Milford chronicle., 1918-09-20
BOWERS.

t Tomatoes in this section have beer
: exceptionally fine all this season, and
the Bowers cannery is putting up one
of the largest and finest packs in its
history. The farmers were never
more busy with their farm work
picking and delivering their tomatoes
cutting and saving their corn and
fodder, plowing and preparing their
ground for their wheat crop, and not
withstanding the scarcity of labor,
they are determined to be equal to
the emergency, as they work from
early in the morning until late at
night, to save their high-priced pro-
ducts and demonstrate their patriot
ism.
The seine fishermen are still reap
/ ing a harvest at their business as the
] fish along the shore continue plentiful
/ for this time of the season, the fisher
men catching from three to ten bush
els at a haul. The price for them at
our wharf is unprecedented, and has
been all the season. Fish on Mon
| day of this week sold for eight dol
lars per bushel from the boat What
| the consumer has to pay is enormous,
but then it is only in conformity with
other meats they have to buy. FISH
ing this season has been a profitable
business to those who have been en-
gagged in it.
John Purnell, who keeps a grocery
store in South Bowers, is in Phila-
delphia at the present time, where he
went with his little son, Burton, to a
hospital, where an operation for ap-
pendicitis was performed on the lad. |
The last reports were that the opera
tion was a success and the boy was
getting along nicely.
James Patterson, of Philadelphia, |
lad of about twelve years, who came |
here to visit with the family of Jacob |
Segrest, was taken i'll about ten days |
ago, and when the family physician |
diagnosed the case he pronounced it |
diphtheria. The bog has been quar-
antined and is getting along nicely.
"A calm after a stom" is an old
aphOrism and one that is almost in
Variably true. II surely will applv
to this place. For three months the
place has been astir night and dav
with continual noise, up until about
a week ago. There is more than one
reason for the change, but they all
came about at the same time. The
nrst was the departure Of the MANY
WHO were occupying cottages after the
month Of September came in. and the
many who have been spending the
season at the hotels have about all de-
parted for their homes. Another rea-
son Is the discOntinuance of the
dances at the Casino. Another rea- ,
son, and a great one, was the Fuel
Administrators request to abstain ,
from the use of gasoline on SUNDAYS.
lhat request has been well respected I
mere. Sunday last was the uuietest I
lay we have witnessed here in a long !
time. Not one automobile either left =
or came into the town during the day q
save one, and that one was a doctor g
VINO came into the town on profess
slonal business. The motOrboats re- ,
NAMED fast to their moorings all dav =
and refused to move, hence the many
who would liked to have spent the =
lay in the bay with hook and line
have concluded that there is nothing n
ioing in that line here on Sundavs-
The Stokesbury Brothers of SMYRNA !
who have been summering here in ! 4,
heir cottages with their families and !
operating their motor boats in con-
leying parties to the fishing grounds.
lave moved back home and abandon q
ID their business here until next sea-
son.