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Monday, March 15, 1999 Volume VII, Number 190

did ya know?

Did Ya Know?. . .The Carthage R-9 Board of Education will meet in regular session Monday, March 15, 1999, at 7 p.m. at the Carthage High School Auditorium Lobby, 714 South Main St., Carthage.

Did Ya Know?. . .The Carthage Police Department will hold Neighborhood Meetings from 7 p.m.-8 p.m. on March 16 at Columbian School, March 22 at Carhtage Sr. High, and April 12 at the Memorial Hall.

today's laugh

I took first prize at a bridge game the other night.

Why cry about that?

They caught me and I had to take it back.

Well, I think I will just have to trade in my new Thunderbird. I just can't afford those big cars anymore.

Well, you know what they say about the automobile.

No, what?

It's an invention that made people go fast and money faster.

How much is the room?

Seventy dollars a week.

Couldn't you make it a little cheaper?

Well, being as it's you - I'll make it ten dollars a day.

1899
INTERESTING MELANGE.
A Chronological Record of Events as they have Transpired in the City and County since our last Issue.

She is Not Married.

About a month ago two women of this city, one married and the other single, called the office and left a written account of the alleged wedding of Miss Ethel Vancil and a Mr. McAntire. The item was received in good faith and was printed, supposing it to be accurate, but it now develops that it was intended as a joke and the wedding did not occur at all.

Such "jokes" are not appreciated by anyone and it is not to wondered that neither Miss Vancil or her parents were very well pleased over it. Miss Vancil's acquaintances have very naturally it for granted that she is married, but she is not, and she wishes it distinctly so understood.

Dr. E. J. Burch and family are stopping with his parents at the corner of Fulton and Third streets. The doctor has not yet decided where he will take an office.

  Today's Feature

Alcott Represented at Chautauqua.

Louisa May Alcott will be but one of the historical personalities that will be protrayed during the week-long Heartland Chautauqua in Carthage beginning May 31. The event is sponsored by the Carthage Chamber of Commerce, Carthage Public Library, Main Street Carthage, and Powers Museum.

Other personalities represented will be Elizabeth Van Lew, A.A. Burleigh, Sojourner Truth and General William T. Sherman.

Best known for her book "Little Women", Alcott also became known for her activity in the suffrage movement.

Alcott’s character will be presented by Gayle Stahlhuth who has been selected to be in Marquis’ Who’s Who of American Women and Who’s Who in Entertainment.

Stahlhuth works in all of the actors’ unions and as such has appeared in soaps, films, commercials, regional and Off-Broadway theatres.

Individual speakers will appear nightly in the old-fashioned Chautauqua tent and other events of the series include lectures, exhibits, mini-workshops and others to be announced.

 


 

Just Jake Talkin'
Mornin',

There was no official action reported from the closed session of the Airport Settlement Committee last Thursday evenin’. The meetin’ was in consideration of a proposed settlement of the litigation submitted to the City.

All indications are that there is some cooperative conversation still goin’ on that was initiated in earlier meetin’s.

The survey of the most considered piece of property for the new airport has been completed and the pickin’ of appraisers is on the agenda.

There also seems to be a continuation of the commitment of funding at some level for the project. The momentum of the movement to procure a new aviation facility seems to be gatherin’ steam.

This is some fact, but mostly,

Just Jake Talkin’.

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Weekly Column

The Super Handyman.

Fence posts set in concrete should be there for the long haul. After all, the fence is only as strong as its posts. If the posts are wood, use pressure treated wood for the longest life.

About a third of the total length of the post should be underground. In digging, add an extra inch of so for a bed of gravel for better drainage to carry water away from the wood. Then flare out the hole at the bottom with a straight shovel. This belled-out effect adds a lot of extra stability.

After the concrete is poured, slope the top away from the post. Before building the rest of the fence, give the concrete time to cure.

Actually, after digging very many post holes, you'll probably have to spend some time to let your back cure.

Dear Al: We have a small soap dispenser that comes through one of the holes in our sink. It's handy to have except it seems to run out of liquid soap too often. With all the stuff under the sink - pipes, disposer, dishwasher connections - it's unhandy to refill. It just happens that a 2-liter soft drink bottle has the same size threads as the container for the soap. This larger bottle holds several times as much soap and so there's lots more time between refills.

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