Milford chronicle., 1925-04-03
Bowers Beach

The oyster dredge "Annie May
left Bowers last Monday in charge
of Captain Thomas Morris, for
Greenwich, New Jersey, where she
will undergo a thorough course of
repairs and be made ready for the
next planting season, which will
start April 18th. Captain Morris re-
Gently had forty horse power, four
cylinder engine built, by the Owens
Company in Kentucky, installed in
this vessel, which has proven very
satisfactory during the latter part
of the winter season. The annie
May" was loaded with the salvaged
freight, taken from the Steamer
Mohawk, which was burned last
winter in the mouth of the Della
ware Bay.
Those who had planted their gar
dens in the warm days of the mid
die of March, and had much early
garden stuff sprOuted and growing,
looked glum this week, when the
snow, hail and cold storm of Sat
urday and Sunday last visited this
part of Delaware. Those who had
set early tomato plants, saw them
frozen and destroyed; but the peas,
onions and other hardy vegetables
stood up all right.
Joseph p. Cross purchased a half
acre of land from Mrs. Alex Minner
and added it to his property, which
is being improved by William Jack
s9sE
= The wild ducks that habit the
marshes and creeks of this vicinity
are paired and now nesting. Sew
eral duck nests have been seen
along this bayshOre recently. The
ducks now laying are making the |
marshes about Bowers Beach their |
breeding grounds regularly, and hun
dreds are hatched and raised each |
recurring year,
The fre1ShtSSteamer made its first |
return trip of this season this week
and will ply regularly between this
place and Philadelphia; but will
not carry passengers.
Several large trucks make daily
trips from Bowers Beach to Phila-
1elphia, loaded with the salvage
freight from the Steamer Mohawk;
which is brought here from the
wreck and sent to the city by those
Who have the contract for doing the
work. Much of the freight was not
INJURED by fire in the least; the salt
water being its only damage. The
wreck lays about Brandywine Light,
which is just off Bowers.
The weather last Sunday was not
ncouraging for people to make ,
trips; but, for all that. :!
cores of auto parties from Phila-
elphia, Chester, Wilmington and =
ther points, came to Bowers Beach.
hose fishermen who had shad re-
eived fancy prices for the fish; ev-
n ordinary fish sold quickly to the 7
isitors.
Harry Fleming and wife, Mrs. Ruth
and Alex Fleming of d
were weekend guests . =
their mother, Mrs. Bulah Flem- u
lg. o
Mrs. Elizabeth Hoffecker and d
aughter and Mr.. and Mrs. George p
aylor of Chester, Pa, were week q:
Id guests at the Dawson Cottage" u :,
Frank Warner and family, Theo. D
Ornast and wife from Chestnut % -
Ill, Pa, were weekend guests of L.
lcob Segrist and Miss Emma -
ammOnd. al
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Salevan and \"
lss Laura Salevan were guests of g
illiam Davidson on Sunday.
Arthur Watkins and Miss Gather
2 Carter of Wilmington were
ests of Mr.. and Mrs. J. P. Cross Al
er Sunday. Mr.. Watkins is in the in
rchasing department of the Har- fe
Shipbuilding plant in Whining tn
Edward Lynch and family and liz
SIS Ida Macklin of PHILADELPHIA lii
re Sunday guests of Mrs. Alex ra
nner. s1,
George Carshee and wife passed So
weekend with Mr.. and Mrs. Ha
Ills Johnson. %
Hiss Anna Morris has returned
m a visit with her sister in Phil \
,lphia. ~
lark Wilde and wife from Pit ITJ bI,I
n, New Jersey are guests at the
nson Hotel. =
Iiss Jane Mitten is on a two
9ks' visit to friends in Pennsyl- E
ia. u
he garage of Harold Davenport
being enlarged and improved.
lore people try to make I'D ~