The Texan (Bellaire, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 12, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 20, 1985 Page: 9 of 20
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THE TEXAN NEWSPAPER
NOVEMBER 20. 1985
9
Banks help hungry
Three Bellaire banks
and the Bellaire Fire
Department have
organized to fight
hunger.
The groups are
sponsoring a Thanks
giving food drive for the
needy.
The three businesses
include Citizens
National Bank, Com-
monwealth Bank and
InterFirst Bank SW.
Beginning Wed-
nesday, Nov. 20, non
perishable food items
will be collected through
Tuesday, Nov. 26.
The food will be
turned over to Project
Head Start, a 21-year-
old federally funded pro-
gram which helps
disadvantaged and
handicapped children,
ages 3 5 years old, with
a variety of social
services.
The food will be dis-
tributed through neigh-
borhood Head Start
centers across the
county to program parti-
cipants and their
families.
Locations and times
for food drop offs are
listed below.
-Bellaire Fire Depart-
ment, 5101 Jessamine;
Daily including week-
ends from 9 a.m. to 7
p.m.
-Citizens National
Bank, Public Relations
Dluf-., 5214 ociiauc
Blvd.; Monday through
Friday from 9 a.m. to 5
p.m.
-Commonwealth
Bank, 6750 West Loop
South; Monday through
Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
-InterFirst Bank,
5123 Bellaire Blvd.;
Monday through Friday
From 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
and Saturday from 9
a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Local cookbooks on sale
The Ladies of Rice
Avenue Church of
Christ, in Bellaire will
soon be sponsoring a
fundraising drive.
They will be selling
community cookbooks
which will feature
favorite recipes from
contributors of Bellaire
and the surrounding
dica.
The price of the
cookbooks will be $7.50
plus $1 shipping and
handling.
The sponsoring group
is anticipating a great
demand for these books.
They ask that you
reserve your books now
to guarantee yourself
cookbooks.
The ciKikbouk* vV ill gu
on sale December 1, and
the public may purchase
them at the Rice Avenue
Church of Christ, 6033
South Rice Ave., P. O.
Box 487, Bellaire, TX,
77401.
Proceeds from the
sale will benefit
students attending Bible
Training Work, a school
of preaching, sponsored
by the Main Street
Church of Christ.
Bellaire resident Lou Stolz, left, got an early gift from Santa last week at the
Business After Hours social, hosted by Bellalre/SW Houston Chamber of
Commerce member Teas Nursery, 4400 Bellaire Blvd. Stolz, who was given a
floral centerpiece, was one of eight door prize winners of Items such as a
permanent Christmas tree, a Weber smoker, plants, trees, and a site visit and
landscape plan - all donated by Teas Nursery . Pictured at far right is Tom
Teas, president of Teas Nursery. For more information on Business After
Hours, contact the chamber at 666-1521.
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Texan Antiques Section
Information for this
column was furnished
by Jane Brandcnbcrgcr,
president of Cape Cod
Connection in the
University Village.
Glass, in all its
fragility and everlasting
beauty, has been a
source of fascination for
mankind since earliest
times.
The simplest, most
utilitarian serving pieces
become objects of art
when molded in shim-
mering glass.
Indeed, acquisition of
glass is now the third
most popular collection
in this country. Only
coin and stamp collect-
ing enjoy more enthu-
siasts. Some people
acquire only certain
shaped pieces, such as
flasks or decanters;
others prefer objects
created in a certain
period or by a particular
manufacturer.
Collecting American
antique glass had
proven not only a source
of pleasure but of profit
as well.
While certain types of
glass are seldom to be
found today, others are
readily available, in-
cluding late 19th century
pressed, brilliant-cut
and Carnival glass.
Depression glass pieces
from the 1930s and ’40s
are being snatched up
today, for on the morrow
these pieces, too, will be
considered antiques.
In 1607 the first
settlers in Jamestown,
Virginia, included
several German and
Polish glassmakers.
Unfortunately, their
initial glassblowing
efforts failed, for the
Germans and Poles
fought among them-
selves continuously.
Not until the mid
1700s did glassmakers
establish an American
industry. These first
manufacturers were in
Salem, Mass., New
Amsterdam, N.Y., and
Philadelphia. Even
then, finer glasswares
continued to be im
ported from England.
Finally, in 1739 a
German brass-button
maker named Caspar
Wistar brought a group
of German glassblowers
to his New Jersey
factory. Despite the fact
that the British pro-
hibited manufacture in
the United States and
insisted that Colonial
r\mcrivu furnish only
raw materials and, in
turn, import finished
goods trom England,
Wistar rebelled and
began making bottles,
window glass and,
occasionally, tableware.
Only a precious few of
Wistar’s products can
be found today.
Two others followed
in Wistar’s successful
footsteps. They were
Henry William Stiegel,
_anothcr German emigre,
who built three glass-
houses in Pennsylvania
between 1763-74 to pro-
duce fine tableware, as
well as bottles and
window glass; and John
Frederick Amelung, also
trom Oermany, who
began a large glass-
house in Maryland in
1784.
Congress refused to
protect these early
American glassmakers
with tariffs on imported
goods. Therefore, of 63
American glasshouses
begun between 1790-
1820, 34 failed because
of the flood of goods
from across the seas.
Still, Americans
persevered and began to
prosper during the
mid-and late 1800s. The
industry rapidly spread
to the Midwest, where
several fine factories
flourished in West
Virginia, Kentucky and
Ohio. In the East the
Boston Crown Glass
Manufactory expanded
to three facilities, while
the New England Glass
Co. was organized
across the river from
Boston. The latter was
rivaled in fine pressed
tableware only by the
Bakewell Co. in
Pittsburgh and the
Boston and Sandwich
Glass Co. in Mas-
sachusetts.
Finally, in this
century glassmaking
gained recognition as an
art form in America.
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Herrera, Nick. The Texan (Bellaire, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 12, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 20, 1985, newspaper, November 20, 1985; Bellaire, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth648116/m1/9/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bellaire Friends Library & Historical Society.