Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume], July 05, 1945, SECTION B, Page 8, Image 20

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Congress Dinner and Hessian Band
j Enlivened Fourth of July In 1777
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AGAI^A DINNER at Philadelphia's
famous City Tavern marked
Congress’s celebration of the first
anniversary of independence, on
July 4, 1777. Civil and military au
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British had closed Boston’s port.
Delegates to the first Continental
Congress held their preliminary
meeting at the City Tavern, on
September 4, 1774, before going to
inoriu.es were
the principal
guests of oui
first national
legislators. The
music, ironical
ly, was by Col,
Rahl’s Hessian
Thomas Jefferson band, captured
at Trenton the previous Christmas
eve.
The City Tavern wag the center
of the Independence Day celebra
tion. Not only was it renowned for
its excellent food and ale, but it
had figured prominently in revolu
tionary affairs since opening in 1773,
The tavern was less than a year old
when Pennsylvania’s powerful Com
mittee of Correspondence was or
ganized there in 1774, following a re
port from Paul Revere that the
City Tavern
Carpenters’ Hall for their first
formal session. Thomas Jefferson
took his meals at this inn while
writing the Declaration of Inde
pendence. And, of course, George
and Martha Washington were fre
quently entertained there. The tav
ern, located at Second and Walnut
Streets, eventually gave way to a
business building.
THE HOME SPHERE
Edited By
MISS FLORENCE CON
Hon e Demonstration Agent
MRS. ESTELLE EDWARDS GARNER
Assist mt Some Demonstration Agent.
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b-H Clubs:
Thirty-eight girls have already
sent in their applications for reser
vations for the 4-H Club Encamp
ment to be held at White Lake,
August 6th to 11th. Plans are pro
gressing for a successful week at
White Lake.
Adult leaders for 4-H Club girls
met in a series of Leader’s Schools
in five different sections during
the past two weeks. These leaders
!Will hold 4-H Club meetings with
£he girls during the summer
jnjonths in their own local com
munities. • i
Hot Weather Sewing Aids:
U. S. Department of Agriculture
experts give these suggestions. Sew
cornstarch into small bag and
use it to dust the inside of your
hand while sewing in hot weath
ed. Use tweezers to pluck out loose
threads. Pad and cover an ordi
nary brick for use in holding
down materials when hemming and
basting. The brick may be laid on
material or the material pinned
to the brick covering. Wrap scis
sors in waxed paper to prevent
r^st. Keep needles in original
package or in wool. Keep in small
jar with tightly screwed lid. Clean
rusted needles and pins with fine
sand-paper, steel wool or emery
bag. A small magnet will pick up
pins and needles. An old sheet
over a rug will make cleaning up
after sewing easier. A transpar
ent ruler and geometry triangle
should be kept in the sewing bask
et.
Catch the Vitamines:
Your fruits and vegetables are
richest in vitamines when they
are vine or tree ripened and just
at their prime. Too green or too
old products have less vitamines.
Incidentally the flavor and other
,nutrients are also at their best
when vegetables and fruits arc
just right for use.-Try to use them
on the table and for canning at
that stage. Call in all members of
the family, men and children, to
help expedite the work and there
by have Canned, foods that are
both mote palatable and richer in
food value. .After .all, home-cann
ing is of importance to all .mem
bers of. the family and should be a
family project. The men and child
ren should do all the gathering
and preparation leaving only the
actual canning for the women.
It Often is Fish or Else:
A look at the meat counters in
our stores will indicate that more
fish is being used, not as a matter
of choice but as a matter of nec
essity. This being true, we are
giving below two recently publish
ed fish recipes that may help keep
your family satisfied.
Jellied Fish Salad—2 cups oi
cooked fish flakes, 2 tablespoons
gelatin, one-half cup cold water
2 eggs, three-fourth teaspoon salt
one-fourth cup minced celery, 1
teaspoon minced onion, one-fourtl
cup vinegar, one-fourth cup water
Set gelatin to soak in one-half cuj
of cold water. Beat eggs and adc
salt, onions, celery, vinegar anc
the one-fourth cup of water. Heal
over boiling water until thick. Re
move and add soaked gelatin anc
stir until it has dissolved. Adc
fish. Pour dampened molds anc
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Like This By
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chill. Serve on lettuce with may
onnaise.
Fish Loaf—2 cups of flaked fish,
1 tablespoon lemon juice, one
fourth cup fat, one-half cup flav
or, 1 cup milk, one-half cup bread
crumbs, one-half cup chopped cel
ery, 1 tablespoon chopped parsley,
1 teaspoon minced onion if desir
ed, and three-fourth teaspoon salt.
Add lemon juice to fish and set
aside while you cook together un
til thick the fat, flavor, and milk.
Let cool. Then add fish, celery,
bread crumbs, parsley, salt and
mix. Mold into loaf and place an
oiled paper in open baking pan.
Bake at moderate temperature
(350 F.) for 45 minutes. Serve with
or without tomato sauce.
Save:
Save your white shoes by clean
ing and polishing them off the
feet. Have shoes on shoe trees or
stuffes with tissue paper and al
low them to dry thoroughly before
wearing.
Discouraged by unsettled condi
tions and an uncertain future,
farmers sold their sows, according
to Morgan, who placed the 1945
spring pig crop at 30 per cent be
low that of 1944, 38 per cent less
than in 1943, and 17 per cent
under the 10-year (1934-43) aver
age.
‘‘The spring pig crop normally
reaches market in late summer
and fall months. Since more of
the reduction was made by farm
ers growing hogs for market than
for home use, marketings from
this spring’s pig crop, no doubt,
will be decreased more than 30
per cent from a year earlier,” said
Morgan.
Weather conditions during the
spring season were favorable and
farmers reported an average of 6.3
with an average or b.u, the ten
year (1934-43 > average. According
to the Crop Reporting Service, ap
proximately 95,000 sows farrowed
during the spring of 1945, as com
pared with 140,000 in 1944 and
159,000 in 1943.
Morgan asserted that North Car
olina hog {ft-oducers now plan <0*
reduction of 12 per cent in the’
number of sows to farrow this
fall as compared with a year ago.
If these plans materialize, the fall
pig crop will be about 40 per cent
less than the peak season of 1943.
Sue O. Simmons spent sometime
in Providence, R. I.
Edith Davis and Edith Taylor
spent the week-end at Ocean Vie/
visiting their sister, Mrs. B. B._
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Pig Crop Is
Sharply Cut
The North Carolina spring pig
crop was nearly 400,000 head less
than the record production two
years ago and 236,000 head smaller
than last year’s crop, J. J. Morgan
crop reporting specialist with the
State Department of Agriculture,
has reported.
He said the spring pig crop is
estimated at 598,000 and attributed
the drastic drop to market re
strictions and low prices in the i
fall of 1943 and the spring of 1944. |
Pevsi-Cola Company. Long Island City, N. F.
Franchised Bottler: Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of Littleton
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I .. THE
! To the thousands of men and women
who comprise the Seaboard family, the
term “courteous service1* is not just a
catch phrase. It is rather the outward
expression of a sincere desire to treat
our patrons as we would want to be
treated if we were in their place.
A railroad is no different from an^
< other enterprise, in that the human
equation is vital to the success of the
t business. And while it is well known
that courtesy is of first importance a:
a business builder, we Cake great pride
in the fact that with Seaboard the
friendly smile and cheerful word spring
from that innate consideration for
others which is die basis for all true
courtesy.
The Seaboard’s primary function is
to provide,adequate transportation
service to the public. In the fulfillment
of that objective it is our ambition to do
so in such a way as to justify the claim
—“once a patron, always a friend.” t
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