When Your Wireless Printer Goes Offline

Recently I replaced a Lexmark wireless inkjet printer with a Dell C1760nw wireless color laser printer because Lexmark is abandoning the inkjet market and the C1760nw cost about the same as two sets of inkjet cartridges.

The C1760nw worked fine at first, but it kept going offline and didn't respond to print commands. Its icon in my Windows 10 Printers folder also showed "Offline" instead of "Ready." Double-clicking on the icon opens the sprint spooler, where print jobs were piling up. Running services.msc and restarting the print spooler did not help. Using the printer's menu to print out the settings showed the problem - its IP address had changed.

The solution involved checking the printer's web page (found by putting its IP in a browser), where the Print Server Settings showed the printer obtained its IP address automatically by DCHP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol). So the print connection works only until the printer goes to sleep; when it awakens, it gets another and likely different IP, meaning the previous connection no longer works.

To fix this, the printer needs a static IP address, which involves 3 steps. First, on the Print Server Setup page, click on the Print Server Settings tab and then TCP/IP. Change the IPv4 IP Address Mode from AutoIP to DCHP. Move down to DNS and check the box to enable “Get DNS Server Address from DHCP." Scroll down and click "Apply New Settings." Here you'll need the default administrator login - if you didn't find this in the online printer manual, you can find Dell's default logins at https://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/19/sln143048/default-ews-username-and-password-for-dell-laser-printers-1133-1130n-1135n?lang=en.

Then also take a minute to reset your password for security's sake.

Step 2 is to reserve a fixed IP address on your network router, preferably a number higher than most wireless traffic on your network. If you don't know how, you can search the internet for "reserve IP address" plus the name of your router.

Step 3 is to enter the IP address into your printer driver. In each PC on the network, open the Printers folder, right-click on the printer icon and select Properties. In the window that opens, select the Ports tab and then Add Port. Select a Standard TCP/IP Port and enter the IP address. This replaces Microsoft's unreliable WSD port. Click OK and print a test page to verify that the PC can awaken the printer and print. You may also find that Dell Tools can now locate your printer.

Restart the router and then the printer. If other PCs are on your network, repeat Step 3 for each one.

When Chrome Search Gets Hijacked

Recently searches on my desktop Chrome browser began redirecting to http://status77.ampxsearch.com. It's not clear how that happened, since AMP is a project to accelerate pages on mobile devices, but finding a solution took some time.

A check in Chrome Settings showed that the default search was still set to Google.com and there were no redirects present. A further check of my Windows hosts file also showed no changes, and running Malwarebytes did not change the redirect. I also searched for registry changes with regedt32, searching for "google.com" with no results.

Some internet research led me to the Chrome Cleanup Tool, which simply resets Chrome to the original defaults at installation. That fixed the problem and is the same as simply selecting Reset in Chrome Settings.

The above steps are the major ways that a URL redirect can be inserted. So if a URL address is not going where you expect, checking them will hopefully save you hours of frustration.

Chrisman and Ridgefarm Newspapers Sold, 1964

From The Chrisman Weekly Courier April 2, 1964

Kents Sell Chrisman & Ridgefarm Newspapers

Newly-Formed Corporation Buys
Weekly Papers; New Editor Will
Assume Position Here April 20 

Mr. and Mrs. Stanley R. Kent of Chrisman announced this week that they have sold their two newspapers, The Chrisman Weekly Courier and The Ridgefarm Republican, to a new corporation, known as Edgar-Vermilion County Publishers, Inc. The Corporation also owns and operates The Georgetown News, The Westville News, and The Catlin Courier.

The transaction was consummated Tuesday, March 31. but is retroactive to January 1st of this year. Mr. and Mrs. Kent have been operating the two newspapers for the new owners since the first of the year.

President of the new corporation is R. M. Hemphill, who is also the president of an Indiana corporation known as Vermilion Newspapers, Inc., which owns and operates The Dana News, The Cayuga Herald, and The Perrysville Herald in Vermillion county, Indiana.

Mr. Hemphill announced this week that George L. Stuckey will be the editor and general manager of The Chrisman Courier and The Ridgefarm Republican. Mr. Stuckey will assume his new position in Chrisman about April 20.

Mr. and Mrs. Kent have entered into a partnership with Mrs. Kent's mother, Mrs. Charles English, who owns and operates the English Nursing and Convalescent Home at Lebanon, Ind. The Kents plan to move to Lebanon after school is out in May.

