Monday, February 27, 2017
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Learn about antiques and collectibles with Dr. Georgia Caraway
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Early 19th-century to early 20thcentury wooden-handled choppers are worth from $20 to $200. It depends on whether they are hand forged, the intricacy of the design, size, and condition. Animal shaped choppers are worth the most. Like most kitchen collectibles, choppers in good condition are becoming scarcer, and consequently, their value is increasing. These two choppers are probably from the late 19th-century and are valued at $45-$85. Some examples of wooden handled, hand forged mincers of Pennsylvania origin have sold for as much as $4,000. Dr. Georgia Caraway, former director of the Denton County Museums for 14 years, and her friends opened the Howe Mercantile at 107 East Haning. Store hours are Thursday through Saturday noon until 8 p.m. She has written five Denton history books. Dr. Georgia Caraway Her latest, North Texas State Fair and Rodeo, is available at Howe Mercantile. She hopes her next Q What are these old tools? book will be the history of Howe. If anyone has photos that she can A. These are chopping knives or copy, please bring them to Howe mincers (an ancestor to the food Mercantile. processor). They are also known as a mezzaluna (from the Italian Downtown Howe has three gift meaning "half moon") because of and antique shops—Howe their shape. A mincing knife is a Mercantile, Texas Home semicircular curved blade with a Emporium, and Stark Farms Gifts. handle that allows the blade to be SHOP LOCAL. We can show you rocked back and forth that is Howe! perfect for mincing and chopping. Some choppers/mincers have two MARK YOUR CALENDAR: blades that are parallel to each April 8 is the date for the Annual other to increase their mincing BBQ and Auction for the Save the power. Due to the sharp blade, the Church restoration project. If you surface upon which the food was wish to donate to the auction, placed had to be a very hard please bring your item(s) to Howe surface. Mercantile or to 101 East Haning (Howe Chamber office).
Bottom left: Marshall Larsen, Kaleb Taylor, Gage Troxtell. Middle left to right: Luciano Maldonado, Cooper Jones, Jacob Campbell, Mahlon Walker. Top row: Coach Katrina Vest. They were undefeated.
Keep Howe Beautiful Yard of the Month
501 Cassandra Street
Keep Howe Beautiful spruces up Miss Mame Roberts Garden
Choppers
Members of Keep Howe Beautiful, including Executive Director Donna Wormsbaker, President Curt Beckemeyer, Becky Hogenson, Marylin Keller and others contributed several hours of cleaning up the berm and pruning the tree. Nathan Gray also offered his time to cleaning up with a chainsaw.
Genealogy Class to meet at library Are you interested in knowing who your ancestors are? The Genalogy Club will meet in Howe Community Library every Wednesday afternoon until the end
of March from 1 pm to 4 pm. The dates are March 1, March 8, March 15, March 22, and March 29. Everyone is welcome.
