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The Mornin' Mail is published daily Wednesday, July 1, 1998 Volume VI, Number 265

did ya know?
Did ya know?. . .Starting July 1, 1998, Economic Security Corporation will have available cooling assistance for Barton, Jasper, Newton, and McDonald Counties. The program’s purpose is to help these families and individuals keep their electricity on during the summer months. Households must be income eligible.

today's laugh

If matches were made in heaven, where did the cigar-lighters come from?

People who live in glass houses shouldn’t.

Never give the boy all the allowance you can afford. Keep back some to bail him out.

One great advantage of relly being old is that one is beyond being told he is getting old.

What this country needs is fewer people telling us what this country needs.

The old songs are best because nobody sings them anymore.

Twenty years ago the girls never thought of doing the things they do nowadays. That’s why they didn’t do them.

1898
INTERESTING MELANGE.
A Chronological Record of Events as they have Transpired in the City and County since our last Issue.

Regular Army Recruits.

Men Being Enlisted Here For Three Years' Service,

Lieut. Longan, of the 11th U.S. Inf., arrived yesterday and has opened a recruiting station in the vacant room adjacent to the fire department. He is assisted by Dr. T.P. McCluney, of Sedalia, Sergt. Beatty and Private Malloy, also of the 11th. They are receiving recruits for three years' service in the regular army- with privilege of resigning at the close of the war, as per order of the adjutant general which reads as follows:

" By direction of the secretary of war it is announced that men enlisted or reenlisted in the regular army during the war may be informed that they will be granted their discharges, if desired, at the close of the war, upon their individual applications. Up to 3:30 today the following recruits have been examined and received."

At Sedalia 61 recruits were received and at Warrensburg nine. Lieut. Longan will remain here as long as recruits will justify.

Today's Feature

McPheeters to Retire.

Bob Copeland Named Interium Hospital Administrator.

The McCune Brooks Hospital Board has named Bob Copeland as interim Hospital Administrator following the announcement by current Administrator Jim McPheeters that he will be retiring. McPheeters recently was recognized for his twenty-five years of service to the hospital.

Copeland has worked for the Carthage health facility for two years and has a Master's Degree in Health Care Management. He has served as the Director of Patient Services since his arrival here and was formerly the CEO of a Tulsa, Ok. hospital.

"My goal is to insure that we maintain the high quality of care that has come to be expected from McCune Brooks," Copeland told the Mornin' Mail yesterday.

Board President Stan Schmidt says McPheeters' announcement came at the close of the Board meeting and no time frame has been established for a permanent replacement at this time.

Just Jake Talkin'
Mornin',

There aren’t many of the "old fort" left. With the announced comin’ retirement of Jim McPheeters from McCune Brooks, most of the "twenty-some" year community leaders have now retired. In the last few years the City has seen the retirement of long time Fire Chief Don Simmons, Assistant to the City Engineer Harold Neely, CW&EP Production Manager John Garrett, and most recently Police Chief Ed Ellefsen. Other’s have key personnel have also retired with less fanfare. The City has been fortunate to attract and keep quality Department Heads and management personnel over the last twenty years.

It appears that the "new generation" of City management has made the transition to their new roles without any major hitch to this point. Hopefully we’re in for another good decade or two.

This is some fact, but mostly,

Just Jake Talkin’.