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.
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A r t Books, Yeltons.
Sertetied Sand, and Gravel
Salvage Sand
and Gravel
Top Soil
Fill Dirt
Drainage Rock
City Recorder ............ 2854
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NOTICE
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Brookings I iarbor Pilot
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 5. 1953
Phone 2341
Leonard Real E state
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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
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