——_ Page 6 THE TRIBONE, WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Thursday, July 26, 1951. Around Town Miss Patsy Margetts, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Margetts, left by CPA Saturday for Vancouver where she will visit with her grandparents for the rest of the summer. Oe. Miss Joan Fraser returned over ihe weekend from a three-week vacation at Vancouver where she visited wiih her parents. ees Miss Juanita Davis of Kamloops left Tuesday after yisiting for a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Frank, Lee and their daughter, Helen. fae Mr. and Mrs. ©. Barber left on Saturday night’s train for Vancouver to spent a short vacation, later tra- velling to Kelowna to visit their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. R. Steele. ——o—_ Miss Barbara McKenzie left Satur- day. for a two-weeks’ vacation at Van- couver. ——o—_ Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Orr, and sons Robert and George, of Frankli® Riv- er. V.L, left Saturday after a four-day visit with the latter's sister and bro- ther-inJaw, Mr. and Mrs. G. Brett. sit ee | Clarence Singer by J.| R. Foster of Seattle left Saturday on, a week’s business ti Edmonton. --- WITH [IRENE 3 Much to my surprise and that of| many of our friends, we now have a| smail scrap of lush lawn and flower garden growing in the back of the Tribune building. The amazement is | caused mainly by the lack of prepar-/ I Mi did Bis, Geno Gaede left Wed-| tion that went into the making of this nesday for a ten-day vacation to lawn. Princeton where they will visit'rela-| We were assured by several people tives. goat we would need several loads of op-s. not to mention fertilizers, Mr, and Mrs. Ken Moore left Wed- cte., in order to make anyhing grow. nesday for a two-week vacation at/and when I contemplated: the hard. Vancouver. lay soil that constituted our! kyard, I quite agreed with them.| Mr. and Mrs. 1 Tom 1 Denny journeyed We dia go to the extent of spreading | to Barkerville Friday to attend their peat mo: son's weddng. —o— Mr. and Mrs, J. Puiitipssn zeturned recently from several weeks’ visit to | Vietoria and Jenene around one Sunday morn- jing prior to the expected arrival of a| laborer to dig it in, but unfortunately | Mrs. A. Mackenzie left Saturday on he didn't show up that day and the. @ week's business trip to the coast. ~/next day a high wind succeeded in ae ating | removing most of it to an undisclosed | John Cade left Friday for a week’s destination. | vacation’ at the summer camp of the Alpine Club in the Rockies, Undaunted. Clive planted the seed, and in a few weeks we had a nice showing of green . . . weeds! I was “Old at 40,50,60?” — Man, You're Crazy Forget your acet rousatits are peppy at 70. eee By filth Ostrex: Contas mes Wwe Gstrox Fonte Tebpece yg, ROPES, cll feeling, eis Tie AY Grad oneauslted elze only’ GOc. ‘everywhere. 3 horrified when Clive came home with: ¢ for a visit something designed to kill weeds; 1 With his son and daughter-in-law, Mr. figured that was the end of the lawn and. Mrs: M.Reidemann of Alkali “no weeds, no lawn: ‘But he TERGA |it along, spread more seed, watered lit, fertilized it until it reached its present prolific state. Its beauty is somewhat marred by the unsightly ditch dug ready to con- nect us to the sewer overflow line, —o— Mrs. Fred Bass with Bernie and Patrick, is spending the week at Chimney Lake Lodge. Decea Records Sung by: / BING cRospY DICK HAYMES ERNEST TURES HOGIE CARMICHAEL See our wide selection of Wilkinson Radio & Electric now being installed, thank goodness. How little we appreciate the many |many conveniences of modern life | untn We are faced with a disruption [in those facilities. I am almost hys- ferical with joy at the thought of being able to throw out all the wash water without watching for a lake of stagnant water to appear in the back yard. Another improvement we could wish for, would be the addition of a nice shade tree on the west side; and if possible, one that bore fruit. That is something else which I’m sure I never appreciated half enough when -living in New Westminster. We were sur- Sweserecresoceterocescovocrooenns on: iicy the services of a gardener, al tall old gentleman with huge feet rounded by fruit trees of every de- scription and it was a problem every year to get rid of the surplus fruit. We even used to get annoyed at the mess made by’ plums falling from |jtrees festooned with the purple fruit gs thickly as grapes. And the hug? 90 ft. walnut tree which grew closé ‘to the- house made the kichen tee | dark, I complained. But I would give anything now to have those lovely big branches shading and cooling our hot little apartment and garden. Our little flower garden is following along the same lines as our vegetable garden at the coast. For some reason or other. no matter how we tended it, the vegetables grew with wild abandon at one end, but dwindled off now on display ANDREW SISTERS =» RED FOLEY GUY LOMBARDO AL JOLSON to small stunted plants at the other BLADE ROASTS ... Week-End Specials BONELESS ROLLED BRISKET . BEEF and PORK SAUSAGE .. 3-4 Ib. FRYING CHICKE SAVE MONEY Buy Beef by the Quarter end. This same trend is evident here in our small strip of garden; the border of sweet allysum is blooming with a profusion of small white flow- ers at one end, but at the other end there is nary a Blgnt visible above the soil. 69c But the lawn is growing with’ de. growing lightful evenness all over, in fact it - per Ib. 63e is growing almost too well for ‘it - per Ib. seems to need cutting every few days. We are even contemplating having to buy a lawn-mower of our own, in- stead of borrowing the neighbor: per Ib. 59¢ e It is somewhat of a come-down ror us to have to borrew an ordinary lawn-mower. We have been used to |borrowing power mowers, no less! At the coast, we had 234 city lots of lawn to cut every week which pie- sented quite a problem. We had a succession of young boys in to do tiis not very depend- A, job, but they were ry end arigoo COLD : tle, Our negnior bad 2s ott et but was fortunate in being able to -51 They i a Sheci2l wino oF sortness Donald Green sang “Because.” At the reception which followed at the home of the bride’s parents, Canon Double-Ring Service arks Denny-Nason who claimed to have worked on} Ma; With no t 0. Berry proposed the toast to the fie Veiga Se = kay bride. jot guile, Clive ccnv’nced our la e ; | neighbor ove a period of weeks that Wedding Rit Ss After their honeymoon trip to she skculd have a pox-ev mower, that! Williams Lake shared interest with Canim Lake, Mr. and Mrs. Denny will ber gardeier was so slow with the Barkerville in the marriage Friday of|make their home at Quesnel, ordinary one that she was losing! Verna Marion Nason. only daughter money. Jof Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Nason of So she finally bought one — and Barkerville to Thomas James Denny. Daughter: “Alfred’s watch Is not gosh, was it ever wonderful running only son of Mr. and Mrs, Thomas C. going.” around our 2% lots in about one hour Denny of Williams Lake. Father: flat and with only one hand neces-| ‘The double-ring ceremony took himself?” sary to direct it too! place in St. Saviour’s Church, Barker- Oh yes, I almost forgot to mention | ville, which was beautifully decorated that our neighbor never.did get much for the occasion by friends of the use out of the power mower. The old bride with a profusion of wild flowers. gardner refused to use it; we never|Canon O. Berry of Quesnel officiated A knew whether it was because it was|at the 8 p.m. rites. too fast for him or because he couldn’t! 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