Cassell’s 5 & 10 cent store was located in downtown Flora in the 1920s or ‘30s. Pictured l-r are Jim Cassell, LaGreta Burton Rardon and Helen Lee. Photo provided by Charles Burton 10 YEARS AGO

Robert “Bob” Morrow of Delphi was congratulated by county commissioner Charles “Tug” Sutton after Morrow received the prestigious Sagamore of the Wabash award. Morrow, a World War II veteran, has been Carroll County veterans service officer for almost 51 years.

The Family Health Clinic of Carroll County has relocated to the former Salin Bank building, next to Dave’s IGA.

Middle school students who won Certificates of Merit in the REMC Electric Consumer Calendar Art Contest are Casey Blickenstaff, eighth grade, and Amy Cline, seventh grade.

Carroll Jr.-Sr. High School Drama Dept. will present “Gypsy,” its fall musical on Friday evening at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. in the CJSHS auditorium.

25 YEARS AGO

When an airplane with lighted lower wing displaying a message supporting Carroll’s Cougars flew over at Attica nearly two week’s ago, everyone thought it was paid for by the Carroll Athletic Boosters.

The real story was that it was a group of businesses.

The plane was to have appeared to Adams Central last Friday but because of air turbulence did not appear.

To say that a large crowd attended the Yeager & Sullivan egg processing plant open house Saturday would be an understatement. Estimates are that 1200-1500 people attended, and 1,000 went through the food line. Omelets, crepes, quiche, and egg and Canadian bacon sandwiches were served, using 270 dozen, or 3,240 eggs.

50 YEARS AGO

Lt. Donald R. Calvert, son of Mr. and Mrs. Glen Calvert, of Madison township, has been selected as the “pilot of the month” by the Selection Board of the 832nd Air Division at Connor Air Force Base. Calvert is a first lieutenant in the 428th Tactical Fighter Squadron.

Members of the Delphi United Methodist church launched an ambitious program Monday night to establish a $36,000 Building and Improvement program. The fund is to be raised on a voluntary basis over a three-year period and is to be used for the purchase of a site and the building of a parsonage, thus releasing the present parsonage for Sunday School classrooms.

75 YEARS AGO

Nov. 14th, 1934 - Messrs, Mayhill & Ulm: We congratulate you on this, the 84th anniversary of the Delphi Journal which our dear father established on Nov. 14th, 1850. Coming from a long line of newspaper men, we are naturally interested in newspaper. Our father, Judge John Scott, was not only a newspaper man, but his name appeared among the members of those who attended the first grand assembly of Indiana. Carrie Scott Cox and Junia E. Scott.

Announcement is made of the marriage of Miss Dorothy Cook, daughter of Mrs. Ralph Moore to Leonard McCormick, son of Mrs. Bertha McCormick, of Delphi. The ceremony took place Sunday afternoon, November 18, 1934 at Delphi with the Rev. Jenkins of the Christian church officiating.

100 YEARS AGO

If John D. Rockefeller, the great oil king and whose name is on the lips of nearly everyone throughout the United States daily, lives till his eightieth birthday – and he has said he will reach 100 – he will become the first billionaire in history.

Wm. Pearson, Jr. and younger brother, Reed, north of Delphi, figured in an accident Tuesday evening which fortunately resulted without the loss of life at the railroad crossing on Wilson street, Delphi, their rig being struck by the belated north bound Monon passenger.