Did Ya Know... The VFW Post 2590 is serving Thanksgiving dinner combined with Oct.-Nov. birthday dinner on Sat., Nov. 22 at 3 p.m. for members and guests. Call 358-1657 for further information.

Did Ya Know... McCune-Brooks Hospital is having an open house on Sat., Nov. 22 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. to celebrate a remodeling project that was recently completed. Please use main east entrance.

Did Ya Know... Main Street Carthage, Inc. will have a seminar on shoplifting problems and check and credit card fraud on Fri., Nov. 21. For details call 358-4974.

Did Ya Know... Youth of the Carthage First Church of the Nazarene will have a Thanksgiving dinner followed by a drama musical of Code Red on Nov. 21 -22 at 6:30 p.m. Cost is $5. Call 358-4265 for details.

Jim: I got a razor that has twin blades. Tom: How do you like it? Jim: Shaves good. But now instead of getting nicks, I get ditto marks.

Librarian: Please be quiet. The people next to you can’t read.

Boy: What a shame! I’ve been reading since I was six.

Raving Beauty: A girl who came out last in a beauty contest.

Messars, Butcher & Chapman, the Blacksmiths,

Are Forging to the Front.

Two years ago Jay Butcher came to Carthage from Ohio and began working for George Caffee, who then operated a blacksmith shop at the corner of Fifth and Grant streets. The February following, he bought out his employer.

The shop is an imposing brick structure 42 X 50 feet in size, located at the corner of Grant and Fifth streets, and is the largest and best equipped shop in the city - the tools in use being the best and most modern known to the trade. The proprietors make a specialty of horse shoeing and carriage and wagon repair work. Their handmade shoes are in great favor among horsemen. They guarantee all their work to be strictly first-class and their good workmanship and general enterprise are building up for them a splendid class of trade. Anyone wanting work in their line should give them a call and be convinced.

If you volunteer durin’ the year for anything worthwhile, ya oughta stop by City Hall this mornin’ and meet some of the other folks doin’ the same thing.

This mornin’ is the time for the Mayor’s Volunteer Breakfast. Now it’s not a formal sit down affair, just folks gatherin’ in Council Chambers to recognize those who volunteer their time and effort toward the benefit of the Carthage community.

Mayor Riley began the tradition a couple a years ago as a way to thank the hundreds of folks who are what he calls the "backbone" of the community.

If ya haven’t attended before don’t expect a big production, just folks mainly just drop in and say hey and go on about their business. It is a chance to meet the Mayor and some of the Council members if ya haven’t had the opportunity before.

The event will be open from 7:30 to 9:30 so take a minute to drop by.

This is some fact, but mostly, Just Jake Talkin’.

by

Metcalf Auto Supply

Click and Clack Talk Cars

Dear Tom and Ray:

I have a significant mystery on my hands. I installed a completely rebuilt 500-cubic-inch (1975) Cadillac engine in my 1981 GMC Suburban. I then towed a travel trailer 11,500 miles and it used a quart of oil every 300 miles. I’m not leaking any oil. The Suburban does not smoke on start-up or during normal driving. A compression and leak-down test was performed and the results were normal. The PVC valve was replaced. I also tried switching from 10W-30 to 20W-50, and still no change in the oil consumption. I then replaced the umbrella valve stem seals with official Cadillac valve stem seals. Still no change. Any ideas? - Charlie

Ray: I think the rings on this engine never seated properly.

Tom: When engines are new, the metal oil-control rings take some number of miles to mold precisely to the walls of the cylinders. That usually happens during what we call the break-in period.

Ray: If the rings don’t seat properly, oil will forevermore sneak around the rings and get burned in the combustion chambers. And that’s happening in your engine.

Tom: During the break-in period, you’re supposed to drive the car especially gently, in order to allow the rings to seat. But instead of driving gently, you towed a house around behind you! And towing is probably the hardest thing you can ask an engine to do.

Ray: So I think you ruined it, Charlie. Unless the engine was not rebuilt properly, you cooked it by towing with it during break-in.