Delaware, U.S., Marriage Records, 1750-1954
Past In Review from 03-13-2003
100 years ago
March 14, 1903
Chesapeake City News
Frank Jefferson spent Friday in Delaware City.
Mr. Waitman Smithers spent Friday in Baltimore.
Miss Belle M. Joyce spent Monday in Philadelphia.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Jones are entertaining his sister.
Mrs. Oakley Barwick spent Wednesday of last in Philadelphia.
Edward Bell, of Baltimore, spent the past week with his family in Philadelphia.
Robert Hayes, of Kent County, has been visiting Mr. Harry Morgan.
Mrs. D. Palmer Boulden and daughter Lucie, spent last week in Elkton.
Mrs. W.A. Alexander and Miss Kay Price visited Elkton last Thursday.
Miss Eddie Ferguson, of Cecilton, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Byran Bouchelle.
The ladies of Bethel M.E. church held a “Sock Social” on Saturday evening.
George Conrey, of Philadelphia, has been visiting his mother, Mrs. Mary Conrey.
Miss Florence Boulden spent Sunday with Miss Helen Spear, of Sassafras Neck.
There will be a general turning around between the present time and the 25th of March.
Mrs. M.E. Clayton, of Cecilton, visited her mother, Mrs. M.E. Freeman last week.
Miss Carrie Hance and Henri Lindsay, Jr., of Wilmington, spent Sunday with his parents.
The Daughters of the Confederacy met at the home of Mrs. G.S. Woolley last Tuesday evening.
Mrs. W. Harry Jones, of the Manor, spent, spent Wednesday with her mother, Mrs. Catherine Loraine.
Mr. and Mrs. James Morgar, and daughter of Sassafras Neck, spent Tuesday with Mrs. M.E. freeman.
Mrs. John Daiment and son George, of Cedarville, N.J., visited Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Cleaver, of the Manor, last week.
The Daughters of the King held their regular monthly meeting at the home of Mrs. W. A. Alexander on Wednesday evening.
Miss Jane II. Knorr has returned to her home at Pleasant View, Town Point Neck, after two months visit with Baltimore relatives.
Shawmut Tribe of Red Men attended the M.E. Church in a body of Sunday evening and the Odd Fellows the Presbyterian Church the same evening.
75 years ago
March 15, 1928
Many Visitors during the Week
Those Who Have Entertained and
Were Visitors in the Middletown Vicinity
Miss Engenia Beasten visited New castle one day last week.
Miss Letitia Pool, of Philadelphia was a guest over the weekend of her parents.
Miss Odel R. Gallagher spent the weekend with Mrs. Mary A. Sweeney in Wilmington.
Mr. J.C. Breme, of Collingswood, N.J., spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Betts.
Mrs. Eunice Wilson and Mrs. Edith Reynolds were visitors in Wilmington on Saturday of last week.
Miss Laura Willis has gone to Atlantic City, where she will remain for a visit of some time.
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Jones and Mr. Lyndon Jones spent the weekend with Rev. and Mrs. Omar E. Jones.
Rev. and Mrs. E.M. Shockley, of North East, Md., called on Rev. and Mrs. Omar E. Jones, Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Gaylord Bragdon had Co. Joseph Hanson as their guest for dinner one night this week.
Mr. Bruce Whitlock, of Upland, Pa., visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Whitlock over the weekend.
Mr. and Mrs. Saulsbury Ewing, of Wilmington were guests over the weekend of relatives in and near town.
Judge Rodney and Mrs. Rodney and children, of New Castle, were Sunday guests of her mother, Mrs. E.C. Green.
Mr. and Mrs. Van Turner, of Wilmington spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas S. Fouracre.
Mrs. Wallace C. Eliason who is spending some time in Wilmington, spent one day that week at her home here.
Mrs. Allen McDowell has returned to her home in New York after a visit with Mrs. Harris B. McDowell, near town.
Dr. Robert A. Comegys and Mrs. Comegys and two sons, of Philadelphia, Pa., motored to town and visited friends on Sunday.
Miss Marian Cochran, of Philadelphia, Pa., is spending a few days as the guest of her aunt, Mrs. E.C. Green on East Main Street.
Mrs. Emerson Polk has returned to her home in Pocomoke City after spending part of the winter as a guest at the Middletown Hotel.
50 years ago
March 12, 1953
MHS Feature Column
What Certain People Will Be Doing in Ten Years
1. Mailly Davis playing basket ball with the “Girls Giggling Gangly Globetrotters.”
2. Willard Lockerman top peanut grower in the nation.
3. Barbara Powell, President of Powell & Co. makers of Powell’s Phenomenal Pills for Puny Pole Pathetic People.
4. Buzzy Price playing trumpet for Harry James and married to gal who resembles James’ wife Betty Grable.
5. Bruce Snyder a second Bevo Frances.
6. Clive Newton author of best selling book “Ten Correct ways to Stop at a Red Light.”
7. Patsy Reynolds knocking Broadway off its feet.
8. Loretta Wagner making Life’s cover as the prettiest school teacher in the country.
9. Mr. Meredith still marking this year’s tests.
10. Bill Moore a colonel in the Marines.
11. Nancy Spicer, authority on “Hazel” eyes.
12. Eddie Feilmaier saving his Confederate money ‘cause he still thinks the south will rise again.
13. Miss Burns still inspiring her basketball team to “give” boxes of Whitman’s Sampler to her.
14. Libby Jean Powell beginning to fight a “Battle of the Bulge.”
15. Bobby Armstrong, ardent supporter of Armstrong’s Aksldic Acide For Ailing Democrats. (that’s O.K. Bobby, the Democrats will win again sometime.)
16. Dot Hitchens sitting on her boss’ knee taking a letter.
17. Earle Piatt, music teacher at “Piatt’s Chirping Choaking Cherub’s School.”
18. Jimmy Widleim sitting on a street corner repeating to himself “All great men are dying; I don’t feel very well myself.”
19. Gene Manlove judging bathing beauty contests.”
20. Bobby Allen manufacturing chewing gum for all of his girls.
21. Smokey Smith modeling for “Smokey’s Soft Soggy Tooth Paste” ads with that flashy smile of his.
22. Barney Reynolds, press agent for Marilyn Monroe.
23. Sally Hutton, “Tokyo Rose” Brooks.
24. Brian Loss having “faith” in the future.
25. Ann Weigel, teacher of driving course.
