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Famous For Its Mild Climate
LANGLOIS NEWS
By Nancy Moore
The Flower show, sponsored
annually by the Floras-Willow
Womens Club, was held last Sat
urday at the Langlois grade
school gym. A beautiful display
was brought in by local flower
lovers to delight the eyes of all
who viewed the spectacle. The
potted plants and arrangements
were viewed and judged by pop
ular vote.
Refreshments were
served; canasta was played and
a silver offering taken for benefit
of the Langlois band.
If you are approached by a
smiling young lady with the
querry, “Will you buy a dance
ticket,” during the next few days
and weeks, you will know you
are seeing one of the candidates
for Princess of the annual Cur
ry County fair. In northern Cur
ry, three girls are competing:
Mary Jean Sabin, sponsored by
Langlois Sportsman’s club; Edna
Logan, sponsored by the Sixes
Grange; Joyce Bright, by the Ma
sonic and Eastern Star lodges of
Port Orford.
At the ball, to be given Aug.
19, by Sixes Grange, these girls
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sidered; and the winner here will
Vernon Godizen, one of our
represent this section at the fair own local young men, will be the
—and there, she will compete guest speaker for Azalea Garden
with other sections of the coun Club, Thursday afternoon, Aug.
ty for queen.
10. An upper classman at Uni
Mrs. George Anderson arrang versity of New Mexico, he ev-
ed a birthday party Tuesday for pects to make marine ecology
her daughter, Colleen. The chil his vocation, and is spending his
dren played games during the af summer working toward his mas
ternoon and were treated to cak? ters degree.
and fruit for refreshments.
Members of the garden club
Mrs. Jennie Meek of Ontario, will meet at Mill Beach at 2,
Calif., is visiting he daughter, and after a short business meet
Mrs. E. A. Clawson, granddaugh ing, will accompany their hus
ter, Mrs. Ted Bierman and Lloyd bands and friends on a field trip
Clawson, her grandson. She is a led by Vernon Goldizen, who will
pioneer of Curry county, having identify and discuss beach flora
come here at an early age with and marine life.
her family, settling near Sixes.
Should the w’eather be incle
Local participants of the show ment, the meeting will be held
“Roaring ’20s Revue,” given at in the Grange hall. There will
Bandon July 20, were Vera Cad be an exhibit of beach arrange
man, Andy and Speed Anderson. ments by members. Mrs. Archie
The show was repeated in Co Anderson is chairman of hostess
quille July 28, proceeds going to es for the afternoon.
to the Coquille swimming pool
Guarding Mill Beach, Zwagg
fund.
Island, like a fortress, rears aloft
Major and Mrs. S. A. Warren —breaking the force of incom-
and two children, Stanley and ing waves and sheltering the
Mary are on their way to their beach from the full fury of the
new assignment in Virginia. They ocean winds.
have been visiting Mrs. Eeanor
There dre several caves on
Doane, Mrs. Warren’s mother.
the north side of the island, which
Leaving on the noon bus, Wed are only accessible at very low
nesday were Billy Lee Woodruff tide. One or two paths of pre
and Nancy Moore. Billy is return carious footing, mount upward.
ing to her work at Northwest They are used occasionally by
ern School of Commerce at Port adventurous boys. On top, a lone-
land, and Nancy is to spend
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, her
. | ly wind blows over the salai and1
vacation in and near I ortland, huckleberry which have by now
then to Medford to \isit her sister, grown 0Ver the garden, the rem
and family. She will be gone tw > nants of buildings and fences,!
1 constructed long, long ago, by
Monday night Mr. and Mrs. the legendary Fred Zwagg.
