Delaware, U.S., Marriage Records, 1750-1954
Past In Review from 10-04-2001
125 years ago
October 7, 1876
Varieties.
Diptheria is unusually prevalent in Illinois.
Everybody can detect an error, but not a lie.
The animals in Central Park fast on Sundays.
American edge tools are in demand in Europe.
There are 6395 Odd Fellows’ Lodges in the United States.
Wheat sells for forty-five cents a bushel at Dallas, Texas.
Baltimore has put up 250,000 cans of peaches daily.
A patent French stove cooks by heat of the sun.
The Centennial show did first-rate on the “quarter stretch.”
The Khedive is about to discharge all his American officers.
The King of Bavaria is but 31; he rarely appears in public.
A sea turtle caught in Vineyard Sound weighs 900 pounds.
A negro woman has been appointed postmistress at Terry, Miss.
He who is honest for reward, is a knave without reward.
Civility is dear to everybody, and yet it costs nobody anything.
Men are content to be laughed at for their wit, but not their folly.
Idleness is the stupidity of the body and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.
Persons will refrain from evil speaking when persons refrain from evil hearing.
Cologne, where the celebrated water of that name is made, is called the sentimental city.
The swan finds water instinctively; but the man is born in ignorance of his element.
Fire and sword are but slow engines of destruction in comparison with babbler.
Life may be as some philosophers maintain, a riddle; but it is one that none of us like to give up.
Superficial knowledge is like oil upon water-it shines deceitfully, but can easily be skimmed off.
Absence is to love what fasting is to the body; a little stimulates it, but a long abstinence is fatal.
100 years ago
October 5, 1901
PERSONALITIES
Miss Edith Wilson was a Wilmington visitor Monday.
Mrs. J. C. Parker is spending some time with her parents at Dover.
Mr. Allan McDowell, of Philadelphia, is visiting his parents near town.
Mr. Frank Stidham, of Wilmington, was an over Sunday visitor in town.
Mrs. Kate Letherbury and Miss Elsie Jones will spend Sunday at Clayton.
Miss Katherine VanSant has returned from a visit to Delaware City friends.
Mrs. Rachel Conner was the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Boulden, this week.
Mrs. J. T. Roberts and daughter, Miss Ada, are visiting friends at Wissinoming, Pa.
Mrs. Sallie Milnor, of Harrisburg, Pa., is the guest of her sister, Mrs. M. J. Whittock.
Mr. Ira Parker, of Philadelphia, was the guest of Miss Minnie E. Messick last Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Anderson C. Crow, of Wilmington, visited Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Emerson last Sunday.
Miss Annie Stillwell, of Wilmington, was the guest of her uncle, Mr. Charles Dickerson over Sunday.
Miss Blaney and Miss Mills, of Philadelphia, are the guests of Mrs. John Jones on East Main Street.
Miss Nellie Ernest returned to her home in Philadelphia Monday after spending some time with friends in town.
Mrs. William F. Cooper announces the married of her daughter, Miss Louretta to Mr. Merritt Noxen Willits. Jr., on Thursday evening, October 17th, 1901. The ceremony will take place in Park Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, Philadelphia. Mr. Willits is the second son of County Commissioner M. N. Willits.
75 years ago
October 4, 1926
MANY VISITORS DURING THE WEEK
THOSE WHO HAVE ENTERTAINED AND WERE VISITORS
IN THE MIDDLETOWN VICINITY
Mr. and Mrs. John J. Jolls spent Sunday with friends at Bridgeville.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Vinyard, of Claymont, were Sunday guests of relatives in town.
Mrs. Elizabeth Moore spent Monday in Odessa with her daughter, Mrs. Harry E. Wilson.
Mrs. Ella Foraker, of St. Georges, was a visitor with her sister, Mrs. W. B. Hall, recently.
Miss Frances Clark, of Wilmington, was entertained over the week-end by Miss Virginia Johnson.
Miss Virginia Hopkins, of Wilmington, visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Hopkins, Sunday.
Mrs. T. W. Cann has returned home after a visit of several days with relatives in Philadelphia, Pa.
Mr. John Spicer, of Philadelphia, Pa., spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John B. Spicer.
Miss Letitia Pool, of Philadelphia, Pa., spent the week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Howard A. Pool.
Miss Katherine Frazier, of Wilmington, spent the week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Reese Frazier.
Misses Margaret and Elizabeth Brady, of Newark, spent Sunday with their father, Mr. Fred Brady and wife.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Wilson and Merritt Moore, of Odessa, were recent visitors with her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Moore.
Mr. and Mrs. N. W. Kampel and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Montes de Oca and daughter Elenita, spent Sunday in Philadelphia, Pa.
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Gill and daughters, of Philadelphia, Pa., were guests of Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Fouracre over the week-end.
