COUNTY RECORD
Sunday were Stephanie
Sunday morning was 2
9:6-15. Theme Sunday
Thursday, No~6mber 6, 2003.
Gaff VanderGiesen and Christopher
Eakin, Nov. 8.
Happy anniversary to Mike and Jane
Simmons, Nov. 5.
We received a rain Saturday night.
Mankato Weather
BB Wood, observer
was 'Sowing Generously'.
evening, was Genesis
'Why
Weavers, Nate Weavers, Joel
and Mike LaMahieu,
Wis., are visiting.
Calif., is visiting
' to Donneta Miller,
Ben Groenendyk and Beth
2; Roy DeBey, Nov. 6;
Tuesday, Oct. 28 59 36
Wednesday, Oct. 29 75 41
Thursday, Oct. 30 48 38
Friday, Oct. 31 48 36
Saturday, Nov. 1 48 30
Sunday, Nov. 2 38 34
Monday, Nov. 3 38 36
Moisture to early OCt. 4 - 1.78
If you are patient in one moment of
anger, you will escape a hundred days
of sorrow.
gas?
What should you
do first?
Open the door and
leave immediately.
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current.
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- to warn you there might be a ieag
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Buttons, buttons
Who's got the buttons?
By Gloria Garman-Schlaefli
"Button, button, who's got the but-
ton7"
The name of a long-ago children's
game poses a question that could
be
answered with the name of a local
button collector, Jan McCune, Man-
kate.
There are thousands cff buttons in
McCune's collection, begun 25 years
ago. She had admired buttons and
believed they would be an interesting
m
collect.
Re"It used to be that every grand-
mother had a button box or basket that
would provide buttons for any item of
clothing. This was also what the grand-
children loved to play with," McCune
said.
In the 1860s young female collec-
tors arranged buttons in a length known
as "charm strings" or"memory strings."
Glass buttons were especially popular
for charm strings. Legend has it that
when the collector had 1,000 buttons
on her charm string, her love would
appear.
McCune said button prices range
from just a. few ceres to more than
$100. She tells of one button collector
who covered his musical instruments,
car, coffin and other items with but-
tons.
Some of her buttons came from
garage sales, gifts from friends and
relatives, estate sales and castoffcloth-
ing.
Some of the oldest buttons in
McCune's collection were given to her
by a friend,DonaWukasinovich. These
buttons once belonged to Dona's
mother.
Some of the older buttons are from
the late 1800s, the Victorian E~'a. The
largest buttons in the collection are 4
inches. Some of her buttons are very
tiny.
There are several black jet buttons
in hercollection made from black glass.
These are from the Victorian era. When
the Queen' s beloved Prince Albert died
she had black buttons placed on her
mourning clothes.
McCune has buttons r~ade
metal. Some of these have an open
design and often ladies would apply
perfume to the back of these buttons.
Besides the buttons made from gold
in her collection, one of the most valu-.
able is the Teddy Roosevelt bear but-
ton of which she has two. Other mate-
rials used to make buttons were pearl
and abalone and several of these are
also in her collection.
Buttons were used more in years
past and were most popular during the
1930s. When the zipper and snaps
became more popular, buttons were
not in demand. Plastic buttons were
used more after the 1930s and they
came in a wide variety of colors.
• McCune makes jewelry from but-
tons and some of her collection are in
frames and hanging on wails in the
McCune home and some are kept in
glass jars that are displayed through-
out the home. She enjoys being able to
see her button collection and also en-
joys showing them to others.
Buttons are in many shapes-- square,
triangle, animal shapes, cars, boats,
tractors, fish, flowers. Some buttons
were purchased while the McCunes
lived in other states and in Germany.:
However, there isn't a button for every
occasion. She laughingly tells about
having to sew a button on a shirt.
"Would you believe that in all of my
collection, I couldn't find a matching
button anywhere?"
McCune said the buttons are worth
more on the original cards. "Older
buttons axe getting harder to find. There
are a lot of button collectors out there."
There are button Collector clubs,
but McCune prefers tojust"enjoy" her
collection and does not take it as seri-
ously as some do.
Be prepared for a blizzard, have a
sapply of food for 72 hours and make
sure you have medicines, baby sup-
plies at least and other special needs
that will last until the roads are cleared.
Bob McCune, Mankato, watches as members of Limestone Ladies Club,
Ionia, inspect buttons from the collection of his wife, Jan. When Jan couldn't
be present for the meeting, Bob filled in.
Women of Limestone Ladies Club, Ionia, (from left) Rosanna Foster, Neva
Shoemaker and Karen Meyer, check out hats from the collection of Jan
McCune, Mankato.
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