Mornin' Mail

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Wednesday, September 19, 2001 Volume X, Number 66

Did Ya Know?. . .The Economic Security Corporation of Southwest Area is requesting Carthage participants in the air conditioner loan program return their A.C.’s to the ESC Outreach office from 8-5 p.m. on Tuesday, September 25th. Clients are asked to bring assistance for removing A.C.’s from vehicles. For more information call 358-3521.

Did Ya Know?. . .The Carthage Humane Society has three orange and white, six-week-old litter mate kittens, 2 male & 1 female, that need homes. The Humane Society also needs volunteers, there is something for all ages and talents. For more information call 358-6402.

today's laugh

"I am delighted to meet you," said the father of the college student, shaking hands warmly with the professor. "My son took algebra from you last year, you know."
"Pardon me," said the professor, "he was exposed to it, but he did not take it."

"There is direct and indirect taxation. Give me an example of indirect taxation."
"The dog tax, sir."
"How is that?"
"The dog does not have to pay it."

The back fence is the shortest distance between two gossips.

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

NORTH AND SOUTH REVERSED.

Rev. W. Frost Bishop Goes North to a Southern Presbytery.

Dr. Wm. Frost Bishop of this city is party to a seemingly paradoxical state of affairs. The northern presbyterian of Missouri met in Webb City last night and agreed to accept him into membership as soon as he was released from the southern presbytery.

In order to be released from the southern he has gone to that presbytery at St. Joseph, 200 miles north of where the northern meeting was held. The meeting is in progress this week and Dr. Bishop will come home a strengthened believer in the reunited north and south.

It is reported that a well known Carthage young man, now a railway express messenger, is to be married in about a week to a Webb City girl.

	Today's Feature Holden Names Wyman New Jasper County Associate Circuit Judge. Jasper County Grew Dramatically Since 1990. Gov. Bob Holden today named Jane Wyman of Alba to a newly created position as Jasper County Associate Circuit Court Judge. Wyman, 52, is currently an attorney in the Spradling Wyman L.L.C. law firm in Carthage. From 1998 to 2000 she served as assistant county counselor for Jasper County, and was city attorney for Alba from 1993 to 1997. Wyman received her bachelor’s degree from Missouri Southern State College in Joplin and earned her law degree from the University of Tulsa. She has served as a member of the Missouri Southern State College Board of Regents since her appointment to the post by Gov. Mel Carnahan in 1997. Jasper is one of seven Missouri counties that grew dramatically from 1990 to 2000, qualifying those countries for an additional Associate Circuit judge to help with increased caseloads.
	Just Jake Talkin' Mornin', The recently enacted ordinance prohibiting the sale of alcoholic beverages within 300 feet of a church or "regular place of worship" will likely face its first test at the next Council meetin’. A restaurant is scheduled to open at 207 W. Third (the old Blue and Grey) and is requestin’ a permit to serve beer and wine. A mission is currently leasing space at 213 Lyon (the old Police Station). The walkin’ distance is only about a hunderd and seventy feet. The Public Safety Committee heard the request Monday evening from restaurant owner Shellie Ross and voted to request a hearing of the Council at the meeting next Tuesday evening. The Committee felt the issue should be placed on the agenda to allow for public comment. This is some fact, but mostly, Just Jake Talkin’.
Sponsored by Carthage Printing Services	Weekly Column PRIME TIME WITH KIDS by Donna Erickson When the "big" kids are off to school, whip up a batch of this pure white baking soda play clay for your preschoolers. While you prepare the recipe, ponder the wonders of nature with your child, and talk about how you might make your own versions in clay. Start by observing and discussing characteristics and shapes of the fruits and vegetables right in your kitchen. A banana’s a curve; a bunch of grapes is a lot of little balls and some wild spirals. A tomato is a squashed ball with a few creases on top! Once the play clay is prepared, set to work shaping and playing with it and see where your children’s imaginations take them. The variations of things they can mold and shape are endless. To make the clay: In a pot, have your child stir together 1 cup of cornstarch, 2 cups of baking soda, and 1 1/4 cups of water. Once the ingredients are all combined, an adult should set the pot over low heat and continue stirring until the texture begins to resemble mashed potatoes. Remove pot from stove and put play clay in a large bowl until cool enough to handle. Meanwhile, set out a variety of kid-safe kitchen gadgets for playing, such as cups, spoons, muffin tins, ice-cube trays and cookie cutters. Kids can pack the clay, mold it, or knead it and cut out shapes. Finished works of art will dry after a day or two and can be painted.