Dog House restaurant, US 421 W, Delphi, circa 1990 10 YEARS AGO

FENT Restoration Artisans, LLC of Fort Wayne restored one of the 16 columns around the courthouse rotunda. The courthouse was built in 1916. Tobacco smoke and old coal furnace caused discoloration in the columns and over time cracks and chips developed.

Delphi Community High School freshman Jade Maxwell has been selected for the Indiana All-State Honor Band. A bassoonist, she is only the second student from DCHS to ever be selected for the prestigious honor band. She is the daughter of Harry and Fonda Miller of Delphi.

The DCHS spring musical “1940s Radio Hour” will be presented this Friday, Saturday and Sunday in the high school Little Theatre.

Turn back time to the 1920s, ‘30s and ‘40s and tune into the Golden Age of Radio. Naomi Butcher of

Flora recalls these days as if they were yesterday. She remembers her family getting their first radio in the ‘20s. She can still picture her father, Harry Quinn, monopolizing the earphones on Sunday afternoon listening to the broadcast of the Cubs baseball game. Mrs. Butcher’s favorites were Jack Benny, Amos ‘n’ Andy, Fibber McGee and Molly and George Burns and Gracie Allen.

25 YEARS AGO

The resignations of 33- year football coach and teacher Tony Berto and the corporation’s only building trades instructor in history, James A. Sullivan, were approved.

Winning first place awards at the District 5 FFA Convention were Carroll FFA members Bernie Wilimitis, Clint Jervis, Tony Trent and Mark Calhoun. The chapter brought home 15 banners for first, second and third places.

Delphi Community High School is now requiring its health classes to included CPR as part of the curriculum.

During 1984 there were 4559 instruments recorded and $20,971.60 collected in fees to be turned over to the county treasurer according to the yearly report of County Recorder Ruth Anderson.

50 YEARS AGO

Horns blew and tempers flared when traffic was held up for approximately 45 minutes at about 9:30 Thursday night when air brakes stuck on the freight train causing it to stall and block all crossings of the Wabash railroad in Delphi. The delay caused many factory workers commuting to Lafayette or Monticello to be late for work. About the same time the Delphi Fire Department answered a call to Sky Ride Service Station to wash away about 100 gallons of gas that spilled when the station tank ran over while being filled from a bulk truck. Charles Mikesell is station manager.

A group of Carroll county residents yesterday petitioned the Indiana Public Service Commission for an order directing Wabash Railroad Company to install automatic signals at its West Burrows crossing.

The first shipment of Comets for the Delphi, Indiana area is loaded at Ford Motor Company’s assembly plant in Lorain, Ohio. Johnson Schnepp Motors Inc., West on 421, has the franchise to sell the company’s new economy car when it goes on sale March 17. Comet prices begin at $1,996, exclusive of state and local taxes or delivery charges.

New, Low Cost Laundry Open 24 Hours A Day. Now. Wash 20 cents, Dry 10 cents. Attendants on Duty 6 Days A Week, 7:30 to 5:30 – Delphi Laundromat.

75 YEARS AGO

Carroll Telephone company, whose officers are Mrs. Sue Walker, Mrs. Mary Walker Perry and Charles A. Cartwright, closed a deal Wednesday for the former post office building, on the public square, and will build a new home for the telephone company there, sometime in the future.

An interesting basketball game has been planned for Friday night at the Delphi Armory at 7:30. This will be between the Has Beens and Will Bees to enable the basketball team to go to the state tourney at Indianapolis. Admission prices are 10 and 20 cents. Those who will play on the Has Beens are: Jack Gee, Kirkpatrick, Smith, Bill Gee, Bill Shaffer, Mayhill and Dotson. Those on the Will Bees are: Lamb, H. Shaffer, Long, Delaney, Cain, Mount, Clawson, Berryman and Popejoy. Jack Gee and Lamb will coach their own teams.

In record 7 overtime game, Camden again wins sectional.

100 YEARS AGO

The final arrangements are now completed for the commencement exercises of the Deer Creek high school which is to be held at that place on Friday evening, April 1st. The baccalaureate address will be given on the preceding Sunday, when five young persons – Ernest Porter, Malinda Stephens, Reed Groninger, Edith Musselman, Thomas Forgey – who are soon to launch out into the various channels of the world’s larger fields of learnings, will sit through a few hours of good advice administered to them by Rev. N. W. Clarke.

Ross Keffler, the owner of a restaurant at Burlington, had a narrow escape from death by burning Wednesday evening of last week at his place of business. A gasoline stove in the rear part of the building exploded and Keffler, in attempting to extinguish the fire, was enveloped in the flames and was in imminent peril of losing his life. D. J. Davis of Indianapolis, a cigar salesman, was in the place at the time and pulling off his overcoat threw it around Keffler and smothered the flames.