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(A collection of articles posted in the Middletown Transcript, Middletown, Newcastle County, Delaware,
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Date: Thursday, 9 December 2010, at 11:24 a.m.

Delaware, U.S., Marriage Records, 1750-1954

Past In Review from 02-28-2002

75 years ago

March 3, 1927

MANY VISITORS DURING THE WEEK

THOSE WHO HAVE ENTERTAINED AND WERE VISITORS

IN THE MIDDLETOWN VICINITY

Miss Lucy Griffith was a visitor in Wilmington the first of the week.

Mr. and Mrs. Julian Foard spent part of the past week at Atlantic City, N.J.

Miss Winifred Bush, of Miami, Fla., was a guest over the week-end of Miss June Johnson.

Miss Mary Price , of South Broad Street, was a visitor in Wilmington one day last week.

Mrs. Claude Fouracre entertained Miss Ann Courtney, of Wilmington, over the week-end.

Mrs. William Spry has returned home from visiting her daughter, Mrs. Delbert Gallagher, in Wilmington.

SOCIAL NEWS OF MIDDLETOWN

The Wednesday afternoon bridge club met with Mrs. J. Harold Wiley, at her home on West Redding street.

One evening last week Mr. and Mrs. Frank Biggs entertained some friends at auction bridge in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Polk, of Pocomoke City, Md., who were guests of Mrs. Willard Biggs, over the week-end.

Mrs. Richard Cann, Jr., was hostess to the members of the Five Hundred Club on Friday last at her home near Kirkwood. Mrs., Cann first served a delicious luncheon, afterwards having cards. The guests present were: Mrs. Clara Green, Mrs. Francis Watkins, Mrs. William Davis, Mrs. George Janvier, Mrs. Frank Biggs, Mrs. G. Lindsey Cochran, Mrs. Fred Brady, Mrs. Edward Vaughan, Mrs. Willard Biggs, Mrs. John Sudler, Miss Ethel Brady, Miss Laura Willits and Miss Frances Watkins. The prizes which consisted of pieced beautiful handwork were awarded to Mrs. Sudler and Mrs. Biggs.

Briefs

20% OF CHILDREN DIED

Twenty per cent of the total number of white and colored children born in Kent County, Md., last year, died before they were one year old. During 1925, the last year for which figures are available, the infant mortality rate in that county was very little higher than that of any other county in Maryland, but was higher than the average of the nation.

TOWN ELECTION MARCH 7th

On Monday next, March 7th, the annual Town Election will be held in the Town Office on South Broad street, at which time a Mayor and two Councilmen will be elected for terms of two years respectively. The date for candidates filing names has expired and Messrs. W. S. Letherbury, Dr. J. Allen Johnson and Thomas W. Truitt will be re-elected without opposition.

PHYSICIANS MAY USE LIQUOR

Surrounded by a variety of regulations and restrictions, the physicians of the state would be authorized to prescribe liquor for medicinal purposes in the event a bill introduced in the Senate Monday afternoon by Senator Harry M. Deputy, of Milford, should become a law. In effect, it would empower the state to purchase all the whisky in Delaware and then to resell it to agencies to be selected by the State Board of Health and these agencies could issue it on prescriptions signed by at least two reputable physicians. It is specifically stated in the bill that no drug store or mercantile establishment could serve as an agency for this distribution. The intent of the act is to have the hospitals serve as the distributing agencies.

50 years ago

February 28, 1952

Firemen Deplore Attack on Bingo

Criticize Those Opposed To Bingo And Harvest Parties As ‘Fanatical’

Civil Defense Plan Is OK’d

The executive committee of the Delaware Volunteer Firemen’s Association on Sunday went on record as deploring “The fanatical objections voiced by certain groups” regarding the playing of bingo and the holding of harvest parties.

At the meeting, held in the hall of the Robbins Hose Company in Dover, with George W. Duncan, president, presiding, the committee unanimously approved a resolution criticizing those who “Have classified the players in these innocent games with the professional gamblers.”

Bingo and harvest parties were discussed at length by the committee. It was emphasized that many volunteer fire companies, as well as other fraternal and service groups sponsor such events for good causes.

In a report on civilian defense it was disclosed that federal authorities, with matched funds from the state, would provide a mobile fire apparatus for New Castle County for training and protection. The proposal was approved by the committee.

Delaware firemen will participate in a national Safety Council conference on March 4, at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, Philadelphia, beginning at 2:45 p.m., it was announced.

Granville White, Laurel, state fire recorder, announced that full annual reports were on hand from Sussex and Kent Counties and a similar report has been requested from New Castle County so that the 1951 annual report can be completed.

It was announced that the four-day short course for firemen and industrial fire and safety departments will be held at the University of Delaware on July 29, 30 and 31 and Aug. 1.

A subcommittee reported that the memorial monument in Dover will be remodeled in time for the annual memorial service on the first Sunday in May.

The committee expressed satisfaction for the proposed substitution of Diesel for steam-driven locomotives on the Delmarva Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad. It was pointed out that the substitution will prevent many fires along the railroad right-of-way and will also be an aid to firemen who man the engines.

It was suggested that Oct. 9, the anniversary of the Chicago fire in 1891, be marked in red on all calendars as a symbol of fire prevention.

25 years ago

March 3, 1977

Personal Notes

Those Who Entertained And Have Been Away

Mrs. Harold Burge, Mrs. Catherine Shahan and Ms. Cathy Steller Mannering were Sunday visitors of Mrs. Burge’s son, Mr. James H. Burge, in Baltimore, Md.

Mr. and Mrs. A Claude Fouracre were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Prettyman Willey and family in Dover.

Mr. and Mrs. Howard A. Reynolds of Taylors Bridge celebrated their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary on Sunday. They were honored on the occasion with a buffet dinner for relatives and friends in the Taylors Bridge Community House.

Mr. Earl Cleaver returned to his home here on Sunday after having been a patient in the Memorial Division, and Tilton Terrace Nursing Home.

Mrs. Carl Feucht, of near town, is a patient in Union Hospital, Elkton, where she is undergoing treatment for pneumonia. Her many friends join the Transcript in wishing her a fast recovery.

Miss Edith M. Pointz, of East Landsdowne, Pa., spent last Wednesday with Mrs. Elizabeth B. MacCahery.

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Walker and daughter, Kelly of Boonsboro, Md., were weekend guests of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard I. Walker.

Mr. and Mrs. Weldon Burge visited Smithville, New Jersey, on Saturday.

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph D. Berkman have just returned home from a mid-winter vacation in Hollywood, Florida. While there they attended the Annual Delaware Day Dinner in Fort Lauderdale.

Delaware, U.S., Marriage Records, 1750-1954

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