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Crystal: a formulation of glass in which lead is a component to give brilliance to glass and also to aid in the grinding process for the fabrication of cut glassware The terms crystal, flint, and lead glass are used interchangeably The term usually connotes higher-quality glassware Crystal is much stronger than glass, but due to lack of elasticity, it is also more brittle.

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 Her latest, North Texas State Fair and Rodeo, is available at Howe Mercantile She hopes her next book will be the history of Howe If anyone has photos that she can copy, please bring them to Howe Mercantile

Downtown Howe has three gift and antique shops Howe Mercantile, Texas Home Emporium, and Stark Farms Gifts SHOP LOCAL We can show you Howe!

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April 8 is the date for the Annual BBQ and Auction for the Save the Church restoration project If you wish to donate to the auction, please bring your item(s) to Howe Mercantile or to 101 East Haning (Howe Chamber office)

Dr Ken Bridges

Dr Bridges is a Texas native, writer, and history professor He can be reached at drkenbridges@gmail com

Doing the right thing is easy when it is popular and everyone supports it, but doing the right thing is very different when fighting people who have a vested interest in letting evil prevail or when your life is threatened Dan Moody, a onetime Texas governor, rose to fame as a vocal opponent of the violence and corruption of the Ku Klux Klan when it was at the height of its power

Daniel James Moody, Jr, was born in Taylor, northeast of Austin, in 1893 His father was a co-founder of their community when it was organized in 1876, often serving as mayor, school board chairman, or justice of the peace He attended local schools and graduated high school in 1910, just shy of his seventeenth birthday

He enrolled at the University of Texas in the fall of 1910 He graduated with a law degree and was admitted to the bar in 1914 and returned to Taylor to practice law Moody joined the Texas National Guard when the United States entered World War I in 1917 and fought in Europe as a second lieutenant

In 1920, he made his first run for office He was elected Williamson County Attorney, the youngest ever elected to that office In 1922, he was appointed District Attorney for the judicial district that included Travis and Williamson counties

At the same time, the Ku Klux Klan was reaching the height of its power nationwide It infected the country with its virulent hatred, and in its wake, countless minorities were assaulted or murdered for no other reason than their skin color White opponents of the Klan were assaulted or threatened as the Klan sought to