Part-Time Police

At one time Delmar employed Part-Time Police.  They had little to zero police training unlike the full time policemen.  They were used for traffic control and other type work not requiring a great deal of legal training.  Delmar did away with them in the early 1990s due to the possible legal liability they might incurred in their work.  It was a good economic alternative to hiring trained police for the less skill work required. Today you have to have a college degree to direct traffic in Delmar. 

1000 phones for Delmar

above from the Wilmington Morning News 16 April 1951

1940s Pullman Car Ad

First National Bank

1933 The Death of John Emory Chipman

Above from the Wilmington News Journal 27 February 1932

John Emory Chipman (1875-1932) was a 1901 graduate of Delaware College (now called the Univ of Delaware).  He was the son of John Henry Chipman and Mary Jane Gordy Chipman.

He married in 1898 to Princess Rosetta James (1876-1927).  They had for children; Helen F. Chipman (1900-1998) and Everett Manning Chipman (1901-1975).  He was buried Laurel Hill Cemetery. 

In 1944 Helen would marry John McCready Beach.  Manning would marry Ellen  and second he would marry  DeLane.  He worked at DuPonts in Seaford. In 1926 Manning had found Barton Freeny Lying on the floor of his home unconscious from gas inhalation. 

Emory Chipman's nephew, George Chipman, committed suicide in 1933 by shotgun. His brother James Thomas Chipman drown himself in a pond at Chipman Mill.

1916 Hamilton Watch Ad

Charles Greyson Mitchell and Sallie Katherine Truitt

Above from the Laurel State Register October 24, 1930

Charles Greyson Mitchell (1903-1975) married Sallie Katherine Truitt (1912-1957).  They would live in North Carolina and Virginia.  They had a son Greyson Truitt Mitchell (1931-1996)

Sallie's father was George Franklin Truitt (1889-1942) and her mother was Lulu Mae Adkins.  Frank was a conductor with the railroad.  Lulu would remarry in 1951 to Charles F. Pusey.