Milford chronicle., 1941-09-19
GEORGETOWN
Football


the local grounds. Coach George
Keen, who went through last sea
son without a defeat throughout
the state and whose team was but
one time score upon, is rapidly
whipping what he considers an
other winning team into shape.
This year there will be eo-cap-
tains, James Walls and Edward
(Snooky) Rogers. Those report
ing for practice are: Ends-Ed-
ward Mightning) Booth and
Paul GLADDEN.; tackles, Harold
tChub) West, Robert Derrickson,
Harry Pipley, James Coulbourne,
Reese Wilson, Dick Braunsfeld; !;
guards, Lawrence King, William
Murray, Dicky Holson, Neil Dixie (;
centers, Jack Roach, Al Alexander
Taylor; ends, Paul West, Granville
Belts; backs, Johnny Brickner,
Layton Ayers, Jack Kitchens, Lee
Short, Carlton Short, Harold Nc
Cabe, James Walls, and Edward
Rogers
The first-string team possibly
viii be composed of the following: !:
Ends, Edward Booth, Paul Glad
den; tackles, Harold West, Robert
Derrickson; guards, Lawrence
King, Jack Roach; backs, Brick
ner, Ayers, Smoky Rogers, James
Walls, Kitchens.
Coach Keen states that his team
is almost intact from last season
except three or four graduations.
Nearly all of them are seasoned
players from last year and he is
expecting them to go through the
season with fairly good record
a record possibly comparing favor
ably with last year. He is hop
ing that his team will be the
champions of the state and he be-
lieves they will.
H0lds Marriage License
Fer Nearly Two Years
Marriage records of Sussex
County show that no license ever
was held for year and eight
month, and even longer. But that
is what has happened. The rec
ords of Clerk of the Peace Fran
els F. Morgan discloses that on
December 20, 1899, that a marriage
license was granted to Miss De-
lilah Pauline Neighbors, of Eas-
ton, Nd, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
James Neighbors, of Denton, Nd,
and Thomas Walter White, Jr., of
Harrington, Del, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas W. White, Sr.., of
Stevensville, Md.
They we're married on Septem-
Der / Labor Day. at o'clock
p. M, at Seaford, by the Rev. Rich
ard W. Trapnell, the rector of
st. Luke's Protestant Episcopal
Church at Seaford. The bride is
a Darse ana the groom a railroad
inspector.
The groom is relative of the
Rev. Richard X. White, rector of
st. Paul's Protestant Episcopal
Church, East Pine Street, this
city.
Former Legislator is SO
Former Representative Walter
Turner Carey, prominent Demo-
cratic politician of Nanticoke Dis
trict for many years, director of
the Georgetown Trust Company
and father of former Sheriff Mar
tin o. Carey, observed his eighty
third" birthday anniversary ION
Thursday of last week. Mr.. Carey
was born on September II, 1858.
Most of his life was spent on a
farm in Nanticoke District. He
served as a member of the lower
house Of the Delaware Legislature
from the Third Representative
District (Seaford and South Nam
tieoke election precincts) at the
session of 1928.
VIII Be
Married On Saturday
Mr.. and Mrs. Milton e. Graham,
of 1929 Spruce Street, Philadel-
phia, and Coolspring, eleven miles
east of this city on the George
town-Lewes highway, announce
the approaching marriage of their
daughter, Miss Maude Edda Gra-
ham, to- Robert Thomas Lynch of
Rehoboth Beach, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Edwin d. Lynch, of Berlin,
Md.
The wedding will take place on
Saturday afternoon, September 20,
at 4 o'clock in All Saints Protest
ant Episcopal Church at Rehoboth |
Beach, the Rev. Nelson w. Right |
myer, rector of st. Peters P. E. |
Church, of Lewes, performing the
ceremony.
The organist will be Melvin
Brobst, of Harrington, Del, and
the maid of honor Miss Alene Bry-
an, of Millsboro. The best man
will be Harvey Lee Hastings, of
Berlin, Md.
The wedding will be public, fol-
lowed by public reception at the
home of the bride. No invitations
are being issued in the Lewes,
Coolspring, Nassau, Milton and
Rehoboth Beach sections. All are
invited to the wedding and the
reception.
The bride-to-be is considered
one of the beautiful young women
Of lower Delaware and, it is said,
had been prevailed upon to enter
the national contest as Miss Della
ware"
Miss Graham at the marriage
altar will be dressed in brocaded |
white satin, princess style, and
wear a finger tip length veil with
a tiera.
Her parents are prominent in
the social life of lower Delaware
as well as in the Philadelphia sec
tion where they live. Her grand
parents are former State Treas
urer Ernest G. Blackstone and the |
L.
of Millsboro. All Of the family are
of pure Anglo-Saxon stock and |
prominent in the social and politi-
cal life of lower Delaware. Their |
foreparents landed in Virginia