Milton Hershey School greenhouse man nurtures thousands of plants
Al ger Gilmore, Sr. Fellow at the Milton Hershey School, tends a vast greenhouse operation. He starts thousands of vegetable plants and seedlings each year for truck gardens and supplies cut flowers for the cottage area and hospital lawn. Gilmore began in 1931 and has served seven years as the school greenhouse man.
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Alger Gilmore
Milton Hershey
Main
Gilmore
Hershey Hospital
Homestead Road
Route 322
Milton Hershey School
Hershey
Hershey Estate Greenhouse and Gardens
Harry L. Erdman
Scouts Chosen for National Senior Roundup at Pontiac
Mary Darlington and Kay Hite senior Girl Scouts from Hershey will attend the National Senior Roundup in Pontiac Michigan from June 29 to July 11 representing the Susquehanna Council. Adults including Mr and Mrs Jared Darlington and daughter Susie of Hershey will staff the camp. Ann Allison of Hershey will be an assistant troop leader.
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Mary Darlington
Kay Hite
Hershey
Pontiac
Michigan
Susquehanna Council
Jared Darlington
Susie
Ann Allison
New Grandma, She's Also A New Yorker
Hershey Hospital reports a record Leap Year Day baby crop with a mother and daughter born in the same hospital section. Victor and Dorothy Nye welcomed a daughter on Friday while a week earlier their daughter Barbara Nye Blouch became mother to another daughter in Palmyra.
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Hershey Hospital
Stork
Victor Nye
West Oak Street
Palmyra
Gerald R. Blouch
Nye
Dorothy Myers
Hershey
Hershey Chocolate Corporation
Blouch
Barbara Nye
King Kup Candies, Inc
Constable Warns on Dog Licensing in Derry Township
Derry Township constable John H. Williams reminds dog owners that all dogs six months or older must be licensed. 1955 licenses expired January 15 and may be applied for through justices of the peace, notaries, or the county treasurer.
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Derry Township
John H. Williams
Williams
Leap Year Babies Born at Hershey Hospital
Seven Leap Year babies arrived at Hershey Hospital before dawn on February 29, including twin boys, setting a record census of 78 with 22 admissions in one day. The seven births included children to the Franks of Hershey and other area families, with parents employed at local Hershey Chocolate facilities and farms.
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Hershey
David and
Donald Frank
Howard Frank
Hershey Hospital
Dad Frank
Lebanon
Lebanon Daily News
H. H. Hostetter
Cedar Avenue
Franks
Frank
Kathryn Shaeffer
Hershey Chocolate Corporation
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National Scout
New Yorker
Constable
Donald Bowman
West Cherry Street
Bowman
Miriam Kline
John Alger
Campbelltown
Algers
Alger
Anna Mae Henry
Floyd Hostetter
Hummels
Hershey News
Hershey, Pa
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