Dame Hotel & Ice Cream Parlor, Market Street, Delphi, 1920 10 YEARS AGO

An open house is set for Feb. 22 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. for the new EMS ambulance garage in Delphi. The spacious garage was built with the future in mind. It will hold up to four ambulances plus the paramedic chase vehicle. Currently, it needs to house only two ambulances and the medic vehicle.

Delphi Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon cutting for Split Endz, a beauty salon owned by Jill Roth. Split Endz has moved from West Main Street to their new location at 101 W. Franklin Street. The salon will celebrate their grand opening from Feb. 16-19 with specials valid through the end of the month.

Seniors Kurt Wagoner and Katherine Huffer were crowned king and queen at Carroll’s Basketball Homecoming held Friday night.

25 YEARS AGO

The Ramblin’ Rose Cloggers, comprised of Janet and Willard Best, Pat Mills and Dick Williams, won first prize - $10,000 – in the Solid Gold Dance contest at Picadilly’s Nightclub in Indianapolis. They competed with nine other dance groups in the finals. A crowd of 2,400 included thirty fans from Carroll County.

Jerry Hendress of Rt. 1, Camden was one of three named for the “1985 Outstanding Young Pork Producers Award,” presented at the banquet of the Indiana Pork Producer Conference in Indianapolis.

The Andrew Thomas house in Camden, which waas built in 1869, has been placed on the National Register of Historical Places.

50 YEARS AGO

The Delphi Methodist Church has been given a beautiful building site overlooking Deer Creek and its valley for the building of a new parsonage. The tract, given by Mr. and Mrs. John E. Walker, on Riley Road in South Delphi, is just west of the Walker home and consists of four and one-half acres which represents a very substantial value. The church is being given a clear title to the land.

The Public Service Commission has authorized Yeoman Telephone company to increase rates and provide toll-free extended area service to Idaville and Monticello. New monthly rates for residential local service and the present extended area service to Delphi, effective this month, will be $5.10 for one-party lines and $4.60 for two-party lines. New business rates will be $7.75 and $7.

The fabulous 16-piece Jimmy Dorsey orchestra, fresh from New York conducted by Lee Castle, will furnish music for the Country Club dance at the Armory in South Delphi on Wednesday, February 24th from 9:00 to 1:00. There will be two half hour floor shows and curvaceous Jayne Ames is the featured vocalist. Tickets for $5.00 a couple may be purchased at the America Legion, Wynkoop Pharmacy or Little’s Cleaners.

75 YEARS AGO

Rosella McCain, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William McCain of this city, will appear, Saturday morning on the “Just Kids” program at Purdue. This will be broadcast over radio station W.B. A.A. She gives dramatic readings and is just six years old. Her lessons were taken under Margaret Rice. The program will commence at 11:00 and all her friends should tune in and hear it.

The grand opening of the Farm Bureau store will be held Saturday in Delphi. Refund checks will also be distributed at the same time and everything points to a big day.

John Maxwell, retired farmer of Ockley, died at 12:30 o’clock Friday afternoon at the Home hospital, shortly after he had been taken to the Lafayette institution. He was the oldest person in Madison township. The deceased would have been 91 years old Saturday. He was a veteran of the Civil war.

100 YEARS AGO

The essential apparatus of baseball is simple and inexpensive. All that is required is a field, a stick, the ball itself and police protection for the umpire. One advantage of the game as played professionally is that those sitting in the grandstand can play the game a great deal better than the eighteen men on the diamond. It is also true that any one of the spectators, even though perched on a telephone pole across the street or looking through a knot-hole in the fence back of the catcher’s box, can judge on the pitcher’s skill or the runner’s fleetness much more intelligently than the arbiter who stands behind the battery. The great merit of the game is that the people can participate in it.

In view of the extent to which the practice of placing loose coins in the boxes by rural patrons has grown, and the delay in the delivery and collection of mail and the hardship imposed on rural carriers incident thereto, rural letter carriers will not be required to collect loose coins from rural mail boxes. Patrons should enclose coins in an envelope, wrap them securely in a piece of paper, or deposit them in a coin-holding receptacle.