Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1879 — DELPHI’S JUBILEE. [ARTICLE]

DELPHI’S JUBILEE.

September 4 ;the Day Desig- * ? \ natecL \ Oolakrwtfag ftfcw OtwpMmof thal . • D.AC tWtklsOtty 'V Ddphl Tina*. ' : ■ The folio wing letter will fall as a soothing balm upon the lacerated patience of the citizens of Delphi. For Tears we have worked, waited and dreamed for the event ndw definitely announced for next Thursday week. The shrill whistle of the ‘Rowland Hughe*,” reverberating through the Wabash bottoms, will be the sweetest musio that has fallen upota 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 L, D. k C. railway and their thanks to the citizens of the City of Delphi and Deer Creek and Tippecanoe townships for the honest and steadfast financial and moral support given by them to the enterprise, and also am instructed vo inform, through you, the citizens of Delphi, Deer Creek and Tippecanoe townships, and ether 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 Montioelio, be formally opened for business to the city of Delphi on the 4th of September, 1879, and am further directed by said board to co-operate with your honorable body and the citizens of Delphi in any programme that yon and they may see proper to adopt for the celebration or this important event in the history of the city and Carroll county. Yery truly yours, S. N. YeomaV, General Manager LD. & 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 lesolution by a unanimos 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 lost., at seven o’clock p. m., to take action on the communication of Col. S. 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 and eello.On motion of Mr. Fisher, the Mayor was requested to have printed and circulated! posters announcing the meeting. * -* J So often has the Times congratulated the citizens of 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 Yeotfcaa fitly says, the peopleof Delphi hava given the enterprise honest and steadfast financial and moral support. . So earnest and unwavering has been this support oh the part of our citizens that the Indian- j apolis, Delphi and Chicago railroad has come to be considered distinctively a Delphi -enterprise. Long and patiently have our 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 We hope every citizen of the county will heartily endorse the action of the meeting iaat night, and, by uniied effort, make the forthcoming celebration a jubilee to be remembered for years, and made a part of the history of our beautiful city. •