today's
laugh
He-"Darling, I have been
thinking of something for a long, long time. Something is
trembling on my lips. . ."
She-"Why don’t you shave it
off?"
A gravedigger, walking in the streets
of a small town chanced to turn and noticed two doctors
walking behind him. He stopped till they passed and then
followed on behind them.
"And why this?" asked they.
"I know my place in this
procession," said he.
There are three kinds of memory: good,
bad, and convenient.
1899
INTERESTING MELANGE.
A Chronological Record of Events as they have
Transpired in the City and County since our last Issue.
THE
SHOCK FELT HERE.
Powder Mill Explosion
at Columbus A Cousin of H.H. Cushman Killed.
It developed that the big powder mill
explosion at Columbus, Kansas, yesterday at twenty
minutes before one o’clock was felt distinctly and
even heard in this city which is forty miles away. Most
people who felt it here supposed it was an earthquake
although many who noticed it did not think of it again
until they read the account of the explosion. They then
knew what the shock was which they had felt.
Roy Peebles and family, C.B. Stickney
and family, J.A. Mitchell and family, were all seated at
dinner at their respectable homes and all felt the house
quiver and heard the doors rattle. Dr. G. A. Gibson and
Walter Hufft were standing on the east side of the square
and heard a dull thud like a distant explosion, felt the
jar it produced and commented on it at the time. Numerous
others doubtless noticed it.
A.A. Young and M.I. Parker, two farmers
living six miles east of Carthage, also report that they
distinctly felt it, and could see in the distance the
cloud of smoke it produced which hung in the air for half
an hour.
At Carl Junction, Joplin and Galena,
the shaking of the ground and houses was so pronounced as
to cause people to run out in the streets, and the
immense funnel shaped cloud of smoke hung in the air in
plain view.
One man in Galena who happened to be
looking that way saw the cloud of smoke boil up into the
air and saw the debris thrown above it. Then fully a
minute afterward came the sound and the quiver of earth
and buildings.
Franklin Greenwood was in Joplin and
says the shock was so heavy as to throw down a board on
which pictures were displayed in front of a Joplin
photograph gallery.
Wm. Cushman, the only man who was
killed in the explosion, was a first cousin of H.H.
Cushman, the skillful soda fountain caterer at
Well’s cafe in this city. He had been working in the
mill but about six months. He was about 28 years old.
The demolished building was one of
those constituting the powder mill of the Lofflin Rand
Powder Co. The buildings are located five miles north of
Columbus. That city was decidedly shaken up, but no one
was injured. This is said to have been the third
explosion in the same works within a year, though the
others were not so disastrous as this.
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Today's Feature
New Hours for LandfillThe Public Works Committee voted Tuesday
evening to keep the City Landfill open an
additional day each week. The change was prompted
by the recycling center located at the site, and
by increased usage for the leaf and brush
shredding activities. The site had only been open
three days a week, Thursday through Saturday for
the last few years. The new winter hours will be
Wednesday through Saturday from 9 a.m. until 5
p.m. During the summer it is expected that the
site will be open until 6 p.m.
City Street Commissioner Tom
Shelley told the Committee that the demand for
brush and leaf disposal has grown, and with the
addition of the recycling drop off center at the
location, he thinks the site will need to be open
five days a week soon.
Shelley has reported that the
recycling center has attracted about 75 to 100
regular contributors. There is no cost to the
recycling public. There is still a load charge
for trash (no food garbage) disposal.
The employee that works the
landfill has been used for building maintenance
two days a week. With the new schedule, some of
the Memorial Hall maintenance will fall to
employees at that facility.
City Administrator Tom Short
told the Committee that he hopes to hire two full
time people to work at Memorial Hall. He thinks
this would handle the typical tasks of minor
repairs. The plan would increase the number of
employees at Memorial Hall and may mean budget
adjustments. The Council recently voted to hire a
facility supervisor to oversee operation of
Memorial Hall and the Civil War Museum.
The Committee also approved a
request by Leggett & Platt to rename Locust
Street to Leggett Way. The two block long street
runs through Leggett property where the old
Flex-O-Lators plant is located.
Chairman Bill Fortune was
assured that there were no other residences or
businesses on the street that might be affected
by the name change. Committee member H.J. Johnson
asked that Leggett help with the cost of the two
street signs that will need to be replaced.
Shelley estimated the cost to be less than a
hundred dollars.
