COUNTY LIFE
Scarecrow contest added to Chicken and Bread Days Sip & Stroll
It is time to mark our heritage with the 25th Annual Chicken and Bread Days Heritage Festival downtown on the brick streets of Bowie.
Why chicken and bread some may ask? Back in 1904 Mose Johnson and his wife, Mabel, began making history with just $15 and a shoebox full of baby chicks. The M. Johnson Poultry Ranch went on to become the breeders of the World’s Best Laying Strain of Single Comb White Leghorns. At its height, the range was the largest poultry producer in the world.
It is also how the start of our long-standing tradition of Trade Days began. The locals would sell chicken and bread to those stopped at the train depot in downtown. With this pioneering spirit, the tradition of Chicken and Bread Days Heritage Festival was hatched and is hosted the first Saturday of October each year.
This year Bowie Community Development is coordinating with The Bowie News for a Scarecrow Stroll as the theme for the preview evening Sip & Stroll on Oct. 2 starting at 5 p.m.
There will be horse-drawn carriage rides and mini-open house activities in nearly a dozen locations. Guests can sample wine at the merchants and visit the stores.
Cost for the sip and stroll is $10 for an armband and souvenir glass. Sippers may use a previous Sip & Stroll glass but must purchase an armband. Get the bands early at the BCDB office at 101 E. Pecan.
The board is encouraging all businesses to create unique scarecrows to help represent and promote their business or interest. This contest is open to all interested, not just to those participating in Sip & Stroll.
Read the full story in the weekend Bowie News.
It has been quite a busy few days at the Montague County Youth Fair with schedule changes, juggling of events and trying to cope with the unexpected snow storm. However, the youth fair always rolls on thanks to the dedicated volunteers, coordinators, parents and students.
Friday the rabbit how starts at 10 a.m., with heifer and steer show at 2 p.m. Ag. mech. check-in at 6 p.m. with that show at 9 a.m. on Saturday. Swine will move into the barn later today with its show at 9 a.m. Saturday.
Saturday the home economics silent auction will start at 6 p.m. and run to 9 p.m. in the show barn. Showmanship buckles will be presented at 6 p.m. in the barn followed by leadership day awards. The premium sale is at 6:30 p.m. Make plans to come out and support these hard working kids and families.
See all the winners in the Thursday Bowie News.
Top photo – Poultry show photo taken by Rashonda Hobbs of Unfazed Creations, official photographer for the youth fair. Make sure and check out her photos.
When we were going through my grandmother’s house in Nocona after it sold, I found a few neat keepsakes, but the biggest treasure I thought I had found was her biscuit cutter. I was so excited to show my mother (her daughter) and just knew she would be happy it was found and would still be used after all this time.
My mother, however, had a different thought about my precious biscuit cutter. She said, “Suzanne, you know that biscuit cutter is just an old tomato paste can that has both ends cut out.”
I was still no less delighted with my cutter. I continue to use it today. My husband has bought me vintage, new and fancier cutters, but this cutter is something I go back to time and again.
My Memaw was recruited to be a lunch lady from 1952 to 1958 at Nocona Elementary, back when lunches were cooked, not “fixed.” Lenora Brown Burnett was an excellent cook and everyone knew it. She went on to work at the Nocona Major Clinic kitchen from 1958 to 1969.
You could only use shortcuts if you knew how to do it the long way. That is how I still approach cooking. You can only use a cake mix if you know how to make a cake with lots of ingredients, time and effort.
Read Suzanne’s Love & Luck column in the Thursday Bowie News on the On the Table page.
Top photo – Grandmother’s biscuit cutter and hand written recipes. (Photo by Suzanne Storey)
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