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Monday, March 27, 2017
Learn about antiques and collectibles with Dr. Georgia Caraway brown and white, and old red and white swirled items are unusual, so they are more expensive. Red is one of the most desirable colors. At a recent auction, a baking pan in red sold for $3,900. A brown 3piece lunch bucket sold for $1,800. A red berry bucket sold for $2,000. A fun accompanying collectible that some granitware collectors like to acquire are called “mends.” Our ancestors were not as prone to throw away items because of small holes or chips. So they would use small round washer-type devices called Mendets to repair holes. Although these pieces do not have the same value as pieces in good to perfect condition with no holes or chips, they still command good Dr. Georgia Caraway prices, especially if they are in Graniteware is the name commonly desirable colors and shapes. given to iron or steel kitchenware Collectors of graniteware also covered with enamel coating. The search for Mendets. We have some on their original cards in first graniteware was made in Germany in the 1830s. It was not Howe Mercantile. And some lovely examples of graniteware in introduced in the United States desired colors. until the 1860s. At the start of WWI, when European manufacturers turned to the making Dr. Georgia Caraway, former director of the Denton County of war weapons, American Museums for 14 years, and her producers took over the friends opened the Howe graniteware market. Mercantile at 107 East Haning. Store hours are Thursday through It derives its name from its appearance. The speckled swirled Saturday noon until 8 p.m. She has or bottled effect of the vari-colored written five Denton history books. enamels may look like granite, but Her latest, North Texas State Fair it is not durable. Minor chipping is and Rodeo, is available at Howe Mercantile. She hopes her next acceptable. book will be the history of Howe. If anyone has photos that she can Old graniteware is heavier than new. Pieces with cast iron handles copy, please bring them to Howe Mercantile. date from 1870 to 1890; wood handles date from 1900 to 1910. SHOP LOCAL. We can show you Other dating clues are seams, Howe! Come see Smitten, the rivets, wood knobs, and tin lids. newest space in Howe Mercantile. Colors commonly manufactured MARK YOUR CALENDAR: were white and gray. Each company made their own special April 8 is the date for the Annual BBQ and Auction for the Save the color, including shades of blue, Church restoration project. If you green, brown, violet, cream, and wish to donate to the auction, red. please bring your item(s) to Howe Color is important to value—cobalt Mercantile or to 101 East Haning (Howe Chamber office). blue and white, green and white,
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God desires that we place our hope in Him associate hope with wishing, but wishing and fantasizing is a halfhearted whim, that changes from day to day. However, spiritual hope is associated with the reality of divine truth! This God kind of hope is more than waiting to see who wins the ballgame or if the casserole will taste good. This is a hope based on who God is and what He has promised! Biblical hope is a sure anchor of the soul based on solid evidence of His character and nature. Hope and faith work Dr. Billy Holland together as we see in Hebrews Chapter 11 and verse 1, “Now faith Hope is one of those dynamic words is the substance of things hoped for, that deserves the title of catalyst the evidence of things not seen.” when it comes to change. It is a Now we are realizing the key spiritual attribute that God’s people ingredients in believing is a should have on hand at any given confident expectation and moment because it is filled with life, anticipation which literally moves enthusiasm and energy. Your first the heart of God. reaction to the idea of hope may be one of skepticism because you are Listen to these words from Dr. thinking, it’s easy for someone to Norman Vincent Peale. “Hope is a talk about hope when you do not dynamic force, a reality filled with understand what a terrible condition power. It can bring the weak back to my life is in. Well, I may not have strength. It can bring the sick back walked in your shoes, but I also to health. It can turn failure into know that being negative and giving success. No wonder St. Paul up will not make the situation better. included it as one of the three great It’s true that health, finances, principals of Christianity: faith, sorrow, family and marital hope and love. What’s the condition disagreements are very serious of hope in your life at this very problems but remember that God moment? Does it get up with you cares and desires to help you today. every morning? Does it carry you “If God be for us, who can be confidently through the day? Is it against us?” Romans 8:31. still there, soothing and sustaining you, as you fall asleep? That’s what Many times, we think we know God intended when he created this what is happening, but the Lord shining quality and poured it into us wants to remind us that hope is at birth. If cares, worries, fears and believing in what we cannot see. In discouragement have gained a other words, we already understand stronghold in your mind, then you what our difficulties are but we need need to open the windows of your hope in order to receive the solution. soul and allow a strong, fresh Listen to Romans 8:25, “But if we current of hope to come surging hope for what we do not see, we through.” wait for it with patience.” Trusting that God is not only able to help us Yes, sometimes our journey takes us but actually desires to take care of through the dark nights of the soul our circumstances, gives us where we battle against fear, anxiety confidence that He will intervene. and discouragement, but having a When we know that He is faithful to sincere hope in God can allow Him respond to our prayers, we cannot the opportunity to fill our mind and be held in bondage by our doubts conscience with contentment and and sadness. Hebrews 6:18 reminds happiness. “Now may God, the us, “That by two immutable things, source of hope, fill you with all joy in which it was impossible for God and peace in believing, that through to lie, we might have a strong the power of the Holy Spirit, you consolation, who have fled for may abound in hope” Romans refuge to lay hold upon the hope set 15:13. before us.” Dr. Holland is a minister, When we look up the world’s community chaplain and the author definition of hope, it is described as, of, “A Lifestyle of Worship.” “a feeling of expectation and desire Request a free copy of his new CD, for a certain thing to happen” and is “Keeper of my soul” at: also associated with other words billyhollandministries.com such as, desires and dreams. Many
