A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Delaware > Sussex http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=642 Also visit our new sister site: http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=41752 Submitted by: Harrison H Howeth Article Title: American Watchman Article Date: February 23 1814 Article Description: Meeting in Lewes of Lewes-Rehoboth Canal Company Article Text: Lewes, Del., Feb. 23, 1814: A GENERAL MEETING of the stockholders in the Lewes-Rehoboth Canal Company will be held at MRS MARRINERS TAVERN in Lewes Town on Saturday, the 5th day of March, next ensuing, for the purpose of electing a president and five directors. A punctual representation either in person or by Proxy is requested. SAMUEL PAYNTER, Presiident Lewes Town, Delaware. Jan 14 1814 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Delaware > Sussex http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=642 Also visit our new sister site: http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=41749 Submitted by: Harrison H Howeth Article Title: Peninsular News & Advertiser Article Date: October 11 1861 Article Description: News From 2nd Delaware Regiment: Article Text: Lewes, Del., Oct. 11, 1861: Dr. H.A. HOUSTON of Lewes, Sussex County, has been mustered in as a surgeon to the 2nd Delaware Regiment and Dr. W. H. WHITE has been mustered out. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Delaware > Sussex http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=642 Also visit our new sister site: http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=41747 Submitted by: Harrison H Howeth Article Title: Peninsuler News & Advertiser Article Date: July 18 1862 Article Description: Dr. Lyons Appoiinted to 4th Delaware Regiment. Article Text: ewes, Del., July 18, 1862: Dr. JOS. B. LYONS of Lewes has been appointed Assistant Surgeon of the 4th Delaware Regiment now being formed at Brandywine Springs, near Wilmington, under Col. GRIMSHAW. We learn that the regiment is rapidly filling up. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Delaware > Sussex http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=642 Also visit our new sister site: http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=41743 Submitted by: Harrison H Howeth Article Title: Peninsular News & Advertiser Article Date: December 12 1862 Article Description: Lewes Schooner H. P. Haws Sinks at Boston Article Text: December 12, 1862: From the shipping reports we hear the sad intelligence of the loss of the schooner, J. P. Haws, of Lewes, Delaware, with her entire crew, off boston harbor on the 5th inst. We learn from A. HICKMAN, ESQ., the owner of the vessel, that she sailed from Seaford on the 23th ult., with wood for Baltimore and frem thence took freight for Boston. She was sailed by Captain WILLIAM MASON, of Milton, Delaware and her first mate J. BAINUM was also from the same town. It is supposed that the vessel struck a rock and sprung a leak. There is no word of the rest of the crew. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Delaware > Sussex http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=642 Also visit our new sister site: http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=41477 Submitted by: Harrison H Howeth Article Title: New Oxford Item Article Date: February 25 1915 Article Description: Lewes Boy Takes Cold, Uncomfortable Train Ride. Article Text: Georgetown, Del., Feb., 25, 1915: FRANK ROBINSON, a small boy from Lewes, took an uuncomfortable ride to Georgetown recently, but, notwithstanding the cold, seemed to enjoy his experience. When the train rolled into Georgetown the boy was found perched on the back of the last coach astride the rubber pipe of the air brake attachment and with his feet almost dragging on the ties. With the wind whistling around him he was liable at any moment to be swept from the seat. Instead of being overcome by the exposure, Robinson claimed to have enjoyed the trip. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Delaware > Sussex http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=642 Also visit our new sister site: http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=41476 Submitted by: Harrison H Howeth Article Title: New Oxford Item Article Date: October 3 1907 Article Description: Tomatoes, Tomatoes, Tomatoes Everywhere. Article Text: Lewes, Del., Sept., 30, 1907: Never before in the history of lower Delaware have there been so many tomatoes grown as this years crop has brought. The canners have been tremendously overtaxed and many canners have found it necessary to resort to various ruses to keep the farmer from hauling in the fruit. Farmers who made contracts early in the season at planting time have the advantage over their neighbors who took the chance and planted to the open market. There is no market for uncontracted tomatoes. The farmes take comfort in the fact that the tomatoe is a most excellent fertilizer and do not regret having to leave thousands of tons to rot in the fields. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Delaware > Sussex http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=642 Also visit our new sister site: http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=41475 Submitted by: Harrison H Howeth Article Title: Chester Daily Times Article Date: November 1 1881 Article Description: For Shame, John Spencer! Article Text: Tuesday, All Saints Day, Nov., 1, 1881: The Chester Daily Times newspaper issue of today, of Chester, Pa., the proprietor, JOHN SPENCER, wrote "It is said that Lewes, Del., is the second oldest town in the United States. Well, it looks as if is was dying of old age." ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Delaware > Sussex http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=642 Also visit our new sister site: http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=41422 Submitted by: Harrison H Howeth Article Title: Chester Daily Times Article Date: July 3 1879 Article Description: Quaint and Charming Lewes, Delaware. Article Text: July 3, 1879: A quaint old town is Lewes, with its low roofed houses, clap boarded from peak to foundation, with its narrow, winding streets, along which move carts and chaise that look as if they might have done service in pre-revolutionary times, with its contented appearing citizens sauntering along the shaded sidwalks or engaging in genial talk at the grocery corner. Norless, unlike the rest of the world, is the long sandy beach that stretches away from Lewes toward Cape Henlopen. Along it for a mile or more are scattered scores of wrecks, the crumbling mementoes of staunch craft that once danced gaily over the billows of the sea, and huge anchors lie here and there that have been fished out of the bay and brought ashore by men who thus earn a precarrous livelihood. The Cape too is a strange place, with that huge wave of sand rolling across it at the rate of twelve feet each year, with the tops of tall trees peering like a forest of stumps from its creast. Altogether, Lewes, and th! e neighborhood , are well worthy of a visit by those who would like to see nature untouched and unchanged by modern acts. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Delaware > Sussex http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=642 Also visit our new sister site: http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=41419 Submitted by: Harrison H Howeth Article Title: Chester Daily Times Article Date: June 24 1879 Article Description: Excursion to Lewes Article Text: June 24, 1879: The "John Sylvester" a very fast and roomy boat, Captain JOHN H. POST, will leave Chester for Lewes on Tuesday morning next at 8 o'clock. This will be an excursion worth going on for Lewes is an ancient town with much historic interest, to say nothing of Cape Henlopen with emmense sand dunes and immeasurable huckleberry patches. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Delaware > Sussex http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=642 Also visit our new sister site: http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=41415 Submitted by: Harrison H Howeth Article Title: Chester Daily Times Article Date: January 1 1879 Article Description: Breakwater Light Editor has Accident. Article Text: January 1, 1879: Dr. Issac H. D. Knowles, of the 'Breakwater Light' of Lewes, well known in the area, fell out of his buggy a few days ago and broke his arm. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Delaware > Sussex http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=642 Also visit our new sister site: http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=41413 Submitted by: Harrison H Howeth Article Title: Chester Daily Times Article Date: October 18 1878 Article Description: Greenback Convention Chooses Lewes Man. Article Text: October 18, 1878: The Greenback State Convention of Delaware met in Wilmington yesterday. Thirty one delegates were present, nearly all of them from Wilmington. Dr. K.J. STEWART,of Lewes, was nominated for governor and JOHN G. JACKSON of Hockessin for congressman. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Delaware > Sussex http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=642 Also visit our new sister site: http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=41411 Submitted by: Harrison H Howeth Article Title: Chester Daily News Article Date: July 20 1878 Article Description: A Good Hotel at Lewes Article Text: July 20, 1878: One of the best country hotels at which it has ever been our pleasure to stop is the 'United States' at Lewes, Delaware. The rooms are large, airy and as clean as soap and water can make them. The 'table' is fit for a king and the waiters are kind and attentive. The proprietor, Mr. FELL, is untiring in his efforts in ministering to the wants of his patrons. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Delaware > Sussex http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=642 Also visit our new sister site: http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=41407 Submitted by: Harrison H Howeth Article Title: Chester Daily News Article Date: October 16 1876 Article Description: News From Lewes & Vicinity: Article Text: October 16, 1876: Lewes has just finished a school house and a town hall capable of seeting 400 persons. Rains have caused the failure of the potato crops and injued the fodder crops. The majority of the area farmers are through with seeding wheat. Corn is selling for 50 cents a bushel. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Delaware > Sussex http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=642 Also visit our new sister site: http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=41331 Submitted by: Harrison H Howeth Article Title: The Washington Times Article Date: December 30 1904 Article Description: To Girdle the Coast with Wireless Stations Article Text: December 30, 1904: Read Admiral MANNEY , chief of the Bureau of Equipment, has completed plans for the establishment of a line of wireless telegraph stations extending from Cape Elizabeth near Portland, Maine to Galvaston, Tesas, many of the stations having a range of 250 miles. The new stations will include one at Cape Henlopen at the mouth of Delaware Bay, Diamond Shoals Lightship off Cape Hatteras, Beaufort, N.C., Navy Yard in Charleston, S.C., Pensacola, New Orleans and Galvaston. The Bureau of Equipment will advertise for bids for the construction of these stations. