I have put the 1997 Delmar School Video out on you tube the link is here
Delmar Historical And Art Society
The society will bring together those people interested in history and art in the Delmar area Our Email address is delmarhas@yahoo.com
Saturday, February 11, 2023
Thursday, June 9, 2022
Some Delmar Fire Aux Photos
1974 annual Banquet Marie Stoke in pink
Donated by Maggie Legates
Monday, May 23, 2022
Thursday, September 23, 2021
Wednesday, September 22, 2021
Friday, September 17, 2021
Russell and Lala Walls
MR, AND MRS. WALLS RESIGN Mr. and Mrs. Russell Walls have resigned their positions here and
have gone to Delmar, Delaware where they have opened a tea room. Mrs. Walls was
matron of Lincoln for several years. Mr. Walls was Manager of the employees
Club until he was forced to give up the position because of illness. He was
employed in the Adult group at the time of his resignation. We are sending
along our best wishes for success in their new work.
3 July 1936
Letchworth Village News New York
Russell Robert Walls (1908-19940 was the son of
Vincent Harrington Walls and Nellie Hitchens.
Vincent Walls was a well-known Railroadman who started with the railroad
in Georgetown and was transferred to Delmar.
Vincent and his family lived about a mile west of Delmar. He was well known for many things, but in
1929 he shot a chicken theft named George Henry Price (1903-1946). The shot destroyed Mr. Price’s leg, and it
had to be amputated. Mr. Price was the
son of John D. Price and Virginia Price.
George Price had been arrested in1927for stealing chickens from Mrs.
Polly A. Culver and Mr. Gardner L. Hastings. He was fined $500 and sent to the
Sussex jail.
Even with his leg amputated, he continued to
steal chickens, and in 1930 he was again arrested for stealing chickens from
Mr. Hughey Pippins of near Delmar. He was given 18 months in Jail. Mr. Price continued to live in Delmar. He worked as kitchen help in various
restaurants. In 1946 his home on East
street would catch fire, and he would die in the fire.
above Russell Walls, Nellie Hitchens Walls and her son-in-law Charles King
Back to Russell Walls, Russell graduated from
Delmar, Maryland High School in 1927 at the Elcora theater in Delmar. He would
find work in New Jersey and, in 1928, would marry Miss Lala Lee Messick (1905 -1984) of Allen, Maryland. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Messick.
above Lala Walls
Russell and Lala worked in large hospitals
aimed toward the mentally and physically handicapped. They would reside on-site at these
facilities. They worked at the
Letchworth Village in New York, The Pilgrim State Hospital on Long Island (when
it was built was the largest in the world at 10,000 beds,) and the Philadelphia State Hospital
(Byberry).