Chamber Good News Carthage Event This Morning at the Underground.

The Industrial Relations Committee of the Carthage Chamber of Commerce has scheduled it’s premiere of Good News Carthage for this morning starting at 7:30 at the mezzanine area of The Underground. The breakfast event is intended to showcase area industry.

Following the breakfast, Danny Lambeth, President of Infinity Lighting is scheduled to present an informative 15-minute program. Chuck Edds, Sales Manager for H.E. Williams, will also speak.

New Chamber Members will have an opportunity to speak for one minute each on developments in each of their businesses. The one-minute capsules this morning will be reserved for new members that have signed up in the Chamber’s recent Catch the Fever Membership Drive.

"A lively host and an exciting program on our local industries will make this a great event," says Industrial Relations Committee Chair Mark Elliff.

Admission is $5.50. Limited seating.

A Wild Rumor from Webb.

This morning's Kansas City Times contains a dispatch from Webb City giving the future solution for the rate war now on between the Frisco and electric railways of Jasper county. It says that the electric line is to be bought by the Frisco, the tracks and buildings of the electric torn up, and that the Frisco will run a spur to Lakeside park. The correspondent hails such a move as a great joy and convenience for Webb City, Carterville, Prosperity, Confidence Junction and other small stations not on the map.

A reporter asked President Calhoon when the transfer would be made and was met with a weary smile of disgust and a tirade against the methods of some country newspaper correspondents in filling space for the city papers. Another electric railway director took the matter seriously, and said, "There's not a word of truth in it."

Just Jake Talkin'
Mornin',

I suppose they still make ‘em, but I didn’t have one a those fold up plastic rain covers on Monday afternoon when the rain opened up. Those little packages that are small enough ta carry in your pocket always seem ta be stored with the umbrella at the other end of the line. Even the idea of havin’ two umbrellas, one at work and one at home, doesn’t seem ta work for me. The somehow always end up together along with the rubber boots and the raincoat.

I saw a couple a umbrellas sittin’ by the doorway of the buildin’ I was trapped in for near an hour. They were mighty temptin’, but a good dose of cold rain is fittin’ punishment for thoughts of borrowin’ someone else’s forethought.

As a kid I used ta love ta get out in the rain durin’ the summer. Some still argue I had more sense then than now.

This is some fact, but mostly,

Just Jake Talkin’.

by

Computer Minded/ On the Net

Intro to the Internet

Who made the Internet: One of the biggest misconceptions about the Internet is that it was planned. The Internet was indirectly created back in the ‘60’s by the U.S. government during the Cold War. The government was tired of mailing magnetic tapes back and forth between computers. So they decided to devise a way to link computers together using cables.

The first concern the government had in doing this was that the system had to be very robust. Meaning if one computer crashes or was disconnected the other computers needed to be able to stay working. They wanted a design whereby they could connect and disconnect computers all day without disturbing any of the other computers on the network. Any of you who have looked through Christmas tree lights for that one burned out bulb can appreciate the design they were looking for.

In order to manage this huge project the government created an organization called Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA). Later this new network was called the ARPANET. I personally like Internet better.

At the end of the ‘70’s and the seeming ease of the Cold War, this incredible network was losing it financial backing. At this time the government began to invite science organizations and universities to use the network for their purposes.

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