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Monday, January 16, 2017
Learn about antiques and collectibles City with Dr. Georgia Caraway me about these items? A. Furnival & Sons was in business from 1818 until 1964 in Cobridge, Staffordshire, England. Your dinnerware set is transfer printed. The mark you drew was used between 1871 and 1890. Q. What does the Roycroft symbol mean? It looks like a double cross attached to an orb with an “R” embedded in the orb.
Dr. Georgia Caraway Q. I have a creamer and covered sugar bowl that has an “M with an overprinted C” and a stylized crown over those initials on the bottom of the sugar bowl. What is that mark?. A. You have a piece of Crown Milano glass produced by Mt. Washington Glass Company of New Bedford, Massachusetts in the late 1900s. It is an opaque white satin glass finished with light beige or ivory color ground decorated by painting and enameling. When marked, pieces carry an entwined CM with crown in purple enamel on the base of the glass. When the pieces have silver-plated mounts, the metal will be marked with “MW” impressed or a Pairpoint mark as both Mount Washington and Pairpoint supplied mountings. Crown Milano glass is prized by collectors. Creamer/sugar sets can range between $750 to several thousand dollars. Size, design, the amount of gold decoration and the complexity of the mounts seem to drive price and desirability. Q. I have many pieces of china decorated with a brown floral pattern. The name is Furnival & Sons , England. What can you tell
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3,000 population alone, it would never happen. But our surrounding region definitely helps to support the need and we have the numbers to support our own grocer." Walker says that perhaps the best part of 2016 was continuing the plan.
"One of the things Howe did well in 2016 was to be able to look beyond 2016. When a city is going through growth spurts, the direction of the city will be challenged by A. Roycroft Industries of East Aurora, New York, was founded in entrepreneurs wanting to take 1895 by Elbert Hubbard, a advantage of a growing flamboyant leader, directed, population. I think the city council managed and paid artists and did an outstanding job in 2016 of craftsmen to produce pottery, sticking with the comprehensive books, furniture and crafts of all plan that was laid out several years sorts. Roycroft Industries was solely owned by Hubbard and ago to guide the city to a should not be confused with prosperous future beyond 2016." religious communities such as the Quakers or the Harmony Society. The mark purportedly symbolizes The city lowered the ad valorem tax rate and at the same time, the “the hand of God over the earth” and the Roycroft name is a sales tax revenue reached a record shortened version of the “Royal high of $318,000 with a 3 percent [God] Crafters.” Hubbard died on increase from the previous year. the ill-fated Lusitania in 1915. The additional revenues helped protect the city as a seventh fullDr. Georgia Caraway, former time police officer was hired in director of the Denton County Museums for 14 years, and her 2016. friends opened the Howe Mercantile at 107 East Haning. January's sales tax figures have Store hours are Thursday through Saturday noon until 8 p.m. She has been released and the $24,124.36 written five Denton history books. was a 10 percent increase from Her latest, North Texas State Fair January of 2016 and also represents and Rodeo, is available at Howe the largest revenue of any January Mercantile. She hopes her next to date. book will be the history of Howe. If anyone has photos that she can "We can look back and say that copy, please birng 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! PUT APRIL 8 ON YOUR CALENDAR FOR THE ANNUAL SAVE THE CHURCH BBQ AND AUCTION.
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2015 built upon 2014 and 2016 built upon 2015 and there is no indication that 2017 won't continue to be a year that we build upon the momentum that has taken place recently. As long as we are able to keep the band together, so to speak, we have the opportunity to really do some great things over the next five years or so." January Sales Tax Revenue Highway 75 North Melissa $175,660.72 Anna $142,213.12 Van Alstyne $89,804.23 Howe $24,134.26 Sherman $1,551,093.28 Denison $542,164.04 Highway 289 North Celina $129,459.27 Gunter $16,255.01 Dorchester $369.56 Southmayd $27,728.47 Pottsboro $50,095.04 Highway 11 Whitewright Tom Bean Leonard
$26,180.83 $6,771.17 $21,953.14
Highway 82 E to W Bonham $156,641.64 Ector $2,348.16 Savoy $2,945.13 Bells $18,742.42 Sadler $851.14 Whitesboro $78,644.57 Oak Ridge $7,449.81 Gainesville $541,943.21
Texoma Eagle Scouts recognized, eight from Howe
On Saturday, Boy Scouts of America of the Texoma Valley District held a recognition reception at Western Heights Church of Christ in Sherman. Of the group, eight were from Howe. Photo by Gay Brennan.
