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Mist Avadna Peterson
(Landis-Shanglc photo)
Avada Peterson.
Kenneth Boshears
To Wed This Year
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Peterson,
Homedale, Ida., announce the
engagement of their daughter,
Avadna, . to Kenneth Boshears,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Miner
Boshears,- 408 South Grape
street.
Miss Peterson was graduated
from Oregon State college where
she was affiliated with Alpha
Gamma Delta sorority. She is
on the faculty of Jefferson
school, Medford.
Mr. Boshears was also gradu
ated from Oregon State college
and was a member of the college
chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon.
He is a pharmacist with Medford
pharmacy.
The engagement news was an
nounced here at a party given
January 4 in the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Clynton Crisman, 2525
Merriman road. The bride-elect's
parents were here for the event,
which also celebrated their silver
wedding anniversary.
Miss Peterson makes her Med
ford home at 106 South Ivy
street.
An early summer wedding is
planned by the couple.
Medford Women Make Dolls
Life is seldom dull for those
with hobbies. Miss Frances (Fan
nie) Whitman and Mrs. Henry
Davis, featured on today's pic
ture page, are both business wo
men and housekeepers, but any
spare moments from these occu
pations are joyfully filled by
making dolls, doll clothing and
a hundred and one other objects
related to the hobby.
The two have gathered around
them a small group of women
also interested in doll making,
repairing and collecting and are
spreading their enthusiasm,
knowledge and interest in dolls
as a hobby.
Miss Whitman, who lives at
510 South Fir street, began eight
or ten years ago to make doll
heads. After a bit of experimen
tation, she concentrated on china
heads as being more beautiful
and longer-lasting than other
types. She uses liquid clay, pour
ing this into a plaster of paris
mold. After it has stood for a
time, she pours off the surplus
water and lets the clay dry to the
proper texture before removing
from mold.
The doll head is then smooth
ed with a silk sponge and made
ready for the first firing. There
are a number of commercially
operated kilns in the valley, and
Miss Whitman patronizes, one of
these. After the first firing the
product is called bisque, and
some dollmakers work with the
bisque heads.
Heads Smoothed
Miss Whitman smooths the
head again, using a fine sand
paper called garnet cloth, and
the piece is then glazed and
fired for the second time. At
this stage Miss Whitman paints
' on the first coat of coloring ma
terial for hair, eyes, lips, etc.
using china mineral paints and
the tiniest of brushes. Ihe pieces
are fired after the first painting.
and given a final firing after the
last touchup of color.
To make the bodies Miss Whit
man uses muslin or sateen fill
ed with sawdust, kapok, cotton,
ground cork or ground rubber.
She usually makes legs and
arms of the china, painting the
hands and shoes. After complet
ing the body, she decides on the
tvpe of costume and makes the
clothing. In addition to under
clothes and dresses. Miss Whit
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Summer Wedding
Planned by Couple
The engagement of Miss Mary
Rice. Bellview, Wash., to Duane
R. Sherwood of Medford was
announced last month by Miss
Rice's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
George Rice of Bellview. Mr.
Sherwood is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. W. E. Sherwood. 1020
Jasper street, Medford. The an
nouncement was made during a
holiday party at the Rice home.
The bride-to-be, a teacher in
the Portland school system, was
graduated from Whitworth col
lege, Spokane, Wash. She, was
elected to the Who's Who of
American Colleges and Univer
sities. . .
Mr. Sherwood will be gradu
ated in June from Idaho State
college, Pocatello, Ida. He is a
member of Rho Chi, pharmaceu
tical honor society.
An early summer wedding is
planned.
Miss Mary Rice
(Wong photo)
Phoenix Club
Phoenix Phoenix Thursday
club will hold the monthly busi
ness meeting Thursday, January
24, at the home of Mrs. Delano
Sloan. Mrs! R. L. Mullen and
Mrs. Douglas Roach will be co
hpstess. The meeting is set for
8 p.m.
man makes hats, fans, jewelry
and other accessories.
Her tiny doll hats, also pic
tured on today's front page, are
correctly proportioned and ex
quisitely fashioned from straw,
felt, braid, velvet, silks, tiny
flowers, bits of feather and small
quills. She uses both thread and
milliner's glue.
Native Resident
Miss Whitman, born and rear
ed in Jackson county, says that
her mother taught her to do var
ious handwork as a small girl,
and that she has enjoyed cre
ating various objects ever since.
She is the daughter of the late
Mr. and Mrs. John Henry Whit
man, her father having been one
of the valley's early day law
yers. Her grandfather, John
Doty Whitman, and a partner, J.
H. Stewart, planted the first
commercial fruit orchard in
Medford, the tract being situated
within what is now the city lim
its. The orchard was planted
where the streets of South Holly,
South Grape and South Fir
streets adjoin Stewart avenue;
Whitman and Stewart avenues
are named for the two men.
