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published every weekday except major holidays
Monday, November 1, 1999 Volume VIII, Number 96
did ya
know?
Did Ya Know?. . .The Board of
Directors of the Eastern Jasper County Chapter of the
American Red Cross will meet at 12 noon, Monday, November
1 in the conference room at McCune-Brooks Hospital.
Please call the office (358-4334) if you are unable to
attend.
Did Ya Know?. . .The Powers
Museum's showing of the traveling MAQS quilt exhibit has
been extended to November 13. Hours in November will be
Tues.-Fri. 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sat. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Admission
is free but donations are appreciated to offset the
exhibit's rental. For more information call 358-2667.
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today's
laugh
Chef: I put my heart into this clam
chowder.
Customer: Never mind your heart
put a few more clams into it.
Father: Mike, if you eat any more cake,
you'll explode.
Mike: That's right, Dad. So pass the
cake and stand back.
Nurse: Doctor, there's a man in the
waiting room who claims he's invisible.
Doctor: Tell him I can't see him.
If at first you don't succeed, try
looking in the wastebasket for directions.
1899
INTERESTING MELANGE.
A Chronological Record of Events as they have
Transpired in the City and County since our last Issue.
A Big Plow.
Platt & Ziler, the Howard avenue
blacksmiths, have just completed a mammoth road plow for
Commissioner Heck of the Carthage special district. The
big machine is intended for rocky ground, where an
ordinary plow would be of no use.
The beam is made of a 6x12 white oak
timber and is 10 feet long. The shafe is unsharpened and
cuts but 7 inches in width; the handles and braces are of
iron and the whole machine weighs over 600 pounds. It
will require from 12 to 20 horses to pull it. The price
paid for it was $50.
Buergy Recovering.
Moses Buergy, who was so seriously
shocked Saturday night by a live wire on East Fourth
street, is able to be up today, and was out on the street
a little while this morning.
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Today's Feature
County Vote Tomorrow.
County Planning-Zoning.
Polling places in Carthage will
open at 6 a.m. tomorrow morning and stay open
until 7 p.m. The only issue on the ballot for
Carthage residents is the question of the whether
to approve the Jasper County Comprehensive Plan.
Approval of the plan would
initiate an election of a fifteen member
permanent County Planning Commission next April.
Representatives from each township would be
elected by voters in unincorporated areas of the
County and elected members would serve four year
terms without compensation. The Commission would
have no authority over incorporated areas in the
County that have zoning regulations.
The Plan submitted by the
temporary Planning Commission recommends that any
zoning regulations "not require a large and
complex bureaucracy; does not regulate
agriculture; must be straightforward in its aims
and understandable in its implementation; should
respect private property rights; and should not
involve itself with trivial issues; instead, it
should focus on larger land use and land value
protection questions."
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Just Jake
Talkin'
Mornin',
Id have ta guess that
it seems odd to some that city folks get ta
vote on an the County planning/zoning issue
when it only directly affects the country
folks. The fact that more people live in
incorporated areas than not adds to the
oddness.
If this passes tomorrow,
the country folks do get to elect their
representatives to the Commission that will
make the rules. At that time the city folks
will be out of it. Unless, naturally, they
move to the country.
Course there is good
reason for the population as a whole to get
involved in the issue. County issues do, at
some level, affect all of us, wherever we
live. Givin the city folks a say and
then havin em butt out of the
process probly is a good balance.
This is some fact, but
mostly,
Just Jake Talkin.
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Weekly Column
The Super Handyman
Q: I remember hearing that if
you're building a deck with pressure-treated
lumber, you can prevent warping and splitting if
you put the proper side facing up. Which is the
top side and will that do away with these
problems? I.H.
A: The boards should be
bark-side up. You can tell which it is by looking
at the end of the boards to see how the growth
rings curve. However, this just helps keep the
deck boards from warping and splitting. The real
key is to treat it with a water seal about a
month after building the deck.
Q: I have some holes in my wood
paneling and want to patch them and paint. What
do you patch them with and what type of paint
should be used over the wood?
A: Rather than paint, we would
try to find a patching material that would match.
Most places that sell paneling will have matching
wood putty to match that can be used to hide the
few nails that may be used to hang the paneling.
Many other types of patching compounds are also
available in many different shades at paint and
hardware stores.
SUPER HINT - A good place to
clean off the tip of your soldering iron while
you are working is on a steel wool pad. Such pads
can be found lying around in the average
workshop.
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