Sam: I called them that for years but I now refer to them as card board boxes. I few years back I mentioned toe sack to friends and they still tease me about that Beverly Bakersfield, CA

Back in the "old" South a tow sack was also called a "croker" sack. I was a "tow-headed" (light blond) child, and until I learned better tonight on the Txredriv site, I had been allowed to believe that "tow" was linen rather than cannabis. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 5:58 PM Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV] Malone > Sam: > I called them that for years but I now refer to them as card board boxes. > I > few years back I mentioned toe sack to friends and they still tease me > about > that > > Beverly > Bakersfield, CA > > > ==== TXREDRIV Mailing List ==== > > > > ============================== > New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your ancestors > at the same time. Share your tree with family and friends. Learn more: > http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599&targetid=5429 > > >

They will always be "cardboard boxes" to me; as well as burlap bags will always be "tow sacks" Here is a tidbit from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Cardboard (called corrugated paper in the industry) is a heavy wood-based type of paper, notable for its stiffness and durability. It was first invented in China some time in the 15th century, and is used for a wide variety of purposes. One of its more common uses is as a packaging material." -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 5:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV] Malone Sam: I called them that for years but I now refer to them as card board boxes. I few years back I mentioned toe sack to friends and they still tease me about that Beverly Bakersfield, CA ==== TXREDRIV Mailing List ==== ============================== New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your ancestors at the same time. Share your tree with family and friends. Learn more: http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599&ta rgetid=5429 -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.9.8/61 - Release Date: 8/1/2005

I suppose that the paste board box got many of us thinking of things from the past. For instance, when I was a youngster, in many of the grocery stores, you would find 100 lbs. sacks of pinto beans. The bags of beans were burlap bags until the beans were all gone, then the sack was a tow sack. We kids even took them with us on our frog gigging trips, so we could keep our frogs in them, plus keep the sack wet for the comfort of the frogs. These sack were left on peoples porch so that the ice man could wrap your ice in it when he made his delivery. The sack material also was popular as a wrap for a gallon jar to keep drinking water as cool as possible while we worked in the fields, ect. We also would sometimes put milk in the jar, then let it down in the cistern to keep cool. Another words, the proper name was not the point. The point was what different ones called them. I even get to thinking about the recipes sent on the web site, and wonder if you could have read my Mom's recipes? Instead of spoons of this or that, she would use a pinch of this, a tad of that, a dash of something else, but she sure knew how to use her version. Sorry for the babbling, but us old folks sometimes enjoy doing this. Sam Paris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nancy Wolfgang" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 11:39 PM Subject: RE: [TXREDRIV] Malone > They will always be "cardboard boxes" to me; as well as burlap bags will > always be "tow sacks" > > Here is a tidbit from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Cardboard (called > corrugated paper in the industry) is a heavy wood-based type of paper, > notable for its stiffness and durability. It was first invented in China > some time in the 15th century, and is used for a wide variety of purposes. > One of its more common uses is as a packaging material." > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 5:58 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV] Malone > > Sam: > I called them that for years but I now refer to them as card board boxes. > I few years back I mentioned toe sack to friends and they still tease me > about that > > Beverly > Bakersfield, CA > > > ==== TXREDRIV Mailing List ==== > > > > ============================== > New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your ancestors > at the same time. Share your tree with family and friends. Learn more: > http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599&ta > rgetid=5429 > > > > -- > Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.9.8/61 - Release Date: 8/1/2005 > > > > ==== TXREDRIV Mailing List ==== > > > > ============================== > Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for > ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx >