Today's Feature

New Displays at Powers Museum.

A new exhibit is on display at Powers Museum following the closing of the Maple Leaf Festival Quilt Show. The special display is based on the museum’s two-year participation in the Library of Congress Veterans Oral History Project. The first year of interviewees will be displayed through December 22 at the Museum, as well as others if space allows.

In addition to the Veteran’s Oral History Project, 150 proof photographs of World War II soldiers from Carthage and Camp Crowder are on display. The photographs were donated to the museum by Mrs. Wilma Steward and were originally taken by Steward’s Studio in the early 1940s. This is the first showing from the gift lot containing over 1,500 glass plate negatives and proofs. Approximately one third of the collection has been processed by the Museum.

The museum is located at 1617 West Oak Street in Carthage and is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free, though donations are accepted. The museum will be closed November 22 & 23 for Thanksgiving Holiday. For more information visit the museum website at www.powersmuseum.com

I’ve bought those "meal in a package" deals. Just pop ‘em in the microwave. Gourmet food some of ‘em say. If that’s what gourmets eat, I’m glad I’m not one.

Maybe folks just don’t take time ta taste anything anymore. All that matters is how fast it can be yanked out and carried out to the car. Seems like folks like ta eat in the car a lot.

I suppose that’s the way it’s supposed ta be. New fangled gadgets can only take us so far. Some things just don’t get any better (or worse) no matter how hard we try.

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Just Jake Talkin’.

Here's A Tip
By JoAnn Derson

• An easy way to clean really dirty blinds is to lay them in the bathtub to soak in an oxygen cleaner. Use a washcloth to get the dirt off and hang them over the shower curtain to drip-dry.

• Dear JoAnn: Whenever I am baking something and the recipe calls for, say, 1 cup of honey (or some other sticky substance), I pour the honey into the measuring cup but then have a hard time getting all the honey back out of the cup and into the mixing bowl. Any suggestions? -- C.E. in Florida

Dear C.E.: A lot of people face this problem. Rinse the measuring cup with water right before measuring, or spray with nonstick cooking spray! -- JoAnn

• To create a self-watering area for potted plants while you’re on vacation, set plants in the bathtub or in a kiddie pool and use a length of cotton rope to wick water from the bathtub to the plant’s roots. You can either stick it up the holes in the bottom of the pot or dig it down a few inches into the soil. This should get you by for a week or so.

• "I have two guest bedrooms that hardly get used until the holidays. I keep the beds made up, but when I am expecting guests, I usually will strip the beds to freshen the sheets and blankets. I toss the sheets into the dryer with a fabric-softener sheet and hang the blanket outside in the sunshine for several hours. It always does the trick, and I don’t need to wash linens that are already clean!" -- U.C. in California

• "As soon as November hits, so does the nonstop social and scholastic schedule. We make a trip to the grocery and seriously stock up -- I mean prepackaged healthy snacks, drinks, quick items for entertaining (like a cheese ball and special crackers, or a coffee cake that can be frozen) and fast dinners. This way, we are already prepared for a meal in a snap before going off to a party or function, and the kids have something to snack on after school." -- F.J. in Nevada

• Here’s a wonderful tip from V.C. in Kentucky: To save trees, tear your tissues into thirds. Fold an open tissue in half, then tear with the grain into thirds. "Good for small jobs, tearing eyes, sniffles. Store in the old tissue box. Works for me!"