today's
laugh
Two western men travelled together two
days in a train without a word ever passing between them.
On the third day one of them at length ventured to remark
that it was a fine morning.
"And who said it wasn't?" was
the reply.
"Did you try the simple plan of
counting sheep for your insomnia?"
"Yes, doctor, but I made a mess of
it. I counted ten thousand sheep, put 'em on the train,
and shipped 'em to the market. And when I'd got through
counting the money I got for them it was time to get
up."
Section 64, Page 31, of the Ordinances
of Calhoun, Georgia, is as follows:
"Any person or persons tying a tin
box or any other article calculated to frighten, to any
dog or any other animal, within the corporate limits of
Calhoun, Georgia, upon conviction thereof, shall pay a
fine," etc.
1898
INTERESTING MELANGE.
A Chronological Record of Events as they have
Transpired in the City and County since our last Issue.
RAN AWAY FROM HOME.
Boy Preferred "Hoeing His
Own Row" to Hoeing Weeds.
A 10-year old boy named Clark ran away
from the farm of Owen Weeks, northwest of town yesterday
afternoon, and Mr. Weeks was in town today looking for
him.
He had put the boy at work hoeing weeds
and at supper time he had proved to have jumped his job,
taking $1.35 from a purse containing $8 of Mr. Weeks
money.
Investigation shows that he spent the
stormy night at the home of Billy McDaniels, a stone
cutter, in town, and this morning asked Officer Drake the
way to Joplin. He took the next car for the mining
metropolis, and Mr. Weeks decided not to follow him
there. He evidently prefers hoeing his own row to hoeing
someone else's weeds.
The lad, an orphan, was brought here
from Duenweg by Mr. Weeks, who undertook to raise him.
Howard Gray is the boy's guardian.
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Today's Feature Relocation of Airport to be Discussed.
The Airport Relocation
Committee is scheduled to meet at City Hall today
at noon. Members of the Airport Settlement
Committee have been invited to attend the open
meeting as observers.
The Relocation Committee has
been working toward negotiating the purchase of
property for a new airstrip. At this point, most
discussion with land owners has been informal
inquiries as to willingness to sell and
conditions that would be satisfactory to both the
City and the landowner. Several sites have been
considered that were listed in the Airport Master
Plan, but the obvious first choice is land just
north of Carmar.
Mayor Johnson is expected to
brief the Relocation Committee on the results of
the Airport Settlement Committee held last week.
During that meeting the future
role of the Relocation Committee was discussed.
Johnson and City Administrator Tom Short, who
Chairs the Relocation Committee, both gave the
opinion that after land was purchased, a new
group would be assigned the task of overseeing
construction and operation of the new facility.
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Just Jake
Talkin'
Mornin',
After years of listenin' to
the variety of telemarketers give their
patter durin' supper time, ya start to give
'em ratings after ya tell 'em to get lost.
The easy ones to hang up on
are the pushy type. The always start with
some kinda joke or cute remark about the
weather. 'Course most of 'em are in a
different time zone and don't have a clue
'bout the climate in this part of the
country. The real friendly ones get shot down
quickest.
There are some ya gotta
feel a little sorry for. They stumble over
the words as they try to get enthused about
what ever product they are pushin' today.
I've even listened to a complete pitch from a
couple, just ta give 'em practice. I give 'em
a few kind words and tell 'em not to get too
discouraged. They have a tough job and are
goin' to get a lot of no's. Then I tell 'em
to take me off the list and not to call
again. Figure they might as well get the full
lesson.
This is some fact, but
mostly,
Just Jake Talkin'.
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Intro to the Internet
Growth of the Internet
Since the early "80's,
when the government began to share their network
technology with the world, there has been growth
on the scale that is hard to imagine. To put it
into better perspective, in the early 80's there
were only 213 registered hosts on the Internet by
1986, there were over 4.85 million registered
hosts. This number does not include personal
computer that were accessing the Internet, but
merely the number of servers that make up the
Internet.
Who Owns the Internet?
No one person or country owns
the Internet. Literally millions of governments,
corporations, universities, commercial companies
and citizens own the Internet jointly. What this
means is no one can control it in group called
the National Science foundation that over looks
methods of improving the Internet performance.
The NSF is supported by a group called the
Internet Engineering Task Force or IETF
committee. This committee has to conform to
guidelines that are set by the Internet
Architecture Board or IAB.
In reality there are many
groups that manage every facet of the Internet.
You can probably live a very prosperous life on
the Internet without knowing they exist.
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