Canning factory, N. Washington St., Delphi, 1915 10 YEARS AGO

Five Carroll County businesses were presented the Lieutenant Governor's Half Century Business Award. There were 75 businesses in the state to receive the honor, and 33 companies which received the Century Award. The companies from Carroll County include Esserman Tire, Mann Chevrolet- Buick, U.S. Aggregates Inc., Jackson-Lee-Pearson and Peters Revington. Adams Mill Covered Bridge is at long last being renovated. For years the bridge deteriorated, eventually unable to carry traffic. A proud relic of Carroll County's history was nearly lost until Friends of Adams Mill began making plans and seeking funds to save it. The Friends sought grants, did fund raising and pleaded for enough county money to get the project underway. The project is expected to be completed in the fall.

25 YEARS AGO

The Corner Shop in Cutler has a new home.

Tom and Beverly Overholser, owners, have moved their business to a new 36 by 60 foot building built and owned by Overholser's parents, Max and Doris Overhosler.

Included with the business are a grocery and dairy line specializing in Wisconsin cheeses, a coffee bar and recreation center.

A time capsule was dropped into place just prior to the laying of the cornerstone at the new elementary school. Attending the special dedication ceremony Tuesday afternoon were Carroll Elementary students and staff, school officials, members of the holding corporation, a representative of E.I. Brown Company, and the public. One thousand balloons were released at the close of the ceremony.

50 YEARS AGO

Little League baseball got into action here Sunday when nearly 100 boys began tryouts to win 20 places on the major league teams made vacant by last season's 12-year-old boys who "graduated."

Adopting a new ruling by the national organization, games will be played on Sunday instead of the usual double header on Saturday afternoon.

The local Lions Club will hold its annual White Cane sale to assist the blind on Friday evening and Saturday morning.

Tom Wagner broke the Muncie Relay record in the low hurdles Saturday skimming the sticks in 20.5 seconds. The former record was held by Dale Crowder also of Delphi. Bill Schock was 3rd in the race with a time of 20.8 seconds.

75 YEARS AGO

The Bringhurst Greyhounds defeated Delphi in the last few innings of an interesting game played on the former's diamond, Sunday afternoon.

The $2,000 damage suit of Mrs. Maude Sink of Carroll County against the Pennsylvania Railroad came to trial before Judge Fred N. Prass of Lafayette. The case had a change of venue to Tippecanoe County from the Carroll circuit court. Sink asked for a judgment for an alleged impairment of vision to her left eye after being struck by a hot cinder from the stack of a locomotive while she was riding on a train from Flora to Camden in January of 1931.

100 YEARS AGO

One of the worst storms in the history of Burlington, struck that town about 6:45 last Tuesday evening. It entered the city from the southwest, over the cemetery, uprooting many trees in Foglesongs orchard and tore the roof from his summer kitchen. Barns were torn down, roofs swept away. About everything in the shape of awnings, porches and old chimneys were torn down in that part of town. It is said that the wind was so violent that it picked up a heavy scantling and hurled it through the side of the wall of the pool room about 30 feet from the ground, completely destroying that place. Every building on the Lee Oyler farm near town was blown down except the brick house. The storm was accompanied by a heavy downpour of rain and hail.