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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 5, 1953)
Along Azalea Row SMITH RIVER • The Smith River Women's club will hold their regular monthly By Mrs. E. F. Rapraeger meeting on Friday afternoon, i Feb. 6 at the Community hall. The island of Guernsey, besides plant going into the bulbs, the President Mrs, Bet tie Mello will being famous for its dairy- herds, flowers are beheaded soon after preside at the business meeting is also noted for its early spring they appear, and beauty is sacri at 2:30 o’clock. The program will flowers, most of which go to the ficed so that in succeeding years be in charge of the library com London market. It is not an un there shall be more beauty in mittee. Mrs. Martha Ulrick and usual practice to cut a crop of countries hundreds and even Mrs. Frances Westbrook. Guest daffodils for the cut-flower mar thousands of miles away. speaker will be Mrs. Alexander The next meeting of the Azalea Lake of Pelican Bay, near the ket in the early spring before the grass and clovers come on an l Garden Club will be held at the Oregon line north. He will talk then pasture the field for the rest Grange hall on Thursday 12th on his experiences in Africa of the year uutil the bulbs are February with a 'ftessert lunch where he spent many years hunt dug. Cattle, cut flowers and eon to be served at 1:00 p.m. ing wild game. Mr. Lake has Host written a book on Africa and will greenhouse tomatoes are the preceding the meeting. chief exports. The island is a esses for the afternoon are Mrs. be published soon by Doubleday five by nine-mile triangle ^nd Lloyd Moss, chairman. Mesdames Publishing Company. All mem the number of greenhouses is Clara Mclndoe, Ed Fisher and bers and friends are invited to unbelievable. They cover a tenth Mabel Maris. Group singing will attend and hear this interesting of the island’s total 15.500 acres. be under the direction of Mrs. talk which will be at 3 o’clock. Probably no other area in the Lee Rice. Mrs. Louis Peterson The many friends of Rev. E. C. world is so thickly studded with will talk briefly on the bird of Hicks are sorry to hear he suf greenhouses. . the month, the Chickadee, and fered a paralytic stroke on Mon Guernsey lies at the southern | Mrs. Arthur Knox will give a day at the home of his daughter, end of the English Channel off short talk on Tuberous Begonias. Mrs. Una Rowley, at Harbor. Ore. the coast of Normandy. At the I The speaker for the afternoon R<?v. Hicks, a former pastor of northerly end of the channel be will be Mrs. Webster Hibbard Smith River church, has been yond the Straits of Dover lie the ’whose subject will be “The World convalescing from a heart ail bulb fields of Holland. The in Your Garden.” A Valentine ment. Dutch claim that nine out of ten exchange of plants will terminate Mrs. Mabel Brown is back in of the new bulbs blooming this the meeting. Westbrooks Market where she is spring will be the produce of employed as clerk, following two Holland. The entire bulb-raising INITIATION SERVICES ,weeks vacation. She spent a few industry of Holland is concentrat j days visiting her daughter and ed in a narrow strip of land EOR LOCAL WOMEN I family, Mr. and Mrs. Harold along the North Sea coast about Initiation services were held Horn, and children at Klamath fifteen miles long and three miles Thursday evening by the Emblem Falls. deep which a geological chance- - Club, ladies’ Elks. Crescent City, The Westbrook brothers. Palm aided by Dutch industry—has for three Brookings and five er and Henry E., are building a made the perfeot soil for raising Crescent City ladies. modern service station north of bulbs. In this small area which The supreme president from the Westbrook Market, near the you can explore easily in a day Connecticut was present as well new freeway. Work is being done there will flower this year tens as guests from Eureka and near by Contractor Leslie Saxelby. This of millions of bulbs, turning the by towns. Officers were also in station w-ill handle Shell prod flat land into a checkerboard of stalled. ucts. color. But for most of the flow Brookings ladies initiated were The Ladies’ Society of the ers their life will be brief. To Alice Bordwell, Mabel Ostrander Smith River church is holding a ensure all the strength of the and Pauline Carpenter. food sale on S a tu rd a v nftnrn«r»n reo. < at Westbrooks Market. Sale will open at 2 o’clock. Mrs Trula Reuss is chairman and this project proceeds will go toward purchasing a new piano for the church. Harry Brown has returned to his home here at Smith River Coffee Shop following a month’s vacation spent with his son and family, Mr. and Mrs. Keith Brown, at Portland. Mr. Brown under went a medical checkup while in Portland. Joe Sierka of Castle Rock re turned home Sunday by South west Airways from Santa Cruz where he attended the funeral of his father, who passed awav Jan 28. Mrs. Carlton Haight is conval escing at her home from a broken ankle when she slipped while getting out of a truck. She is able to get around on crutches. Phone Numbers Bill Brown, police .....25^1 Ambulance ................ 2181 LAMBING SEASON The lambing season is under way in Curry county. Olylie Fer guson ot (»old Beach was one of the first to start lambing this year, having started during the recent storm. A little extra feeding during lambing and until the grass is good will add dollars to your sheep income because the ewe will milk heavier, the lambs will gain faster and can be mar keted earlier when the prices are generally the highest. ♦ A r t Books, Yeltons. Sertetied Sand, and Gravel Salvage Sand and Gravel Top Soil Fill Dirt Drainage Rock City Recorder ............ 2854 F ire... 2|g t I NOTICE I 3 Brookings I iarbor Pilot THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 5. 1953 Phone 2341 Leonard Real E state * .1 is hereby given that WHITE APPLIANCE CO. Formerly knolvn as Matot Co. will not be responsible for radios atnl 01 table appliances left for service repair prior to Dec. 9 19o2. Said articles will lx» disposed of at the discretion of new' owners 30 days from Jan. 22, 1953. BERT aiul GENE WHITE ebruary SA L E C o m m e n c in g F eb ru a ry 9 , a t 9 a.m . 20 To 25% Off Boys and Girls Cents and Jackets Dresses Shirts Caps Sweaters T-Shirts Rain W ear Skirts Bonnets Bath Robes Chenille and Corduroy Sizes 1 thru 14 years Tots T& Teens Teuere II Across from the B onk
