| today's
laugh A man appears before St. Peter at the Pearly
Gates.
"Have you ever done anything of
particular merit?" St. Peter asks.
"Well, I can think of one
thing," the man offers. "Once, on a trip to the
Black Hills, out in South Dakota, I came upon a gang of
high-testosterone bikers who were threatening a young
woman. I directed them to leave her alone, but they
wouldn’t listen. So I approached the largest and
most heavily tattooed biker. I smacked him on the head,
kicked his bike over, ripped out his nose ring and threw
it on the ground, and told him, ‘Leave her alone now
or you’ll answer to me.’"
St. Peter was impressed. "When did
this happen?"
"Just a couple minutes ago."
1910
INTERESTING MELANGE.
A Chronological Record of Events as they have
Transpired in the City and County since our last Issue.
Tourist Club Discusses
Egypt.
The Tourist club held a pleasant
meeting with Mrs. Howard Gray on Clinton street Saturday
afternoon discussing the ancient Theban kings, among them
Ramses the Third, whose reign of sixty years was a period
of peace and prosperity for ancient Egypt. His mummy is
on exhibition in the British museum today. The hostess
gave an interesting talk upon Mehemet Ali the great
moslem warrior who assisted the British in expelling the
French, after the memorable seige of Acre. He made
himself viceroy of Egypt and made his name memorable by
completing the work that Napoleon had
begun—annihilating the Mamelukes. Another
interesting paper dealt with the ancient and modern
religions of Egypt, showing how the old mythology, with
its complicated animal worship and belief in
transmigration of the soul and resurrection of the dead,
became corrupt and vicious.
| |
Today's Feature Maple Leaf
Lighting Contest.
The Maple Leaf Festival
Committee and the Carthage Convention and
Visitor’s Bureau have announced the return
of the Maple Leaf Festival Lighting Contest. As
with the original campaign in 1967, Carthage
residents will be encouraged to decorate yards
and businesses to illuminate and celebrate the
changing of the season. Prizes will be awarded
and the displays will be available for public
night viewing during the Maple Leaf Festival,
October 9-16, 2010.
• Displays must be within
Carthage City Limits
• Maple Leaf Festival
Lighting Applications must be received by the
Carthage CVB on or before October 6, 2010
• Displays must be
available for viewing and judging October 9-17,
2010 from 7 p.m. until 10 p.m.
• First, Second &
Third place winners in each category will receive
a garden plaque
• Decisions of the judges
are final
Carthage CVB 402 S. Garrison
64836 417-529-7742
|
 |
Just Jake
Talkin'
Mornin',
I’ve only got into
poison ivy once that I know about. As a kid
out huntin’, I apparently laid down in a
ripe growth. It covered my stomach area.
The real battle is ta get
it to stop itchin’ long enough ta let it
heal. In other words, the less ya do the
better off ya are.
This is of course
completely opposite of the procedure for the
small cuts or abrasions that kids come up
with. In that instance there needs ta be an
effort to clean and cover, watch for
infection and spreadin’. When a cut
started itchin’ a little, it was a good
sign usually. Meant it was healin’ up.
Sometimes it’s not so
clear whether an itch needs scratchin’
or ignorin’. Sometimes it comes down to
will power or knowledge, but usually just
dumb luck.
This is some fact, but
mostly,
Just Jake Talkin’.
|
| Sponsored by
Carthage Printing Services |
Weekly
Columns
artCentral
ART
NOTES from Hyde House
by Sally
Armstrong, Director of artCentral
Alot of work is being done this
week at the gallery of Hyde House as we prepare
for the opening this Friday night of the new
exhibition. I received the art from our principal
artist Linda Teeter on Monday, and have been
working to get it all hung and identified.
Linda’s things will be displayed downstairs
in our Main Gallery in a show called
"GRAFFITI: URBAN ART", a wonderful and
colorful group of large photographs that document
this art form in Kansas City, Joplin, St. Louis
and New Orleans. I told you last week a bit about
Linda Teeter’s thoughts about this body of
her work, and I know that those who come to see
the presentation will be interested in both the
art and the artform it portrays. I aluded also
last week to telling you about another artist,
someone I said I know as well as I know myself.
It’s ME! Quoting from my artist’s
statement, I love and live for color! Those of
you who know me know that I usually do not shy
away from the use of color in my home or in my
art. I prefer and continue to study the great
medium of watercolor, and tend to use it
transparently most of the time. I cannot remember
when I did not know that I was an artist, and I
began my love affair with watercolors in grade
school, when my generation used those old
fashioned oval Prang sets in the 1950s and 60s! I
enjoyed a superior teacher in art during that
time, and she taught us a good base knowledge
which I built upon in high school and college. I
was a fine art major, emphasis in watercolor, at
Stephens College, studying under art department
head and watercolor artist Russell Green, who had
a degree from the Chicago Art Institute. Later I
received a degree in Interior Design from Massey
School of Design, Atlanta, learning watercolor
rendering from Stanley Topol, who is a top
Interior Designer in Atlanta today. While single
and working in a design field in Kansas City, I
attended night classes at the KC Art Institute
under Matthew Monks, watercolor drawing of the
human figure. Most recently, after moving to
Carthage, I have enjoyed several watercolor
workshops with Jerry Ellis, Larry Stephenson and
John Fitzgibbon. I was very pleased that my tiny
watercolor of a squirrel brought the third
highest bid in our recent 5X5 Art Auction held
this year at artCentral. And now, in an attempt
to show the work of each of the various former
and current directors of artCentral during this
our 25th Anniversary year, I have hung a small
group of current paintings of mine in the Member
Gallery, which will be on display and for sale
during this current show. I hope you will be
present at 6:00 Friday night as we welcome Linda
Teeter ( and me!) to our galleries, and once
more, our great thanks to Steve Beimdiek as our
underwriting sponsor, Beimdiek Insurors. This
show will be open Saturday and Sunday as well,
noon to 5:00.
|
Copyright 1997-2010 by
Heritage Publishing. All rights reserved.
|