S. K. Seeber will entertain invit-1 Many of the stories about this
ed guests at a bridal shower in man. Few remain who knew him. I
honor of their daughter, Bar I One of these, Bill Wridge, came
bara, who recently became bride : to what is now Brookings, 60
of Darrell Holycross.
| years ago. Bill was a young man
GIRL SCOUT DOINGS—
then, quick with his fists, and
Last Tuesday, Langlois Girl able to hold his own against al-
Scouts began a camping party,1 most anyone.
which proved enjoyable. Accom-I Bill met Fred Zwagg in the I
panied by Mrs. Donna Churchill dance hall, one election night in j
and Mfrs. Esta Bruchler, they about 1890. Zwagg was in his >
went to Floras Lake for their late 60s. Even then, he was liv
outing. The good weather per ing on the island, but he enjoyed
mitted them to carry out all of coming to the hotel to watch the
their activities out of doors. They merriment and talk with the
played baseball, went swimming ment. Bill Wridge and Fred be-
and hiking. One evening an ama came friends.
teur hour provided entertain
“Yes,” said Bill Wridge^ “I
ment. Serious attention was giv knew Fred Zwagg, and more than |
en to some of their tests. All re 1 once visited him on his island
turned, saying they had good food home. He lived with Tom Van-1
and a good time..
Pelt when he first came here,'
which w as about 1885. It was'
tTry Pilot Class ads they sell! while he was out with Tom and.
the boys that he first saw* the i
island and decided to make his
home there.”
So Fred Zwagg built a windlass
to the bottom of the cliff, and by
this means hauled up the lum
ber which drifted in from pass-
| ing schooners, and used it to
. make his home, a shed for the
goats and a fence.
Fred Zwagg was a German. He
I was stocky and strong. He had
I been a sailor, maybe a captain,
i and when he built his home, he
made the interior much like a
ship's cabin.
The house was built in a nat
ural declivity sheltered from the
full force of the winds. Partly
Along Azalea Row
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Next to Theatre
THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1950
BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT, BROOKINGS, OREGON
Gold Beach
Graff Gay
There was Bridge, Ore. A going-away party
was held for them Saturday eve
made a sky-line across to the ning at the old Grange hall.
mainland, over which he could
George Miller has left for Myr
haul his water and supplies dur tle Point for a tw*o w*eeks stay
ing the winter months when the with his aunt and uncle, Mr. an^W
heavy seas cut him off from any Mrs. Fred Miller. While ther^
other approach to the mainland. he plans to attend the Red Cross
Where did he come from, how swimming classes.
did he obtain the money to pur
Sig Nowlin has resigned her
chase his few suppies, no one position at Ophir Store. Mrs. R.
knows. A man was not question Moore is now employed there.
ed in those days about his past.
Mr. and Mrs. Woodriff and
He had his home, some goats, family are now living in the C.
chickens and garden. He had all M. Gray cabin.
that he needed.
Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Wade
“Was he,” I asked hesitantly, and family have moved to Lang-
"was he insane when taken from lois where he is employed by
the Island?”
Kerber Logging Co.
Bill Wridge snorted: “No more
Mr. and Mrs. W. R. McCoy re-
crazy than you or I.”
cently sold their ranch to S. O.
“I wasn’t here when he died, Newhouse of Gold Beach.
which was not long after I left
Ophir Grange held its regular
these parts, but I knew him well meeting in the new hall last Fri
for five years, and he was a day evening.
fine fellow.”
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Alspaugh
of Weott, Calif., are visiting at
the Will Coy home.
Kay Lawhorne of Bandon is
By Marian Miller
visiting at the home of Iris and
Mrs. Bertha Ann Pollock is now June Snyder.
employed at Blue Water Lodge.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Adams re-
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Noels of tUrned from the vacation} til
Klamath Falls are spending the Calgary, Alberta. They report a
summer at their Nesika Beach wonderful trip as it wras their
home.
first trip back to their “home
Tommy Moore has recently town’’ in 26 years.
purchased a ’36 Crevrolet coupe
from Revis Costello.
Mrs. Fred Blunt returned re
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Woolley and cently after enjoying a week’s
ini ant son, Danny, have moved to shopping visiting trip to Eureka.
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NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that the
directors of School Dist. No. 17.
Curry County, Oregon, will ac
cept sealed bids for the follow
ing work to be done at the Brook
ings School Building:
Calsomining rooms and halls in
the Brookings High School build
ing. Painting the gymnasium.
Specifications are available at
the high school office. Bids to be
received not latex* than 12 noon,
Aug. 11, 1950. work to be com-
pleted by 5 p. m. Aug. 26, bids
to will be opened Aug. 11, 1950,
All bids should be sent to Dora
E. Beaulieu. Clerk, Brookings.
Oregon. The board reserves the
right to reject any or all bids.
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