Milford chronicle., 1922-09-22
BOWERS BEACH

The town is very quiet now. The
season is practically over here, except
the week-ends, when the hook and
line nimrods will come as long as the
fish take the hook, especially as freely
as they are at the present time.
The cottages are all closed and the
sojourners gone to their homes.
The season past has been of much
peculiarity in many respects, while
many of those who have been coming
here for years past and occupying
cottages for two weeks or more have
made their stay this year much short
er while many strangers that have
never heretofore visited the place for
any length of time, have been in evil
dence.
Many have complained of the scare
ity of money and the inability to OBJ
tain work while others could only get
short vacation to spend any where.
The bay fishing has been the great
est boon to the place this season of
anything else, bringing more people
here and distributing more money
among the people who were prepared
to cater to their wants.
The mosquitoes, though always con-
sidered a pest have been much in ev-
idence here as we'll as all parts of the
State, since the first of last June,
when the frequent rains began to
come, while there is such thing as
becoming use to pest, they have been
quite annoying to visitors from dis
tance.
On Tuesday of last week J. H.
Humpton, DR.. Harry c. Moore and
L. C. Moore from Avondale, Pa, came
down and secured Captain Slaughter,
with his boat, to take them out to the
fishing grounds. They were success
full in their efforts of edible fish, but
being prepared with large shark
hook, they put it overheard and in
short time hooked shark and boated
it and brought it ashore, tooks its en-
trails out, lashed it on the running
board of their car, which reached from
end to end, and hied for home. The
reported weight was 400 pounds.
Mr.. and Mrs. Warren Baker and Mr..
and Mrs. Howard Lynch, of Philadel-
phia, were weekend guests at the
Johnson Hotel. They took in the fish
ing on Saturday, making two trips out
\in the morning. They landed 20 large
beauties and in the afternoon they
captured over 100, which finished their
days fishing.
On Tuesday morning of this week,
Christian Maull who has a milk route
here, while in town an automobile go
ing out of town, ran into his milk wa
gon, tore wheel off, broke the axle,
but fortunately no one was hurt. The
accident being unavoidable, the dam
ages were amicably adjusted and sett-
led by the parties interested.
Mrs. Wilbur Camper, a farmers |
wife, near town, met with a painful !
accident few days ago on opening
the door to the kitchen. A gun in a
rack over the door, fell and struck
her across the foot, inf1icting a
wound that has kept her in bed since
the happening, under the care of a
doctor.
Captain E. V. Davenport who has
had charge of the excursion steamer,
Clyde, plying between the cities and
st. Augustine, along the Delaware riv-
er, is home, having layed the boat up
at Delaware City.
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John Buttz of Wilmington were the
guests on Monday and Tuesday of this
week of Mr.. and Mrs. J. P. Cross.
Many of those who came this week
for hook and line fishing in the bay,
On account of the north east winds,
concluded to fish in the rivers for
perch and catties.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joshua Bennett and :
Master Norman, of Milford, .
Miss Mary Parson, of Baltimore, and :
Tohn Parsons of Philadelphia, were
,uests of Mr.. and Mrs. Alex Minner at
Willow Croft on Sunday. 8
Mrs. Maggie Renshaw and Mr.. and :
Irs. George Salmons, all of Chester, :
we're the guests, nearly all of last :
week, of Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. Moore, NIT
t their boarding house on Hubbard
venue.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Davidson and
on, Robert, of st. Georges, were week y
nd guests of their parents here, Mr.. =
nd Mrs. William E. Davidson.
Mrs. Alfred Raughley of Harring- :.
on, while a guest at the Johnson Ho- =
Ell, last week, was stricken with par ,
lysis on one side, which necessitated Il
er removal to the hospital at Mil
ord. Much sympathy was expressed r
or her as she was we'll and favorably >
nOwn here,