Council Back On Schedule.

The City Council will resume its regular second and fourth Tuesday evening meetings tomorrow night after modifying the schedule for the holidays.

Tuesday’s agenda includes two scheduled votes on Council bills. One would authorize a budget adjustment to allocate $10,000 to Main Street Carthage for a promotions package. The other scheduled vote will be for adopting the naming policy for public buildings, structures, facilities and streets as recommended by the Public Services Committee.

A Council bill authorizing a contract with Main Street Carthage for the above mentions funds will be in first readings well as authorization of the expenditure of $10,066 to pay for the purchase, approved previously, of property owned by Larry Allen.

A finance package in the amount of $1,915,000 for golf course improvements will also be in first reading.

The Council is also scheduled to hear a presentation by the Carthage Mill & Museum Park Corporation of Webb City requesting an endorsement on a proposed park located near Morrow Mill.

Although not frequently identified as a legitimate "old saying," I’ve always been humored by the quip, "I heard it outa the corner of my ear." A sense of irony maybe, or just sophomoric humor. Either way, I find in funny.

I’ve got an uncle that I was always told had a dry sense of humor. As a kid, I categorized it as "corny." ‘Course I figured any parent to be a little corny. Not hip with really good humor like elephant jokes and really tough tongue twisters.

I hope that my appreciation of humor has matured somewhat, but I still get a kick outa swappin’ elephant joke with grandkids. The real surprise sometimes is the depth of understanding youngsters have about humor. You’re never too young, or old, for a good laugh or two.

This is some fact, but mostly,

Just Jake Talkin’.

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Workman's Loan

The Super Handyman

by Al Carrell & Kelly Carrell

Dear Al & Kelly:

We finally switched to large plastic boxes for storage instead of plain cardboard boxes. The plastic protects our things better and moisture won’t be a problem anymore.

There is one drawback: the cost. They last forever, but the initial cost was too much for us to do too much at one time. A really good plastic container that isn’t so expensive is a plastic garbage can. They have snap-shut lids and cost about half of what the boxes cost, plus you can fit a lot more stuff in one. We use the garbage cans for winter or summer clothes, since we usually pack and unpack them all at once.

Shower curtains are still popular, at least for looks. They sometimes do have a problem, though, with allowing water to get around them and out on the bathroom floor.

Shower curtains - or at least the vinyl liners - used to have magnets in the hems so that they would magnetically attach to the tub. But magnets won’t work on the new fiber-glass and acrylic tubs, so manufacturers don’t use the magnets anymore. Velcro, however, works just as well, and you can install it yourself.

You can buy stick-on Velcro strips at hardware stores and home centers. Just apply one piece to the tub and the matching piece to the shower curtain.