Delaware, U.S., Marriage Records, 1750-1954
Past In Review from 03-27-2003
100 years ago
March 28, 1903
Cecilton Siftings
C. H. Messick and daughter, Miss Minnie, spent Tuesday in Elkton.
Owens Griffith spent a few days as the guest of his friend, George Pierce.
Miss Hennie Price spent the past week with her sister, Mrs. J. D. Boulden.
Miss May Smith is spending some time with her brother, J. R. Smith, at Warwick.
Messrs. J. H. Smith and J. A. Watts spent one day of the past week in Baltimore.
Miss Maude Robinson has as her guest, her cousin, Miss Mamie Knight, of Kennedyville.
Misses Estella VanDyke and Mary Money, of Townsend, spent Tuesday with Mamie Pierce.
Miss Clara Thornton, of Chesapeake, is being entertained by Miss Lillie Pierce at the “Anchorage.”
Rev. Atkins, of Harrington, was the guest of James P. McCoy and family on Saturday and Sunday.
Miss Frances Griffith was entertained over Wednesday by Miss Alice Storr at the home of Mrs. R. M. Black.
Mrs. R. M. Black who spent the past week in Baltimore, has returned home, accompanied by her sister, Miss Alice Storr.
Delaware City
Miss Annie Ogle is visiting in Wilmington.
Mrs. Samuel Hines is visiting relatives in Hockessin.
Mr. Harry Hance, of New Castle, was in town Sunday.
Mrs. Ida Creed, of Wilmington, spent Sunday with her mother.
Mr. Samuel Hines, of Philadelphia, was the guest of relatives in town.
Miss Laura Householder is spending sometime with Philadelphia friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Green, of Wilmington, have been visiting Mrs. Schunder.
Bishop Coleman, of Wilmington, confirmed a class of ten in the Episcopal Church Sunday night.
75 years ago
March 29, 1928
Delaware City
Miss Jane Clark spent several days near town with her brother, Courtland Clark and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Forrester and son, Junior, were visitors with friends at Linwood, Pa., on Saturday.
Major and Mrs. Donald Ashbridge and daughter were weekend visitors with her mother, Mrs. E. C. Reybold.
Mrs. Horace Johnson, of Wilmington, is here for several days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John E. Schunder.
Miss Hazel Alexander, member of the school faculty, spent the weekend with relatives at West Collingswood, N.J.
Mr. and Mrs. Shepard Cramp, of Philadelphia, spent the weekend here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William McConnell.
James Brannon, a student of the University of Delaware, spent the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Price Stanley.
Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Webb and daughters, Marian and Jeanne, and J. T. Webb, near Mt. Pleasant, spent Sunday here with relatives.
Miss Kathryn Rose has returned to Philadelphia after spending several days here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Rose and family.
Miss Marie Moore, of the Women’s College; James White and Charles Gunsey, of the University of Delaware, were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Rose and family on Sunday.
Delaware City High School will participate in the County and State Declamation Contest this year and the local elimination contest will be held in the Fire Hall this week. The affair will be open to the public. There will be two selected from the school, and one alternate to represent Delaware City.
At the Century Club meeting, Friday afternoon in the club room, there was a good attendance and the afternoon affair proved interesting. Mrs. John Schunder, President, called the meeting to order and made several announcements, after which the meeting was turned over to Miss Mary McConnell and Mrs. Howard Money, who had charge of the program for the afternoon. Miss Eva Vandergrift followed with a piano solo. Mrs. Rachel Garrison of Smyrna, was introduced, who had with her an exhibit of Chinese articles, which had been gathered in China, by her sister, who was a medical missionary.
50 years ago
March 26, 1953
Townsend
A poor excuse is better than none until you use it twice.
George Medders, of Baltimore, was in town on Tuesday.
Henry N. Moffit, of New York, was a visitor here on Monday.
Mr. Paul C. Fisher, of Denton, Md., was a visitor here of Monday.
Mrs. Harry Whitmore has been spending a few days with friends in Baltimore.
Rev. Earl Shockley and Mrs. Shockley, of Wilmington, visited her aunt, Mrs. Julia Todd, on Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. William A. Garton are spending a few days with relatives and friends at Daytona Beach, Fla.
The average person never gets too old to learn but at a rather early age he becomes too old to unlearn.
The rain on Tuesday morning halted all kinds of work, even halting the plans of the farmers for a big tomato crop this year.
Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Harmon, of Drexel Hill, Pa., spent Sunday with his mother, Mrs. Viola Deakyne, and sister, Miss Viola Deakyne, and sister, Miss Mabel Harmon.
One man says he is going to get the bad apples out of the governmental service. While he’s at it he may as well throw out the lemons too.
The dance sponsored by the PTA was a great success. Mrs. Edward Walker is to be commended for such a good job as general chairman.
Harry Kane went to Florida, stayed two weeks, but forgot his fishing outfit. Next time he says he will pack the fishing outfit away in his trunk before making other preparations to go to the sunny Southland.
Next Wednesday evening, April 1, the PTA will meet at the school at 8 o’clock. By special request Dr. Russell Stauffer, director of the Reading Clinic of the University of Delaware, will be the guest speaker and his talk will be of interest to everyone.
Dogs not tied or confined to a yard are being seized by the dog catcher who is now going through the county and carrying out his line of duty. While here on Saturday he had gathered twenty dogs and their barking attracted attention throughout the neighborhood.
Harry Castleman thinks Townsend could do better by having a circus or vaudeville show on the outskirts. It would seem that less shown however, would do much to make the town a more desirable place to live. The show fever is all right in New York or Chicago but it drags down a country town too fast. It is a poor way to grow up, we think.
Local sport fans say the best day they ever had was one to watch the Athletics play the Yankees at Philadelphia back in May, 1933. Another good game to watch pitcher Jack Coombs beat Cleveland 8 to 1 on July 3rd, 1912. Coombs also pitched against Gregg of Cleveland in 1910. That game was an 18-inning tie. Such games are seldom seen these days.
The Rev. Henry M. Parks has been invited to return to the pastorate in Immanuel Church of Townsend, also to Scott Church at Blackbird for another conference year.
