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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 15, 1933)
.-' 4 I 4 4 f J Braiiiuiis Oil Dilllin TOBJY Baxter Gardeas are Opened Public; Night Lights -r Offer Rare Sight ; A genuine treat tor flower lov ers and otter txx whom lovely sights bring a thrill la In store for motorists wax find their way out to the Beacon Bulb farm this Sunday, daring the day or night. Today the owners, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Baxter, hate Invited, eTery one Interested t come Tiew their dahlia beds. In which are bloom ing over 150 Tide ties of flowers, ranging from the tiniest of pom poms,: a, mere Inch across, to such giants as the-" startling Satan, new to this section. J - . The annual open house at this bulb farm will extend -well into this evening, as the gardens are electrically lighted and the night view fa said to be even better than the day. ! Seeing the flowers through, the eyes ef & reporter can't begin to do Justice to the. dahlias, so there'll be no attempt here to take any edge oft thft Joy of first hand knowledges So here's just a tip to anyone who wants a rest, from the week's grind: Take an hour or so of Sunday to. drive out four and one-half miles south on the Pacific high way, and at the Beacon bulb farm sign turn east to drink your fill of dahlia beauties. Incidentally, some gardeners will lite to know that Valley Packing company will distribute samples of fertilisers made here. Community Club Has Card Party In Gervais Hall CEBVAIS. Oct. 14. The community 500 club held its first meeting of the season at the .Ifasonie hair Tuesday night with seven tables of the game in play. ' Prises for high scores went to - Mrs. C. B. Ellsworth and I. V. Mc Adoo and: for low scores to Miss : Conway and M. XT. Henning. Miss Mario Mangold, who has served ' as secretary - treasurer ftr sever al years, tendered her resignation , because of inability to attend the ; card parties. Mrs. F. II. Cannard 1 was elected to fill her place. A vote of thanks was -extended Miss Mangold for her long and faithful service. Mrs. Sumner Sterens, Mrs. A. DeJardin and Mrs. Can nard served refreshments after the game. Hostesses for the next meeting, October 21. are Mrs. . Ellsworth. Mrs. J. A. Ferschweiler ' and Mrs. O. J. Moisan. The St. Rita's Altar society met at the parish hall Wednesday at- A W AfMI 4ft 11 I.. V .I :, the winter season. The winter's f . - work was planned' and after the - Mrs TT V. nnil fl SjirMh Nibler served refreshments, Sac red Heart church will open Its winter series of card parties at the- hall next Sunday -night, Octo ber 15. - Mrs. Vv Maurer has sold her property at the east end of F street to Carl Rentz, who moved his family to their new home Sat urday. Mrs. Maurer is no longer able to keep house and has gone to lire with her daughter, Mrs. Moll in Portland. I Th OREGON STATESMAN, Shiest, Oregon, Stm&af MorhtniTOctooCT 15. 19.13 a : 1 - -a 7 1 Society- North Howell Grange Has Meeting ; North Howell Social night plans, harvest home and achieve ment , day arrangements, legisla tive and agricultural reports, and a decision to enter, the grange Bulletin contest were some of the highlights at the regular meeting of North Howell grange last Fri day evening. R. C Jefferson Jr., and Ida May Summery were asked to assist the regular social night committee in the arrangement of a masquerade party for Friday evening, October 27 at the grange hall. ' The fourth Friday in Noremher was decided upon as the date tor the annual coin club demonstra tion, which will also feature a harvest festival and general crop results' for the past year. An unusual . feature- of this occasion will be an exhibit 'of antique ar ticles and those In charge of this exhibit are Mrs. Florence Oddle, Mrs. Bernice Summers and Mrs. Caroline AspInwalL Miss Ellen Vinton will have charge of the flowers. Miss Caro line Bump the fruit, and Miss Ida May Summers the grain. The reg ular home economics committee will hare general charge of the dinner and the corn -club will arrange their own exhibit. . During the lecture hour Mrs. Mattie Vinton gave a reading and Sfr. and Mrs. M. A. Dunn, des cribed parts of a 4000-mile auto trip they had Just completed from a visit to relatives in Nebraska. An "apple evening" has been promised for the next regular grange meeting on November 10 when apples will be featured on the program as well as on the menu and the general arrange ments are la charge of Mrs. W. H. Stevens. Silverton. The Immanuel La dies' Aid society have elated a Lutefisk ' dinner to be held on Friday, November 17. Mrs. M. Strand is president of the or ganization and Mrs. K. Funrue is vice-president. Lutefisk is a Nor wegian dish very prominent at the holiday season asd each year a number of the churches whose members have Norwegian ances try serve a Lutefisk diuner dur ing the winter months. Norwe gian pastrio are also served at these dinners. Trinity Dorcas society plans to erve a chicken dinner on Fri day night, November S. Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Bishop have as their guests this week end their son, Roy Bishop of Portland and their grandson Thomas. C. M. Bishop, another son, also of Port land, will drive to Salem this morning to spend the day with hi i parents and brother. Silverton The junior Woman's club will enjoy a potluck supper at 6:30 o'clock on Tuesday night, Oetober 17. The dinner is to be held at the armory. All members are asked to be present and others between IS and 25 are in vited to come. Monmouth. Mrs. J. S. Landers was hostess Tuesday afternoon to wives of faculty men of the Nor mal school. An informal atmos phere characterized the meeting. and In an Impromptu debate: Re solved that Bonn r 11 1 dam should retain that name, rather than be renamed after an Indi vidual or individuals. .Mrs. L. 13. Forbes defended the affirmative while Mrs. J. A. Churchill up held . the negative .Other mem bers, acting as Judges, . gave the decision to the negative, but ad mitted they approved the affir mative. Monmouth. A g a t ' Rebekah lodge of Monmouth observed the 82nd anniversary of the found ing of this . organization- with- a program held at the regular meeting. Thursday night. A con test headed by Mrs. E. w. Staats and Mrs. Cera Riddell furnished much merriment, and the losers, -Mrs. Staats greop, forfeited a penalty. Musical numbers and o t h e r features rounded . out a Jolly evening. - Silverton Hills. The fiflvartAit Hills community club will bold a basket sdeial at the club half on Saturday nbrht: October . i Mn Nellie Thomas and Mrs. Lewis Hall are the committee In eharr a of arrangements. A program will be given preceding the sale of baskets. To Repair Bridges Over Silver Creek SILVERTON. Oct. 14. The two Lclty bridges crossing Silver creek will be. repaired in the very near future, according to members of me local sireec committee. The Main street bridge will ha onHrlv redecked and repaved, while the james avenue Aridge is to be paved and repaired at the an- proaches. The Main street brfdra. tccnrA. ing to reports at the October meet ing of the city council, is badly in need of repair. I ' t C toss- Worn HY177 p I ' "'By EUGENE SHEFFER 1 1 I i 4- m, i '-iUU. . 'UU. ! - " j ' Tffi JpT, 20 it 30 yyy 3i r , ; ywzyAvyA " ' 2 - i r l -: ' ' ' -rf f TZ 'Ti-" i 1 ... I .1 .V I 11 . W i 1 .1 V S f A J J I I III! I YA I II I I I i ' HI 42" Z"43 H H . 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GROW? - Two weeks ago-1 wrote of the shrubs suitable for foundation planting. Today I shall try to tell something; ab- V ( .... I ' Jt . .'.-. H :; ?.; UWa sUasta out 'shrubs for the shrubbery border -: or ? for planting as In dividual specl mens at the e d g e of the lawn. By the way,' tulips or narcissus bulbe stuck into the ground in the outer edge of the shrubbery border give a nice "wild flower" effect early in the spring;. A layer of peet moss spread over the surface of the soil In the shrubbery border adds neatness and Improves the shrubs themselves. ' In preparing the soil for the shrubs which may be planted late this month or next month, add a trewelf all ef bone meal tor each small shrub. I am diffident About suggesting varieties of shrubs tor planting there are so very, many that are beautiful and each has its own uses. I will divide the subject and first tell you about the ornament al fruited sorts. I happen to be Interested in the "double duty" shrubs, the shrub which, furnish es flowers one season and color ful berries or foliage in another Beason. Many of these fruits make excellerit jellies and conserves. Others have no such use. but will attract flocks of birds to the prem ises. Still others merely give color to the garden during a season when that color is very welcome. In the ornamental fruited group Is the viburnum family which oddly enough at least to me, ranges from the snowball to the Laurus tinus.; '$ jrg--- ' The American, Cranberrybush, one of the . so-called Highbush cranberry shrubs' is " one of the very useful viburnums. It reaches approximately ten feet, in height at maturity, and. bears many clus ters of brilliant red fruit. We also have the dwarf cranberry bush Opulus nanum ) 1 growing but two feet high. This is com pact and small-leaved, a very lov ely little shrub. The Sargent cran berrybush, growing some nine or ten feet tall, with showy broad foliage is also included in this group, y . - Another shrub family which of fers considerable beauty and even more use, is the Vaccinium, known as the blueberry. The . Highbush blueberry (corym bosum) six to ten feet. Is an excellent ornamen tal shrub, and, of course, it ber ries are delightful. The Blueridge blueberry (V. pallidum) less tall. is equally ornamental, and' quite prolific as to fruit And there is the Lowbush blueberry (Pennsyl vanium) with Us delicious orna mental fruit and brilliant autumn colorings. This variety seldom reaches over two feet in height. The Pernettya mucronata, fam iliarly called the South American huckleberry. Is a lovely low-growing shrub, literally covered with fruit about the size of a cran berry. The foliage. Itself, Is ever green and almost heatherlike. The pernettya comes in colors from pure white, pink, scarlet and deep maroon. The white variety resem bles a super-snowberry. For some years there has been a display of these shrubs at the Pacific Inter national Livestock exhibition gar den division, and always this has attracted much attention. The pernettya Is a wee bid finicky. It likes its soU sandy and acid, and it the weather drops below sero it needs some protection. The soil must be just right or the berries will not develop as well as they should for the beauty of the bush. The fruit is edible. There Is at least :. one company at Portland which has been able to grow the pernettya to perfection. X believe it pays to- get a good shrub to start with, - particularly in the case" of pernettyas.