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1»AGE fomTEEN tttlE ECBrO Suggestions Offered NOW IS TIME TO PLANT MORE AND TO START CANNING Library Has New Book On| Gardening. Rain Is Help ing Weeds Grow If the rain continues, we’re all going to harvest a bumper crop of ragweeds, crabgrass and cockle- burs! Think I’ll put in a row of watercress!. “Grounds For Living” is the title of an excellent new book on plant ing and care of the home garden and grounds. It is for your use in the Library, If you have a garden plot on the Ecusta grounds and do not intend to use it, please let us know. We have a waiting list, and the land should be'put to use. Th* largest portion of chemical fertilizer for your garden should be put in before seeding. Later, if the plants seem to need a tonic, apply a side dressing of garden ferti lizer down the row in bands a few inches from the plants. With an early start at sowing, you have by now had lettuce, rad ish and scallion salad. You have had spinach and chard, young beets and baby carrots, turnips and 1 turnip tops, and those wonderful messes of peas. Their vines will soon be tom out. What are you planting in their stead? Plant short new rows of lettuce, carrots, beets, and other crops, “Intercropping” or “companion cropping” is a good practice in a small garden. This is planting small cC Q) ^'eoop M0RNIN6 ^EV£RBOPV. . .THIS IS VirALlTV VAN VOOR VlTAfAlM AREVJtALL START/W6> TM15 BeAUTlftJL^BeAl'TtFOL DAY 'mE'RoVl6' wAYP^ ANECDOTES I Like many tourists, low, president of the I Club, wondered why Mex* ^ 1 ons always ride on burro*' j I their wives walk along I nally he stopped a Tbe asked him the reason. , I ican, looking very surpri*®^ I plied, “But senor, my wif® own a burro!” Just For Fun LIKE EGGS — FRESH AND NEW, YOU BET! OBLIGING “I told him he mustn’t see me any more.” “And what did he do? “He turned out the lights.” wrong NOT ACCOUNTABLE “Waitress! What’s these eggs? “Sorry, sir. I only laid table.” FAMILIAR SYMPTOMS Sergeant: I don’t begin today’ and early-maturing plants such as I lecture until the room settles radishes, lettuce, early-maturing I down. beets or carrots between large! Voice from the rear: Go home plants, such as tomatoes, eggplant | and sleep it off, old man. and pole beans. The sooner you thin your seed-j ' SECOND-HAND lings, the bigger and better the I Man (in movie, to boy be- crops will be. Carrots can t^ejhind him): Can’t you see the thinned and used after they reach I movie? pencil size. | Boy: Not a thing. The flowers on spring-planted Fat Man: Then keep your eye strawberry plants, particularly the I on me, and laugh when I do. everbearing types, should be clipped off and not allowed to ma ture. This will give the new root system a chance to become estab llshed more quickly. All indications point to a short supply of canned goods next win ter. Relief feeding will take a large portion of this year’s pro duce, the supply warehouses are practically empty, and steel and coal strikes have cut deeply into the small supply of tin cans. Those who are far-sighted enough to “put up” a supply of their own home-grown vegetables and fruits ADVISABLE Sedge wick: Terribly sorry buried youx wife yesterday. Watleywood: Had to — you know. An eminent New manac maker, while busy one day, was interruP his young printer’s devil- ,5 “Mr. Thomas, you’ve 1^' ^ prediction for July 13," J plained. “What’ll I put “Tarnation, young you see I’m busy! Put in * I please, but get out!” When the almanac Jf; I these startling words aPP^ posite July 13: “Rain, snow.” You can imagio® " fellow’s language when that. But on July 13, acc« the records, it actually ® hail and snow! The next y almanac outsold all its I tors. H. G. Wells had such a ^ that he had trouble to fit. Once when he that balanced nicely 0® . jt, he just walked off m I blandly penned a note p J er, the mayor of Cambria .1 “I stole your hat,” with j thor. “I like your hat; I ^ ji^ I your hat. Whenever I j f I it, I shall think of m I excellent sherry, and oj , of Cambridge. I take ^ to you.” you SOJ ,1 'I THERE’S HIS OPENING “But what is home without mother?” he asked her. “I am, to-night,” she answered. “Shortly before dead, I born,” wrote Walter ^ t)i)' remarked in the newspaP. ^ ((ij our new baby was a boy> be named Reid WlncheU- .jcii girl. Sue Winchell. To f gin, Mue wmchell. . .j; 'j [reader heckler telegraP^'/ or girl—it should be cai Winchell.’ We never used to be able to find 1 . :— f Grandma’s glasses, but now she I ^iation?” gushed a * leaves them right where ske emp-1 Darrow, after he “How can I ever sho"^ CURRENT EXPENSES “Here comes a friend of mine. He’s a human dynamo.” “Really!” . “Yes. Everything he has on is charged.” OPPORTUNIST Al: there’s a fellow who’s going places. Pal: Ambitious fellow, is he? Al: No, his wife’s out of town. ties them. I her legal problems. j “My dear woman,” another ' bS* another, I money, there ^ Said one woman to “I hear Mrs. Jones has complete ly lost her voice.” “Poor dear!” said the other, “I must call on her. I have beeni ... , , „ cin- wanting to have a good talk ® her for a long time.” a • «he ' Asked to explain, s”® -yi I only one answer to tnai A beautiful singer jj,, ery morning for I A golfer, trying to get out of a I when I have gotten uP> jil j trap, said, “The traps on this i thrown a bag of confet^_„ j ^ After a few words, mostly will not suffer from a food short-1 spoken by the young wife, her age next winter. EMBARRASSING MOMENTS hubby sprang to his feet. “You’ve gone too far!” he ex claimed angrily. “This is our last quarrel; I’m going right out of your life.” “Oh, John, darling, where are you going?” she cried. “Where I’ll never trouble you again,” he replied, as he started course are very annoying, aren’t I niV bedroom carpet. *•- they?” I down and pick up eac® Second golfer, trying to putt, I *™tely. “Yes, they are. Would you mind I closing yours?” | Man’s lif#: School ^ , pirin tablets; stone A stout gentkman detemined Useless martyrdom your wife the Jje'" One evening, the young minis ter, who had seemed rather at tracted to Grace, the older daugh ter, was dining with the family. Mayme, the little sister, was talk-1 to open the door. “I’ll find a place ing rapidly when the visitor was 1 v/here wild adventure will wipe about to ask the blessing. Turning out the memories of this moment to the child, he said in a pleas- —perhaps in the jungle — or on ant tone, “Mayme, I’m going to I the stormy seas . . . ask grace.” I As he spoke he opened the door, “Well, it’s about time,” prompt- then closed it again and turned ly answered the little girl. “We’ve sternly to his wife, been expecting it for about a year, J “It’s lucky for you its raining,” and Grace has, too.” I he said his farm hustled to the store for L„d then having her re: a pair of overalls He picked out hgve a word of it. a pair big enough for energetic I Statisticians have time lost in every bufJ^J the clerk. “Those fit me now, butLgyjj^ inigb‘.ff/* expect to lose a lot-maybe I’d amount of time wasted i” better buy a smaller pair.” {statistics. The clerk calmly went on wrap- tJia‘ ping up the overalls. J paith is the quality “Mister,” he said, “if you can I you to eat blackberry shrink as fast as those overalls I picnic without looking will, you’ll be doing pretty good.” I seeds mov«
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