LETS BE SOCIABLE
Three Are Honored
At Club Meeting
The regular meeting of the
Nehalem Social club was held
Wednesday evening, April 11, at
the home of Mrs. A. J. Hughes
with Mrs. W. T. Lilly assisting.
After the regular business
meeting a farewell gift was pre
sented to M.s. Frank McCord,
and a pink and blue shower was
held for Mrs. Ralph Reynolds anj
Mgs. Wallace McCrae. Each of
the three honor guests were pre
rented with red camellia corsages
«t. thn close of the evening..
Delicious refreshments were
served by the hostesses.
The next regular meeting of
the club will be held on Wednes
day, May 9th.
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Wedding Solemnized for
Prominent Couple
LONG AGO
And FAR AWAY
Ron» Morris Workman
Rocking W Ranch
In a setting of quiet simplicity, Vernonia, Oregon
ceremonial services were read for
My mind seems to be running
one of iVernonia’s most prom on food, lately. Maybe it is my
inent couples on Thursday, April ration points—or rather my lack
12, when Emil Messing and Flor of ration points—that causes that
ence McDonald were wed.
condition. I have just been brows
Motoring to the Christian ing through an ancient copy of
church parsonage at Forest the “White House Cookbook”.
Grove, the wedding party was Now that is Literature. Read it
ushered into the church chapel and weep. How’s this for break
where the ceremony was per fast?
formed by the Rev. Herbert Sias. Grapes
Steamed Oatmeal
Best man for the occassion was
Pickled Pig’s Feet »Fried
Mr. Bert Tisdale and Mrs. Tis Oyster Toast
Potato Puffs
dale attended the bride.
Wheat Bread
Egg Muffins
The bride wore an attractive
Coffee
suit of aqua, with brown acces
And me with my grapefruit
sories. Her corsage was of white and coffee! Shades of my grand
carnations and sweet peas. The parents!
groom wore a suit of navy blue
Or this for a nice quick little
serge.
dinner when hubby brings the
The wedding party included a boss home unexpectedly:
few intimate friends, among
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whom were Mr. and Mrs. Mar
Beef Soup with Croutons
vin Porterfield, Mr. and Mrs. Boiled Fresh Mackeral
Gene Annula, Mr. and Mrs. Hart
Hollandaise Sauce
zell, Jean McDonald and Florence
Roast Partridges
Tisdale.
Mashed Potatoes
Stewed Cora
After the ceremony the couple
Stuffed Egg Plant
Tomato Salad
left immediately for a ten-day
honeymoon trip to coast cities.
Lobster Croquettes
They expect to return by Sunday
Peach Meringue Pie
April 22nd. Mr. and Mrs. Messing
Tutti Frutti Ice Cream
will hold at vhat time, an open
Rochester Jelly Cake
Coffee
house reception at their home on Cheese
C St. for their many friends.
Now those were the days when
men really could eat and wom
Card Party and Tea
en could really cook. Bring out
Events Planned by Aux. the Alka-Zisser. It gives me the
Among recently planned local indigestion even to read it. No
activities the American Legion wonder women had curves then
Auxiliary has decided to spon and men the gout. A meal like
sor a card party to be held at that would put curves on even
the Legion hall on Friday, April me.
27. .
Meals like those are not too
Also planne'd at this meeting far in the past. I, young as I am,
was a Mother’s Day tea to be can remember some very much
given in the near future for like them. No wonder I was a
mothers of service men.
chubby little thing at that time.
An amount of $15 was sent Ah, those Sunday dinners when
to the National President’s Re I was too young to appreciate
habilitation program. The money them! Of course, when there was
to be used to build green houses lots of company, we children
at the hospitals.
always had to wait until the
“second table,” after the grown
Announcement of
folks had finished their eating
Engagement Made
and their seemingly endless con
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hedman versation. But even tfie second
announce the engagement of table had enough food left on
their daughter, Lillian Therese, it to fee<f a modern family a
to Ensign John Baker Olin of week. Besides it was much more
the U.S. Navy. The date of the fun to eat by ourselves; we did
n’t have to mind our table man
wedding has not been set.
Miss Hedman attended Ore ners so carefully and we could
gon University for two years and chatter as we pleased, which was
is now a student at Marylhurst something in the day when child
ren should be seen and not
College.
(Even in those days,
Ensign Olin (Jack) attended heard.”
Oregon University where he was however, it would have taken
affiliated with Alpha Tau Omega more than a precept to keep me
fraternity. He also attended U. from talking, grownup or not.)
