Mornin' Mail

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Monday, November 29, 1999 Volume VIII, Number 116

Did Ya Know?. . .The "Kids Praise Singers" from the Carthage First Church of the Nazarene, 2000 Grand Carthage, will present "The Believer’s Millennium Day Parade" a musical, on Sunday, Dec. 5 at 10:30 a.m. The public is invited.

Did Ya Know?. . .The McCune-Brooks Golden Reflections will be having Medicare and Insurance Counseling from 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, December 1, 1999. Check in at the cashier’s desk and they will find an available insurance counselor to assist you.

today's laugh

I had a terrible fight with my wife last night. I said, "You know, you’re going to drive me to my grave!" and in two minutes she had the car warmed up and in front of the house.

Christy: What’s the difference between an elephant and a matterbaby?

Mark: What’s a matterbaby?

Christy: Nothing. I didn’t know you cared.

Late one night in the insane asylum one inmate shouted, "I am Napoleon." Another said, "How do you know?" The first inmate said, "God told me." Just then, a voice from the next room shouted, "I did not."

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

Thief Caught in the Act.

Chas. Scott, the merchants’ night policeman, discovered a man attempting to get out with a sack of flour at the back door of Richardson & Co.’s grocery store at about midnight last night.

The officer was at the time making his rounds to try all doors, seeing if they were properly locked for the night. As he approached the Richardson store the thief broke and ran, leaving the sack of flour sitting just inside the door.

The man would not stop when commanded, and Scott sent a shot after him, but he was dodging zigzag fashion and the shot did not take effect. It was thought someone else was inside the store, but later investigation proved noone there.

An examination this morning shows that the would-be thief made his entrance into the store by pulling a cleat off the door jam, and then sticking a knife through a crack in such a way as to work back the inside bolt.

Today's Feature

Street Vender Proposal Clarified.

Members of the City Council Public Safety Committee, during last week’s Council meeting, were quick to clarify that a Council bill requested by Public Safety Committee Chair Charlie Bastin was not presented with the Committee’s recommendation for approval.

The bill, which would eliminate the current ordinance that prohibits the selling of merchandise on City streets from a motor vehicle, was twice brought to the Committee by Bastin and twice voted down.

Mayor Kenneth Johnson pointed out to the Council that any individual Council members can request a Council bill.

Part of the clarification was needed because the bill erroneously showed the Public Safety Committee as sponsor of the bill. A proposed bill that would expand on the wording of the current ordinance is scheduled on the agenda for the Committee’s next regular meeting.

Committee members Lujene Clark, H.J. Johnson, and J.D. Whitledge all noted to the Council that they did not support eliminating the controls on street venders, but wanted the language clarified.

Just Jake Talkin'
Mornin',

Sometimes technology is really scary.

I was walkin’ up to a convenience store the other day and I heard this voice.

"Attention. This car is backing up!"

At first I thought it was the gas pump talkin’ to me. They’ve scared me a few times too, but the sound was closer than that.

Then I realized I was behind a large van that was creeping toward me. How’d it know?

After gettin’ out a the way, I’m figurin’ the thing just automatically does that when the backup lights come on, but maybe there is a tiny camera watchin’ out for us pedestrians, makin’ sure we don’t end up in harms way. Either way, in this instance it worked, however it works.

This is some fact, but mostly,

Just Jake Talkin’.