Milford chronicle., 1915-10-08
BOWERS.

Bowers having disposed of all its sum
mer visitors, has settled down to hare
work, and preparing for the coming win
ter; which, if the prediction of some o
our oldest prophets prove true, will b,
quite long aud cold one.
Our oystermen, who have beds in the
bay, are right on the job everyday, and
from what the writer has seen thev have
some very fine goods to sell on the mar
ket this fall, and should make some
money. The oystermen dispose of them
over at Maurice River in New Jersev al
$3.50 hundred, and that is a fair price.
so the writer was informed by one of the
men in business.
Aside from the bay dredging Bowers
has quite large number of tongers, who
cater to the wants of the surrounding
country. The tongers catch oysters
smaller than the bay oysters, but they
are Just as fat and of good bit finer
taver. The tongers at Bowers are SELL
ing them at twenty-five cents bushel
and the writer thinks that if ANYBODY
wants them for anything less, they are
not familiar with that work that it re-
quires to catch bushel of these shell
fish and Gull them for market.
Bowers has the most polite and accom-
modatlng set of men in the business that
can be found, and any one wishing to
procure this most delicious sea food will
be treated all right, if they will come to
this place for their oysters.
w. S. Davidson, who has been putting
some very fine goods in cans, in the line
of tomatoes, for his city trade, has had
orders for some Keifer pears; and, being
through the tomatoes, he will commence
to can pears the middle of this week.
He has about two thousand, baskets in |
his factory at this time, and intends to
let them ripen, or turn yellow, before he |
puts them in the cans-as they will bring /
/ better price.
Quite a number of our town bows. who
vent to Carneys Point to get rich, have
eturned very well satisfied to abide at
Bowers if they can't get rich here.
The biggest and most wonderful sensa-
ion in Bowers is the leaving town of
me of our citizens, John Shorts. who
vent to Carneys Point and secured lob.
ie has made good there, and the people
nd his family gave him three DAYS to
e away from home
The understudy of Carrie Nation who
reated such a sensation on her advent
] Bowers, has made good, and things l
ave moved along very nicely since her
Oming She hopes with the writer's i
ssistance, to abolish all parties which
Ike the boys away from the families of Z
renings, and expects to keep them '
Ome, attending to the babies and fires !
their homestead.
Capt William Short, who met with T
lite an accident while out on his bav I
-ounds the past week. by getting caught A
the main sheet ropes, is getting along v
well as can be expected. He came f,
'ry near losing his life. His brother II
7arles is handling his boat, while he ri
cOnvalescing. ii
Mrs. Willis Patterson, who has been ia
the Hahnmanu Hospital for an opera
N, has returned home and has return ii
home and is recovering very slowly I'll
I'm the treatment she received. h;
Capt. Willis Johnson, one of our lead
Z handlers of fishing parties with hook h;
d line, is expecting TO leave Bowers to v
,ept job at Carneys Point as a guard
Fred Willier, who has been running tn
bakery for E. r. Williams in Bowers NJ
ring the past summer, has left for or
lmingtOn the past week to accept a
} in in that city. a
Mrs. Louise Wood, of Bowers, was
led to Camden, N. J., the past Thurs N,
? to attend the funeral of her daugh-
Miss Laurie Wood. r,
dr. Galloway, better known as ''Uncle
my, " is still confined to the mouse as
b an ailment that seems to be hard to IA
rid of, but we hope to see him out
he near future, mingling with the Pr
s as of old.
st. Paul" Dol