Mr. and Mrs. Kent have owned and operated The Chrisman Courier for nearly 18 years, having purchased it in 1946 from the late Donald E. Bradley and the late Fayelle Livingston Bradley.

They have owned and operated The Ridgefarm Republican for nearly three and one-half years, having purchased it in the fall of 1960 from Mr. and Mrs. Donald Smith.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Kent are natives of Indiana. Mr. Kent was born and reared at Topeka, Ind., where his mother, Mrs. Rollin Kent, still resides. Mrs. Kent was born at Waveland, Ind., but was reared at Lebanon, where her mother still resides.

Mr. Kent started his newspaper career in 1936 at The Indianapolis Star while he was a student in Butler University at Indianapolis. He was graduated from Butler in 1938, and continued working at The Star until 1939. From 1939 until 1941 he was director of publicity in Indiana for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. From 1941 until 1943 he was assistant director of publicity for the AAA in Missouri. He resigned in 1943, and was employed for two years as editor of the Advertiser-News at Lexington, Mo., and the Evening Ledger at Mexico, Mo. In 1945 he became managing editor of The Lebanon Daily Reporter at Lebanon, Ind., where he was employed until purchasing The Chrisman Courier in the fall of 1946.

Mrs. Kent is a graduate of Lebanon High School and a graduate of the Indiana Central Business College at Indianapolis. She was employed in the Indiana office of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration for three years. She has been co-publisher of THE COURIER since 1946.

Mr. and Mrs. Kent have two sons, Rollin Michael, who is a freshman in Butler University at Indianapolis, and Stephen Allen, who is a junior in Chrisman High School.

New Building Replaces Empire Theater, 1964

From The Chrisman Weekly Courier February 27, 1964

Myles Erecting

New Building On

Chrisman Square

Work has been started on the erection of a new building on the south side of the square in Chrisman that will greatly improve the appearance of the Chrisman business district.

Mr. and Mrs. Bernard R. Myles of Chrisman route two have purchased the former Empire Theater lot on the south side of the square from Mr. and Mrs. Stanley R. Kent of this city. The lot has been vacant since the theater was destroyed by fire on March 19, 1959.

Mr. Myles is erecting a concrete block building on the lot that will be occupied by his daughter, Miss Betty Myles, who is the owner and operator of Betty’s Beauty Salon. The beauty shop is now located in the Walter (Buss) Arrasrnith building at 213 West Madison avenue, and will be moved to the new location as soon as the new building is completed on the south side of the square.

The new building will be 25 feet wide by 20 feet long with entrances on both the north and south side. The remainder of the 150 foot lot will be filled in and levelled off to provide parking space for customers of Betty's Beauty Salon.

There will be plenty of room on the south end of the lot to build an addition to the building whenever it is needed.

Steve Kent Wrecks Family Car, 1963

From The Chrisman Weekly Courier October 10, 1963

3 Chrisman Boys
Escape Serious
Injury In Wreck

Three young Chrisman boys miraculously escaped serious injury last Thursday night about 8:30 0'clock when the car in which they were riding went out of control, skidded, and turned over once or twice on the old ocean-to-ocean highway, about a mile east of Chrisman.

Steve Kent, 16, was driving the 1957 Chevrolet, owned by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley R. Kent, and was accompanied by Michael 15, son of Mr. and Mrs. Norman J. Mooney, and Harold (Curly) Thompson, Jr., 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Thompson, all of Chrisman.

The boys had driven east of Chrisman to the Gnaw Bone bridge where they turned around and were headed west back toward Chrisman. Steve Kent admitted he was driving too fast as he came around the curve at the Ross township line, and he lost control of the car. The car swerved to the north side of the road, then back to the south side, where it skidded for about 150 feet. The boys said they knew the car turned over at least once, and “maybe twice.” The car just barely missed hitting a highway sign and a utility pole, and came to rest upright against a wire fence on the south side of the road.

The three boys were able to get out of the car and walked to the farm home of Mr. and Mrs. Ora Wyatt, where Steve called his parents. The Scott ambulance was called, and took Steve Kent and Mike Mooney to the Paris hospital.

Michael suffered a deep gash on the left side of his head, which required seven stitches. He also suffered body bruises and a sprained back. He was x-rayed, examined, treated, and released from the hospital that night, but remained in bed at his home until Tuesday.He was taken back to the hospital Tuesday to have the stitches removed from his head, and was able to return to school Wednesday.