Shelley reported that all
street repaving projects that were scheduled for
this fiscal year are completed. He said that
although all the costs are not calculated, he
thinks the total work will be about $15,000 less
than budgeted.
The Public Works Committee
meets every first and third Tuesday in City Hall.
1999
Carthage Christmas Parade Winners.
news release
Winners in Monday night’s
Carthage Christmas Parade are as follows: Church
Division, Center Christian Church, Columbus, KS;
Youth Organization, Spring Valley 4-H Club; Adult
Organization, 4-State Amateur Radio Club;
Twirlers/Dance Groups, Carl Junction Strutters;
Automotive Division, Eugene Ingram, 1919 Model-T.
In the Business/Commercial
Division, KOAM-TV; Horse/Rider Catergory,
Carthage Saddle Club; Horse/Wagon, T&T
Industries; Specialty/Miscellaneous, National
Guard Show Me Challenge; Junior High Band, Joplin
North 7th and 8th Grade Band; High School Band,
Joplin High School Marching Eagles.
Two additional awards were
presented. Harold Duke and his 1939 Chevrolet
received the Directors’ Choice Trophy. The
Mayor’s Choice Award went to A&W
Restaurant.
Nearly 160 individual units and
over 1600 individuals participated in the 1999
Parade. The Carthage Technical School Chapter of
Skills USA-VICA and Main Street Carthage, Inc.
were parade sponsors.
Eminence
Chapter #93 Installs Members.
news release
Mrs. Janet Johnson will be
installed as Worthy Matron and Marvin Frost as
Worthy Patron of Eminence Chapter #93 Order of
the Eastern Star at an open installation, Friday,
December 10, 1999, at 7 p.m., Masonic Temple, 7th
and Maple, Carthage MO.
Installing officers will be
Verna Meador, Installing Officer; Dan Hathcock,
Installing Patron; Patricia West, Installing
Chaplain; Dotti Frost, Installing Marshal; Ellen
Watts, Installing Floral Marshal and Linda Ricke,
Installing Organist. Stephen Johnson, at Guest
Book. The Bible Ceremony will be given by Bobbye
Russell, Jennifer Johnson and Amber Johnson.
Refreshments will be served
following the installation.
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Just Jake
Talkin'
Mornin',
There are some things ya
just don’t want to talk about.
My brother couldn’t
eat chicken for years after he helped a farm
wife round up supper one summer evenin’.
He found that neck ringin’ wasn’t
somethin’ he needed to know about.
I have trouble talkin’
about broken legs. After hobblin’ around
for a couple months waitin’ on a bone to
heal a few years ago, I can’t hear about
someone’s fracture without wincin’
a little.
Women who are pregnant
always seem to spark conversations about
troubles with child birth.
Knowledge may be power, but
sometimes there is a short circuit.
This is some fact, but
mostly,
Just Jake Talkin’.
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Weekly Column
Click and Clack
Talk Cars
Dear Tom and
Ray:
I have a dark green 1993 Lexus
ES300 with 97,000 miles on it. It rides great,
and I love the car, but about a year ago, the
clear-coat finish started to fade. I had it
"detailed," and that helped for a short
time, but now it looks like somebody poured milk
all over the hood, trunk and roof. Lexus believes
I must have done something nasty to this car, and
feels no responsibility for the problem.
Do you think the finish on a
$30,000 luxury car should fade so badly? The car
never went through a car wash, was only
hand-washed, and was waxed once a year. Any
thoughts on this? —Jeffrey
TOM: Well, if it were my car,
I’d look on the bright side. Your Lexus is
now probably less likely to get stolen.
RAY: Actually, you’re
probably out of luck, Jeffrey. It may be a
manufacturing defect, but it’s going to be
awfully hard to prove. And to be honest with you,
we’ve seen very few other late-model
Toyota/Lexus cars with failing paint. So if it is
a manufacturing problem, it’s probably an
isolated one, which makes it even harder to
prove.
TOM: In cases like this,
sometimes the manufacturer will offer to pay for
part of the repainting cost. But with nearly
100,000 miles, they can legitimately tell you to
shove off (so to speak).
RAY: And something
"nasty" may indeed have happened to
this car, Jeffrey. You say you waxed it once a
year. But certain waxes are not compatible with
clear-coat finishes. While most modern waxed are
fine for all finishes, many older waxes have
abrasives that rub off the clear coat. And if you
used a can of wax that had been sitting around in
your basement or garage for a few years, you may
have been responsible for the paint damage.
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