Warrior / Corner / Hayden News By Evangeline Sloan

The North Jefferson News



Garden Tip: When you have to fertilize your plants, use compost or manure tea. If you have a friend that owns an animal, borrow some of the manure from their pasture. To make the tea, mix 5 gallons of water with 1 gallon of compost or manure. Let stand for about three days then pour off the stained water down to the solid material at the bottom of your bucket. Start over after you bury the solid material at the bottom. This is what older folks use instead of fertilizer that you dissolve in water.

• Happy birthday greetings go to to: Diana Crittenden on May 8; Mardell Berry on May 11; Brent Bailey and Lisa Mickle on May 13; and to Michael Owens on May 19.

• Decoration Day will be at the Warrior Cemetery, Cane Creek and Stewart’s Chapel on May 10.

• Happy Mother’s Day to all Mothers on May 10. Here is a poem that I thought everyone would enjoy:



For Mother’s Day

My mother taught my heart to see a velvet coated bumble bee.

My mother taught my heart to know Allegro-singing winds that blow.

To find a daisy field as fair as pages from a book of prayer

And always when I walk the sod, to walk a chapel aisle to God.

• Our country and troops still needs prayers.

Evangeline Sloan is The North Jefferson News correspondent for the Warrior, Corner and Hayden communities. She can be reached at 647-9655.