Mrs. R. T. Nichol of Medford
is Miss Whitman's sister, and her
brothers are Olin T. Whitman,
Medford, and Orrin W. Whit
man, Astoria. Her mother was
the former Sarah North and the
family came to Oregon from
Adel, la., in 1885. John Henry
Whitman, in addition to prac
ticing law, founded the first ti
tle and abstract company here.
He was a cousin of Marcus Whit
man, well known Oregon pio
neer.
Chance Incident
Mrs. Davis, who says many
think that dollmakers are a bit
"fetched in the head" moved to
Medford several years ago dur
ing the pear packing season. She
picked up a gnarled pear one
day which she thought looked
like a head, and from that
chance incident grew a hobby
which has brought her nation
wide recognition. She peeled the
pear, shaped it into a head and
hung it to dry.
As time went on she experi
mented with the process of shap
ing the heads and coloring the
features and was delighted to
find that the natural drying pro
cess resulted in a wrinkled and
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Loretla May Darby
(Classic photo)
Parents Announce
Betrothal News
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Darby,
43 North Peach street, announce
the engagement of their daugh
ter, Loretta May, to Charles L.
Houston, airman second class in
the United States Air Force. He
is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis
Houston, 1014 Maple Park drive.
Miss Darby is a student at
Medford High school; her fiance
is stationed at Ardmore Air
Force base in O klahoma.
No date has been set for the
wedding.
Airs. Frank Hussong
To Be Club Hostess
Mistletoe club will meet
Wednesday, January 23 at 10
a.m. at the home of Mrs. Frank
Hussong, 56 Barneburg road,
Medford.
The morning will be spent in
sewing and members are asked
to take scissors and thimble. A
covered dish luncheon will be
served at noon and table service
is required.
Hostesses will be Mrs. Hus
song, Mrs. E. M. Lovell, Mrs.
Alma Hill and Miss Blanch Ar
nold. as Hobby
wizened face which she could
make extraordinarily lifelike
by the addition of certain col
oring material, eyes, nose, etc.
She also uses a preservative to
lengthen the keeping qualities.
Mrs. Davis makes wigs of
many materials, but mostly uses
theatrical crepe. The bodies,
even the hands and feet, are
constructed from wire and a
composition which Mrs. Davis
perfected herself. The hands are
the most difficult, she says, add
ing that sometimes she expends
four times as much labor on a
hand as it would take to carve
four heads.
Character Dolls
When the body is completed
Mrs. Davis makes clothing suit
able for whatever character the
doll is to portray. If it is a his
torical doll, she first studies
books and old magazines to de
termine exactly what the cloth
ing should be and attempts to
faithfully reproduce material
and detail.
Her dolls are often shown at
work reading a book, using
scissors or even playing a hand
organ. These articles and ac
cessories she finds and buys in
all parts of the United States and
foreign countries, or makes her
self if what she wants cannot
be found otherwise.
Mrs. Davis' dolls win prizes
and are in museums. The Hermit
of the Rogue, pictured today.
won second prize in a national
contest and is now m a doll mu
seum in Santa Claus, Ind. She
sometimes makes dolls for spe
cial collector's orders, and not
long ago was asked to submit a
design for an "Oregon" doll
which a certain firm wishes to
feature. The design was accepted
and presumably the dolls will be
produced before long.
Mrs. Davis also makes hpads
from other materials, such as ny
lon hose, apples, nuts and) pa
pier-mache. She often makes
.dolls for pairs, families or
groups, arid sometimes creates
"rooms" or other background for
doll scenes.
Mrs. Davis and her husband
make their home at 429 South
Grace street.
Both Mrs. x Davis and Miss
Whitman have written illustrat
ed articles for a national maga
zine. Profitable Hobbies. Mn.
In MEDFORD
Tell Engagement
Of Miss Miller,
Albert Harrison
Mrs. Esther Miller, 433 Ard
more avenue, announces the en
gagement of her daughter, Car
rol Kay, to Albert Harrison, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Earl M. Har
rison, 1003 South Peach street.
Both young people are 1956
graduates of Medford High
school and are attending South
ern Oregon college. Miss Miller
is a pre-nursing student and Mr.
Harrison is majoring' in mer
chandising. No date has been set for the
wedding.
Miss Carrol Kay Miller
Chapter to Honor
25-Year Members
Central Point Nevita chap
ter. Order of Eastern Star, will
honor members who have been
in OES for 25 years at a meeting
Tuesday, January 22, at 8 p.m.
in Masonic Temple, Central
Point.
Mrs. George Brownell and
Mrs. Bruce Grieve are chairmen
for the meeting.