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Delaware > Kent http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=640 Also visit our new sister site: http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=41221 Submitted by: Gigimo Article Title: The Philadelphia Inquirer Article Date: September 7 1883 Article Description: Obituary Henry TODD Article Text: Henry TODD died at Dover, Del., Wednesday night. He was born on November 24, 1802, and had, until stricken by old age, been prominent in Delaware politics. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Delaware > Sussex http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=642 Also visit our new sister site: http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=41099 Submitted by: Harrison H Howeth Article Title: Washington Post Article Date: December 20 1908 Article Description: Cape Henlopen Life Saver Without a Peer. Article Text: Lewes, Delaware, Dec 20, 1908: Dispatched to Philadelphia Public Ledger: CAPTAIN THEODORE SALMONS celebrated his thirtieth year as keeper of the Lewes and Cape Henlopen Life Saving Station by entertaining the crews of both stations and a company of friends at a dinner Friday night. Superintendent W. E. TUNNELL, of the Sixth Life Saving District, who acted as toastmaster, paid a great tribute to Capt. Salmonds when he asserted that he has saved more lives from the sea than any other man in the Life Saving Service. The Delaware Capes are known by sea faring men as the grave yard of the Atlantic and it has been here for 30 years that Capt. Salmonds has been in service. Supt. Tunnell, on behalf of the men of the Life Saving crews presented to the Captain a handsome armchair. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Delaware > Sussex http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=642 Also visit our new sister site: http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=41098 Submitted by: Harrison H Howeth Article Title: Washington Post Article Date: May 27 1908 Article Description: 60 Year Old Icicles found at Cape Henlopen Delaware Article Text: Rehoboth Beach dispatch to Philadelphia Record: May 27, 1909: Icicles preserved for over sixty years is a discovery claimed to have been made by HARRY E. ELLIOT, a well known merchant and his four companions. The shifting sands of the beach had completely covered a little frame house once used for the storage of oil for the Cape Henlopen lighthouse over sixty years ago and it was soon forgotten. Elliot and his companions were strolling on the beach the other day when they found the peak of a house roof jutting from he sand. Procuring shovels they soon had it uncovered and found it to be the forgotten storehouse and forecing open the door came into a veritable refrigerator, from the roof of which hung large icicles. They soon melted in the heat of the warm sun. Elliot says the discovery is considerable for it shows a new method of keeping ice. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Delaware > Sussex http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=642 Also visit our new sister site: http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=40744 Submitted by: Harrison H Howeth Article Title: Gettysburg Times Article Date: October 13 1978 Article Description: Delaware Apple Queen to Compete in the USA Apple Queen Contest at Gettysburg. Article Text: The National Apple Queen contest will end the 11th Annual Apple Harvest at the Gettysburg Sheraton Inn Saturday evening. LESLIE GAY KNAPP, 18, daughter of Mr & Mrs HALSEY KNAPP of Lewes, Delaware, will represent the Apple Commission of the Delaware Department of Agriculture. Miss Knapp, a freshman at Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland, is majoring in liberal arts. She enjoys sailing, tennis, acting, water skiing, skateboarding and dancing. She is a 5'7", brown eyed brunette and the recipient of the Third Mob-Jack National Crew and Second Lewes Yacht Club Sailfish Championship. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Delaware > Sussex http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=642 Also visit our new sister site: http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=40743 Submitted by: Harrison H Howeth Article Title: Gettysburg Times Article Date: August 25 1969 Article Description: Icebreaker Refules at Breakwater Article Text: Chester, Pa., August 25, 1969: The worlds largest icebreaker was scheduled to anchor at the Delaware Breakwater of the Delaware Bay early today to take on fuel that will weight her down 28 feet deeper into the sea. The SS Manhattan left here Saturday with hopes of opening up the frozen Northwest Passage, boardering North America, as a trade route. The fueling, at a point between Lewes, Delaware and Cape May, New Jersey is expected to take 12 hours during which time 186,000 narrells of fuel will be loaded and 36,000 gallons of diesel for the two helicopters on board. The 1005 foot long ship could not be loaded with fuel at Chester because the water was too shallow. The icebeaker will continue to its first port of call at Halifax, Nova Scotia. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Delaware > Sussex http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=642 Also visit our new sister site: http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=40742 Submitted by: Harrison H Howeth Article Title: Gettysburg Times Article Date: July 17 1969 Article Description: Jellyfish Arrive in Delaware Waters. Article Text: Lewes, Del., July 17, 1969; (AP) Jellyfih arrived have early and in unusually large numbers in Delaware waters this year, says a University of Delaware Marine Biologist. Doctor THOMAS MEYERS, the biologist, said jellyfish which though harmless but a nuisance to bathers wll be around until after Labor Day. He said the anmals usually don't arrive until late in July or early August and that he has no explanation for their large numbers. . ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com