today's
laugh
A group of friars
were behind on their belfry payments, so they opened up a
small florist shop to raise the funds. Since everyone
liked to buy flowers from the men of God, the rival
florist across town thought the competition was unfair.
He asked the good farthers to close down, but they could
not. He went back and begged the firars to close. They
ignored him. He asked his mother to ask the firars to get
out of the business. They ignored her too.
So, the rival florist hired Hugh
MacTaggart, the roughest and most vicious thug in town to
"persuade" them to close. Hugh beat up the
firars and trashed their store, saying he’d be back
if they didn’t close shop. Terrified, they did so-
thereby proving that Hugh, and only Hugh, can prevent
florist friars.
A telephone pole never hits an
automobile except in self-defense.
1898
INTERESTING MELANGE.
A Chronological Record of Events as they have
Transpired in the City and County since our last Issue.
MORE LIGHT ON THE SUBJECT.
Some About the Two Men Arrested
for Enticing Girls From Home.
The Springfield Leader-Democrat of
yesterday says:
"A telegram from Webb City today
says that 'Robert Zork, alias Robert Lines, and Charles
Wright waived examination and were bound over under five
hundred dollar bond. They confessed their guilt to the
officers.'
"Zork and Wright are charged with
the ruin of two girls at Webb City. It seems that Zork
has been going over the country using the name of Robert
Lines, a young man of high standing in this city, who was
in no way connected with the crime."
Wright is a dentist at Springfield, and
Zork, alias Lines, is a traveling man. The former gave
bond, and the latter is in jail here.
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Today's Feature Budget Committee Approves Airport Fund
Increase.
The Budget Committee voted to
recommend raising the City’s set-aside for a
new airport from $300,000 to $500,000 during
their budget hearing last Monday night. The
recommendation will require a full Council
approval.
Committee member Mike Harris
made the motion after laying out a basic plan to
get a landing strip relocated. Harris reported
that he had a solid commitment from members of
the business community for $50,000 to start an
additional fund to help with relocation costs.
The $500,000 would eventually be put back into
the City’s general fund out of proceeds from
anticipated land sales of the Myers Park
Development. Harris and Art Dunaway voted for the
recommendation, Chair Jackie Boyer against.
Committee member Donna Harlan was not present.
Boyer said she was in favor of
relocating the airport, but felt the additional
funding was unnecessary.
Mayor Kenneth Johnson said
yesterday he felt the plan was a good one.
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Just Jake
Talkin'
Mornin',
After lookin’ into the
various aspects of the legalities of the
fundin’ for the Library Board, the
Budget Committee voted Monday night to pretty
much keep things as they were last year. The
Library and the Park Department will receive
their percentage of the State Merchant &
Manufacture’s surtax, the intangible tax
and receive a payment from the City
equivalent to what those entities would have
received if the City personal property tax
was still in place. They’ll figure it at
the 1984 levy but current assessment. The
only difference is that this year the
City’s payment will be on the estimated
collectible portion of the assessment. This
will decrease the payment by around 6%.
Overall, ever’one seemed to think the
deal was fair to all parties. This agreement
will be put into ordinance form so we
won’t have to reinvent the wheel again
next year.
This is some fact, but
mostly,
Just Jake Talkin’.
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