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Monday, April 1, 2019

Local Church Calendar First United Methodist Church of Howe Tuesday 9:30 am - Women's Bible Study 6:30 pm Boy Scouts Wednesday 9:00 am - Wednesday Workers 6:30 pm - Jr.High and Sr. High Youth Saturday 9:00 am - Feed My Sheep (1st and 3rd Sat each month) Sunday 8:40 am - Fellowship and Donuts 9:00 am - Sunday School 10:00 am - Worship service 3:00 pm - Cub Scouts

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Learn about your antiques and collectibles with Georgia Caraway

Howe Church of Christ Wednesday 7:00 pm - Bible Classes (all ages) Sunday 9:00 am - Bible Classes (all ages) 10:00 am - Worship Service 5:00 pm - Worship Service

Betty Boop is an animated cartoon character who first appeared in Talkcartoon and Betty Boop films and was featured New Beginning Fellowship in comic strips Wednesday and mass 7:00 pm - Radiate Youth merchandising. 7:00 pm - Sanctuary of for prayer Dr. Georgia Betty’s caricature Sunday Caraway of a Jazz Age 9:30 am - Sunday School (kids, youth, flapper had a women, men) large round baby face with big 10:30 am - Worship Service eyes and a nose like a button, 10:30 am - Kids Church with a careful coiffure, and very First Baptist Church Howe small body and little bust. In A Christian Fellowship, Luella Tuesday the 1930s she was acclaimed to Wednesday 7:00 pm - Bible Study be one of the best-known and 6:30 pm – Potluck Meal Wednesday popular cartoon characters in 7:00 pm – Worship Service 6:30 pm - Adult Bible Study the world. Although Clara Bow Kids Activities - Check Church FB Page 7:00 pm – Jr & Sr High Youth is most often given credit as Sunday Youth Activities - Check Church FB being the model for Betty, she 9:30 am – Sunday School (all ages) Page Throughout Summer was actually a caricature of 10:30 am – Worship Service Sunday singer Helen Kane, who 10:30 am – KidZone Children’s 8:30am - Prayer Time imitated the style of black Service (5yr – 12 yr) 9:15am - Bible Fellowship singer Baby Ester Jones. 10:30am - Worship Service Community Bible Fellowship Helen Kane had risen to fame in Wednesday First Baptist Church Dorchester the late 1920s as "The Boop6:30 pm - Food and Fellowship Wednesday Oop-A-Doop Girl", a star of 7:00 pm - Community Kids (ages 3 6:00 pm - Meal (Donations for adults stage, recordings, and films for - 6th grade, nursery available) and kids eat free) Paramount. When her career 7:00 pm - Youth and Adult Bible 6:30 pm - Praise service neared its end in 1931, Study 7:00 pm - Youth Bible Study Paramount began promoting the Sunday 7:00 pm - Adult Bible Study development of Betty Boop. 10:30 am - Worship Service 7:00 pm - RA's/GA's/children's group This led to Kane suing Sunday Paramount for infringement of 9:00 am - Men's Prayer Time her caricature. The suit Times are subject to change. uncovered that not only did 9:45 am - Sunday School 10:45 am - A.M.Worship Service Kane use Jones’ singing style, Please check with each 5:00 pm - Adult Chior Practice but that even the signature line church for any possible 6:00 pm - Evening Worship "boop-oop-a-doop" was created changes by Jones. Betty appealed to a juvenile audience as well as adults. When the flapper/jazz era that Betty represented was replaced by the big bands of the swing era, Betty’s forays into that style were not successful. The last Betty Boop cartoons were released in 1939 with a few attempts to bring Betty into the swing era.

"With a united effort we can make the place in which we live clean, wholesome, attractive. We can make the crowded city dweller homesick to come back to us and real living. We can bring new life, new business, new beauty, to the little towns." - Mame Roberts

The rights to the "Betty Boop" character were not sold with the cartoons by Paramount, and the a trademark on the name (but not legitimately the likeness) of Betty Boop is owned by Fleischer Studios, with the merchandising rights to that name licensed to King Features Syndicate. These merchandising

rights are the most valuable of the Betty Boop properties. In 2010, Betty Boop became the official fantasy cheerleader for the United Football League. She was also featured in merchandise targeted towards the league's female demographic. Everything Boop was designed and created: teapots, statues, bookmarks, dolls, handkerchiefs, towels, salt and pepper shakers, plates, playing cards, fake fingernails, watches, socks, ashtrays, keychains, bumper stickers, and dozens of figurines set under glass cloches. They even merchandised three-D fold-out birthday greeting cards that read, “Happy Boop-oop-a-doop Birthday.” I guess King Features Syndicate figured if it could be manufactured, Betty Boop could be featured on it. My interest in things Boop was heightened by a collection I am selling for an estate in Carrollton for a man whose mother collected Betty Boop. We opened three boxes of items, including lots of the statuettes of her under glass. Watch the Howe Mercantile Facebook site for more info on this sale. It should be, well, boop-oop-a-doop, The final auction for the Summit Gardens event venue will be held on May 4th, FOUNDERS DAY. What a great way to celebrate the founding of our fair city and the opening of the church for events and celebrations. Our goal is to raise $15,000 to pay off the final expenses of the restoration of Summit Gardens. MARK YOUR CALENDAR WITH THIS FUN EVENT. Georgia Caraway and her friends operate the Howe Mercantile at 107-109 ½ East Haning. Store hours are Thursday through Saturday 12 noon until 8 p.m. All five of Georgia’s Denton history books and her book on taking care of your antiques and collectibles are available at Howe Mercantile. She hopes her next book will be the history of Howe. SHOP LOCAL. We can show you Howe!