Steve suffered a slight cut on the top of this head, a sprained back and neck, and numerous body bruises. He was examined and x-rayed at the hospital and released, but was confined to his home until Sunday. He was able to return to school Monday.

Harold Thompson suffered only minor bruises, and was not hospitalized. He was examined at his home by Dr. W. J. Gonwa, Jr.

The Perrin wrecker towed the Kent car to the Hixon Chevrolet Company garage in Chrisman. The rear end of the car was entangled in the fence so badly that several strands of wire fence had to be cut before the car could be removed. The car was so badly damaged that it was declared a total loss.

Robert William Hoult, city police chief and county deputy sheriff, issued a ticket to Steve Kent, charging him with driving too fast for conditions. He appeared Monday afternoon before Bert H. Ellsberry, justice of the peace. who fined Steve $10 and costs of $5.

Fire Destroys Empire Theater, 1959

From The Chrisman Weekly Courier March 26, 1959

FIRE DESTROYS EMPIRE THEATER 

Raging Inferno Caused By Trash

Fire Last Thursday Morning;

Other Buildings Are Threatened

The Empire Theater on the south side of the square in Chrisman was destroyed by fire last Thursday forenoon (March 19) despite the valiant efforts of firemen and other volunteers from Chrisman, Metcalf, and Ridgefarm.

The fire was discovered at about 8:30 a.m. by Stanley R. Kent, co-owner of the theater. Pushed by a strong southwest wind and hidden under dense clouds of black smoke, the fire was out of control by the time fire departments arrived.

By 11 a.m., all that remained of the movie house was the front wall and about 15 feet of the rear end of the building that housed the air conditioner and a storage room. The 317-seat theater and all of' its equipment for showing movies was a total loss.

The fire was caused by a trash fire in an old oil drum on the east side of the theater building, about 15 feet north of the south end of the building. Sparks from the trash fire ignited dead, dried grass around the building. and the flames spread to the theater building.

Mr. Kent noticed smoke in the building when he went to the theater about 8:30 a.m. to see whether the film had arrived for Saturday night's showing. He summoned Ershel Ward, projectionist, who was in a restaurant two doors east of the theater, and the two men went through the theater to the rear of the building. Grass along the east side of the building was aflame and there was a little fire in the wooden framework of the building, next to the ground, but it did not appear to be a serious fire.

The two men went back through the theater to the front end, and Mr. Ward ran across the street and notified Robert J. Hoult, Chrisman fire chief, who was in the Cook drug store. Mr. Hoult brought one of the Chrisman fire trucks to the rear end of the theater building.

“By that time the side of the building was aflame, and I knew we needed more help,” the fire chief said.

Chrisman's second fire truck and 12 to 15 members of the volunteer department responded to the general alarm to battle the morning-long fire.

However, thick clouds of black smoke from burning tar paper hampered the firemen's efforts and allowed the wind to sweep the flames into the interior of the building. “We couldn't even go in with oxygen masks on,” Chief Hoult said.

Calls were put in for assistance from the Metcalf and Ridgefarm fire departments, which soon arrived to add more men and equipment to the battle.

The theater was located between the Chrisman American Legion hall on the west and the Mrs. Katherine Bonwell building on the east. which houses a laundromat, the Toasty Shop restaurant, and apartments above the two stores.

Chief Hoult said the wall between the theater and the Bonwell building was cracked in several places by the intense heat, and probably will require some rebuilding. There does not appear to be any damage to the wall of the Legion building nor to the wall of the I.O.O.F. lodge hall, above the Legion hall. There was considerable smoke and water damage to the Legion hall and some smoke damage to the First National Bank and the Sid Ramey barber shop on the west side of the legion hall. The laundromat, the restaurant, the Yates electrical store, and the apartments were also damaged by smoke.

For a while it looked bad for the entire south side of the square, as the wind threatened to spread the fire to the adjoining buildings. At one time during the battle, Chief Hoult said, nine or 10 hose lines were in use pouring water onto the theater fire and the adjoining buildings. The fire fighters began to pull out their equipment about 11 o'clock after the theater roof collapsed and the fire began to burn itself out.

Following the fire, Mr. Kent said that “the firemen did everything possible to save the theater and should be given lots of credit for preventing the spread of flames to the adjoining buildings.”

The single story frame building was nearly 46 years old, and had served as a movie theater from the time it was built in 1913 in the days of the "nickelodeons."

