Milford chronicle., 1914-10-16
sEAFoRD.

a company of Boy Scouts recently or
! gained IN Seaford went out scouting a
1 lew days ago, and succeeded in putting
ont OF commission an electrical signal
pot on the Seaford and Caml nd se rail-
road ettectually tying up all t aft over
that branch until the broken sij nails were
repaired. The boys in crossing the track
near Seaiord, saw the pot settled in the
ground, and thinking it might contain
buried treasure of some kind. smashed
u with their hatChets. Railroad Detec-
tive Kelsey Went to Seaford yesterday
and talked with the BOYS at the school
house, Prof. Alexander Harrington the
principal also lectured the hoys. showing
them how their mischief might have
been the cause of wrecked train, and
the bows have faithfully promised to
keep away from the railroad property in
the future.
Rev. Edwin S. Kinks, of ST. Louis,
Mo, has accepted the call TO the rector
ate Of Christ p. E Church, Cambridge,
made vacant by the resignation of Rev.
Alfred +. Race
A large band of gypsies is now en-
camped near Seaford, on the road from
Blades to Concord.
Mrs. Mary Phillips is seriously i'll
with pneumonia at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. John R. Eskridge, Arch
and Poplar streets.
There will be a special rally day SER
vice at Gethsemane NJ. P Church, Reli-
ance, Sunday morning, October Is. Rev.
DR.. Bowers. president of the Methodist
Protestant Conference will attend, and
harvest home entertainment will be
held in the evening.
With the summer harvests mostly gath |
cred and farm houses and barns made |
snug for the winter, this section of the |
State is veritable storehouse of food |
supplies, and farmers are better prepared |
than in many years to Withstand the |
hardest of times, without any worry of |
being starved out, no matter what hap |
pens in the cities and towns. Bumper
crops in nearly every district in this
county have made it possible for the far
mers to store away lot of the surplus.
Cellars and root pits are filled to burst
ing with white and sweet potatoes, cab
bage, onions and variety of other veg
etables, with any amount of winter apples
for pies and dumplings.
There are also few hundred carloads
Of sweet and white potatoes in storage
]
pected demand and consequent higher
prices for these products in the city mar
kets during the winter. Prices were
low for both kinds of potatoes
during the summer. This has caused an
unusual quantity of tubers to be held
back by farmers who have had any stor4
age facilities at their command, with an
of big jump in the market
later in the season.
Farmers wives, spurred on by the pre-
dictions of hard times this winter, have
been buster than ever For weeks
they have worked in hot kitchens, pre-
serving and canning large quantities of
fruit and vegetables of such varieties
that cannot be kept in storage. Peaches
were so cheap this season and so abun-
liant, that provident housewives in the
towns, as well as in the country, put
enough of them in jars to last an aver
age family for several seasons.
There have also been large quantities
IF tomatoes and beans canned, and pan
.rv shelves are stocked to their limit
with relishes and jams and jellies. The
family in this part of the State that has
not taken advantage of the bountiful
crops this season to provide against the
possibilities OF hafQ winter, mas Deen
he exception. Whether all the food
stored away will be needed or not, the
effect will be to check the tendency, even
among the thriftiest of country women
turing late years, to follow the easier
course of buying their canned goods at ?
he stores or canning factories along
With other prepared foodstuffs which
lave taken the place of products that in
,ther years were cured or prepared right
N the farm, or were bought at the vii
age mill.
Barns and silos are well filled with ,
odder because of the heaviest yield of
,orn in years and also big hay crops.
This will lead more farmers to 90 in for
he fattening of cattle if meat prices keep
oaring. Taken as a whole, this region
S better prepared for a siege than the