Davis, using the title "Picking
Dolls from Pear Trees" wrote an
article for the July 1948 issue
of the publication and Miss
Whitman's article, devoted to her
miniature hats, was carried in
the December 1956 issue of the
magazine.
Other members of the doll
club are Mrs. Carl Fichtner, in
whose home on South Holly
street the group picture for to
day's issue was made, Mrs. Lois
Fretwell, Jacksonville, Mrs.
Polly Offut, Mrs. Michelle Rossi,
Mrs. Paul Bulkin of Shady Cove
and Mrs. Marie Pierce. The wo
men work together or alone, as
time and circumstances allow,
but all agree that making dolls,
repairing them and making cloth
ing and accessories is a fascin
ating and rewarding enterprise.
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Miss Mary Lou Murphy
(Classic photo)
Medford Couple
Engaged to Wed
Mr. and Mrs. A. Q. Murphy,
616 Franquette street, announce
the engagement of their daugh
ter, Mary Lou, to Richard E.
Wallace, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Harold E. Wallace, 1965 Sunset
drive, Medford.
Miss Murphy was graduated
from Medford High school with
the class of 1955 and is em
ployed by Charles W. Reames,
local attorney.
Mr. Wallace also attended
Medford High school and served
with the paratroopers. He is now
employed by Kline Logging
company.
No date has been set for the
wedding.
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Program Planned
For Howard PTA
Howard Parent-Teacher as
sociation will hold the first
meeting of the new year Tues
day, January 22 at 8 p.m. in
the multi-purpose room. Sam
Taylor of Elk Lumber company
will be the guest speaker. Mr.
Taylor has arranged an hour
iong program of tape recordings
taken from all over the world.
E. Ronald Rice will direct the
Girls' chorus in a few numbers.
This meeting is open to all
parents and the public at large
as well as PTA members. " Re
freshments will be served.
7o Initiate
Reams chapter. Order of East
ern Star will meet Thursday,
January 24 at 8 p.m. at the Med
ford Masonic hall. There will
be initiation of ntfw members..
Mrs. Don Chase and Mrs. Wil
liam Brooks are chairman for
the evening.
With the growing interest in
ballet in this area and through
out the country, there has been
a steady demand at the Med
ford Public library for books on
all aspects of this subject.
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Cacti, Succulents
Butte Falls The topic of cac
ti and succulents was presented
by Mrs. Harry Dalton at the
January meeting of Butte Falls
Garden club last week.
Plants known as succulents
can be briefly described as those
which are capable of surviving
long periods of drought, the
speaker said. They usually pos
sess fleshy or succulent moisture-storing
leaves, stems or tub
ers. In many of the plant fami-1
lies, or groups having similar
characteristics, one may find
one or more of that broad classi
fication called succulents.
All of the plants in the cactus
family are succulent, but all
succulents are not cacti, she
added.
A famous desert plant collec
tion can be found in the Hunt
ington Botanical Gardens in San
Marino, Calif. These gardens
are now more than 50 acres in
size, of which 15 acres are de
voted to growth of cacti and suc
culents. Cacti native to the west
ern hemisphere have greater
range in form, size and appear
ance than any other plant fam
ily, Mrs. Dalton said. Their bril
liantly colored flowers of satiny
texture are not surpassed in
beauty by those of any other
plant group, not even by orchids
or water lilies.
Hylocereous undatus, perhaps
the most widely known of the
night blooming cereus, has flow
ers that often are 10 inches
across. Harrisia Regelii, a dif
ferent type of night blooming
cereus, can be readily trained
to climb. Also found here is a
specimen of the golden barrel
cactus of Mexico which is about
30 years old and weighs approx
imately 400 pounds. Another
commonly called barrel cactus
is nearly three feet high and
about 25 years old.
The business meeting was
preceded by special devotions
led by Mrs. John Fuiten.
Refreshments were served by
the hostess, Mrs. Elga Abbott.
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EJecfa Social Club
To Meef at Bowers
Electa Social club will meet
with Mrs. Dana W. Bowers, 48
Rose avenue, Friday, January
25, at 1 p.m. for dessert and a
business meeting. This will be
a birthday meeting. Mrs. Floyd
Murray and a committee will
Chapter
Crater Lake chapter, Daugh
ters of the American Revolution,
will meet Saturday, January 26,
at 2 p.m. at the home of Mrs.
O. T. Heyerman, 125 Winema
way. Dr. Auther S. Taylor of j
Southern Oregon college will
speak on historical landmarks j
of Oregon.
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next meeting of Applegate
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day, January 21, at 1:30 p.m. at
Ruch school. '
Dr. Danielson will talk on the
clinic and medical facilities
available in southern Oregon to
promote good mental health. A
question and answer period will
follow.
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