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LIST OF ACTIVITIES FORGARDEN CLUB FESTIVALOfficial Opening Will Be Luncheon At Farragut House At Noon On June 14thThe official opening of the New Hampshire Garden Clubs Festival, the largest festival of its kind to be staged in New England, will be a luncheon at the Farragut House. Bye Ecach, at 12.30 p. m. Friday. June 14. in honor of Governor and Mrs. H. Styles Bridges and official party. Following the luncheon will be the Flag Day Observance by the D. A. R. at 2 o'clock with Mrs. Wheat, regent, in charge. Ranger Chapter, D. A. R. will stage a pantomime 'The Helen Seavcy Quilting Party. At 2.30, Eva M. Chase, Strafford County recreational adviser, will produce The Potter's Pageant by a cast of Strafford and Rockingham County residents. Following this. Prof. Henry Clapp of the state university will demonstrate flower arrangement at the Flower Show, Main-Exhibit.Mrs. Laurence J. Webster of Holder-ness will give an informal talk on birds and conservation at 4 o’clock on the Bird and -Conservation Exhibit grounds, and at 5 o'clock there will be Si lesuceremony in the Japanese Tea Garden near the Farragut House. Witch's brew, spice cake and gingerbread will be served in the unique witch garden on the casino lawn. Also, from 5 to G o'clock, the Frank E, Boom a Post band of Portsmouth will give a concert on the Farragut Houselawn.Birket F. Letson of Carbone’s, Boston. will give a talk and exhibit of artistic flower arrangement in the casino at the Farragut House, admission to which will be 35 cents. From 10 until 2. there will be a semi-formal dance at the Farragut House in honor o! visiting notables. Admission, including buffet supper, is $3 per couple.Starting Saturday’s program will be Flower Arrangement by Mrs. Edward Abbott cf Concord' at the main exhibit of the Flower Show in the Aber.aqui clubhouse at 11 o'clock. Jn the afternoon at 2.30,. the New Hampshire Federation of Music Clubs will give a program at theFarragut House including selections by the Concord Choristers. Mrs. Annette Stoddard, director, and the Temple Choir. Harry C. Whittemorc, director. At 3.30 Kerbs and How to Grow Them will be the subject of an informal talk by Mrs. Hollis Webster of Lexington, Mass., and at 4.00 a Swedish Pageant’’ will be produced by Mr. and Mrs. Dr ban Edgren, Boston, who have spent many years in Sweden and are acquainted with the midsummer rejoicing of the Swedish people which this pageant depicts. The Arnold Arboretum, America’s greatest garden, will be the title of Albert Leonard Squier’s illustrated lecture in the Farragut House casino at 8.C0 Saturday evening, to which An admission of 35 cents wffi be charged. Another dance will take place at the Farragut House, Saturday evening, at 8.30. Admission SI.50 per couple.Sunday afternoon at 3.00 on the Farragut. House lawn, interesting events in the life of the Swedish people will be portrayed in a Swedish pageant. The biggest attraction on the entertainment program of the festival is the presentation of Verdi's opera Aida, by the Fabien Sevitzky Ensemble, Mr. Sevitzky directing, at 5.00, Sunday afternoon. This fine entertainment will be presented on the Opera Field on the estate of Arthur L. Hobson with general admission at 50 cents and reserved seats $1.On the final day of this wonderful festival. Monday, June 17, the Slone-leigh College girls will present The Lady of Shaiott at 2.30 in the afternoon at the Farragut House, after which they will entertain with folk dancing on the college grounds at Hve.A total of 52 exhibits besides many commercial exhibits are being prepared by the many garden .clubs and other organizations, including several state departments. Among these are -A Model Tool House” by the Wilton Garden Club; window boxes by the Northwood Garden club; an exhibit of New Hampshire arts and crafts; aCAN 1 WEAR MY NEW DRESS TO SCHOOL TODAY, MOTHER?'*lt; ■*V:• •£ V.v S J./i*;v. ••.V*■Vv.' • •- • ■: ••nIv.ftx*:.ySO THAT’S IT.! WONDERED WHY HERWASH ALWAYS LOOKEDWHITER AND BRIGHTER THAN MINE...WHEN WE BOTH HAVE THE SAME KIND OF WASHING MACHINE. RINSO’S HER SECRET...I MUST TRY IT (ffaTHINK HOW 0 BEST DRESS / LIKE NEV;. ii'V,a31::; ?w•• I .a vft;itft*y'lt;• ■«V .. v. • •,sr-_i. „BIG SALES INCREASE PROVESMEADWOOD BEST BUY!WHISKEY DRINKERS know value.That’s why sales of Mead-wood have increased so rapidly. They told each other. If you’re looking for a Rood straight whiskey at a reasonable price, why not try Mead-wood? It’a bottled full 100 proof. There’s nothing added. Its fine taste and coloring are Nature’s own. And it’s distillery tested.