Quips

Weight Watchers will meet at 7.30 pm at the Presbyterian Church. Please use the large double doors at the side entrance.

Filed Under: Church Notices

At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be "What is Hell?".
Come early and listen to the choir practice.

Filed Under: Church Notices

This afternoon there will be a meeting in the South and North ends of the church. Children will be baptized at both ends.

Filed Under: Church Notices

Good Question

• If buttered toast always lands buttered side down and a cat always lands on its feet, what would happen if you tied a piece of buttered toast to the back of a cat and dropped them both?

• Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo. How come nobody will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down?

• How come it takes so little time for a child who is afraid of the dark to become a teenager who wants to stay out all night?

World Firsts

• The first Guernsey Cattle Club organizes in New York City.
  

  Wednesday February 7, 1877

Filed Under: → Business & Industry

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• Jean-Bertrand Aristide is sworn in as Haiti's 1st elected President.
  

  Thursday February 7, 1991

Filed Under: → Politics

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• The 1st wireless message sent from a moving train to a station is received.
  

  Sunday February 7, 1915

Filed Under: → Travel Section

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Events

• A father and son in Alabama were killed when they crashed into each other in a head-on collision. Jeffrey Morris Brasher and his son Austin Blaine Brasher of Bankston, Alabama, died early Saturday morning.
  
  Jeffrey Brasher was driving a 2006 Ford pickup and his son was driving a 2004 Chevrolet truck when they collided on a highway head-on, said Alabama State Trooper Jonathon Appling.
  

  Saturday February 18, 2017

Filed Under: → Deaths

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• Relatives of a 91-year-old Ohio woman who died this week are giving her the last word with a sassy, occasionally profane obituary that starts with the basics, "I was born. I lived. I died.", and instructs people to "Wait the appropriate amount of time" before trying to claim her stuff.
  
  They wrote it in Jean Oddi's perspective, recapping the people important to her, adventures she had and her favorite activities, including playing cards and teaching her granddaughter "dirty songs".
  

  Thursday February 23, 2017

Filed Under: → Deaths

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• The man known as the 'Crocodile Hunter' died after his chest was punctured by a stingray barb while diving off Australia's northeast coast. The 44 year-old colourful personality was filming a documentary about the Great Barrier Reef when tragedy struck.
  
  According to friend and colleague, John Stainton, Steve Irwin swam too close to the ray while he was diving off his boat "Croc One" near Batt Reef, northeast of Port Douglas.
  

  Monday September 4, 2006

Filed Under: → Deaths

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New Used News

• 25,000 Workers Died Building The Panama Canal

  Filed Under: Did you Know → Did you Know

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• The Most Expensive Domain Name

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• Microsoft Windows 98

  Filed Under: Did you Know → Did you Know

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• Backward Flowing River

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