Dickey

That 1966 season kicked off a string of six seasons without a losing record including the regional champions in 1970.

Dickey named off every starter on that 1970 team while reminiscing about the team that reminded him of his playing days of having a great team, but not getting to advance to a state championship game In Class B, as the Bulldogs were in 1970, the regional championship was as far as they could go. Even though they won-out during the playoffs, there is that sour unknown of 'what if?' that haunted Dickey as a player and now a coach

Soon after the 1970 championship team, Howe was bumped up in classification to Class B to Class A and hard times once again set in with the program

"When you jump in classification, it's tougher," said Dickey "At the bottom, each team has a few good players, but the higher and higher you go, they have better and better good athletes that you have to compete with So it hit us hard I don't think I got any dumber Although some people questioned that "

From 1966 until having to move to Class A, Dickey's teams were 37- 23-2 After moving up, his teams went 12-26

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It was under Dickey that the Bulldog Booster Club was started under the guidance of President Freddy Holcomb in 1964.

During his early years of coaching football in Howe, Dickey became married to Joanne Burgland, who he had met while they both were attending Austin College The two were married in May of 1965 and are looking forward to their 50th wedding anniversary next year

Dickey has been known to spend a lot of time working on this and that at Bulldog Stadium over the years It's probably due to his early days of having to replace boards on the wooden bleachers each summer

"The baseball field was in the northeast side of the field and we'd have to take the fence down from the home bleachers," Dickey said "We also would get the county to come up there with a blade and would cut us out a four-lane track to run on That was our track It was a little different than it is now"

Wanting to spend more time with his children, Gary and Joy, and after looking at what was coming up through the football system page 9

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 - JrHigh 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

First Baptist Church Howe

Tuesday

7:00 pm - Bible Study

Wednesday

6:30 pm - Adult Bible Study

Kids Activities - Check Church FB Page Youth Activities - Check Church FB Page Throughout Summer

Sunday

8:30am - Prayer Time

9:15am - Bible Fellowship

10:30am - Worship Service

First Baptist Church Dorchester

Wednesday

6:00 pm - Meal (Donations for adults and kids eat free)

6:30 pm - Praise service

7:00 pm - Youth Bible Study

7:00 pm - Adult Bible Study

7:00 pm - RA's/GA's/children's group

Sunday

9:00 am - Men's Prayer Time

9:45 am - Sunday School

10:45 am - A M Worship Service

5:00 pm - Adult Chior Practice

6:00 pm - Evening Worship

Howe Church of Christ

Wednesday 7:00 pm - Bible Classes

Sunday

9:00 am - Bible Classes (

10:00 am - Worship Serv

5:00 pm - Worship Servi

New Beginning Fellows

Wednesday 7:00 pm - Radiate Youth

7:00 pm - Sanctuary of f

Sunday 9:30 am - Sunday Schoo women, men)

10:30 am - Worship Serv

10:30 am - Kids Church

A Christian Fellowship

Wednesday

6:30 pm – Potluck Meal

7:00 pm – Worship Serv

7:00 pm – Jr & Sr High Y

Sunday

9:30 am – Sunday School (all ages)

10:30 am – Worship Service

10:30 am – KidZone Children’s Service (5yr – 12 yr)

Community Bible Fellowship

Wednesday

6:30 pm - Food and Fellowship

7:00 pm - Community Kids (ages 3

- 6th grade, nursery available)

7:00 pm - Youth and Adult Bible Study

Sunday 10:30 am - Worship Service

Times are subject to change. Please check with each church for any possible changes

ut your antiques and with Georgia Caraway

The previous two week’s columns were about business cards and calling cards The other predecessor to the business card was the trade card

Trade cards were miniature forms handed ntial folks e mind de cards eceipts, d other handwritten information Early European trade cards were often reproductions of store signs Later the cards became more pictorial, with beautiful and rich descriptions of merchandise

Newspapers were just becoming popular and not used as advertising vehicles So, everyone who had a business to promote used trade cards unlike the calling card used mostly by the upper class

At first, monotone black and white printing using copper plate engravings were used for early commercial printing With the advent of chromolithography, trade cards began appearing in color and were printed on small printing presses known as hand or card presses They made the cards less expensive to print and faster to produce Smaller businesses as well as larger businesses could now afford to advertise

Some trade card designs were done in ornamental lettering without pictures A wide variety of typefaces, engravings, and scrolled designs highlighted the cards The use of color lithography became popular in the US after the Civil War The 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition was the impetus for the jump in popularity of multicolor trade cards Over the next 10 years, trade cards were used in every store by merchants to advertise almost every product.

As a form of competition, merchants would try to outdo their competition by creating true works of art Ornate designs were printed on the small “calling card” size as well as 4 x 7-inch paper Victorians in particular loved these eye-catching cards They were so appealing that women and children and people of all ages collected trade cards and pasted them into scrapbooks It is not uncommon to find hundreds of these beautiful little pieces of art, along with greeting and Valentines cards and other memorabilia, creatively displayed in gorgeous memory books This extended their usefulness far beyond other forms of ephemera and paper advertising

Businesses of all sizes took advantage of this national collecting craze Printers also offered stock cards with basic designs, to which a merchant could add his own customized design and information

By the 20th century, print advertising in newspapers and magazines began to replace trade cards and children began to think of trade cards as too “old-fashioned” to collect anymore Therefore, the numbers of trade cards printed declined, and by the 1920s they had all but disappeared

It still is a thrill to find a complete scrapbook of these little gems Unfortunately, most antique dealers remove them from their original settings as they sell better as individual pieces Collectors today desire full scrapbooks, but many of them collect thematic cards The highest and most expensive trade cards are those featuring black folks and children. Some cards were printed in a series of four, and finding all of a set is highly sought after and rare

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FOR MAY 4 for Howe’s Founder’s Day and the Summit Garden’s BBQ and auction to cancel the renovation debt If you have items to donate, please contact Monte or me

Georgia Caraway owns and operates Howe Mercantile at 107-109 East Haning. SHOP LOCAL LET US SHOW YOU HOWE