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
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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
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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.
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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. Daily deliveries are
1000. The leaves grow to be about same as before. Dorothy Simp-
the lasting loveliness
of a wave
that’s alive with luster
... yet soft
as candle light.
Drivers Examiner
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