1927 REHOBOTH HISTORY

HISTORY OF REHOBOTH BEACH

SUMMER 1927

Monday, June 20, 1927, Wilmington News Journal advertisements:

Rehoboth Beach Delaware, golden hours await you here. We offer every form of

vacation pleasure here at this delightful resort, where pine groves meet the sea. Beach

parties, dancing, swimming, speed boating, canoeing, fishing, tennis, golf, hiking.

The salt air is invigorating and water is pure . There is no other finer beach for bathing

on the Atlantic coast as there is here. Below you will find a list of boarding houses and

hotels, stores, contractors, real estate dealers ready to fulfill your needs .

There is Henry W. Conant Company, Seashore Realty, in the Rehoboth Avenue Arcade

Building, with rentals and insurance.

The Merton By the Sea, one of the best known family hotels in Rehoboth under the personal supervision of Miss Mary Downes. Every care is made for your comfort. It is home like and we have hot running water, our dinning room overlooking the ocean serving excelled meals. We have 20 rooms at reasonable rates on the beach.

Hotel Carlton, newly decorated, hot ad cold running water in each room, electricity. Only a minute to the beach and we have our own bath houses free to our guest. A full view of the ocean from our rooms and porch. We are on the American Plan.

W. H. Hopkins, First and Olive Avenues , has one large lot on Columbia Avenue , streetto street, $1000. Lot facing Golf Grounds $600. House in the Pines, $2500. Corner

house, overlooking du Pont Lake, large rooms, fire place, four bedrooms, , a bargain.

Lots on Rehoboth Avenue $800. Rooms and cottages for rent.

Belhaven Hotel now open with dancing. George Madden and his Delawareans Orchestra to furnish music the season. Mrs M. C. Barnett, Propriator.

Pasteurized milk and dairy products at E. F. Seimes Rehoboth Dairy on Wilmington Avenue.

Marvel's Hotel, half block from ocean, Rehoboth Avenue, all modern conveniences,

excellent meals, reasonable rate, open all year, under the personal supervision of Mr.

and Mrs Frank Marvel .

Palmer School graduate, Anna Gregorius, Chiropractor, at Merton Hotel every Monday,Wednesday and Friday, between 12 and 3.

John Tyndall, builder, phone 106 Rehoboth.

Concrete block and building material Ewing Construction, Laurel Ave and Surf.

Arcade Toggery Shop, haberdashery, cleaning and pressing in Arcade Building

Ralph W. Wingate, realtor and insurance, Rehoboth.

R, B. Ingram , real estate and insurance, 100 x 100 lots on Park Avenue $1500.

Rehoboth Garage, First Ave and Rehoboth Ave., G. W. Joseph, Auto repairs, storage, gas and oil, washing. Reasonable rates and all night service July and August.

Every night you can get the news of Delaware thru Wilmington Every Evening sold

at J. S. Boyds.