Opinion

Every human being deserves to feel they are the center of someone’s world. Is there anything more fabulous than to walk into a room and feel eyes light up when you enter? Children especially need and deserve to experience that kind of adoration. There’s a difference between being spoiled and being loved and every child brought into the world is worthy of being loved. Everyone deserves to have someone(s) who think they are IT.

Something is happening and I am not too sure I understand it… maybe it is a normal part of the aging process… one day recently I started to step up on the porch of a local business firm and a drain pipe just turned loose and fell right beside me; a rock jarred loose and fell out of a nearby wall while I watched; I went to the pickup window of a local fast food place and was reminded that I had driven non-stop past the order window and had to circle the place a second time; then, I was drinking a popular canned soda when something besides soda hit the end of my nose. I assembled a crowd of witnesses, poured out the remainder of the soda, cut the can open and found…I am not kidding… a waded -up paper invoice and a waded-up sheet of one-time carbon inside. The puzzling part is that the invoice is from a competitive soft drink firm. I wasn’t too upset about the incident until I called the area distributing plant and told the receptionist the purpose of my call and asked to speak to the plant manager. She abandoned me to listen to aped music until I finally got enough of it and hung up. I immediately recalled the same plant, on another line, got the same friendly receptionist and again told her who I was, the purpose of my call and that I did not want to hear any more music, I wanted to talk to the plant manager. I guess I sounded like suing material or something because almost immediately he was on the line. I told him what had happened and his first words were, “Myy- y !!!” ... He promised to contact the supervisor of the plant that canned the soda. Next day, I heard from the supervisor of another plant. This man explained… he was more than glad to talk about anything I wanted to talk about… how could this have happened and what he said made sense. I told him that if this sort of thing just had to happen, they were lucky it happened to me because all I wanted was for someone to fess up to it and refunding my 40 cents!

I’m going to get out front on this one and just punt right now. At one time, our language had the word “vegetable.” Nine long letters and several syllables – clearly too much work.

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Managing E ditor Life is difficult enough without comparing our lives to anyone else’s existence and I wonder if social media is damaging the self esteem of not only our young people, but people of all ages. After all, our self-esteem isn’t directly correlated with our age.

For your reading enjoyment, we continue to publish Rambling Vines by the late Marylea Vines as she recalls events and names of Corning folks from many years ago. We are currently in the year 1987 It is seeming more and more like cotton-picking weather… chilly mornings, and evenings, cool-looking shade, cool inside houses and hot out in the sun.

Prof. J.O. Porter, who was a schoolteacher in this locality about four years ago and afterwards read law in the office of one of our Corning Attorneys was arrested last week on the charge of whipping one his pupils at Grubbs. It is alleged that the child was beaten severely with a piece of window facing. For some time past a woman by the name of Ollie James from Walnut Ridge, bas been coming to Corning on the 11:35 o’clock train at night and returning on the four o’clock train in morning coming here for immoral purposes. Last Friday night the officers were on the lookout for the woman and sure enough she arrived on time and was taken to Hotel DeWall (jail) where she occupied a cell for until the mayor’s court opened the next morning. She was fined $20.15 and told that if she ever visited Corning again she would be given the full extent of the law with a jail sentence thrown in for good measure. Great interest is being manifested in the meeting conducted by Evangelist It is true that Corning has several cases of Smallpox at the present time but there are very few towns in the state the size of ours that have not been affected with this disease during the Fall or Winter. Poor George Blunk has given up to the inevitable that must and will come to every person, death. He died at his home early Sunday morning from the bursting of an enlarged artery. He was 40 years old. One man in Clay County buried $600 under a doorstep and another man dug it up. A woman in the same county saved $250 from selling butter and eggs and a purse snatcher got that. The best place for money that is not working is in a bank vault. According to information given out by the Iron Mountain railroad the management has determined to build a “hog tight” fence from St. Louis to Texarkana a distance of 494 miles, and the work will be start in the very near future. Steps have been taken to construct an iron bridge over Black River near Bennett’s ferry, two miles east of Corning. A destructive