Serving Carroll County, Indiana since 1974
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Looking Back
In a move to reduce 1999 spending, Carroll Consolidated School Corporation Board of Education voted to non-renew the contracts of four teachers. A recent advertisement placed by the Carroll County Commissioners offering the Carrollton Bridge for sale was labeled Monday as premature and an "end run" around local efforts by advocates pushing for restoration of the arched cement structure spanning the Wabash River. Barbara McCain is one of five Purdue graduates who were honored with 1999 Distinguished Alumni Awards from the university's School of Education. McCain, elementary visual arts instructor in the Delphi Community School Corporation, received the Community Achievement Award for "contributions to her community through commitment and dedication, and for inspiring that spirit in others." 25 YEARS AGO Kris Sibbitt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Sibbitt of Rt. 1, Bringhurst, has been chosen for international ministry with "Reach Out Singers." She will be leaving June 10 for Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and from there will tour the Northeastern United States, Canada, Sweden, Finland and Russia, returning home Aug. 19. The singers are a music ministry reaching out to over 100,000 people in most states and 19 foreign countries. All you have to right now is drive anywhere in Carroll County and see scenes of unrest. With the weather not cooperating, farmers are beginning to become a little edgy. Expensive equipment has been out and ready for several weeks now but hardly anything has been done in the fields to put the farmers considerably behind the point where they would like to be today. They have gone over their equipment for the umpteenth time and just want to be ready when the fields are dry enough for working. 50 YEARS AGO There will be lots of activity in the old town this week. Just to mention part of it, Wynkoop Pharmacy and Beesley Department store join in a big welcome to everyone to visit them during the grand opening of their new stores this Friday and Saturday. Several hundred women and some men are expected at the cooking school at the R.E.M.C. auditorium tonight and Friday afternoon. No sooner will the cooking school vacate than the Art Salon moves in with their big day scheduled for Sunday but overflowing over into the next two days. Although these special events and others provide an attraction and welcome to the people of this community, the city council has decided the mosquitoes will not be so heartily encouraged to come to Delphi. The town will be thoroughly fogged. 75 YEARS AGO The War Mothers Club of Carroll county was organized Tuesday at the home of Mrs. Maude Wilson with a membership of Twenty-one. There will be a Farmer's Union meeting in the basement of the Flora library Tuesday evening. Approximately 9,300 voters registered in Carroll county. The clerk's office was kept open until midnight, to allow everybody to register. 100 YEARS AGO Camden schools close, most successful term in history. The commencement exercises of the Camden high school were held at the Camden opera house, when a class of ten students graduated from that institution of learning. Following are the members of the class: Misses Mary Fouts, Clara Wolfe, Emma Kingery, Ethel Kleckner; Messrs. Lesley Harrison, Dora Ross, Bert Holmes, Paul Musselman, Everett Allbaugh, and Harry Musselman. Music for the services was furnished by the Camden orchestra. The class colors were straw and light blue and their motto was "Out of the Harbor, Out on the Deep." |
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