Milford chronicle., 1912-05-24
STRAWBERRIES CHEAP
AT GLENDALE.
Berries are Selling for Five Cents per
Quart. Potato Bugs are Devouring
Crops. Young Lady Enters Ell
lendale Society. Sick Persons
are Much Improved.

Strawberries have now made their ap-
pearance in the E1lendale markets, and
are the finest kind Of fruit The quality
is all that could be asked, but the price
is very low. The berries are selling for
only five cents per quart retail With
the high wages that the farmer is COM
PEELED to pay for his labor, together with
the other necessities, it is no wonder that
he is bowling about the low prices of his
berries. Eggs are selling for sixteen
cents per dozen. and the finest country
butter is bringing only fifteen cents per
pound. At this rate, persons would find
that Ellendale is very good place in
which to live when everything must be
bought
The potato bugs are particularly hun
gry, and these warm days bring them to
us in swarms. The ground in young
patches are almost covered with the peSky
insects, and as the tubers come through
the earth they are DESTROYED in many in
stances. The bugs go down beneath the
soil after tle young tender plant, and it
is an everlasting vigilance to fight them
off. In one instance a fine patch was
completely eaten off in one night. The
young tomato plants fare but little bet
ter. Still the farmers life is an easy
one, they say.
One of the social events of the season +
at Ellendale occurred at the home of
James Donovan this week, when a fine
birthday party was given in honor of his
daughter, Miss Lizzie, the affair being
the occasion of her nineteenth birthday.
The affair was attended by all of the gal
community. The spacious rooms were
filed to their utmost capacity and all did
Justice to the immense quantity of good
things in the dining room where the big
table was loaded with the delieacies of
the season. This was the occasion of
Miss Lizzie's entrance into the social
whirl of life, and it is one that will live
long in the memory of this pretty and
popular young maid.
The warm summer days are having
their benefits upon those unfortunates
among us who have been suffering with
sickness. 1t is with much pleasure that
we see the figure of the old political war
horse, Samuel Fisher, on our streets. 1t
is not, however, the tall and athletic
figure of old.
Cove Smith, the foreman at Reeds
mills, is still confined to his bed nursing
his badly gashed head and twisted limbs I
which he received in the accident which ,
befell him while at work in the mill re-
Gently.
Our city friends know that the Della
ware strawberry is the best on earth and I
are coming to this section to get the lus-
cious fruit The most prominent among
the visitors is Mrs. Bessie Short Massey,
The bride of the Wilmington business '
man, who is visiting her grandmother, j
Mrs. Mary Short. This is Mrs. Massey's I
first visit to Ellendale since her marriage. 7
and her many friends are glad to see her. Il
She is as sweet and pretty as ever, is our
congratulations.
Grover c. Reed is at the home of his {
mother Mrs. Clara Carter, during the L
llness of her husband. S
Mrs. Emma Wallahan, the rich and
iashing young widow, of Camden,N. J.,
S with her sister, Mrs. Ellegood.
Mrs Carrie Welch, who spends her y
winters in the city, has returned from a "
isit to friends and relatives in Delmar. d
Farmers are busy planting corn and II
utting clover.
The Ladies' Aid, of New Market will
meet at the home of William Benson and =
vife, Saturday night, June 1st. All are D
invited to attend. p
The members of Mrs. May JOhnson's
undav School class, of New Market
unday School, will have Snow Ball
,ocial, also ice cream and confectioneries d.
Or sale, Thursday night, June 3Oth. If IL
should be stormy, the following night al
t the residence of David Lofland and m
life. Proceeds for Sunday School funds. h,
PAUL. PRY.