Marydel Civic Club and community notes flow through
Marydel news recounts illness at Memorial Hospital Easton and Kent General, local social events, family visits, and club activities. Reports include the September Ladies Auxiliary meeting in Ridgely, circus trip sponsored by the Delaware Police Association, Lions Club guest speaker Rev Reginald Wheatley, MYF fall term at Templeton Seminary, templeville homecoming attendees, and multiple family trips and birthdays. Nearby towns Diana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Cantwell
Memorial Hospital
Easton
Marydel
Andy
Robert Covington
Garfield Park
Wilmington
Edgar Harman
Canada
Niagara Falls
New York State
Reginald Wheatley
Burrsville
Lions Club
WSCS
Paul Foulkrod and
Baby
Rehoboth
L. H. Collison
Mary Smith
R. G. Miller
Donald Touchton
Theo Kundrat
Chicago
Touchton
J. Seward Dailey
Seward Dailey
Theo. Kundrat
Ralph Vincent
Annie Vincent
Edna Vincent
George Ross
C. E. Covington
Temple Theological Seminary
Templeville
Florence P. Scotten
Rehoboth Beach
H. K. Shults
Wm. Jackson
Barclay
Emma Sillitoe
John C. Dixon
Crumpton
Dudley Dixon
Myrtle Dixon
Isaac Thomas
Atlantic City
N. J
T. Olin Ford
Miami
Florida
Local social notes from Burrsville and surrounding towns
Mrs Clayton Brown and Mrs Isaac Noble hosted guests including Mrs Howard Drummond and Miss Ruth Drummond and Rev Wheatley at Burrsville. Farther visits featured families from Farmington Goldsboro Wilmington Denton and Federalsburg with extended relatives. Hospital surgery noted for Fletcher Breeding and various weekend gatherings and dinners among the Drummond Messick Croll Torbert and Breeding families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clayton Brown
Isaac Noble
Howard Drummond
Ruth Drummond
Reginald Wheatley
Burrsville
Wheatley
Westminster Seminary
Robert Messick
Becky
Farmington
Floyd Messick
Alonzo Cohee
Goldsboro
Fred Messick
Paul Messick
Harry Gilbert
Wilmington
Layton Bowdle
Washington
Charlie Stevens
Peggy
Sarah van Dyke
Denton
William Crol
Fletcher Breeding
Memorial Hospital
Easton
William Croll
Thurman Adams
Bridgeville
Laura Torbert
Jesse Yearins
Sallie Wroten
Louis Torbert
U. S. Navy
W. F. Torbert
Ella Breeding
Russell Breeding
August Croll
Federalsburg
Wilmer Nagel
Lawrence Drummond
Claude Drummond
Franky
Richard
Reese Has Gala CinemaScope Opening
Crowds pack Reese Theatre for CinemaScope Moviroama debut amid reports that theaters are drawing audiences back. The feature program lists Betrayed with Clark Gable and Lana Turner on Sept 23–25, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Sept 26–29, Forever Amber Sept 30, and The Caine Mutiny Oct 1, signaling a fall festival of MGM hits for Delaware and Maryland fans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reese
Clark Gable
Lana Turner
MGM
Forever
Delaware
Maryland
First American newspaper suspended after one issue
Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick published in Boston on September 25, 1690 by Benjamin Harris faced suspension by the royal governor after its inaugural and only issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Benjamin Harris
Ridgely Social Notes Include Visits and Elections
Long list of local visitors and gatherings in Ridgely with relatives in Wilmington Ocean City and Denton. Events include church sermons by Gettysburg College student Elly, a Sept 18 marriage of Mary L. Wiley Rawley and Frederick H. Frie del Jr, and a Sept 30 Ridgely Methodist supper with Gov. McKeldin Caravan. Also noted is Hiram Guessford's 86th birthday and miscellaneous calls to and from area residents. Ambergris sentence notes sperm whale secretion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M. Swing
Margaret Swing
New England
James Mitchell
J. A. Mitchell
Ocean City
McDonogh School
McDonogh
Fred Spence
Chestertown
Spence
Elis Spence
Granville Hooper
Cambridge
Walter R. Moore
E. Page Jones
Herbert Jones
Fred Vashell
Cordova
Wilmington
William Lloyd
Mary Lynn Lloyd
Baltimore
James Sculley
William Cannon
Henry Kern
Emory Gottwall
Joan
Denton
John M. Saulsbury
Rehoboth Beach
Allan Temple
Alan Temple, Jr
Seaford
Carol Jones
William T. Temple
Leonard Sparks
Templeville Methodist Church
Stanley Mather
Greensboro
Ridgely House
Central Avenue
Railroad Avenue
Roland Cherry
Set
Walter Bush
Columbia
South Carolina
Donald J. Elly
Gettysburg College
St. Paul’s Evangelical and Reformed Church
Mary L. Wiley Rawley
Smyrna
Frederick H. Friedel, Jr
Ridgely
Wilson Davis
Ridgely Methodist Church
Gov. McKeldin
Don’t Take Chances On Wild Mushrooms
Andrew A. Duncan adds a caution about wild mushrooms from the University of Maryland Extension. He warns many varieties appear now and urges two rules: confirm edibility before eating and avoid young unopened buttons. Do not rely on tests or boiling to remove danger. when in doubt, have mushrooms identified by a specialist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew A. Duncan
University of Maryland Extension Horticulturist
Duncan
Also Mentioned on This Page
Howard B. Logan
Charles Hansen
Kent General Hospital
Dover
Hansen
Elmer Sutton, Jr
Mills Bros. Circus
Delaware Police Association
Hickman
Susie Noble
Service Department
Gustav
Denton, Md
Reese Theatre
Grace Vernon Smith
Irwin T. Saulsbury
Donald Cooper
Todd
Leolan Jackson
Laird
Leona Jackson
Earl Flannagan
Ing
Hiram Guessford
Ralph Royer
Thurmont
Thomas W. Jones
J. Virgil Moore
Charles V. Moore
Ford
Stewart E. Hallowell & Son, Inc
Ford Theatre
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