Mornin' Mail

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Tuesday, September 6, 2005 Volume XIV, Number 55

Did Ya Know?... Girls in Grades 1-3 if you would like to join Girl Scouts, Registration will be September 6th from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church. For more info contact Sandy Sparks 358-9183.

Did Ya Know?... The Jasper County Courthouse will have a drop-off box for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Items needed include bottled water, non perishable food items, cleaning and personal hygiene products, etc. Donations will be accepted in the Courthouse and County employees will arrange for delivery to the victims.

Did Ya Know?... Carthage Area United Way, Inc. will hold the "Together We Can Work Wonders" Campaign Kick-Off Luncheon Wednesday, September 14, 2005 from noon to 1 p.m. at the Broadview Country Club. Special Guest Speaker will be Mr. Jerald Andrews, President & Exec. Director of Missouri Sports Hall of Fame. RSVP to 358-2948 before Sept. 9.

today's laugh

I’d been giving my kids Flinstone vitamins, but then I realized that Fred and Barney weren’t exactly the pictures of health. - Buzz Nutley

Ways to Say Someone is Stupid:
A few clowns short of a circus
Couldn’t pour water out of a boot without instructions on the heel
One taco short of a combo plate

1905
INTERESTING MELANGE.
A Chronological Record of Events as they have Transpired in the City and County since our last Issue.

Death of Mrs. Clubb.

Died This Morning After a Month’s Illness - Funeral Sunday.

Mrs. Sadie Clubb, 22 years old, wife of S.W. Clubb, a grocer at South Carthage, died at 2:30 o’clock this morning at the home of her husband’s parents on Cedar street. She had been ill a month.

Besides the husband the deceased leaves two little children, one aged two years and the other four months.

Two sisters, Mrs. Holt of Fairland, I.T., and Mrs. Head of Bethpage, Mo., have been at her bedside for two weeks. Mrs. Clubb’s parents reside in Wyandotte, I.T. Recently Mrs. Clubb was converted to the Holiness faith and was a loyal member of a church of that denomination in South Carthage.

The funeral will be held tomorrow at 2 o’clock at the home of A.M. Clubb on Cedar Street. Rev. Mr. Drake will be in charge. Internment in Park Cemetery.

Today's Feature
T.I.G.E.R. Reading Program.

News Release

The Carthage Chamber and Carthage R-9 School District are asking all Chamber members to consider volunteering for the Together In Getting Everyone to Read (T.I.G.E.R.) Reading Track Program this school year.

The T.I.G.E.R. Reading Track Program is a 24-week coaching program designed to help improve 7th grade student achievement in reading. Volunteers are needed to assist students with their reading skills once a week from 3:15PM-4PM beginning September 26.

Chamber members are encouraged to volunteer or form teams of 1-2 volunteers to rotate the weekly reading duties. Applications are available at the Chamber office or at the Carthage R-9 Administration building.

Volunteer training is scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 21 from 3:15 p.m. - 4 p.m. at the Carthage Junior High School. For more information call Shelley Thompson or Jenny Bogle, Jr. High Reading Instructors at 359-7050; Carol Smith, volunteer program director, at 417-850-5365; or Max McKnight, Chamber President, at 358-2373.

Stench Report:
Friday,
09/2/05

No Odor

Just Jake Talkin'
Mornin
There’s prob’ly nothin’ more irritatin’ than havin’ someone ya don’t recognize wave real big at ya from across the street.

It’s not the fact they’re bein’ friendly that is the problem. The irritatin’ part is spendin’ the rest of the day tryin’ ta figure out who they are. Even days later ya find yourself spendin’ a few seconds tryin’ to remember.

I suppose that is one a the problems with livin’ in a small town. You can irritate folks without even tryin’.

It’s like the old trick we’d play as kids. Standin’ on a busy street corner and pointin’ up to the sky. ‘Fore long ever’one is tryin’ to see what you’re pointin’ at.

If ya want to really befuddle someone ya don’t know, pick a busy spot and walk up and tell ‘em how good it is to see them again.

This is some fact, but mostly,

Just Jake Talkin’.

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Weekly Column
To Your Good Health
By Paul G. Donohue, M.D.

What Causes High Blood Pressure?

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I have had high blood pressure for years. I asked my doctor what causes it. He said he did not know and that nobody knows. Maybe you can help. — R.M.

ANSWER: Close to 30 percent of the adult North American population has high blood pressure — hypertension. About 94 percent of those people have essential hypertension, the kind of blood-pressure elevation for which there isn’t one definite cause. There are, however, things that contribute to its emergence. A diet loaded with salt and relatively poor in potassium, a couch-potato lifestyle, obesity and the family genes work together to raise blood pressure. Primitive people who spend most of their waking hours hunting for food and whose diet is low in salt rarely have high blood pressure.

Doctors do know why blood pressure rises. It comes about from artery constriction. All arteries, even the smallest, are encircled with tiny muscles that can contract and narrow their diameter. When that happens, blood pressure goes up.

Secondary hypertension is the kind of blood-pressure elevation for which there is an identifiable cause. Tumors of the adrenal gland, a kinking of the artery leading to one of the kidneys and an abrupt tapering of a part of the aorta are examples of things that lead to secondary hypertension. Blood pressure that doesn’t respond to usual treatment or high blood pressure in young people suggests the possibility of secondary hypertension.