Purdue victorious over Kansas State.

25 YEARS AGO

Delphi Community High School coach Phil Brummett was honored Saturday by his fellow Hoosier Conference coaches when he was named the league's "Coach of the Year."

Carroll County Civil Defense needs 4-wheel drive and snowmobile volunteers for use during severe weather emergencies.

Carroll County Right to Life has loaned 16 car seats to families who could not afford to buy them, but the organization is now out of funds to purchase any more.

50 YEARS AGO

The Flora Badgers were ranked 23rd in the week's state high school basketball rating list ahead of such name teams as Terre Haute Gerstmeyer, Fort Wayne South, Indianapolis Tech and Manual, Lafayette, Southport, South Bend Central, Richmond, Central of Evansville, Logansport, Frankfort and many others.

Although several changes were made in the sectionals for the Indiana high school basketball tournament, a Carroll county team would follow the same path as in recent years on its way to a state championship, playing both the sectional and regional at Kokomo; semi-state at Fort Wayne, and the finals at the Butler field house. Only change here is the reduction from ten to eight teams in the sectional caused by the loss of Cutler and Deer Creek.

75 YEARS AGO

An engineer went over the Delphi-Camden-Deer Creek road recently to see about the advisability of including it in the dotted line system in the state. If it is approved it would be included in the Public Works Program.

Camden is probably one of the largest towns in the state with no state road. Nothing would suit the people of this county more than to see them receive a road of this kind.

100 YEARS AGO

L.C. Mosier, of Madison township killed an Artic owl Sunday that measures 4 feet and 9 inches fro tip to tip of its wings. This is the third bird of the kind ever killed in Carroll county. Jesse Barnard, the well known taxidermist formerly of this city, but now residing in Lafayette, is mounting the bird.

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