Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1879 — DELPHI’S JUBILEE. [ARTICLE]

DELPHI’S JUBILEE.

September 4 the Day Designated. Celebrating th Completion of the I , D. St C to this CityDelphi Times. Tho following letter will fall as a soothing balm upon the lacerated patience of the citizens of Delphi. For years we have worked, waited and dreamed for the event now definitely announced for next Thursday week. The shrill whistle of the “Rowland Hughes,” reverberating through the Wabash bottoms, will be the sweetest music that has fallen upon the ears of the people for many years: To the Mayor and Common Council of the City of Delphi: I have the honor of presenting the compliments of the Board of Directors of the 1., D. & C. railway and their thanks to the citizens of the City of Delphi and Deer Creek and Tippecanoe townships for the honest and steadfa-t financial and moral support given by them to the enterprise, and also am instructed to inform, through you, tho citizens of Delphi, Deer Creek and Tippecanoe townships, and other localities who have aided and fostered the enterprise, that the Board of Directors have ordered that the Delphi division of the road, between the city of Delphi and Monticello, be formally opened for business to the city of Delphi on the 4th of Septc-m-. ber, 1879, xnd am further directed by said board to co-opcrate with your honorable body and the citizens of Delphi in any programme that you and they may see proper to adopt for the celebration or this important event in the history of the city and Carroll county. Very truly yours, S. N. Yeoman, General Manager 1. D. & C. RR. Mayor Walker at once called a special meeting of the Council for Wednesday evening. Pursuant to the call, that body assembled at the Council Chamber, and, after a brief interchange of congratulations, adopted the following resolution by a unan-i-tnos vote:

Resolved, That the Mayor be instructed to call a mass meeting of the citizens of Delphi at the Court House on Thursday the 2lsc inst., at seven o’clock p. m., to take action on the communication of Col. 8 N. Yeoman, General Manager of the Indianapolis, Delphi and Chicago railroad, relative to the opening of the division of the road, on the 4th of September, between the city of Delphi aud Monticello. On motion of Mr. Fisher, the Mayor was requested to have printed and efreuiated posters announcing the meeting. So often has the Times congratulated the citizens us Delphi and Carroll county upon the progress of this road that anything further which we might say would almost of necessity be in the nature of repetition As Colonel Yeoman fitly says, the people of Delphi have given the enterprise honest and steadfast financial and moral support. So earnest and unwavering has been this support on the part of our citizens that the Indianapolis, Delphi and Chicago railroad has come to be considered distinctively a Delphi enterprise. Long and patiently have onr people waited, earnestly have they labored, to secure the building of this road, and now, when it has been completed to our city, we may be excused for the indulgence in what might be termed a delirium of enthusiasm. We hope every citizen of the county will heartily endorse the action of the meeting iast night, and, by united effort, make the forthcoming celebration a jubilee to be remembered for years, and made a part of the history of our beautiful city.