The Sealy News (Sealy, Tex.), Vol. 96, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 28, 1983 Page: 5 of 30
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PHAXMACIST ON DUTY “
This colorful Seven Sisters design quilt
was made by Edith Strleder and is donat-
ed to the San Fellpe/Frydek Volunteer
Fire Department's auction sale for Sun-
day. May 1. The quilt will be sold during
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THE SEALY NEWS s
Thursday, April 28, 1983
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Emergency Phone 885-6914
Sealy
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personal moral standards or reportedly the most popular
illusions seen during a state
"Demon Rum!’
Early Americans — men,
women and children —
believed alcoholic beverages
had medicinal value, and
consumption of it was an
integral part of personal
and commuity life, says
Martin.
Colonial Americans con-
sumed almost six gallons of
also took place during this Seattle, Washington, du-
20-year-period. Fear that ring early logging days. The
ihtemperance was getting street got its name from
out of hand and would loggers skidding logs down
ELIXIR
4 oz.
ENGINE OIL
(2% gallon size)
(Offer good thru April)
COLOGNE
4 oz.
6
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6 for 88*
of intoxication during the
1890s. But the professors
note that there seems to be
absolutely no historical
derivation for the term or
documentation that this
was really true.
“Red-eye” was a term
for bad whiskey that
originated during the colo-
nial period. It came from
Proverbs 23:19-30: "Who
hath redness of eyes? They
Building >
P.O. Box 1085
- Sealy
RIBBON CUTTING - 3:00 p.m.
ultimately undermine the the hill beside this road,
ideals of the Revolution, Later the area deteriorated
causing a breakdown in sat drinking, Pat* s
morals, anarchy, and civil
disorder, paved the way for
the reform movement that
followed.
Have you ever wondered
where American drinking
terminology originated?
Dr. James Kirby Martin,
professor of history at the
University of Houston
Central Campus, and Dr.
Mark Lender, associate
professor of history at
Rutgers University Center
for Alcohol Studies, found
out while doing research for
their book "Drinking in
America!’ published by The
Free Press/MacMillan.
MEDICAL CLINIC of Sealy
1000 Meyer St. - 885-7419
H. S. MEAS, M.D.
Obstetrics and Gynecology
HOURS: Monday thru Friday
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
DR. PON, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Surgery and Proctology
HOURS: Monday thru Friday
9:00 a.m.-12 Noon
H. R. BHATT, M.D.
Pediatrics
HOURS: Mondays and Thursday
12 Noon to 3:00 p.rh.
Sealy
LAWRENCE MARSHALL
CHEVROLET & OLDS
9th and Austin - Hempstead
simultaneous-death clause
for spouses and the
no-contest clause, which
may prevent an unhappy
beneficiary from challeng-
ing your will. The simul-
taneous-death clause makes
provisions if both spouses
should die in a common
disaster in which it’s
impossible to prove who
died first.
A move from one state to
another can invalidate your
will, says extension special-
ist Kathy Prochaska-Cue.
The University of Ne-
braska family economic
and management expert
advises having your existing
will checked by an attorney
in your new state of
residence, and making it
conform to that state’s
laws. If it doesn’t, your
estate will go to benefici-
aries according to state
laws.
When making bequests,
consider the beneficiaries’
ages, financial management
knowledge, skills and
lifestyles in deciding on the
best form in which to leave
an inheritance, says Ms.
Prochaska-Cue.
If you want the bequests
to grow with inflation, she
adds, make them in
percentages instead of
setting dollar amounts.
She also suggests consult-
(persons 15 years and older)
annually, or about 34
gallons of beer and cider,
slightly over five gallons of
distilled liquor, which is
about double the modern
alcohol consumption level
of 2.9 per capita.
"In homes, alcohol was
more common at the family
table than today; even
children shared the dinner
beer!’ says Martin.
“Steady drinking at
home was reinforced by
activities outside the home!’
he continues. "Communal
projects such as clearing
fields or raising the town
church seldom proceeded
without a public cask of
spirits to fortify the toiling
citizenry!’
Drinking on the job was
common practice, accor-
ding to Martin. “Labor,
both on farms and in
towns, was back-breaking
work, and timely jolts of
beer, cider or spirits helped
deaden the pain!’ he says.
