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About Sandy post. (Sandy, Oregon) 1938-current | View Entire Issue (June 11, 1964)
Thursday, June u, 1964 (Sec. 1) A Son for the Roy Giffords To Mr. and Mrs. Roy Gifford of Los Gatos, Calif., was born a son, Kraig Warren, on May 26. Kraig has two sisters, Deanna and Lori The Giffords are former res- 032R [W JHimeer <9ays idents of Boring. Grandparents By LILLIAN TEN EYCK are Mr. and Mrs. H.W. Gifford, Rt. 3, Boring, and great grand One sees few bumblebees now The state bee man was around mother is C.B. Moreland of Boise, Idaho. Great grandparents are Mr. last week checking the health of Gradpa Hoffman kept bees. At one and Mrs. Earl Cyphers of Sandy. our bees. It didn’t take him long time he had as many as forty to find out their health was per colonies but usually twenty - five fect as we have only two colonies or thirty was the average. Since left. Honey hungry bears have he had been injured in the Civil turned over the hives and eaten War, he couldn’t do hard work, the honey and bees from eleven but in the fall he used to sit hives, during the last three years. out in the orchard and with a There are still wild bees, no home-made paddle swat the yellow doubt, but not like in early days. jackets that would try to enter the The settlers never planted hives and steel the honey from the clover around their cabins, there hard working bees. Yellow jackets were so many bumblebees that the are not so numerous now either small fry were constantly getting with no great loss. Most of the settlers kept bees stung. as every homestead had an or chard and there were many sources of wild honey; the vine maple, soft maple, lots of white clover; the willow-herb or fireweed, acres of that. Yes, the bees had plenty to keep them busy and enough honey was made to give the early settlers plenty of sweetening tor the year and still the bees were well fed thru the winter months. Even tho there was home-grown honey, it was still a thrill to find a bee tree. Of course friend hubby had a story on that. "I hadn’t been thinking about bees as far as I can remember, but one night I had a dream about a bee tree across the Little Sandy on the Abler Flat. Thirty feet up in an old cedar snag was a bee’s nest and standing very close to It was a tall straight Alder, all this according to my dream. In the morning after I awoke, I couldn’t get the dream out of my mind. Finally I went down the hill, crossed the little Sandy on the foot bridge and I couldn’t have gone any straighter right to the Cedar tree of my dream, and standing close to it was the tall alder. Some way or other I wasn’t a bit surprised. Back I went home and told my brother Ed. We gath ered up some pans, buckets, boards, hammer and nails. After nailing the boards on the alder to make a ladder we climber un till we were opposite the bee’s hole. Then boards were nailed on both trees to make a plat form to stand on. To keep from being stung we had gloves and veils. The honey we got was dark colored and very good. We filled all the palls we had brought and even after Mother strainedit, there was nearly a wash tub fulL” FATHERS DAY IS JURE 21 TO PLEASE ALL DADS Carolyn Cooke, daughter of Kev. and Mrs. Ernest M. Cooke of Sandy, was the recipient of the Sandy Business and Profes- scholarship stonai Women's award. This award of $100 can he used at the college of her choice. Carolyn plans to enter the Oregon College of Educa tion at Monmouth this Septem ber where she will major in education. Carolyn also receiv ed a scholarship from OCE for $390 covering full tuition and fees. 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Mrs. Erret Moore is telling the mis sions story dally. Concluding the Bible School this year will be a demonstration pro gram on Sunday night, June 14, at 7:00 p.m. This year’s theme has been “Making Time Count for Christ.” 1 he Sandy (Ore.) Post SOCKS PAJAMAS By Munsingwear Middy or Coat 79c Sandy BPW girl for the month of May is Mary Buhler who was chosen for school spir it. Mary was active on the var sity rally squad, as well as other activities at SUHS. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. K. F. Buhler of Sandy and Is a graduate of the Bull Run school. Her mother teaches at Sandy elementary school. FOR DAD t«*!50 BELTS SHIRTS By By Van Heusen Finest fabrics— New finishes ;s In Oregon at a picnic, beer is a natural Open Fridays 'til 9:00 P.M. Park Free at Our Door W hen you're relaxing at your favorite outdoor beauty spot with friends or family, and your thirst's whetted by fresh air and exer cise—that's the ideal time for a cool, refreshing glass of beer. 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