Mr. and Mrs. Kent purchased the theater in 1955 from George Barber Of Tuscola, who had operated the Empire Theater here from 1932 to 1955. The Kents are also the publishers of THE CHRISMAN COURIER.

For the past 14 months the theater had been open only on Saturdays and Sundays. Projectionists were Ershel Ward and Carroll Calhoun.

Mr. Kent estimated the value of the building and contents at $30,000 to $35,000. The building and contents were only partially covered by insurance, which would not be any where near enough to rebuild the theater after the present indebtedness on the theater is paid off.

During the fire, there was some talk among Chrisman residents watching the blaze to start a community drive to rebuild a movie house for the community.

Mr. and Mrs. Kent said they want to express their sincere thanks and appreciation to everyone who assisted in fighting the theater fire and to everyone who has offered their assistance since the fire. They said they especially want to thank the members of the Chrisman, Ridgefarm, and Metcalf fire departments, to the Cook drug store for providing coffee to the fire fighters, and to City Marshal Otto Nave, State Trooper Drexel Camerer. and the other state troopers who assisted in controlling the traffic during the fire.

The photo is from ancestry.com. The theater owners can be seen at the bottom right, Mrs. Kent in a long coat and Mr. Kent in hat and black jacket.

A new job printing press, 1946

From The Chrisman Weekly Courier November 14, 1946

Courier Office Adds Some New Equipment

During the past week two new pieces of equipment have been added to The Chrisman Courier's office and printing department in order to render more efficient, better, and quicker service to the public.

A new 10 by 15 Chandler and Price job printing press arrived Friday forenoon, and will be ready for use very soon. This press, and the 12 by 18 Gordon press which we already had, will enable The Courier's staff to do more and better commercial printing.

A new combination cash register and receipt machine has also been received and installed in The Courier office. This will enable us to have a complete record of every transaction, whether it be advertising, job printing, subscriptions, office supplies, or miscellaneous merchandise. In each transaction, the customer will receive a duplicate copy of the receipt.

We invite you to come in and  see this new equipment. 

Note: The image is a stock photo of the type of press installed at The Courier and which the Editor learned to operate as a teenager. Note the three rollers which picked up ink from the large plate at the top and rolled down over raised type just before paper was pressed against the type. A long lever (visible just above the wheel) controlled the press operation.

Statement of Policy, 1946

From The Chrisman Weekly Courier, November 7, 1946

Our Statement of Policy

Stanley R. Kent and Frances E. Kent have acquired control of The Chrisman Weekly Courier, and have taken possession this week. This is our first issue of the paper.

The basic policy of The Courier will be to continue to give Edgar County and our many subscribers the very best newspaper which The Courier's employees can produce, and to help promote every worth-while enterprise that is beneficial to the people of this community.

We hope to carry on the fine outstanding traditions that The Courier enjoyed tor so many years under the guidance of the late Charles R. Livingston, and which have been capably carried on more recently by Fayelle and D. E. Bradley, the retiring publishers of The Courier.

We are strangers in this community, but we •don't expect to remain strangers very long. We want to meet all of you and get acquainted with you. Until we do become acquainted and familiar with names and places, please excuse us for any errors that we may commit. They are not intentional.

And until we do become better acquainted, we will appreciate having you telephone your news to the office or bring it to the office so that we can become better acquainted with you.

To the business men and merchants, let us assure you that we will be around to see all of you soon. So far, we have been too busy, but we'll be around within the next week or two.

Deane Radabaugh and Leo Reagan are going to remain with us, and we are all here to serve you, whether it be news, advertising, job printing, or anything else.

Dedicated to a policy of common sense, common honesty, and common decency, The Courier offers friendly and constructive cooperation to the churches, the schools, the civic organizations, business institutions, farmers, and farm organizations. We will strive always to be clean, broad-minded, progressive, fair, helpful, patriotic and above all, truthful and accurate.

This is The Courier's creed. On this policy, we solicit the continued confidence, support, and good will of all of the citizens of this community, this county, and this state.

Stanley R. Kent

Frances E. Kent

Publishers.

Congratulations, 1946

From The Chrisman Weekly Courier, November 1946

Regrets and "Good Luck"

   Before leaving Lebanon. their former home. and since coming to Chrisman, the new publishers of THE COURIER have received many letters, expressing regret that they were leaving Lebanon. They have also received many letters from friends and former employers, congratulating them on the acquisition of THE COURIER and wishing them "good luck" in their new role as publishers.

