Bridgeton pioneer., 1916-06-08
LEAGUE RUN
ON MONDAY
Occasion Will Be Delight.
full One.
VISIT BIC FARMS
rlen of the League With the
Ladies Will Enjoy Rare
Afternoon

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On Monday afternoon the Bridgeton
Commercial League will make its an
nual automobile run and have its an
rual strawberry luncheon.
Those who will participate will be
delighted, and it will be the most i'm
portant of any of the out door func-
tions that have yet been attempted by
the organization.
The members of the League, with
the ladies will participate, and the
Merchants and Manufacturers Com
mlttees of the League will provide
ample auto accommodations for all
who desire to make the trip. It is
important that the committees may
know early how many machines will
be provided, how many will have va
cant seats for those who have no ma
chimes, and many people who will
want accommodation in automobiles.
The Agricultural Committee will
have charge of the run. 1t has been
arranged to leave the League rooms,
Esibill building, at $50 o'clock. The
pilot cars will go over a route which
will require just an hour to cover.
and which will carry the party through
some of the prettiest and most pro-
ductive of the rural section.
At 4.30 O'clock the autoists will
reach the Seabrooks Farms Company
plant, and there will be entertained
by the Seabrook management and the
House Committee of the League.
The members of the House Com
mittee have been out to the Seabrook
farms and made all arrangements for
the parking of the machines and for
the entertainment of the entire party
at luncheon. Everyone will be COM
Portable and everyone will be plenti-
fully supplied with refreshment.
The run could have no more inter-
esting and important objective point
than the Seabrooks farms. This is
the greatest, the largest and the most
productive overhead irrigation farm
In the entire world. Charles F. Sea-
brook, the active managing head of
this wonderful enterprise, is a trail
blazer, leader, an inventor, a dis
coverer of new ideas, and policies. He
does great things and he does them
as no one has ever before attempted.
On Monday afternoon next the par
Elephants will be entertained upon a
farm plant which comprises no less
than $50 acres, and every foot of the
land, practically, is under cultivation,
the most of it intensive cultivation.
North and south this wonderful
farm covers an area of no less than
two miles. 1t is nearly as great east
and west. Here woods have been cut
off, great roots and stumps dynamited
from the ground, and the site devel-
oped into rich fields ripe with grow
ing crops. Here ponds have been
blasted, the earth drained, and pota-
to vines are standing hardy ready to
bring out great tubers in the later
season.
Right now the entire farms are de-
veloping. There are ripening upon
the well cared plants Strawberries.
great luscious fruit that will have
the best and most profitable markets.
Forty-five acres of growing, ripening
Strawberries are under irrigation.
The first picking of the famous Ches-
apeakes begins this week. From thir-
ty to forty of the great berries will
round up capacious box which will
be packed in crates for shipment.
Hundreds of people with deft fingers
will pick these berries and they will
be nicely packed. The crates will
all be labelled with a marker which
shows red ripe strawberry with
long stem. The label reads:
"Seabrooks
Honey-Heart
Strawberries
Three Bites
To Berry
Served with inch stems and a dip
Of powdered sugar.
Served the old fashioned way with
cream and sugar.
Walking through one of the straw
berry beds on Monday a Pioneer re-