- ,. ; i The i wild snowberry vwe have here can be extremely beautiful if properly -cared for. Care must be taken to keep the suckers down or one will soon have more snow berries in the garden than he an ticipated. But the snowberry is not much worse to Increase in number than is the common pur ple lilac, and the snowberry is very lovely both in the garden and In bouquets. I remember the first time I saw: sno wherries in culti vation. It. was at. my uncle's place on Puget Sound. He had planted them as a foreground to a hedge of low growing evergreens. What a perfectly lovely effect they gave. He fertilized his rather heavily and he also snraved them aarlv I in the spring before blossom time. Tney were had to mildew, he told me, and unless sprayed properly, many of the berries would drop off and others wonld turn, black. They certainly repaid him la beau ty for the extra trouble. Then we have the wild currant, the blossoms of which are red la this community and yellow in some places. I have been told that the yellow-blooming currants were at one time common here, but I have never found one growing "native Currants like snowberries, repay one for extra care. Every spring passers-by have been wont to ad mire a wild currant growing in our lawn. - "I have never seen one so full of blossoms," we are told. But each year in October I give ' it a comparatively heavy feeding Harmonica Band is Proposed Initial Meeting ' Monday; WOODBURN, Oct. 14. A har monica band for all children In terested has been planned by the women's auxiliary suit ? of the Woodburn American Legion post. The i first meeting will be held Monday evening at C:30 at the home of Mrs. Mae Engle, who will have charge of the band. The mothers of the children interested must attend the initial meeting Monday night ' i - V A membership drive Is being planned by the auxiliary, sides have been chosen for the drive. The team getting the least num ber of members must feed the winners; Plans were made Wednesday nignt ror tne big dinner, for the annual Armistice day celebration. Mrs. Myrtle- Smith waa made chairman of arrangements for the dinner. Mrs. Nora Broyles Is head ef the kitchen cemmiltM. and Lrs. Bertha BenUey has charge ef the dining room. of bonemeaL and each winter, starting in. December I thoroughly spray the. bush once a month for the next three months. I alter nate with Bordeaux and with a lime sulphur spray. Each spring as the blossoms begin, to fade I cut the shrub back, to about four feet In height Last spring it was one huge red bouquet with racemes four and fire inches long. , I wish I had space to go on tell ing you of the many beautiful ornamental fruited shrubs. But the list Is long and includes holly, barberry, the latter of which In cludes the beautiful Darwinli and the native Oregon grape; the Bush honeysuckle, the most beau tiful of which is the red-berried Lonicera Morpwil, - cotoneaster, the firethorn. MSBIRESS OFSIiniDIES SILVERTON, let 14. - Mrs. Athalla-Ramsby Nelson, who was postmistress at Silverton 65 years Ko. died October 6 at Los An geles, according; to word receiv ed by relatives here. - She was the daughter ot the late- R. C. Rarasby, who was among the first settlers of the community. His plaee was where the First Methodistehurch now stands. At the timej Mrs. Nelson served-as postmistress, she was filling the unexpired term! ot her - nusoana, j. jr. Nelson, postmaster, who had just died. - Mrs. Nelson was born in In diana, February 4, 1854 and mov ed to Oregon at an early age. Her survivors are two daughters, Mra. Lena Fordyce and Mrs. tola Linn of Los Angeles: and iwo sons. Fred Nelson, TJ. S.f bureau ot roads in California, Dee Wright U. S. agent in the McKenzie pass vicinity. She also leaves on sister,. Mrs. J. S. Blair of Carlton, and one brother, , Charlee Ramsby of Tigard. she ls7 also, the aunt of Mrs. C H. Albright and Clyde Ramsby of Silverton. ATTEND CAMP PARTY LTONS, Oct 1 Several women from Lyons attended the surprise party givfn for Mrs. James Toomb at the Hinkle mill camp Tuesday afternoon. Those present were Mrs. Martin Kaiken Sr. and Jr., Mrs. William Knick- en, Mrs. Guy Mames, Mrs. VaL Hinkle, Mrs. Forrest Neydigger, Mrs. George Neydigger, Mrs. Negle, Mrs. Williams, Mrs. Alex Bodeker, Mrs. Elmer Hiatt Mrs. Albert Ring, Mrs. David Monroe, Mrs. Roy Huber, Mrs. Stacey Mc- Call and the guest of honor. Mrs. Effie Toombs. POLLY AND HER PALS "Safety" on Wheels! By CLIFF STERRETT te--TO&Ssfficfe iKwgTS) fpmm : ' msPm CKV yWP- 1 1 ( 1 Fm No "Angel r By, WALT DISNEY !!,( DIPPY YOU SHOULDN'T A I j r' ALL I'VE GOTTEn" XT' v ( VOU SHOULDN'T JEX 1 )& 13L( VVELL, WELL, MRS. 1 JyE CHARGED THIS I f (g TVKJ CUT OF THIS DETECTIVE SHUCKS A BILLS WDR?y YA J i j V ANTWHlStLE! 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