■rrS'J;. iI i sv-‘Sr?4l,fo.0P*0OrITHE AMERICAN DISTILLING CO. PEKIN, ILL.garden nook by the Epping Garden club; articles made at the Manchester Institute of. Arts and Sciences and the Craft. Workers’ Guild; the communityhouse and grounds in replica by the Milford Garden Club; a lovely garden and pool in natural setting by the Manchester Garden Club; a miniature cf -‘The Old Homestead” -immortalized by Denman Thompson in his play of that name will be the exhibit of the Old Homestead Garden Club of East Swanzey, Very attractive, and elaborate exhibits will be the work of the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department and the Forestry Department; the Girl Scouts' wild flower trail will attract many as will the exhibit of methods of attracting birds, the work of the Audubon Society of New Hampshire and the Monadnock Garden Club of Peterborough; the Society for Protection of New Hampshire Forests will have a reproduction of Lost River; and the General. Moulton garden will be the exhibit of the Hampton Garden club.The Exeter, Garden club will. have an 'exhibition of cottage planting, while the . Newmarket Garden club will show how a small cottage’s attractiveness may be enhanced by decorative flowers; the neighboring club of Durham will have a model flower and vegetable garden, while Portsmouth Garden club's exhibit will feature the city's slogan The City of the Open Door. The Tilton and Northfield . club is keeping open house in a summerhouse of the Hobson estate for garden club members and friends ■ to meet and greet, while the Wolfeboro Garden club's contribution will be the reproduction of a portion of a New England garden. Daniel Webster’s Mother’s Gardenwill be the exhibit of the Franklin Garden club, and the Goflstown Community club will showr a wild garden. A colonial cottage planting will be the Bedford Club's exhibit, and the Goflstown Garden Club’s iris garden will be nearby as will the Peterborough Garden club’s garden gate and pathway. The Pioneer Garden club of Dover will feature informal grouping of various evergreens, while near will be the Nashua Garden club’s outdoor living room, Fifteen commercial exhibits will be found in Governor Alvan T. Fuller’s barn and on adjoining lands. The State.Highway Department will have an exhibit ofroadside beautification, near which will, be a -roadside lobster stand, the exhibit of the Rye Beach and Little Boar’s Head Garden club, and close by will be the Keene Garden division’sexhibit of Hampshire pottery. A typical fisherman's garden will be featured by the Concord Garden club, and of unusual interest will be the witch garden of Mrs. Collins of Littleton and Mrs. Goyette, generalchairman, of Peterborough. The Haven Hill Garden club of Rochester’s Japanese Tea garden will attract many, as will the three 'fine exhibits of the Extension Service of the University of New Hampshire. Several'state departments have exceptionally line exhibits, including the departments of Agriculture, Education and Motor Vehicles, as well as the Development and Library commissions and the state library. A miniature school-house will be the Newport Gardenclub's contribution to the festival, and in the Farragut House will be found an exhibit of Articles of Old Dover by the Dover Garden club.'New London and Milton Mills Garden clubs will have exhibits of window boxes on the Farragut porch, and examples of handiwork by the needlework division will be found in rhe house. A Century of Costumes” will be the contribution of the Somers-worth Garden club, while A Perennial Flower Bed” will be the Barrington club’s exhibit. Garden furniture made at Weetamoo Mrs. Lar,z Anderson's estate, will be displayed on the lawn of the Farragut House. The Boy Scouts of America will live their exhibit at the festival in tents, cooking their meals, and will act as guides and aides. The Alton Garden club's exhibit will be a wayside vegetable stand. In addition to these, there will be other exhibits and displays, all of which will be very interesting.' jThe committees and club chairmen have worked tirelessly for many weeks in preparation, for this huge affair, and certainly no one interested in , flowers and gardens should miss this great event from June 14-17, inclusive.NEWS ODDITIESOne SolutionTopeka, Kas.—A woman called at(.he Shawnee countv relief headcjuaTt-
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