Easter is just around the corner and you know what that means Easter Eggs! We can all remember dying eggs as children. Many of us used the old Paas egg dye. The Paas dyes are still available and well for coloring eggs. But if you’re looking for something more this Easter, here are some other ideas for coloring your eggs. In cups or bowls big enough to hold one and one half cups, pour six to eight ounces of water. Add one tablespoon of white vinegar to each bowl. Then get out the food coloring. With the basic red, yellow, green and blue food colors you can make a rainbow of colors for Easter eggs. For an exciting twist- get out your crayons. While the boiled eggs are still hot, a crayon will melt onto the shell. When placed in the dye, the crayon area will not accept the dye color. Be sure to take extreme caution when handling the hot eggs. For ease, place the hot egg on a towel while you draw. For a natural touch, forego the manufactured dyes and get outside. Items such as carrots, dandelion flowers, and red cabbage can all dye eggs beautiful natural colors. For this technique an old sheet or pillow case one that can be cut up is required. Pieces of material cut should be large enough to hold the egg, as well as the dying agent and still allow room for material to be tied shut, six inch square is a good place to begin, but check your eggs to make sure they will fit. You will need one square of material for each egg to be dyed. Place the square of material on a flat surface, then put the yellow of the dandelion flower all over the material (for the carrots and cabbage, grate the vegetable finely and put the gratings on the cloth). Place your eggs in the middle of the material, draw up the corners, and tie the material (a twist tie will often do the trick). Then boil the egg as usual. Once the egg is done boiling remove the entire 50cloth package from the water and allow it to cool. Then the egg can be unwrapped safely. When choosing substances to color the naturally dried eggs, be sure they are nontoxic. Fruits and vegetables are good places to begin your search for coloring agents. Naturally dyed eggs are not as bright as artificially dyed eggs, but the flowers and grated vegetables create a textured look on the eggs that is beautiful in itself.
Easter is just around the corner and you know what that means Easter Eggs! We can all remember dying eggs as children. Many of us used the old Paas egg dye. The Paas dyes are still available and well for coloring eggs. But if you’re looking for something more this Easter, here are some other ideas for coloring your eggs. In cups or bowls big enough to hold one and one half cups, pour six to eight ounces of water. Add one tablespoon of white vinegar to each bowl. Then get out the food coloring. With the basic red, yellow, green and blue food colors you can make a rainbow of colors for Easter eggs. For an exciting twist- get out your crayons. While the boiled eggs are still hot, a crayon will melt onto the shell. When placed in the dye, the crayon area will not accept the dye color. Be sure to take extreme caution when handling the hot eggs. For ease, place the hot egg on a towel while you draw. For a natural touch, forego the manufactured dyes and get outside. Items such as carrots, dandelion flowers, and red cabbage can all dye eggs beautiful natural colors. For this technique an old sheet or pillow case one that can be cut up is required. Pieces of material cut should be large enough to hold the egg, as well as the dying agent and still allow room for material to be tied shut, six inch square is a good place to begin, but check your eggs to make sure they will fit. You will need one square of material for each egg to be dyed. Place the square of material on a flat surface, then put the yellow of the dandelion flower all over the material (for the carrots and cabbage, grate the vegetable finely and put the gratings on the cloth). Place your eggs in the middle of the material, draw up the corners, and tie the material (a twist tie will often do the trick). Then boil the egg as usual. Once the egg is done boiling remove the entire 50cloth package from the water and allow it to cool. Then the egg can be unwrapped safely. When choosing substances to color the naturally dried eggs, be sure they are nontoxic. Fruits and vegetables are good places to begin your search for coloring agents. Naturally dyed eggs are not as bright as artificially dyed eggs, but the flowers and grated vegetables create a textured look on the eggs that is beautiful in itself.
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50 Years Ago:
Dewar 4-H Aids Fund
Dewar 4-H club members collected $92.50 for the March of Dimes in the Walk-A-Thon. The members who participated walked 20 miles each for a total of 120 miles in the rain, according to Club President.
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All-Stars Set Exhibition
The Henryetta All-Star women’s independent basketball team is holding an exhibition match with the Red Bullets from Kansas City at Dewar gym. A country western band will provide music and raffling off of a car and a 500 pound beef is also scheduled. Proceeds will go to send the Henryetta team to the world finals tournament in Indianapolis.
75 Years Ago: Citians to Enter County Field Day Greased Pig Race Okmulgee County’s first soil conservation field day, April 28, will be highlighted by a greased pig chase with Henryetta teams pitted against Okmulgee teams. The contest will be at the Okmulgee A. and M. branch college as one of the features of the all-county soil conservation field day.
100 Years Ago:
Sheriff Russell Repudiates Action on His Deputies in an Assault on Okmulgee Lawyer Sheriff John Russell today repudiated the action of his deputies who Thursday morning stood by and looked on, while Claud Goin, another deputy, beat Hess Crossland, young attorney, into insensibility following his going to the sheriff’s office to make efforts to secure the release of William Campbell.
“I am sorry the fight between Deputy Goin and Mr.
Crossland occurred,” the sheriff said. “It happened without my knowledge and my deputies erred when they failed to stop the fight. It would not have occurred had I been present, but it is impossible for me to be up day and night.” Mr. Russell said Deputy Goin will be confined in his duties strictly to the jail hereafter and not permitted to go out on raids. The sheriff added that he had highest regards for Attorney Crossland and said that his Morris deputy, John Cable, when he slapped him, thought Crossland was a bootlegger. The repudiation of the conduct of his deputy was made by Sheriff Russell following presentation of petitions signed by local attorneys to President C. A. Dickson, of the bar association, deploring the assault on Crossland and calling for a meeting of the bar to conduct an investigation.
Crossland, badly beaten up, was up today He is expected to attend the bar meeting. His father, Ed Crossland, of Tulsa, visited him late yesterday. Mr.
Crossland Intimated that civil action might be taken as a result of what he termed “an outrage.”
