Members of the 1956 Delphi High School basketball team and cheerleaders are pictured at Pat’s Lunch, Delphi: Front table, clockwise, starting from left side – Coach Robert Gordon, Wayne Wentzel, Wayne Pearson, Lois Young, Helen Crosby, William Howard, Barbara Schock, Deanna Whiteman, John Gerard, Jerry Wagner, Mrs. Gordon, unknown Oracle fan. Back table, l-r - Charles O’Farrell, John Hanna, Charles Mulligan, Jim Landis, Fred McCain, Joe Hanna. Photo provided by Joe and Barbara (Schock) Jones 10 YEARS AGO

July of this year would have marked the 100th birthday of the Rockfield School. Now, all that is left is a pile of bricks and a mountain of memories. Jack Cohee of Cohee Excavating, was hired to demolish the old school, and will begin to clear away the debris this week. Some of the bricks will go to Bill and Carolyn Pearson to rebuild the one room schoolhouse they own on Dayton Road. After the land is cleared, a new park complete with playground equipment and shelter will be built.

Jean Guyer of Flora still has valentines that she received in the 1920s. They were given to her by friends and classmates, family members and other relatives. Most of them are from her fourth grade classmates in 1923. Mrs. Guyer later became a fourth grade teacher.

A lot of couples have met their mates on a blind date, but Al and Joan Moss met on a “group blind date” and were not even set up with each other. Their first meeting took place at Ideal Beach, now know as Indiana Beach. Although Al’s date was a “lovely lady,” Al had eyes for his friend Dick Ledman’s date. Over 50 years ago she later became Joan Moss.

25 YEARS AGO

A Carroll County bride of four months panicked one evening when she discovered her wedding rings were missing. She called the stores she had been to that day and planned to look at her place of employment the next day. After a couple days of misery, she found the rings in a most unlikely place – in the refrigerator in a container of shredded cheese. The rings were loose and had fallen into the container when she got a handful of cheese.

A familiar face to Carroll County residents appears in this month’s issue of Indianapolis Monthly magazine.

Debra Beckner, a former Mrs. Indiana, is one of three models featured in a lingerie photo layout. The still pictures were taken on location at the newly refurbished Canterbury Hotel in Indianapolis.

50 YEARS AGO

Final rites for Frances E. Leffler, 87, Spanish-American War veteran of Pittsburg, was held Saturday at the Eikenberry funeral home in Delphi. Burial was made in the Pretty Prairie cemetery.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Jeffers of Logansport have bought the Midway Restaurant in Delphi and plan to reopen it the last of the week.

Delphi may be a brighter” town if a survey by the Public Service Company proves favorable. The street and light committee of the City Council met in a special session to formulate a program for future development. They requested a survey to determine the possibility of increasing the light output from the present ornamental lights uptown and also in the residential areas. They also considered extending the ornamental lights both east and west on Main street and south “up the hill” to South Delphi.

75 YEARS AGO

Four places at Camden and one at Bringhurst were entered Monday night by thieves, but not much of value was taken. State Trooper Paul Rule investigated. At the Charles Baker hardware store, the safe was opened but it contained only books and papers; however six boxes of ammunition and four or five pocket knives were taken. The school building, mill and elevator were also broken into and searched, although nothing was missed in these places. Lane’s store in Bringhurst, owned by Wilbur Lane, county clerk, was also robbed of thirty-five gallons of gasoline during the night, this being the third such theft in recent months. The theft of three valuable rugs from the Harve Lynch home in Delphi last week may have been the work of the same thieves, according to investigators.

100 YEARS AGO

W. H. Weaver, the hustling “merchant on the corner” has decided to put in a nice line of carpets and linoleums and will use the upstairs room, formerly occupied by the K. of P. lodge. He is placing a stairway in his lower store room, by which his future customers in this line may be able to easily have access to the upper room.

Harvey Ross of near Delphi, recently bought a farm in Oklahoma and will move there in a short time. He bought the farm expecting to make a fortune for himself and his sons tilling the soil, but did not expect to acquire millions by the method alone and now we are convinced that he will engage in mining and become a great or magnate and perhaps an oil king.