10 . NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
RALPH W. WARD | 
Florist 
Near Beverly Cove School 
ARRANGE for your Spring Plant- 
ing now. I have thousands of bed- 
ding plants to offer this Season. 
Geraniums, Heliotrope, Petunias, 
Marguerites, Verbenas and Snap- 
dragons. 
Hardy plants of the best cut 
flower sorts— Paeonies, Larkspur, 
Anchusa, Campanula, Foxglove, Iris, 
Phlox, Pansies and Roses. 
Box trees and Hydrangeas to sell 
or let for the season. 
Telephone 757-W Beverly 
NEW YORK 
Dudley L. Pickman, Jr., will be the best man at the 
wedding of his cousin. William Rodman Fay, a son of 
the late Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Story Fay, Jr., of Boston, 
and Miss Gertrude Helen Schirmer, daughter of Mrs. 
Gustave Schirmer of New York. It will take place in 
the Church of the Ascension on the afternoon of June 6. 
A reception will follow at the home of the bride’s mother. 
Among the ushers will be $. Dacre Bush, Henry H. Fay, 
Jr., and Keith McLeod of Boston. 
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Charles L. Appleton, Bayard Tuckerman, Jr., an‘ 
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Widener were among those seen at 
the Belmont Park Terminal races arranged by the United 
Hunts association. 
ANOTHER North Shore resident has been honored by 
the French government. Beverly Rantoul son of the 
Hon. Robert S$. Rantoul of Salem and a summer resident 
at Beverly Farms, has been honored with the “Croix de 
Guerre” of France, the equivalent of the Victoria Cross 
of England, for services with the Allies. Mr. Rantot'] 
has been with the American ambulance in France and the 
honor bestowed gives much pleasure to his many friends 
in this section. The information is conveyed in a letter 
from-France dated April 28, which follows: 
“Our work is a great deal the same, except eight days 
out of twenty, we run for the first Post of Secour and 
that is one damn shell after another. You have to keen 
your wits, as you can time them more or less. The 
trouble is that there are parts of the road in plain sight 
of German batteries. As a matter of principle, they shell 
it just so often; then this country is full of French bat- 
teries and they are after them as well. Some days it is 
a continual roar; as the shells go over, you casually say, 
that is for this town or that town, you get to know the 
May 19, 1916. 
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Old English Garden Seats, RusticW ork,Garden Houses, Rose Arbors 
and other Accessories for Adornment and Comfort of the Garden. 
Send for New Catalogue of Many Designs Telephone 172-W 
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North Shore Nurseries Co., PEYER 
Ur Old Burnham Howse 
“‘The Quaintest Place In All New England" 
Linebrook Road Ipswich, Msssachusetts 
Will Open, as usual, for Summer Season about May 30th. 
Che Martha Ann Cea Shop 
300 Essex Street 
Salem 
A year-round branch of Ye Old Burnham House 
also solicits your patronage 
music of different kinds of shell and act accordingly. 
“It is a wicked war, everything goes into the army, 
cutting down lots of their woods to make trenches and 
dug-outs (bomb proof) ; we sleep, eat and keep our cars 
in one. ‘They are wonderfully constructed, some iron, 
then logs, stones about six or seven feet thick. Unless a 
shell hits them squarely they stop shrapnel and eclat. 
“Good deal of warfare in the air here also—very in- 
teresting to see them chase each other firing all the time, 
both from the aeros and bills. Lots of shrapnel fell near 
me the other day, so I just got under my car until they 
passed on; never had good fortune to see them bring one 
down. The latest addition is a dirigible, out about every 
night, flash lights on it, shooting at it. You hardly for- 
get for an instant that it is war. 
“You may be pleased to know that I have been 
recommended fer the Croix de Guerre (same as Victoria 
Cross), and very little doubt but what they will give it to 
me with a kiss on both cheeks. I feel very proud of i: 
because it is heralded and everywhere I go the officers 
congratulate me. 
“A shell exploded about ten feet from the ambulance 
while going for wounded, hit her in about a dozen places, 
didn’t touch me at all. The Medicin Auxiliar, who goes 
with you (as the wounded are brought right out, we gen- 
erally have to wait for them) was either knocked off or 
jumped, I went right over him but did no damage. ‘Then 
one of my wounded was dead when they got to me, ttie 
other we took. On the way in we got shelled more or 
less for about six miles. 
“Tt certainly has the effect of making a Ford go, but 
with it all is a ghastly feeling, wondering if they will gez 
you. 
“Well I must go out now. 
letters are appreciated. 
You little know how your 
“BEVERLY,” 
