William Bradshaw & Son, Jewelers (Grandpa Neff in doorway), Delphi, 1890 10 YEARS AGO

For many years, the site of the former ice plant o Carrollton Road, Delphi, was used for City utility parts storage, and a dumping site for others. Delphi Street and Water departments have begun cleanup of the site. After completion, grass will be planted and trees will line the lot.

Carroll Jr.-Sr. High School senior Holly Kenimond recently advanced to finalist standing in the 1999 National Merit Program. This distinction places her in a group representing less than 1% of U.S. high school graduating seniors.

25 YEARS AGO

Declining enrollment and escalating costs may be responsible for closing Yeoman Elementary School in Twin Lakes School Corporation attended by students in Jefferson Township, Carroll County.

Maintaining quality education while enrollment declines is a grave problem, according to education consultant Merle Strom. The costs of operation increases as student population declines.

Carroll's Cougars and Delphi's Oracles, the county's only two high schools, open play in the Indiana High School Athletic Association Sectional Tournament of Lafayette Jefferson High School Tuesday.

Seven new officers have been added to the Carroll county Sheriff's Reserve Unit bringing it to full capacity for the first time since it was formed Sept. 16, 1982. Full capacity is 15.

50 YEARS AGO

Fidel Castro, newly appointed prime minister of Cuba, posed for a picture with sight-seeing Stephen Young, of Carroll county. Castro, the focal point of national news of late, has been visited by such well-known figures as TV's Jack Parr, and the movies' Errol Flynn; Mr. Young has added himself to the select group who have hobnobbed with Fidel. Young is in Florida to attend a plumbers convention.

75 YEARS AGO

Believe it or not! There is one man in Delphi that says he will be unable to vote because he does not know his age and does not know how to find out when his birthday is and the year he was born.

It is the well known poet, Mr. Francis Jordan Wirt and if anyone will enlighten him along these lines he will be glad to register so he can vote.

Frank is a good honest fellow and says unless he finds out his age he won't swear to a lie as to his age merely to vote. He thinks if his well known former friend and noted poet James Whitcomb Riley, who use to play with him along the banks of Deer Creek was living he might enlighten him on the subject.

100 YEARS AGO

There are some very grave abuses in the use of the rural telephones. They are so constructed that the telephones are used for eavesdropping.

How can a child be impressed with the essential meanness of eavesdropping, if parents rush to the telephone and listen purposely to the conversation that their neighbors may be carrying on? The remedy is easy. Never take down the receiver except in response to your own call, and never allow a child to do so.