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The Mornin' Mail is published daily -Wednesday, March 11, 1998 Volume VI, Number 186

Did Ya Know... The Alzheimers Support Group, Sponsored by Generations Unit of McCune Brooks Hospital, will meet on March 30 from 7 to 8 p.m. this month.

Did Ya Know... Newly appointed County coroner Ron Mosbaugh attended yesterday’s elected official’s meeting at the Courthouse.

Did Ya Know... The Carthage Public Library storytime will be this morning at 10:15 a.m.

today's laugh

In a fairly remote section of the Ozarks still served by the itinerant peddler, one knocked on a farmhouse door. Seeing him, the farmer’s wife said, "I don’t need anything."

"How about an aluminum pan?"

"No. Please go away. I don’t want a thing."

"A battery-operated clothes brush?"

"No."

"Notions? Thread?"

"If you don’t leave, I’ll whistle for the men in the fields!"

"Do you want to buy a whistle?"

A man walked into a general store and asked the clerk, "Do you keep stationery?"

The clerk answered, "Until the last few seconds, then I go crazy!"

1898
INTERESTING MELANGE.
A Chronological Record of Events as they have Transpired in the City and County since our last Issue.

Another Wolf Seen.

Mr. A. Fultz of this city, reports seeing a large gray wolf near W.W. Wharton’s place, four miles west of Carthage yesterday morning about 9 o’clock. Mr. Fultz was riding in a buggy with another gentleman and as they crossed the Frisco track he left the rig to walk up the track to the next crossing and warm his feet.

While he was walking along a large gray wolf trotted out of the brush alongside the track less than one hundred feet in front of him and started down the track. The animal kept the track for 150 yards, occasionally glancing over his shoulder and showing his teeth in a snarling grin.

Mr. Fultz says the wolf was as tall as Dick Seaver’s dog, "Fraul," the huge Newfoundland which makes it headquarters at the Elite laundry, though, of course, not so heavy, and his appearance would indicate that he had had his full share of Mr. Wharton’s missing pigs.

Today's Feature

Candidate Forum Scheduled.

A forum for candidates of elected offices for the City of Carthage and the R-9 School Board will be held on Friday, March 20, at 7:30 a.m. at the First United Methodist Church. Breakfast will be served, followed by a brief introduction and review of the format.

The Eggs and Issues Breakfast, hosted by the Governmental Relations Committee of the Chamber of Commerce, is a regular function intended to help develop a positive communication network with elected officials and governmental agencies at all levels.

"This event provides candidates a platform to educate Chamber members and citizens on the issues that will be key to voters in the April municipal election," according to Chamber Executive Director Heather Kelly.

The event is open to the public. Admission for Chamber members is $6.50, if paid in advance, or $7.50 at the door. Non-Chamber admission is $8.50.

The forum is sponsored by the Carthage Press and the Carthage Chamber Governmental Relations Committee.

Just Jake Talkin'
Mornin',

As a first grader I was fortunate to be goin’ into a brand, spankin’ (no pun intended) new school buildin’. The summer before it opened, the janitor put out the word to the kids in the neighborhood that he’d pay a silver dollar to anyone who’d come and pick up rocks outa the school yard for a day. Prob’ly thirty or forty of us showed up.

We’d line up with a bucket in hand and walk the school yard. It was ‘bout a square block so we had plenty ta do. One kid my age was Frankie. At the end of the day, we lined up for our pay. The janitor wasn’t pleased with Frankie’s work ethic and talked as if he wasn’t gonna pay up. He finally handed the kid a fifty-cent piece. Frankie was obviously pleased. I don’t remember a lot about the janitor, but I do know I never trusted him again. I still feel like he cheated the six-year-old for no good reason.

This is some fact, but mostly, Just Jake Talkin’.