Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1923-11-02
Bowers Beach

The Ladies Aid Society will meet at
the home of Mrs. John Purnell in
South Bowers on Friday evening, No
Vember End, at z o'clock.
1t is the desire of the officers of the
society that full attendance of the
members will be present at the meet
ing. 1
Haldeman and Tribbitt have COM
pleted their building to be used as a
oyster shucking house, along the Muir
derkill River and have opened the
same for business with a force of
shuckers; having demands for their
prepared product greater than they
have been able to supply so far.
B. L. Cartwright has nearly COM
pleted his dwelling that he is building
on Bayview Heights, which is only
starting point for a number more
buildings on the same location in the
near future.
Mrs. Susan Johnson of Rising Sun
is spending the week or perhaps long
er here with her sons, Willis Johnson
and Howard Johnson and families.
Mrs. D. H. Humphrey of Philadel-
phia is the guest this week of her mo-
Their, Mrs. S. Fleming and sisters,
Misses Cora and Maggie Fleming.
The sad intelligence was received
here on last Sunday tina: Mrs. William
Gibson, living in suburban Philadel-
phia, had died very suddenly at her
home on Saturday. Mrs. Gibson was
well and favorably known here. She
with her husband had spent several
summers here in a cottage in South
Bowers and during her time spent
here she had made many friends and
admirers, who were stricken with the
sad news of her sudden demise.
Mr. and Mrs. George M. Belts, Mr..
and Mrs. Wallace Cox and daughter,
Miss Deborah and Mrs. Joseph A Car
agan, all of Wilmington, were guests |
on Sunday of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph P. !
Cross.
Mrs. Willis Johnson is visiting her I
sisters this week in Troy, H. Y |
Mrs. w. J. COverdale and daughter
Miss May Coverdale, were guests on
Sunday with friends in FELTON,.
Benjamin Faulkner who makes lis
home here, in some unaccOuntable
manner and unknown to the writer,
met with the misfortune to get his arm
broken while visiting in Wilmington
on Saturday last.
Samuel Powell, one Of the du POnt
road cops, will move from his home
in South Bowers this week to home
in Dover, where he will spend the
winter months with his family there
and be more close and in better posi-
ton to attend to his official duties.
Walter L. Willis, an employee of the
Wilmington post office, spent part of
10 CT uTnoIr horo oc ho or11o1f of Mr. and
Mrs. J. P. Cross.
Mr.. and Mrs. William H. Carey, Miss
Marietta Carey and R. J.. Jackson
were guests on last Sunday of Mr.. and
Mrs: John Gill of Georgetown.
The contractors OF tie canal they
are cutting for W. S. Davidson, have
nearly completed the same. They will
wait for it for a few days, until the !
banks settle and then clean up the :
bottom.
The masquerade Halloween party {
given in the Ladies Aid Hall on Tues {
day evening, by the Bowers school,
under the management of their teach Z
or. Miss Farber, was a grand success 4
IN the matter of entertainment, social I
and financial. Young America was at V
It's best every department was at its d
best and the costumes were mirth ap-
oealing. The hall was beautifully I
and decorated and from +
start to finish was an evening of en-
At the close of the entertaining pro- 8
gram there was placed on sale an
of ice cream, cake and I
other CONNECTIONS which the manage 9
nent realized a neat little sum, n
Tell ,en YOU sazo il in tie Chronicle. 7