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Monday, October 15, 2018
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
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
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Learning about your antiques and collectibles with Georgia Caraway
The gear and accessories associated with cowboys and vaqueros, cattle trails and cow towns; old forts New Beginning Fellowship and ranches are Wednesday desirable to 7:00 pm - Radiate Youth collectors today. 7:00 pm - Sanctuary of for prayer Dr. Georgia Stirrups, bits and Sunday spurs are Caraway 9:30 am - Sunday School (kids, youth, fascinating fragments of early women, men) Western days and ways and 10:30 am - Worship Service deserve more recognition than 10:30 am - Kids Church is given them. Much has been First Baptist Church Howe written about trail driving, Tuesday A Christian Fellowship, Luella cowboys and western towns, but 7:00 pm - Bible Study Wednesday one important segment of the 6:30 pm – Potluck Meal Wednesday open range has been neglected 6:30 pm - Adult Bible Study 7:00 pm – Worship Service —the vaquero and the gear he Kids Activities - Check Church FB Page 7:00 pm – Jr & Sr High Youth used. Throughout Summer Sunday Youth Activities - Check Church FB 9:30 am – Sunday School (all ages) A great many of the early Page Throughout Summer 10:30 am – Worship Service southwestern cattle spreads 10:30 am – KidZone Children’s Sunday were staffed with a larger 8:30am - Prayer Time Service (5yr – 12 yr) complement of Mexican 9:15am - Bible Fellowship 10:30am - Worship Service Community Bible Fellowship vaqueros than their white Wednesday counterparts. Vaqueros brought 6:30 pm - Food and Fellowship First Baptist Church Dorchester from across the border the 7:00 pm - Community Kids (ages 3 Wednesday traditional equipment of the 6:00 pm - Meal (Donations for adults - 6th grade, nursery available) Spanish horseman--some of the and kids eat free) 7:00 pm - Youth and Adult Bible most ornate and stylized 6:30 pm - Praise service Study trappings in the entire realm of 7:00 pm - Youth Bible Study Sunday horse gear. 7:00 pm - Adult Bible Study 10:30 am - Worship Service 7:00 pm - RA's/GA's/children's group The Chihuahua spur has a hefty Sunday solidness that we see in 9:00 am - Men's Prayer Time Times are subject to change. traditional Spanish furniture. 9:45 am - Sunday School Please check with each These spurs are highly 10:45 am - A.M.Worship Service decorated in their silver inlay church for any possible 5:00 pm - Adult Chior Practice and the large spur wheels changes 6:00 pm - Evening Worship (rowels) that can be a much as three inches in diameter. They were designed to wrangle some degree of compliance from the half-wild mustangs that the vaqueros rode. The same is true of ring and spade bits. They are also of strong Spanish influence designed to control mounts not always compatible with their riders’ intention.
from U.S. half-dollars. Shanks might take the form of a woman’s leg (the popular “galleg type), a bird’s head, or a rattlesnake. Popular engraved or embossed images included horseheads, eagles, and the diamonds, hearts, clubs and spades from a deck of playing cards. The boxcar or box stirrup looks cumbersome in appearance, but they were particularly suitable to the vaquero’s riding style. They are an adaptation of the older Spanish one-piece wooden stirrup called “doghouse” and the tread on some of these stirrups is quite wide—six inches or so. The vaqueros of the borderlands were traditionbound and they clung to some old world principles in the handling of range ponies that were at great variance with the American cowboy. Vaqueros favored boxcars long after cowboys had adopted stirrups of more practical size, shape, and weight. Stirrups were purely functional and rarely decorated. The oxbow stirrup is much narrower than the boxcar. The Chihuahua spur, spade and ring bits, and the boxcar stirrup were the earliest of the gear. So, if collecting westerniana appeals to you, gitalong to your favorite western store or antique mall and rustle up some cowboy gear. Come see the Howe Mercantile Howe-lloween and Fall and Thanksgiving displays.
Dr. Georgia Caraway, former director of the Denton County Museums for 14 years, and her friends operate the Howe Mercantile at 107-109 East Haning. Store hours are Leading American spur makers Thursday through Saturday 12 were Crockett, Kelly Brothers, noon until 8 p.m. She has Garcia, Bass, Boone, Hunt, written five Denton history Branche, McChesney, Main & books and one book on taking Winchester, and Parker. Spurs care of your antiques and were made of a variety of collectibles. All of her books, "With a united effort we can make the place in which we materials such as wrought and including her latest, North cast iron, stainless steel, monel Texas State Fair and Rodeo, are live clean, wholesome, attractive. We can make the steel, nickel silver, brass, available at Howe Mercantile. crowded city dweller homesick to come back to us and copper, and combinations of She hopes her next book will be these—often with inlay in history of Howe. SHOP real living. We can bring new life, new business, new sterling silver and rowels cut the LOCAL. We can show you beauty, to the little towns." - Mame Roberts Howe! ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
