Delaware, U.S., Marriage Records, 1750-1954
Past In Review from 09-12-2002
100 years ago
Sept. 13, 1902
Personalities
Mrs. Mary Droll is visiting in Philadelphia.
Miss Lucie Cochran spent Tuesday in Philadelphia.
Miss Mary Maxwell has returned from Atlantic City.
Miss Edith Wilson is visiting relatives in Wilmington.
Mrs. M.B. Burris has been visiting in Philadelphia.
Miss Elizabeth Price has been visiting relatives in Cecilton.
Mrs. V. L. Culbertson, of Wilmington, is visiting near town.
Miss Lillian Solway visited her brother in Elkton on Sunday.
Mrs. Walter Collins, of Brooklyn, is the guest of Mrs. Edgar Clark.
Miss Gladys Burgess has been visiting friends at Ridley Park, Pa.
Miss Anita Houston, of Philadelphia, is the guest of relatives here.
Mrs. G. W. Peterson was in Baltimore on a business trip Thursday.
Miss Elmira Bates, of Wilmington, is the guest of Miss May Smith.
Miss Ella Bender, of Stroudsburg, Pa., is visiting Miss Allie McKee.
Mr. John Metten, of Philadelphia, was in town a few days this week.
Miss Bertie Dickinson, of Wilmington, is visiting her sister near town.
Mr. E. E. Massey, of Downingtown, Pa., spent Sunday with his mother.
Miss Emma Hearne, of Clayton, is the guest of Miss Katie Green, near town.
Mrs. Della Green, of Kirkwood, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Clara Clayton.
Miss Edna Newby, of Kansas City, Mo., is visiting Miss Jeannette Schreitz.
Mrs. Charles Mintzer, of Pottstown, Pa., is visiting Dr. and Mrs J.C. Stites.
Mr. Horatio Willits, of Philadelphia, is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. N. Willits.
Mr. and Mrs. George French, of Chicago, are visiting his sister, Miss Alexynia French.
Master George Hearne, of Georgetown, is visiting his grandmother, Mrs. Mary Wilson.
Messrs. George Lockwood and Eugene Shallcross have resumed their studies at Delaware College.
Mr. G. Davis Brown, editor of the Smyrna Call, paid our office a brief call Thursday evening.
Miss Elizabeth Hopkins, of the State Hospital, will arrive home this morning for a vacation of ten days.
Mr. Charles W. Jones, Jr., and friend, Mr. Fowler, of New York City are guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Jones.
Mrs. Lizzie C. Hurn and son, Frank, of Elkton, are spending the week with Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Hurn.
Miss Ethel Haines has returned to their home in Philadelphia, accompanied by her friend, Miss Nora Armstrong.
75 years ago
Sept. 15, 1927
Our Local News Happenings
Many Brief Paragraphs Gathered Weekly By Our Scribes
Crabs continue to be plentiful along the Delaware Bay. The season will continue a month longer.
The Public School of Blackbird opened on Tuesday of last week with Miss Amanda Bowers, of Millington, as teacher.
The University of Delaware will reopen on Monday, September 26, with an enrollment about the same as that of last year.
The first meeting of Howell P.T.A. will be held at the school, Wednesday evening, September 21st, at 8 P.M.
The annual convention of the Cecil County Sunday School Association will be held in the North East, Md. Methodist Episcopal Church, Thursday, September 22.
A Name Social will be held in the schoolhouse at St. Augustine for the benefit of St. Augustine Church on Friday evening, September 16th. Everyone is cordially invited.
The Board of Education of Cecil County, Md., has at its disposal, a scholarship to the St. Mary’s Female Seminary. Applicants should file their requests for this scholarship with the Board on or before Friday, September 16.
The new Hale fire engine of the Singerly Fire Company, of Elkton, Md., which arrived Tuesday of last week, was given a thorough test last Wednesday, meeting all requirements of the contract, and was accepted by the company.
Two horses attached to a farm wagon owned by William Wiley, of near Glasgow, became frightened on the street in Elkton, Md., last Saturday afternoon and set a swift pace out East Main Street to the foot of Red Hill. The wagon just nipped several automobiles, but no damage was done.
Harvey Carter, colored, formerly of Chesapeake City, Md., but now of Englishtown, N.J. with several companions drove his car up the Chesapeake City road Saturday at a reckless speed, compelling motorists to take to the ditches. He was arrested at Elkton and Police Justice Gove S. Scotten fined him $25 and costs.
The total enrollment in the Delaware City schools is 188. Of this number, 38 are in the high school and the remaining, 150, are in the primary and grammar departments. There are only two members of the senior class this year, Willard Smith and Catherine Bendler. The first grade this year is also smaller than usual, there being but 15 in the grade.
The causeway at Red Lion Creek is now guarded with a very safe fence and one that adds greatly to the beauty of the roadway. Several days ago, cedar poles, creosoted on the bottom and painted while above the ground, were placed at 10-foot intervals along both sides of the road. Tuesday, a strong meshed wire was strung between the poles along both sides of the road.
