MRS. DUFF TAKES FLOWER SHOW
PRIZE WITH 8 FIRSTS,! SECOND
Of the 16 entries she brought
to the flower show, sponsored by
Northland Pioneer Grange, Mrs.
Karla Duff had eight first prize
winners and one second last
Sunday. The combination was
good enough to narrowly edge
out Mrs. Virgil Eckert as grand
prize winner in the Sunday
show. Mrs. Eckert had seven
blue ribbons and two red ones.
There were 28 separate parti
cipants in the show, several of
whom brought more than a doz
en different plants and flowers.
Visitors were delighted with the
colorful display of delphinium,
phlox, sweet peas, nasturtiums
and many other Alaskan blos
soms.
Guests came frome Anchorage
and Fairbanks to see the Valley
flowers, and there were even
visitors from the states of Wis
consin and Kansas present. Two
guests from Manhattan'. Kansas,
were visiting school teachers —
one of them an instructor of
botany in the college of that
mid-Western town.
Grange women estimated that
more than 100 visitors filed
through the hall between the
hours of 1 and 6 p. m. Bazaar
offerings were exhausted early,
and the tea and cookies served
by the home economics club of
the Grange disappeared long be
fore closing time. Mrs. M. D.
Snodgrass and Mrs. B. J. Los
ing presided at the tea table.
Two men, William Hoskins and
Neal Miller, elbowed into the
women’s province of flower grow
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ing, and Mr. Miller's nasturtiums
were best in their class. Mr. Hos
kins took no prize, but an ar
rangement of his wild oats
brought comments from many
guests.
The Grange flower show
committee, headed by Mrs. Clyde
King, Sr., were assisted by many
in their production of the flow
er show. Mary Ann Clears, Patty
LaWalters and Lillian Lobcrg as
sisted in preparing the- displays.
Mrs. June Liebing, Mrs. Nan Cur
tis and Mrs. James Hurley acted
as judges, and Mrs. Vivian Good
rich took charge of the bazaar
and tea. Masculine Grangers L.
O. Hayes. Bruce Graham and
Eugene Kirsch helped in pre
liminary preparations by cutting
the grass in the Grange yard.
The complete list of blue rib
bon prize winners in the Sunday
show is as follows:
Philodendron — Mrs. Harold
Thuma: perennial arrangement
—Fanny Werner; annual ar
rangement — Lillian Loberg:
wild flower arrangement—Lila
Newville: living room arrange
ment — Helen Scott; dining
room arrangement — Karla
Duff; plate garden <a pink wa
ter lily)—Mrs. Martin Olsen:
moss garden — Mrs. Martin Ol
son and Patty LaWalters;
Hanging basket—Karla Duff;
fern—Mrs. William Smith; fus
chia—Maud Ware; coleus—Mrs.
C. L. Newton; baby tears—Karla
Duff: begonia — Mrs. William
Bouwens; double petunia—Mary
Ann Mears; youth and old age
—Mrs. Harold Thuma; beefsteak
begonia—Karla Duff: miniature
arrangement—Karla Duff:
Star of Bethlehem—Mrs. Wil
liam Bouwens; snapdragons —
Barbara Glenn: sweet peas —
Emma King; calendula—Helen
Scott; hybrid tea rose — Mrs.
George Small; Sitka rose—Mrs.
Martin Olsen; strawf lower —
Dorothy Sherrod; dahlia—Dor
othy Sherrod:
Annual chrysanthemums —
Mrs. Virgil Eckert; candytuft—
Dorothy Sherrod: dahlia spike—
Mrs. C. F. Liebing; dahlia bas
ket—Mary Ann Mears; hyacin
thia—Fanny Werner: Shasta
daisy—Fanny Werner; pansies—
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THING — REMEMBER?
Emma King; mint—Lila New
ville; cornflower—Lillian Lo
berg; rubber plant—Vera Rorri
son: herb collection — Fanny
Werner; asters—Bai'bara Glenn;
delphinium—Mrs. C. F. Liebing;
Christmas cactus—Vera Rorri
son; nasturtium—Neal Miller;
phlox—Mrs. Virgil Eckert; flame
lily—Fanny Werner; baby breath
—Mrs. Virgil Eckert; California
Eckert; California poppy—Mrs.
C. F. Liebing: forgetmenot —
Mrs. C. F. Liebing; Shirley pop
py — Mrs. William B ou wens;
schizanthus—Mrs. Virgil Eckert;
nemesia—Mrs. Virgil Eckert;
Lady in white—Mrs. Virgil
Eckert; gloxemia—Mary Witt;
monkshood—Mrs. George Small;
geranium—Mrs. William Bou
wens; tuberous begonia—Bar
bara Glenn; red flax—Mrs. I. M.
Sandvik; Swiss rose — Nina
Stock: stock—Dorothy Sherrod;
moss ivy—Karla Duff.
COFFEY INSURES EVERY
THING — REMEMBER?
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RUSTY’S IN THE NEWS
The Valley’s Rusty Dow has
been making headlines in two
Massachusetts newspapers dur
ing recent weeks. Rusty, Outside
for a series of summer art les
sons, was featured in a lengthy
article in the Boston Sunday
Post and in a Gloucester daily.
The Post feature was quoted at
length in last week’s issue of the
Forty-Ninth Star, published in
Anchorage.
The article included a number
of pictures of Rusty at work. The
clipping is now on display in the
fair office in the Rec Hall, where
the Valley Frontiersman is tem
porarily housed.
TO GO TO PORTLAND
Charles Wilson, territorial con
servationist. expects to leave
next Monday for a Soil Con
servation Service regional con
ference at Portland, Ore. Mr.
Wilson will be gone from the Val
ley for two weeks.
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