"And instead of taking tea
or coffee, shop, office and
Geieospomiommunmr
Millheim
; youngest present s
Tabatha Meyer, it •
iths; additional door
were given.
brief memorial service *
held by James Goebel
one deceased member
•year. The meeting .
by reciting the
I’s Prayer. .,
Americans have always weddings, militia musters,
had a taste for libations, baptisms, funerals, parties,
but the average drinker ministerial ordinations,
today would be considered barn-raising — they
practically a teetotaler by "sippped and tipped!’ says
the founding fathers’ stan- Dr. James Kirby Martin,
dards, according to a He and Dr. Mark
University of Houston Lender, associate professor
Central Campus history of history at the Rutgers
professor. University Center for Alco-
Early Americans came to hol Studies, have co-au-
the New World with a love thored the first complete
for liquor, and wherever account of American drink-
and whenever there was a ing behavior. A somewhat
reason to get together — satirical, humorous, but
"poled
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field workers halted their be restrained for the good
work at the appointed and safety of all!’
hours for an ‘elevener’ and With a few exceptions,
a four o’clock dram!’ the attitude that libations
Without booze, soldiers were a positive social and
wouldn’t fight, voters personal good prevailed
wouldn’t vote, mourners until the beginning of the
wouldn’t mourn, workers 19th century.
wouldn’t work. Ministers "As the 1800s ap-
and politicians looking for proached, it became in-
also serious look at
Americans’ love/hate rela-
tionship with alcohol,
"Drinking in America!’ just
released by The Free
Press/Macmillan, spans
350 years of belting down
the “good creature of
God” and damning the
JODDiEKESEE
885-2062
stimulant in the world —
three plugs of tobacco to
make them sick — any
Indian wouldn’t figure it
was whiskey unless it made
him sick — five bars of
soap to give it head, half a
pound of red pepper and
then put in 50016 sagebrush
followers travelled about creasingly clear that the and boil it until it’s brown,
the countryside a ’ ‘Good social norms that previously and you’ve got your Indian
Book” or speech in one had controlled individual whiskey!’
hand and a bottle in the behavior were loosening. In the 1840s "lush” was a
other. Americans wer moving into slang word for liquor, but
"Provincial however the frontiers where the by 1880 lush connotated a
were not problem drinkers” population was generally class drunk who used bad
says the professor; "at least scattered, with few institu- liquor
if social policy against tional controls to reinforce Pink Elephant s were
alcohol abuse is used as a . ...
measure!’ There was little check deviant, public.con-
public outcry about alcoho- duct, notes Martin. Yisi-
lism, and those who over tors to thewestern regions
indulged to the point of of the colonies reported
public scorn, easily found that the sight of down-and-
forgiveness within the outers sleeping off their
Puritan Church. whiskey had become an
He notes, "Social stand- accepted part of life: .0.
ards of the day had an Between 1790 and 1810
important restraining effect consumption rose from an
on intemperance. The annual average of 5.8
world was inflexible in gallons of absolute alcohol
many ways, and most per capita (persons 15 years
colonialists willingly con- and older) to a record 7.1 - .
formed to community gallons, he says. The thattarry long at wine
values. Thus, anything Americanization of drink- Skid-row is.a 19th
deemed inimical or offen- ing — a movement away century abbreviation for
sive to the community could from beef- cider and other Skid Road, which was the
light alcoholic beverages — real name of a street in
Texas Wind Erosion
Wind was gentler to
Texas this past winter, the
Agriculture Department
says. Officials calculated
that wind erosion damaged
311,658 acres in Texas from
last November through
February, compared with
514,482 acres the previous
year* In the earlier survey,
Texas suffered the worst
wind erosion in the nation.
South Dakota had the
nation’s worst wind erosion
problem in the most recent
survey with damage to
390,550 acres.
“Booze” is a 14th
century word that caught
on in America around 1840,
when a Philadelphia distil-
ler E. G. Booze began
handing out small bottles of
alcohol to his customers.
“Binge” is a nautical
term meaning “pump full
of water’,* which dates
back to English times, notes
the professors.
Benjamin Franklin
coined “brutify’d” to
described the state of being
absolutely drunk. Fearing
the term was an insult to the
animal kingdom, however,
he withdrew it in 1737
saying: “. . . upon
consideration, I fear being
guilty of injustice to the
brute creation if I repre-
sented drunkeness as a
beastly vice, since *tis
well-known, that the brutes
are in general a very sober
sort of people!’
“Cocktails” had their
being in the late colonial or
early revolutionary period,
according to Martin and
Lender. Early Americans
blended fruit juices, soft
drinks, or anything they
could find with bad whiskey
to hide its taste. The term
came into vogue, however,
when a bartender stirred a
drink with a feather from
the tail of a cock and left it
there as a garnish.
"Indian whiskey” was
something given to Indians
before making a deal with
them. It was common
practice, say the professors,
to get them drunk before
trading began with a
concoction such as the
following recipe. "You take
one barrel of Missouri
River water and two gallons
of alcohol, add two ounces
of strychnine — because
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the fish fry which begins with serving at
1100 a m at the Frydek Youth Center.
Helping Mrs. Strleder exhibit the quilt Is
Dessie May Zaskoda, at left.
— News Photo
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The Sealy News (Sealy, Tex.), Vol. 96, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 28, 1983, newspaper, April 28, 1983; Sealy, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1541020/m1/5/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Virgil and Josephine Gordon Memorial Library.