Milford chronicle., 1949-08-19
Happenings Of Interest
Throughout Delaware

The crepe myrtle in the yard of
Mrs. Elizabeth Walker is calling
forth much praise and admiration
just now. 1t is an annual thing of
beauty and is at its best.
Descending on barber shop in
the 400 block of North street, re-
Gently, Dover police took in GUS
tody 10 men, including an alleged
Wilmington numbers" pickup man
and the shop operator.
The asserted numbers writer.
Paul Lawrence Wright, 25, of the
1000 block Church street, Whining
ton, was held in $1,000 bail by Mag
istrate-Alderman John H. Conrad
for hearing in Court of Common
Pleas Friday.
Clarence Tribbitt, said to be the
operator of the shop, was charged
with maintaining disorderly
house, involving permitting play
ing of cards for money. He will be
given hearing before the magis-
trate-alderman soon.
Eight men arrested on charges of
disorderly conduct in connection
with the card playing were each
fined 50 and costs.
Mrs. w. Harman Money of Mid
dletown has been named general
chairman of the program celebrat-
ing the 160th anniversary of the
founding of the historic Old Union
Methodist Church on the dupont
Boulevard, near Blackbird.
The appointment was announced
, following meeting of the old I'm
! ion Church Society in the home of
: the Rev. William b. Bundick, pas
: tor of the Emmanuel Methodist
Church of Townsend and the Scott
:, Methodist Church of Blackbird.
Mr., Bundick reported that final
4 arrangements for the anniversary
celebration Sunday, September IL,
are expected to be completed this
week. In addition to the appoint
: ment of Mrs. Money, he said, nu-
i ! merous other committee appoint
ments were made.
y This celebration is the only SER
vice held at the church each year,
regular services having been dis
8 continued some years ago. The
program is arranged each year by
d members of the society of which
e John G.. Leach, Wilmington, is
i president. Other officers of the or
8 ganization are Joseph c. Hutchin-
y son Of Townsend, vice president,
u and Mr.. Money of Middletown, sec
i retary-treasurer.
The 18th annual Tunnell family
reunion opened a two-day session
y last Saturday in Cleaners Hall
II Millville.
. John Tunnel West of Barte, Pa.
le was in charge of the afternoon and
evening program. Impromptt 1
5 speeches by members of the fam
10 10 lily were followed by a dinner af
eC ter which an entertainment was il
- charge of Mr.. West
III Special services were held Sun
7ii day in. OLD Blackwater Church
iu Baltimore Hundred, with the Rev
T. Mr.. Pestelwaite. pastor of the Pres
Oy byterian Church, Ocean City, Md
Gu in charge of the service
n James M. Tunnell, Jr., George
- town, is president of the group an,
Mrs. William E. Powell, Frankfort
secretary.
We Blackwater Church, well know
ey in the annals of early Presbyterian
., ism on this continent, is the scene
III each year, of the special service
I'll of the Tunnel reunion. Built i
1857, Charles Tennent was the frs
Vi pastor of this historic PresbyteI
n ian shrine. His father was a pas
* tor and teacher at the "Old Lo
>, College," which has since becom
ny Princeton, and his brothers wer
ne among the organizers of the churc
hu at New Castle and the Buckingham
Church in Maryland.
81 For many years no services wei
% % held at Blackwater and as r,
~ ~ suit the historic edifice deteriol
- ated to such an extent that con
~; =. plete discontinuance was conside
n,o 40 ed but many persons interested
'"' the history and background of IL
=. church, including the Tunne
a. a. family. sponsored its restoratic
. and maintenance.