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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 2006
Page
2
Fragmentary item references Sark Journals Ada and the Corps of Discovery. The readable text hints at a diary or field note relating to exploration, with limited context about authorship or location.
On August 3 1806 Lewis advises future parties to cook extra meat in the evening for the next day enabling a 12 to 15 mile daily pace. He notes few buffaloe but many elk deer wolves bears beaver geese and eagles. He arrives at the junction of the Rocheshone and Missouri and camps where they encamped April 26 1805.
Harold Gray of Beaufort County, once living on Lottery Lane, won a $100,000 scratch-off prize just 20 days after previously taking a $250,000 top prize in another game. He plans to use the money for a house and to pay bills while continuing his self-employed contracting work.
A brief notice invites readers to report inaccuracies in The Southern. It provides contact numbers for Jackson County residents and a toll free option for elsewhere, with extensions for direct routing to the accuracy desk.
The federal government will spend 250 million dollars to create two biofuel research centers in Illinois to accelerate bioethanol technology and reduce fossil fuel use. Proposals are due February 1, 2007, with winners receiving 25 million dollars annually for five years starting 2008. All centers aim for full operation by 2009.
Elton John, preparing to headline Fashion Rocks at Radio City on Sept 7, urges American groups to embrace cutting edge glam rock, citing Bowie, T. Rex and Queen as British pioneers and praising cross cultural exchange in rock.
Kevin Costner will appear August 11 at the Dyersville baseball field as part of Netflix’s Rolling Roadshow tour. He will perform a free concert with his rock band before a screening of Field of Dreams on a 30 foot inflatable screen, then the movie.
Colleges nationwide have added online behavior to orientation talks to caution incoming students about social networking sites like Facebook. The focus is the public nature of postings and the potential for consequences, from hazing photos to banned profiles, with several universities reporting incidents and policy changes to manage off campus visibility and access.
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