10 YEARS AGO

Carroll County Sheriff’s Deputy Jill Goltz responded Sept. 11 to a western Carroll County residence, after a 911 dispatcher received a 12:55 a.m. call. The caller said that her next door neighbor was going into labor. Goltz arrived just in time to deliver a baby boy at the residence, moments before Carroll County EMS arrived. Gavin Hawke Stevens weighed five pounds, nine ounces and was 18 ¾” in length. His parents are Rodney and Bridget Stevens of CR600N. in rural Monticello. The delivery went well and mother and baby were both transported to Home Hospital in Lafayette.

Candidates for Delphi Community High School’s football homecoming queen are princesses Jenna Henderson, freshman; Ashley Wagoner, sophomore; Sarah Penn, junior. Seniors Kira Larimore, Brandi Nichols, Stephanie Sullivan, Erin Duff. Delphi’s homecoming game is Friday night with Tipton.

25 YEARS AGO

Coach Rick George’s Carroll football team held on to its Carroll County football championship for the fourth year in a row. The series stands at 9-5 Delphi.

A resignation was received and accepted from the Camden Ambulance Service by the Carroll County Commissioners at their regular meeting.

The reason given to terminate the service was the burden of 24-hour service was too great for four emergency technicians and three drivers,

And then there was the mother whose son went off side after a couple of earlier quarterback sacks during a weekend high school football game. When the man beside her made some s mart remark about the poor move, mother retorted, “Just like his dad. When he sacks the quarterback, that’s the me in him coming out!”

50 YEARS AGO

Harry Honan went to Marion to see former president Harry Truman. Honan reports that two things in the big Democrat parade that attracted much attention were a float with a bevy of beautiful girls and a horse drawn vehicle, both well decorated and boosting Republican candidates Nixon and Lodge.

Vice President Richard M. Nixon will officially open his campaign for the presidency in Indiana next Monday, when he will speak on Monument Circle in Indianapolis at noon. Several carloads of people from Carroll county will help make up the huge crowd which will hear him.

75 YEARS AGO

William Turner, former Delphi grocer who was seriously hurt in an automobile accident in Detroit on August 18, was able to be taken home from the hospital. It is still uncertain whether or not he will lose the sight of his eye.

The frame resident of Mrs. Maude Woodley, on Water street in Delphi, was completely destroyed by fire early Sunday morning. At the time, there was no one home, Mrs. Woodley and her three younger children being in Michigan and a son, Ed Matthews having left at 4 o’clock, just a half an hour before the fire was discovered. Matthews had gone to Michigan to bring his mother home. The loss was estimated at about $3,000 about one-third of which is covered by insurance. The origin of the fire is unknown.

100 YEARS AGO

Sunday evening about 7 o’clock during the storm that raged over this and surrounding counties, Ray Coleman, living just over the Carroll county line, on the Frank Barnett farm near Kilmore, in Clinton county, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clint Coleman, was stuck by lightening. As far as the truth can be learned he was at the windmill near the house when the flash that struck him came. His coat, shirt and underclothing were burned and almost torn into shreds. He was knocked down and rendered unconscious. The injured man’s wife carried him into the house and a physician was quickly summoned. The right side of Mr. Coleman’s face and his right side were badly burned and he now complains of his back hurting him. It is believed however, at this time, that he will recover. The injured man is 35 years of age.