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BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT. BROOKINGS. OREGON The Black Willow The Black Willow, like other nh^mbers of the willo family, is not a strong, sturdy tree, No one would think of felling and trimming if into planks and beams. It just isn’t straight and stout enough to give us fine lum ber. It is an attractive tree, though, and helpful, too. The job it does best is to hold soil together. Where Black Willows sink their ©National Wildlife Federation Black Willow roots, it is harder for spattering rain and flowing water to wash away valuable dirt. Even the wood of the Black Willow is tiseful at times. Al though it isn’t what builders want, it is good for making ex- celsior, boxes, crates, baskets, and wicker furniture. The chances arc that you have seen this tree, because it grows in so many parts of the United Stattes. The National Wildlife . M. G. BECKER Real Estate Broker *4-mile north on Highway 101 Federation reports that Black Willows are common over most of the eastern Half of the coun try. There aren’t so many of them farther west, but they do grow in spots all the way to California. The most likely place to find them is along streams and In other wet places where there is plenty of light. ; They thrive from sea level to altitudes of 2,000 feet or more. tian al Wildlife Washington, D. C. P age N ine Federation, A fractured arm was ihe result, weeks untjl the new manager of a horseback accident for Geor-l arives front Sacramento to take gie Mackey this week. She was over. a patient of Dr. White along with Barry Sage, who had a Attorney and Mrs. Ed F. Ack tonsilectomx on Tuesday. ley returned earl» last week Mrs. Agnes Whpe has sold her from a business trip which took property at the north end i 1 the them over much of eastern Ore- Choteo River bridge D j S. L. Ran and to New Plymouth, Idaho. Goodson, who has taken posses LOCAL NEWS Barber Shop H. J. Weigel leit Friday for sion. Mrs. White is making her Portland to undergo medical home temporarily with Mrs. O. B. Clark near the Winchuck. W here it has enough moisture treatment for an old back in jury which has been bothering and sunshine, the Black Willow A six-pound, one-ounce son him for some time. reaches full growth at fifty to was born at the Brookings Clinic seventy years of age. By that driver's license examiner । on August 11 to Mr. and Mrs. time, it may stand a hundred or will be at the Grange hall in Howard Gardner, and he has more feet in height. Harbòr on Thursday, August 23 been named Rip Wayne. Except in Winter, when its front 1 to 5 p.m. Anyone interest- Mr. and Mrs. Howard Gardner leaves are gone, the tree is thick ed jn taking the examination and green with long, slender should be at the hall well ahead are parents of a six-pound boy. twigs. Filling the twigs are the of the colsin/g hour so that they Mr. and Mrs. Al Baker and narrow green leaves which are will have time to complete tests. family left th(' latter part or last trademark of a willow tree. Thompson has been week for Timber Lodge, S. Dak., The Black Willow’s leaves where they are purchasing a measure from three to five inch- ’ brought home from the Seaside ranch. They have been on the es in length, and taper down to hospital, but must remain in bed Vogel ranch up the Winchuck a fine point. They are a shining for some time. He was in the for the past two years. Mr. and yellow-green on both sides— a bit hospital about two weeks Mrs. Howard Wallace will be ini darker on the top than on the Mrs. Lulu Moore of McMinn charge of the ranch for a few bottom. ville was a Brookings and Harbor In the spring, clusters of tiny visitor last week, where she visit Howers grow among the leaves, ed her son and daughter-in-law, The flowers hang in tassels Mr. and Mrs. Glen Hurst, and which are from one to four inch also Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Ken es long. When the tassels ripen, nedy. She has gone on to Eur they shed cottony seeds. eka to visit another daughter. Wind and water carry the Mrs. .Moore is an old-time resi seeds far and wide. They soon dent of the area.. begin to sprout tiny fibres which take hold of the soil and hang Mr. and Mrs. John Cavitt of on. . Some of the seeds win the Ulm. Mont., are visiting the home battle for survival and slowly of Mrs. Cavitt’s uncle and aunt. grow into trees. Mr. apd Mrs. A. H. Newton, and But this isn’t theonly way that other relatives. Mrs. Cavitt w’ll Black Willows get a start. Ac be remembered as Norma Hol cording to the National Wildlife land. Federation, twigs often drop from the big trees and lodge along the banks of streams. Slicking in the mud, the end of a twig takes root and begins to grow. It, too. may become a full-size Black Willow. on Interesting information other wildlife species can be oh- atined by writing to the Na- Formerly Dons Barber Shop! Hours: 8-6, Monday to Friday 8-7 on Saturdays! BLUEBERRIES For Sole MRS. J. E. Stevenson Easy Street Roy F. 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