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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 14, 1950)
Page Twelve Along Azalea Row By B. Miller Here in our Chetco Valley, it seems as if each one of us has some special talent, some contri- ’ ution peculiarly his own, to make toward the happiness of the rest of us. Never more apparent is it. than the afternoon planned for Valea Garden Club members and friends for Thursday, Dec. 14, at 1:30 i>. m. Azalea Singers go about these days with twinkling eyes and Mona Lisa smiles on their lips. They won’t give out about Azalea Garden Club’s Christmas program In keeping with the season, it’s to be a surprise. They have been practicing and preparing lor this special event, and you’ll love it. Baking aromas of spices and fruits are watted over the Chetco River. It is Mrs. Vic Reynolds» with an eye on the oven. Her husband, you know, won his chef’s hat and apron from Sunset Mag azine, and it runs in the family. 1 Elsie is chairman of hostesses and i »assisted b> Mrs. C. W. Judkins, । THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14. 1950 BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT. BROOKINGS. OREGON Enjoy Retirement Right! and Mrs. Thomas Carson. Mrs. Harry Lock land has been busy with red berries and cedar branches, her ability in this di rection is well known. A talented trio, Mrs. Ben Kerns Jr., Mrs. Ruth Bathiany and Mrs. Webster Hibbard, have prepared a program in true Christmas spir it. Mrs. Charles Grayshel has yule- Lde ideas for Holiday Festivities. Each attending has a part in the pleasures of the afternoon, as she brings something of her own special talent to share with a neighbor, as well as a gift or , , ... c „ toy or useful article for an older person. When all the world seems to be threatened once more with war, for the span of a brief aft ernoon, the women of the com munity will join in a program of peace on earth, good will toward men.’ Azalea Garden Club dessert luncheon. Dec. 14. Luther Tisdale says azaleas are bloc ming in the park now, and we should come up to see them. 1 haven’t done* so, but on such a sunny afternoon as this should lay » six feet long, and rest on or near ----- a : --------- d the san and aside Christmas preparations go. Our park is beautiful at any Spruce trees drop needles every season of the year. Paul DeBlock month, but the heaviest drop is asserts that nine varieties of during May. White pines discaid azaleas bloom here, so these flow their needles in September and ers are with us practically the again in June. Scotch pine in Sep year around. We should plant a tember, October and November.. lot more of the late-blooming va The arborvitae does not discard rieties about our homes and gar just the acutla needle, or leaf. dens, and thus insure a succes I but discards the entire branchlet I —stem and all. sion of blooming azaileas. ♦ * Use these columns—it pays! Send the Pilot to a Friend! »'A ♦ I read an informative article in that nice little Home Garden Mag The drivers license examiner azine the other day concerning evergreen trees. It seems every- will be at Chetco Grange ha'l a trees are not really ever- Friday morning from 8:30 to 12. green at all, but simply shed Anyone desiring a license should their leaves in a modest sort of be there early in order to com way, so that they are not bare plete their tests before closing all at once as decidious trees are. time. Only one tree, said the author, i was truly evergreen, and kept : the same leaves the duration of its life span. This is the welwits- To my Brookings subscribers chia, growing in southwestern for y^c Oregonian: Sundays on- Africa. It produces only two leaves iyt delivery will be made after which it keeps to the bitter end. 11 a. m. These papers do not The life span is unknown. It may come on the morning bus as do be anywhere from 100 years to the dailies. 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