today's
laugh
Teacher-"Didn't Joshua Morgan help
you do this sum?"
Willie-"No'm."
Teacher-"Are you sure he didn't
help you?"
Willie-"No'm, he didn't help me;
he did it all."
A little girl was describing here first
elevator experience.
"We got into a little room,"
she said, "and the upstairs came down."
"What is the plural of man,
Willie?" asked the teacher.
"Men," answered Willie.
"And, the plural of child?"
"Twins," was the unexpected
reply.
1898
INTERESTING MELANGE.
A Chronological Record of Events as they have
Transpired in the City and County since our last Issue.
LIGHT COMPANY PROPOSITION.
Possibly Little To No Profit.
We may be asked, "Then why do you
make it with no profit?" We answer simply because we
have a large amount of capital already invested in the
lighting business in this city and considerable more
provided for in extending gas mains and improving plant
and in renewing our electrical machinery.
There is no room for profit in running
more than one light plant in Carthage, whether run under
municipal management or by private capital. With the
great taxing power of the city it might for a time run a
light plant regardless of cost, competing with one
company, not only in street lighting but also in
commercial, until it wiped out our capital, in other
words took out our life blood. If we can have a fair show
in the commercial business we are willing to come down to
the cost point in street lighting.
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Today's Feature Commissioner Johnson Surprised by
Conflict.
Eastern District County
Commissioner Ben Johnson, appointed by the
Governor to complete Mike Cloud's unexpired term,
says he will stay on the job even without a
raise.
In an interview with the Mornin'
Mail Johnson said he was told when he was
considering the job that the salary would be
$41,350 after the first of the year , but he was
not sure of the source of that information. The
salary is currently $26,000.
"It certainly gave me
heartburn when I found out that this question did
exist," said Johnson. "It was kind of a
bomb," he said, referring to a letter of
opinion from County Counselor Jim Spradling that
says the raises would be contrary to the state
constitution.
"But nevertheless,"
said Johnson, "I'm in it for the term. I
have in fact resigned from Eagle Picher."
Johnson and Western District
Commissioner Anna Ruth Crampton have both
requested an increase in salary of $15,350 be
placed in next year's County budget. According to
Crampton, some other first class counties are
allowing similar raises for Commissioners.
Salaries are set by statute as $2,000 less than
the Presiding Commissioner.
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Just Jake
Talkin'
Mornin',
The first look at the
county budget numbers by some of the elected
officials wasn't a pleasant site. There is a
projected revenue of a little over $9 million
and still about $11 million left on the
expenditure side.
Presiding Commissioner
Hensley thinks there needs ta be another
million or more trimmed out. There was no
rush to cut budgets from the elected
officials attending the meetin' yesterday.
Several were not happy with cuts already made
on their individual proposed budgets.
Hensley once again stated
his amazement that the Carthage and Webb City
school districts have nearly $5 million more
to operate on than the whole of Jasper
County. There were rumblings of a law
enforcement tax bein' looked into.
About $6 million of the
budget is for salaries. A budget must be
approved by January 10, 1999.
This is some fact, but
mostly,
Just Jake Talkin'.
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Intro to the Internet.
Where do all
these service come from?
Service like Web pages, FTP
sites, News groups, E-Mail, Ect., are all
individual function of these computer we call
servers (or hosts). Some servers don’t have
many features at all, while other servers have
all kinds of services available.
Luckily for you and me, the
servers know who they are, and they know where
the other computers are as well. When you make a
request for a Web page, the servers work together
to help you find the server where that Web page
exists. If one computer is down between you and
the server you’re asking for, the other
computers will help to find a path for your
request to travel on. Once the path is finally
resolved, the connection is made, and you see
your Web page. The same is true in regards to
most of the requests over the Internet.
In Review
The Internet is a huge
collection of computers world wide. They are
connected to each other by a method that
guarantees access (provided that computer is
operational and connected to the network). There
are servers (also referred to as
"hosts") that provide services of all
types. No one person or group owns the Internet,
yet there are many committees and organizations
that supervise its development evolution.
ARCHIVES Index
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