Today's Feature

Midwest Gathering of the Artists.

The 27th Annual Midwest Gathering of the Artists Art Show and Auction will be held September 10, 11 and 12 at Memorial Hall, 407 South Garrison in Carthage.

The Art Auction Affair will take place on the evening of Friday 10. Hors d’oeuvres and an auction preview will start at 6 p.m. and the Auction will begin at 7 p.m. The event costs $20 per person and tickets will be sold at the door. There will be 35 pieces of original art auctioned from the Midwest’s finest sculptors of stone, bronze, watercolor and oil painters.

Other events include the Art Show and Sale, Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Admission is free, and the event is a chance to meet the artists.

Participating artists include; Andy Thomas, April Leiter, Barbara Courtney, Bill Snow, Billy Kirk, Bob Duffie, Bob Tommey, Bobby Hunt, Cal Sechrest, Dan Dueter, Debbie Reed, Doug Hall, Doug Prine, Fred J. Bender, Gail MacArgel, Garnet Buster, Jack Sours, Jeff Legg, Joe Davis, Larry Case, Lowell Davis, M. Sue Hollis, Martha Spurlock, Martiena Richter, Mary Anne Sorries, Pat Barron, Raymond Popp, Richard Thompson, Robin Putman, Ron Hooks, Roy Lee Ward, Theresa Rankin, Thomas DeClene, and Tricia Courtney.

For tickets, reservations or more information, call Sandy Higgins, 417-358-7163, or e-mail 1artangel@cox-internet.com

I always enjoy it when I get a chance to drop by a County Commission meetin’. You have to follow things along as they weave from here to yonder ever’ now and then. It’s sorta like one a those movies that have five or ten stories goin’ at once. Ya get a little piece of the plot here, then it will pop up again in the middle of another discussion all together. After a while there is a definite line of questions or statements, then we’re off on another subject.

It reminds me some of sittin’ ‘round the dinner table after a day out in the fields durin’ harvest. Some people talk of the day’s work, a little politics, some pokin’ fun, and some serious decisions. Just part of the Midwestern experience.

Speakin’ of experience, ever try to enjoy a good meal with the other farm hands after one of ‘em picked up a skunk in the hay bailer?

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Just Jake Talkin’

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Metcalf Auto Supply

Click & Clack Talk Cars

By Tom and Ray Magliozz

These Rotors are Wearing Out Too Quickly.

Dear Tom and Ray:

I own a 1990 Mazda 626 and had the brakes and rotors replaced last February. Two months later, the rotors were warped again and had to be replaced. Four months after that, I had the same situation. Can you explain why new rotors warp so quickly? We did not have this problem during the first 13 years we owned the car. - Ken

TOM: To quote Shakespeare, the problem, dear Ken, is not in our rotors, but in our calipers. He said something like that, didn’t he?

RAY: If one of your calipers is sticking - holding a brake in the "on" position, even when your foot is not on the brake pedal - that would heat up a rotor and cause it to warp prematurely.

TOM: We always check the calipers when we do a brake job, to make sure that both the pistons and the slides are moving freely. I mean, why miss an opportunity to sell a customer a caliper? But the guys who did your brake job might have missed one. You could also have a faulty power-brake booster that’s applying the brakes even when you’re not. Or a restricted rubber brake hose that’s acting like a check valve and creating the same effect.

RAY: So, those are the things I’d ask the mechanic to look for, Ken. There’s no reason why new rotors - even cheap ones - should warp after only a few months unless there’s something else in the play.