It seems to me, looking back
C. L. A. for twelve months and
received his commission at Col through the years that always
umbia Univarsity, New York City. when we_came home from Quak
er Meeting in our “surrey with
the fringe on top” behind Dad’s
Club Members Get
fast-stepping team, that a train
Soap Carving Practice
The Vernonia Business and
Professional Women’s club met Moortele instructed the group
on Tuesday, April 10th, at the in the art of soap carving. Re
home of Mrs. Maud Kobow. Val- sults ranged all the way from
da Larson, Anna Mae Ramey and cleverly carved animals and
Jean Ellen Irvine were hostesses. flowers to complete disintegra
Roll call was answered by mem tion of soap bars to soap chips.
The next meeting will be held
bers presenting their bundles of
clothing to be turned over to on April 24th, at the home of
relief organizations. During the Mrs. Charlotte Steele with Mrs.
business session plans were made Noma Callister as co-hostess.
for a dance to be held in the
near future.
As a recreation el feature of
the evening, Mrs. Ruth Van De
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of shiny buggies and other ve
hicles followed us down the long
lane to the big white farm house.
There the men, after they had
unharnessed their horses and fed
them in the big barns, wandered
about the farm-yard, or squatted
on their heels whittling stray
pieces of wood while they gos
siped—or do men gossip—about
neighborhood affairs, crops, pigs
or the Presiding Elder. Mean
while, the women, doffing their
Quaker bonnets and tying aprons
about their ample waists, helped
mother "set the big table, pulled
out its greatest length, and fin
ish the dinner. And what a din
ner! Quakers were taught in
those days that pride in wordly
things was sinful, but I smile
sometimes when I remember.
The women wore little grey bon
nets and plain grey dresses, but
I have a vivid picture of my
mother. Her dress was of Quaker
grey, yes, but of silk heavy
enough to stand alone and the
simple little grey bonnet was as
captivating as any tip-tilted lit
tle thing of modern times, and
much more becoming, and if it
wasn’t pridd which I saw in her
eyes when folks told her that she
was the best cook in the county,
then I didn’t recognize pride
when I saw it. And as for the
men—well if it wasn’t pride
that made them buy and drive
the finest, fastest horses and the
most up-to-date surreys and bug
gies, I don’t know what you
world call it. But I suppose they,
like most of us today, managed
to rationalize it into something
else. Who cares now? That was
long ago and far away, and on
ly the memory remains.
1 am very sure, however, that
my mother did not think it sin
ful to be proud of the table she
set. I can see, through the gold
en light of years, a chubby grey-
eyed little girl swinging a long
paper fly brush over that laden
table, a table on which—to quote
a saying of that day—“you
could not lay the flat of your
hand” because it was so covered
with food. Jams and jellies, the
clear translucent pinkness of
water-melon preserves, huge plat
ters of fried chicken, crispy and
brown as only my southern mam
my-trained mother could fry it,
great tureens of stewed fat hens
with
tender noodles,
plates
leaped high with thin slices of
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SONALLY. WON’T YOU CALL ON US FOR THOSE FINER
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to meet your friends at
THE
for Sunday Dinner!
through the long lazy afternoon
until the dusk came with its fire-
flies and the reluctant departure
of our guests.
Those days are gone, lost in
the speed, the restless hurry of
modern life. I wonder if our
haste, our eager grasping for the
things we wish to attain, will
bring any result one half so
precious as the thing we have
lost. There is no time now to
enjoy leisurelp visits, no long
afternoons to idle away in desul
tory conversation while the sha
dows slant toward evening and
the mists lift slowly across the
lower meadow. Perhaps those
things remain the same and only
we have changed. I do not know.
I know only that we cannot go
back. We can only remember.
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Thursday, April 19, 1945
Vernonia Eagle
pink home-cured ham, baked
W'th cloves and brown sugar, ev
ery vegetable the farm could pro
duce, and pies of every kind
with cakes piled high with frost
ing. Excuse me while I weep a
little and go and count once
more my ration points. I fear me
this way madness lies.
Then after the children had
finished at the second table—
and what fun that was, only the
grown-ups usually took the best
pieces of chicken and the Presid
ing Elder always did pig the
last piece of whipped cream cake
—the women w’ashed up the
dishes and whispered over the
choice tidbits that we “little
pitchers” mustn't hear, while the
men sat on the porch in full con
tent and we children played
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MAKE IT A PRACTICE TO
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THE BEST OF EVERYTHING
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YOU CAN’T BEAT A COMBI
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MATTER HOW HARD YOU
TRY!
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