Mornin' Mail

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Tuesday, July 10, 2001 Volume X, Number 16

Did Ya Know?. . .The Southwest Missouri Chapter of the American Red Cross has Air Conditioners to loan to residents of Carthage who are suffering heat related illness. For guidelines and additional information contact Mary Barksdale at 358-4334.

Did Ya Know?. . .The Family Fair Acres Family Y.M.C.A. Summer Indoor Soccer Mini-League registration deadline is July 10th, 2001. Fees are $12 for members and $18 for community participants. Saturday games will be held from July 21-Aug 11. Call Jarrod Newcomb at 358-1070 for more information.

Did Ya Know?. . .The Carthage Humane Society has a declawed, neutered Siamese cat up for adoption. If you would like to adopt a cat call 358-6402.

today's laugh

Author- "I once got ten dollars a word."
Editor- "Hmm! How was that?"
Author- "I talked back to the judge."

"Have you been singing in the choir?"
"Yes."
"What part?"
"Well, I sang first base when I went in, but they changed it after they heard my voice."
"What did you sing after that?"
"Short stop."

1901
INTERESTING MELANGE.
A Chronological Record of Events as they have Transpired in the City and County since our last Issue.

Flashing Guns and Rough Language
Were Too Much For His Nerves.

Passengers on electric car 29 yesterday tell of an exciting gun play on the line between Webb City and Joplin. Lawyer Curry of Webb City got on the car with the two Baker brothers and all three began to quarrel as soon as they were seated. The trouble had grown out of a lawsuit in which the attorney has prosecuted the brothers.

When near the Klondyke station one of the Bakers stopped the car and both attempted to remove Curry from his seat, evidently to take him to the woods, thus to fight it out. Sheriff Rich and Deputy Lee Wormington were among the passengers, and with drawn guns interfered, stopping the fracas.

When the guns began to flash Col. Dave Sayers of Carthage, with an expression of poignant disapproval upon his face, performed the surprising acrobatic feat of his life by jumping through the window of the car when it was going full speed and alighting on his feet; another passenger climbed over a seat backwards without turning a hair; one of the officials of the Southwest Missouri Light Co. took a running shoot for the rear platform, while an unknown man jumped off the rear platform backward, and after turning over several times, started for Webb City on the keen run, hitting only the high places in the lane.

The conductor appealed to Sheriff Rich, who was on the car, and he ran to the scene of the disturbance and rescued Mr. Curry from the clutches of the large, determined men. One of the men grabbed the sheriff by the arm and drew back as if to smite him, when the sheriff remarked, "Don’t strike me or I’ll puncture you." When the men found they were talking to an officer, they quieted down and the car was stopped to pick up Mr. Sayers and the man who had taken to the woods.

Col. Sayers was completely winded and very much disgusted at the coarseness of the men who committed the assault, the unknown man probably was too, but he never came back to tell about it and on arriving at Joplin the two men were taken to the circuit court by Sheriff Rich, where the prosecuting attorney filed an information and they were held under a bond of $200 each for trial.

At the conclusion of the difficulty, Mr. Curry had a bump on his head that is not located on phrenological charts, but which will disappear with a liberal application of arnica and patience. He exhibited a very Christian forbearance towards the disturbers of his peace and dignity.

	Today's Feature Bare Quorum Expected. The City Council is scheduled to meet this evening in City Hall at 7:30. Three and possibly four of the members will be out of town for various reasons so the minimum of six members for a quorum is possible. The agenda includes the second reading of a request for annexation of property located at 1616 S. Baker Boulevard owned by the First Assembly of God Church. There is a possibility of this bill being postponed as several Council members have expressed the opinion that the entire church property should also be annexed in addition to the single lot as requested. The Council is also schedule to vote on two construction contracts with Sprouls Construction for storm water and street improvements. One contract is for $6,400 for a storm water pipe west of Mimosa Road and the other is for $565,996.70 for the extension of George Phelps Boulevard in the Myers Park Development. An employment agreement with Golf Pro Mark Peterson is also scheduled for a vote. The agreement would put Peterson in charge of the day-to-day operation of the Golf Course and oversight of personnel.
	Just Jake Talkin' Mornin', The old sayin’ is ya always find somethin’ the last place ya look. Unfortunately, that’s not always the case. Seems like I always find what I’m lookin’ for after I bought a similar item for more money somewhere else. It’s hard ta know when ta stop lookin’ most of the time. Those shoes you fretted over for an hour before ya finally put ‘em on and walk out of the store are displayed in the next shop ya walk by, at half the price. That vehicle ya thought was so unique is suddenly the most popular vehicle in the county. Most of ‘em are even the same color as yours. If you’d only looked one more place. ‘Course most of us learn to live with our "bargains." At least until the next fashion is released. This is some fact, but mostly, Just Jake Talkin’.
Sponsored by McCune- Brooks Hospital	Weekly Column Health Notes Health & Nutrition by Judith Sheldon BREAKTHROUGH: Septicemia is a blood-borne bacterial infection that affects some half million people a year and may be responsible for some 175,000 deaths. Recently, researchers at the North Shore University Hospital in Long Island, N.Y., released their findings regarding the removal of a molecule called CD14 from the surface of white blood cells, enabling animals to become resistant to endotoxin shock, which is the deadly stage of the septicemia infection. The research, which was funded by the National Institutes of Health, and done in North Shore’s Laboratory of Molecular Hematology, suggests that blocking this molecule may be an effective treatment for septic shock caused by a type of organism called gram-negative bacteria. If asked, most of us would say immune systems are our best means of avoiding infection. And we’d be right. But, ironically, when the immune system reacts to gram-negative bacteria - as we expect it to react to any invading bacteria - it triggers a series of events that lead to septic shock, and almost always death. Now thanks to this breakthrough, doctors may be able to interrupt this chain of events before it turns deadly.