REHOBOTH'S 1929 BEAUTIFCATION.

REHOBOTH'S BEAUTIFCATION 1929

MRS. HENRY B. THOMPSON

The Wednesday, July 24, 1929 Wilmington Morning News reports

the report of the Mosquito Control Committee by Mrs. Henry B.

Thompson, Mayor Ralph Poynter, and Lt. Governor Hall Anderson,

covering the period April 1928 to July 1929 is completed.

It includes the cleaning and improvement of Silver Lake that has had a

levee made at the upper end and a 300 foot drainage ditch to drain the

marsh end. The 2-1/2 mile ditch with laterals that have drip cans of oil

to control mosquito birth. The dunes next to the ocean have been cleared

of rubbish.

Lake Comegy's had been laid out and cleaned by Albert Hall and Rowe Von Pleasanten so that out of that bog a pretty lake was made and connected to Silver Lake by a pipe so it's waters can ebb and flow.

Lake Gerar and Irenee duPonts project were cleaned and improved by Albert Hall of Penn State college.

Rehoboth Avenue, Henlopen Circle and the section around the train station

were improved with placement of shrubs and flower beds around them.

Abstract: Wilmington News Journal, 30 July 1938.