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Longwood

June 5th

Noon tem. ranged from 81° to 91°

A full attendance of members and
numerous guests assembled at the usual
hour making a company of over sixty per
-sons Our guests were Edith and Eliza Ben
- tley. Captain and Mrs. Strain, Mrs. Zack Waters
Margaret Hallowell and daughter Alice, Sarah
Brooke and daughter Deborah, Mrs. Moores
Patty Stabler, Walter and Carrie Brooke, Mrs
Abert and daughter, Miss Nelson, Miss Joe
Dell, Madgie Tyson Mary Janney and
Miss Nelson.

The specimen tables were loaded with
fine vegetables and the roses made
a magnificent display. From Rockland
were cabbage, beets, peas, onions, snap
beans in bloom and flowers; from Norwood
onions, peas and flowers; from Avalon
onions, peas, potatoes size of a hickory nut
strawberries and flowers, from Rock Spring
beans in bloom, salsify, potato, size of wal
-nuts, onions corn 2 feet high and flow
-ers; from Alloway potato size of a walnut
currants strawberries gooseberries, beets,
peas, lettuce & flowers; from Riverside, aspar
-agus strawberries and flowers.