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Monday, April 12, 1999 Volume VII, Number 210
did ya
know?
Did Ya Know?. . .The last Neighborhood Meeting held by the
Carthage Police Department will be held from 7 -8 p.m. at
the Memorial Hall Monday, April 12.
Did Ya Know?. . .April 11
through April 17 is the National Library Week. The
Carthage Public Library will have drawings for a video
and it's corresponding book in each department at the end
of the week. Sign up there.
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today's
laugh
Salesman: (Demonstrating car) Now, I
will thrown in the clutch.
Farmer: I'll take her then; I knew if I
held off long enough you'd give me something for nothing.
I have a new job now.
What are you doing?
I'm working down at the Eagle Laundry.
Eagle Laundry?
Uh-huh.
I didn't know they washed eagles.
Did you ever have a party soda?
Party soda? What's that?
Well, last night we had a party so da
landlady true us out.
Is football your favorite game?
No, I prefer wild duck.
1899
INTERESTING MELANGE.
A Chronological Record of Events as they have
Transpired in the City and County since our last Issue.
A Real Estate Trade.
Last evening a trade was effected by
which Sam'l Morrow purchased of Mrs. S. H. Lashorn of
Hamilton, O., her 114 acre farm 1 1/4 miles east of
Carthage. The farm has been occupied for years by W. S.
Shuler, a relative of Mrs. Lashorn, and is a fine piece
of bottom land. The consideration was $6,500. In exchange
Mrs. Lashorn takes Mr. Morrow's Clinton street residence
property, it going in the deal at $3,500. The actual
possession of each property will be given next June, when
Mr. Morrow will remove to the farm and Mr. Shuler comes
to Carthage.
Master Jack Garrison was thrown from
his wheel this morning about ten o'clock, at the corner
of Garrison avenue and Pine streets and sustained quite a
bad cut on his forehead. The wound bled profusely for
sometime and rendered the boy weak and dazed. He was
after a while able to go home and have the cut bandaged.
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Today's Feature Central Park Remains.
Public Services Committee Chair
J. D. Whitledge reported last week that there is
no legal impediment to changing the name of
Central Park. City Attorney David Mouton checked
the paperwork from the May 1869 transfer of the
property to the City from Jasper County and found
no provisions for naming the park, only the
stipulation that the land must be used for a
public park. Mouton advised that the Council
could change the name if members chose to do so.
"I am severely opposed to
changing the name of Central Park to anything
else," said Committee Member Larry Ross.
"However, if there is a need to recognize
Helen Boylan and the Spradlings, why not do that
with the east lawn of the library? Central Park
is an historic name...I’m opposed to
changing that, but I’m not opposed to naming
something after Helen or Jim, Ida Ruth or whoever
because they are great community people."
City Administrator Tom Short
explained that the idea of renaming the park to
honor theBoylan/Spradling family did not come
from the Boylan Foundation, but from a previous
City administration.
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Just Jake
Talkin'
Mornin',
If ya figured you could get
by with another week without mowin’, ya
better take another look. The season is in
full swing. I suppose most have all ready
gone through that traditional spring tune up
on the mower. Sharpened the blade, put in the
new spark plug, put in fresh gas, oiled the
movin’ parts that got a little rusty
over the winter, you know, all the things
that the pamphlet ya got when the mower was
new says ya oughta do. I do in fact know a
few folks that actually do all those things.
The rest just toss off the washtub used for
winter protection and fire up. Possibly
thinkin’ to at least check the oil
‘bout half way through that first
cuttin’. Sharpenin’ the blade
doesn’t happen till mid season when the
grass just kind of lays down when the mower
passes over.
This is some fact, but
mostly,
Just Jake Talkin’.
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Weekly Column
The Super Handyman
Dear Kelly: Our basement
ceiling is probably like most - a few exposed
pipes running across it and the exposed beams
showing. I priced a suspended ceiling and decided
against it. It didn't really fit my style anyway.
I ended up painting the whole thing a neutral
color and then I tacked lattice panels up across
the whole ceiling to help hide the stuff. It
looks fantastic. You can barely see the beams and
pipes, but you would still be able to get to them
easily if you needed to, and the room still seems
airy and open. It cost a fraction of the
suspended ceiling.
Q: I have 4-inch ceramic tiles
around my kitchen sink and on my counter top. The
filler between the tiles has worn down in some
spots and gets really dirty. What should I do to
fill up these spots?
A: The filler between the tiles
is grout. You can buy grout in a ready mix or
powder. The filler between the sink and the tiles
is usually caulk. Get a caulk specified for use
on tubs or sinks. Since the caulk has some
flexibility, it can better handle the problems of
expansion and contraction experienced between the
two different materials of the tile and the sink.
A SUPER HINT- Little pieces of
leftover sandpaper can be glued to the jaws of
your C-clamps to give them a little extra bite on
slippery projects.
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