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1883

Alloway

Sept 4th/83 noon 79°

A large and interesting meeting
Two families were absent, those from
Longwood and White Hall. Our guests were
cousin Sallie Brooke Fred and Patty Stabler
Louisa Pleasants, Ben and Sarah Miller, Al
bina Stabler Mrs. Sherman Deborah Reese,
Joe and Annie Shoemaker Carrie Bond and
Madge Miller

Our specimen tables were loaded
with good and beautiful specimens, which
were from Avalon, pears, tomatoes, hops, very
fine sweet corn and flowers; from Falling
Green potatoes, corn and flowers; from
Rockland, apples, cabbage, cymlings, cucum
-bers, corn, potatoes, tomatoes, okra, 4 varieties
of beans, Kohl-rabi, salsify martynia egg-
-plant and flowers; from Brooke Grove To-
-matoes, cabbage, carrots, parsnips, cymlings
Lima beans, corn, salsify, potatoes & flowers
Rock Spring, peaches, sweet potato, Lima
beans and flowers; from Riverside, 3 kinds
of apples, tomatoes flowers & fancy grass
from Sharon, apples, pears 3 kinds of beans
and flowers. from Olney beans corn and tomat
-oes; from Edgewood, Fulford and Hermon
flowers. Joseph Shoemaker brought some