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published every weekday except major holidays
Tuesday, November 22, 2005 Volume XIV, Number
110
did
ya know?
Did Ya Know?... The City
of Carthage Recycling Drop-Off Center and
Composting Lot will be closed Thursday, November
24 and Friday, November 25 in observance of
Thanksgiving. For more info contact Rusty Melton
417-237-7024.
Did Ya Know?... The
Carthage Public Library Winter Reading Club has
begun! Sign up for "Wild Readings!" (P
through 6th grades) or "Get Carded @ Your
Library" for the young adults. Programs end
March 13, 2006. For details, call 237-7040 or
come by the YPL desk downstairs.
Did Ya Know?... The
Carthage Public Library will close at 5 p.m. on
November 23 and remain closed November 24 for
Thanksgiving Day.
Did Ya Know?... The
Salvation Army, 125 E. Fairview, Carthage,
announces that they will begin taking Christmas
Basket applications on Nov. 14 from 1 p.m. until
4 p.m. ending the application process on Dec. 9,
2005. Applications will be taken daily Mon.
through Fri. For more info call Captain Everling
or Bess Wilkes at 417-358-2262.
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today's
laugh
The average cost of
Thanksgiving dinner for a family of five is $150.
That includes the turkey, dressing, and the hour
of psychotherapy you’ll need afterward. -
Conan O’Brien
Ketchup is a disguise for
steaks.
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1905
INTERESTING MELANGE.
A Chronological Record of Events as they have
Transpired in the City and County since our last Issue.
Annual Turkey
"Scarcity."
In Spite of More Being
Raised than Usual Prices Go Sailing.
The annual
"scarcity" of turkeys about Thanksgiving time
is again announced, in spite of the reports from poultry
dealers over the state showing that from fifty to sixty
per cent more turkeys were raised in Missouri this year
than formerly. Never were more turkeys raised in this
state than this year. As an instance, last Saturday a
farmer drove a bunch of 1,000 turkeys into the
Springfield market and sold them to the Armour agent.
That is why turkeys are reported scarce - they are being
bought up in wholesale lots by the big packing houses and
retail prices put up and held up.
There has been a decrease
in the turkey output of Jasper county and a local
scarcity is easily worked into a "scarcity" in
the general market along about turkey eating times.
Thanksgiving and Christmas times are the only periods of
the year when turkeys are in good demand and prices have
to be put up pretty stiff at these periods to make turkey
raising profitable.
A dressed turkey in
Carthage will cost 25 cents a pound this Thanksgiving.
But it must be remembered that a dressed turkey in
Carthage is a very different thing from a dressed turkey
from a packing house. In Carthage the feathers, entrails,
neck and feet are removed, thus causing a shrinkage in
weight from the live bird of about 25 per cent. The
packing house dressed turkey has only the feathers
removed - entrails, neck and feet remaining. This causes
a shrinkage of less than 5 per cent. For this reason a
dressed turkey in Carthage is worth 20 per cent more than
a dressed turkey in a city, yet the same price is charged
per pound.
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Today's
Feature
Precious
Moments Land Annexation.
Carthage City
Council will meet Tuesday evening in a regular
session at 7:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers of
City Hall. Items on the agenda include three
resolutions annexing property near or adjoining
Precious Moments. These resolutions are a part of
the termination of the Precious Moments Tax
Increment Fund (TIF) that has been underway for
several months. Other items on the agenda include
an amendment to the Annual Operating and Capital
Budget appropriating money for work that has been
done involving the termination of the TIF.
CORRECTION:
Baskets, Not Dinner.
The Salvation Army
of Carthage announces that there is a change this
year in regards to the Thanksgiving dinner.
The Salvation Army
will not be serving a meal on Thanksgiving Day.
Area residents have applied for and will receive
instead a Thanksgiving basket.
The Salvation Army
has traditionally fed up to 200 people,
volunteers included, on Thanksgiving Day. By
providing food boxes to the 110 families that
have applied for the Thanksgiving food box, The
Salvation Army will be able to feed nearly 400
people.
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Stench Report:
Friday,
11/21/05
No Odor Complaints
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Just Jake
Talkin'
Mornin'
Here’s one that we
heard from the outside-the-coffee-shop bunch.
How many coffee shop drinkers
does it take ta change a light bulb?
Ten. One ta change it and nine
to sit around and talk about what a good job the
old light bulb did.
Now I’m not sure what
exactly that is supposed to mean. Just
somethin’ I heard the other day. I’m
sure the same story has been applied to other
various groups.
OK. It takes four newspaper
types ‘cause someone’s gotta do it,
one’s gotta write the facts, one has ta edit
it to make it sound important and one has to have
the sense to kill the story.
That’s why you’ll
never see a story ‘bout lightbulbs in any
paper worth its salt.
This is some fact, but mostly,
Just Jake Talkin’.
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