August 19, 1916 



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PITTSBURGH. ^ 



The members of the Florists' Club 

 of J'ittsburgh and the Horticultural 

 Society of Western Penn. were enter- 

 tained on Tuesday at the E. C. Lud- 

 wig farm, near Mars, Pa. 



Miss Emma B. Maxwell and sister 

 of Wilkinsburg left last Saturday, for 

 a month at Van Buren Point, Dunkirk, 

 N. Y. John McC'lements returned last 

 Monday from a several days' l)usiness 

 trip in Cleveland, O. Edward L. 

 Weaver, a salesman for Randolph & 

 McClements, returned at the same 

 time from a two weeks' camping trip. 

 Accompanied by Mrs. Marshall. Geo. 

 W. Marshall of the McCallum Co., is 

 spending a fortnight at Geneva-on-the 

 Lake (Erie). Ohio. Edward Ashcraft 

 has returned from his vacation, which 

 was spent in Detroit, Michigan and 

 Windsor, Canada. 



BOSTON. 



During the heavy wind and hail 

 storm on Tuesday, August 8, one of 

 the greenhouses owned by Peter Boll 

 at Wakefield was demolished. The 

 house was 12 by 105 ft. and filled with 

 asparagus. Every pane of glass was 

 smashed and the frame work raised 



from its foundation. Mr. Boll lost two 

 large, heavily-laden apple trees. One 

 was torn up by the roots and the other 

 broken entirely off. Several other 

 trees in the neighborhood were dam- 

 aged. About 50 panes of glass were 

 broken in the greenhouses of Charles 

 C. Ball, North avenue. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



The Senate Finance Committee has 

 agreed to knock out the provisions in 

 the present war emergency revenue act 

 providing for the payment of a stamp 

 tax upon express and freight receipts 

 and telephone and telegraph messages 

 where the cost thereof exceeds 15 cents. 



Mrs. J. R. Freeman is about to retire 

 from the flower business and signs are 

 appearing in the window of the store 

 offering the establishment for rent. 

 The greenhouses will also be rented. 

 It is said that Louis Freeman, one of 

 her sons who has been aiding in the 

 carrying on of the business, and Harry 

 Payne will go into business somewhere 

 in the immediate neighborhood short- 

 ly. Mr. Payne is manager of the store. 



Philadelphia, Pa.— W. Atlee Burpee, 

 Jr., is to be married on November 1, 

 to Miss Jeannetta D. Lee of Philadel- 

 phia. 



Cincinnati— Jos. Enneking, manager 

 of Max Rudolph's place is receiving 

 the sympathy of friends in his be- 

 reavement over the death of his 

 mother, Mrs. Frances Enneking. 



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