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laugh An Antartian was playing a trivia board game one
night. It was her turn, she rolled the dice and landed on
"Science & Nature." Her question was,
"If you are in a vacuum and someone calls your name,
can you hear it?" She thought for a time and then
asked, "Is it on or off?"
It was the day of the big sale. Rumors
of the sale and an advertisement in the local paper were
the main reasons for the long line that formed in front
of the store by 8:30, the store’s opening time. A
small man pushed his way to the front of the line, only
to be pushed back amid loud and colorful curses. On the
man’s second attempt, he was punched square in the
jaw and knocked around a bit, then thrown to the end of
the line again. As he got up the second time, he said to
the person at the end of the line: "That does it! If
they hit me one more time, I don’t open the
store!"
Radioactive cats have 18 half-lives.
1911
INTERESTING MELANGE.
A Chronological Record of Events as they have
Transpired in the City and County since our last Issue.
COURT HOUSE IN CARD
BOARD.
Dr. W. B. Jones, a practicing physician
of Galena, has made a bas-relief reproduction of the
court house of this city in card board. The doctor is an
enthusiast on architecture and his reproduction of the
magnificent court house is said to be his finest
production.
On the board surface of a piece of
pine, Dr. Jones begins his structure, first cutting into
regular widths cardboard of the desired color, he fastens
them with pins, in curve and angle, upon the board until
the outlines of the building begin to take form. Then the
gables, cornices, windows and balcony take places until,
after all the elaboration is finished, one sees before
him a structure perfect in every detail. The copy of the
Carthage court house is three by four feet, and its
inception was the result of a wager between Dr. Jones and
another gentleman who boasted of a superior skill in
bas-relief architecture that his later actions strongly
belle; for after getting sight of the doctor’s work
he has remained a silent boaster ever since. The creation
is enclosed in a deep frame covered with glass, showing a
south and east view and is perfect in perspective and
exact in proportion from the great wide stairs leading
from the green lawn, to the clock in the tower, showing
its face in the original to be more than 100 feet above
the surface. All is complete in white card-board except
the cornice which is in color and the windows which are
in silver paper, giving the effect of reflected sunlight.
Nearly 14,000 pins are used in putting
the structure together, their shiny heads adding much to
the attractiveness of the view. A picture of the
bas-relief architecture is in the possession of the
writer, but it shows but poorly the vast amount of labor
expended by Dr. Jones upon this wonderful work.
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Today's Feature Public Safety:
Busy Agenda.
The following issues are
scheduled to be discussed at Monday’s Public
Safety meeting to be held in the Fire Department
at 6:30 p.m.
a.) Bobbi Schrader of
Schrader’s Towing – Request for
Business to be Put Back on the City Towing List
b.) Diane Sharits –
Councilwoman Request to Review/Revise the
Ordinance Which Does Not Allow Dogs to be
Chained/Tied in a Yard
c.) Request for Closing the
Square in June for Alpha Omega Covenant Church
– Children’s Crusade per Heber Mendoza
d.) Diane Butler – Request
Waiver of Vendor Sales at Kellogg Lake for the
Stang Gang Car Show on April 30th
e.) Wendi Douglas –
Convention & Visitors Bureau, Discuss Cannons
& A Waiver of the Statute Regarding
Discharging of Firearms Within The City
Police Department
a.) Create a No Parking Zone on
6 Street Between Orchard and Fulton
b.) At the Recommendation of
the Street Department - Create a No Parking Zone
from Central to 2nd on Howard Street
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Just Jake
Talkin'
Mornin',
The dad of a high school
friend a mine always used ta tell him that it
didn’t cost anymore ta keep the top half
of his ‘57 Chevy’s gas tank full
than it did the bottom half. ‘Course he
owned a gas station.
I once ran out of gas and
coasted to a halt directly in front of a
driveway just as the lady (?) drove up ta
pull in that particular drive. "If ya
can’t afford the gas, ya shouldn’t
own it," she comforted, in a snide
voice.
And, of course, my
granddad’s observation that it’s
not the initial cost of a diner table,
it’s the upkeep that’s expensive.
Then the classic,
"Don’t look a gift horse in the
mouth," and I would add, "unless ya
have ta feed it."
‘Course all these
pearls of wisdom are naturally more useful as
advice to others rather than self
improvement.
This is some fact, but
mostly,
Just Jake Talkin’.
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ART NOTES from Hyde House
by Sally Armstrong,
Director of artCentral
The move has been made, and if
you are a regular customer of the local Sirloin
Stockade you will have some new art to gaze upon,
that of our most recent artist Brenda Sageng. Go
by and take a look at her paintings which should
remain there through the month of April. I am
currently organizing the information on our next
exhibition to begin April 1st here in the Main
Gallery, that being paintings by Crane, MO artist
Dianne Baum in a new show entitled
"Whimsical Watercolor." Dianne is a
fairly new artist-member of artCentral and shows
a lot of work in various galleries in the
Springfield area. She was recently featured in
the insert magazine, the CONNECTION in the
Springfield Newsleader, which featured Dianne and
her work, with multiple photos of her studio and
some of her paintings. They said, "Dianne
Baum’s personality is effervescent. The cup
that holds her life overflows with bubbles of
happiness, enthusiasm, contentment and love of
God, family, friends, hearth, and home." Her
address is Crane, but art fills her home with is
located in rural Aurora where walls are painted
light colors and stenciled with words and phrases
that have special meaning to her. Paintings and
photographs adorn the walls in every room. Some
were gifts from artist friends or purchased
pieces that struck a chord deep within her, or
images of her own that have been photographed and
framed. Baum began her artistic adventures when
she retired as librarian from the Monett School
District in 2006. She joined the Mozark Artist
Guild in Monett and took a couple of classes from
George "Papa" Tutt and Doug Hall, and
she was on her way! She has explored her
creativity through the mediums of photography,
painting, and mixed media, making one-of-a-kind
items that require more than a second glance.
Next week I will tell you what you can expect to
see in her exhibition here at artCentral next
month!
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