Delaware, U.S., Marriage Records, 1750-1954
Past In Review from 10-11-2001
125 years ago
October 14, 1876
An Impudent Robbery.
The hotel of Sylvester Clements, Esq., at Summit Bridge, was robbed last Tuesday night under circumstances of the most impudent and outrageous character. About 11 o’clock that night two men drove across the bridge from the northern side, and in a short time returned and hitched their horses and walked back to the southern side.
They then went to Mr. Clements’ house and asked for and obtained lodgings for the night and retired. In a little while after two other men came to the hotel under the pretense of getting drinks, and were joined by the former two from upstairs. The party then told Mr. C. that they were U. S. detectives and charged him with circulating counterfeit money, and seizing him, handcuffed him and enforced silence upon him by placing a loaded pistol to his head.
The bartender’s room was also visited and the inmate served in the same manner. The rascals then ransacked the house and robbed it of $300 in money and other valuables. Having accomplished their object they started for their teams on the other side of the bridge, but were surprised to find the draw turned off, preventing their passage. They called to the bridge-tender but Mr. Kane’s suspicions had been aroused by their above mentioned maneuvers and he refused to put the bridge on, and finding they could not get across they left on foot. In the meantime the bartender succeeded in freeing himself from his hand-cuffs and raised an alarm too late however to capture the plunderers who had made their escape. Mr. Clements and his bartender are generally the only occupants of the house which fact was probably known to the robbers.
It has been since ascertained that two of the men hired the team in Wilmington, at Dickinson & Bro’s livery stable, under the pretense of taking some ladies to New Castle. Messrs. Dickinson & Bro. At first refused to hire them the team but were induced to do so on the recommendation of Eugene Whitlock. The team was returned to its owners by Mr. Clements, on Wednesday morning. No clue has yet been obtained to the burglars.
75 years ago
October 14, 1926
OUR LOCAL NEWS HAPPENINGS
Many Brief Paragraphs Gathered Weekly By Our Scribes
The tomato canning season has closed in Delaware.
The Hunter’s moon will be fall Thursday of next week, October 21.
Hallowe’en will be observed this year on Saturday night, October 30.
The ladies of Bethel Md. M.E. Church will hold their annual poultry supper on Wednesday evening, November 10.
James T. Shallcross has sold for Edward Grav his property containing two acres on Catherine Street to Albert H. Donovan, Jr., of Wilmington.
A festival will be held in Town Point, Md., school, Tuesday evening, October 19th . If stormy, next clear evening. Everybody come! Proceeds for music fund.
Those making every day during the month of September at Middle Neck, Md., School were Rebecca Cannon, Anna Goldsborough, Marie Liberman, Virginia Hobbs, John Goldsborough and Ralph Liberman.
The Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Dredging Company is working 24 hours a day in an effort to get the dredging work completed so that the Chesapeake and Delaware canal may be opened. Three shifts of men are working eight hours each.
The reed bird season is over for the year of 1926. The great majority of the birds that have bed in this section of the country for the past month have gone on southward and are now down in the rice fields of the Carolinas where they will spend the winter.
Several car loads of pontoon pipe has arrived at Delaware City during the past few days consigned to the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Dredging Company. It will be transported by the company to the scene of the present canal dredging operations, near the canal railroad bridge.
The District of Delaware Y. W. C. A. has chosen October 18-30 for its annual campaign for funds to cover its budget, throughout the State. Each community will have its finance or campaign chairman who in turn will choose assistants to interview the citizens for contributions to this work.
Sportsmen of this vicinity are now looking forward to the opening of the duck shooting season on October 16. Prospects look good for the fine season as there seems to be more ducks than usual using the marshes of the vicinity. Thousands of the water fowl have arrived here during the past two weeks and, at times, the river seems to be full of them.