These letters and messages are prized very highly by the new publishers. who are glad to know that their work and efforts in former newspaper jobs have been appreciated.

A few of the letters are being published here. not with the thought of being egotistical, but to give the people of Chrisman and you readers of THE COURIER a little more information about “these Kent people.”

Following are some of the letters:

"Dear Stanley:

"It is with a great deal of regret that I've heard of your leaving us. I've appreciaied very much our association. and your fine cooperation with our Church, and all the Churches of Lebanon.

"It so happens that I know something of the community to which you are going. My mother. Mrs. S. D. Thomas, of Hardin, Missouri, formerly Julia Tucker, was born out in the Cherry Point neighborhood, and she lived in that community and the Chrisman community until 1908. when she and my father left there to go to Missouri. She has many relatives living in the community still, one brother, Mr. Dave Tucker and his wife, and several cousins; also many old friends. I've heard about Chrisman all my life, and have visited there a number of times. I’ve always considered it a fine community, with many fine people.

"So, I'm sure that you'll make many friends in Chrisman, and that you will continue to render the fine community service there that you have given us here in Lebanon. We'll miss you here. but our loss is Chrisman's gain. Best of luck to you. Please carry my best wishes also to my relatives and friends in Chrisman.

Sincerely yours,

"Robert S. Thomas"

Minister First Presbyterian Church

Lebanon, Indiana

Mr. Stanley Kent

"Dear Stanley—It was both with regret and pleasure that announcement of your purchase of the Chrisman (Ill.) Courier was read. Regret because you and your family are to leave Lebanon, and pleasure because I know that not only you but Chrisman and community will be mutually benefitted because of your capabilities as a newspaper man.

"The Lebanon Chamber of Commerce, both as a body and as individual members, wish you well in your new business venture, and will ever hold in fond memory their association with you over the past few years.

"It was a personal privilege of mine to know personally the late Mr. and Mrs. Livingston when they edited and published the Courier, and an opportunity to visit with them in their sanctum was never missed upon a visit to Chrisman to visit relatives. the late Mr. and Mrs. William S. Linebarger.

"Again we of Lebanon—all—wish you well.

"Most respectfully yours,

"Parke Beadle, Secy."

P. S.—I have a sister, Mrs. Daniel Ryan, living at Grandview, just south of Chrisman. Otha Linebarger. of near Metcalf. is a cousin, and when opportunity presents itself, trust you will make their acquaintance.

Mr. Stanley Kent

Managing Editor

The Reporter

Lebanon, Indiana

"Dear Stanley:

"1 read with much regret of your announced departure from Indiana. I had hoped that I might be seeing you more often since I have moved away from the news side of the paper.

“I do hope that your new connection is just what you wanted and that you will continue to progress in newspaper work as you have in the past.

"Mrs. Stuart joins me in very best wishes to you and Mrs. Kent, and I hope you will find the opportunity to drop in to see us before you go.

"Cordially yours.

"James A. Stuart"

Editor

Indianapolis Star

Indianapolis, Ind. 

New Publishers, 1946

From The Chrisman Weekly Courier, October 17, 1946

Courier Will Have New Publishers After Nov. 1

Mr. and Mrs. Stanley R. Kent of Lebanon, Ind., will assume publication of the COURIER on November l, completing transactions which have been in the making for the past few weeks.

Decision to relinquish control of the plant came only after doctors advice was to "get out." The COURIER has been in the family of the late Charles R. Livingston since he assumed control in 1894, and is rated today as one of the best weekly publications in Eastern Illinois.

Mr. Kent is a native of Topeka, Ind., a graduate of Topeka High School, attended DePauw University and graduated from Butler University, Indianapolis, in 1938 with a B. S. degree in journalism.

He was employed in the editorial department of the Indianapolis Star while attending Butler, later becoming director of publicity for the AAA, U. S. Department of Agriculture for Indiana. After serving on the editorial staff of some of the better small dailies he went with the Lebanon Daily Reporter of Lebanon, Ind., as managing editor, which position he has resigned to take over the COURIER.

Mrs. Kent, who will be associated with her husband in the business, is a native of Waveland, Ind., and a graduate of Central Business College, Indianapolis. Together with their son, Rollin Michael, 17 months old, they will move to Chrisman as soon as quarters are available.

The Kents are members of the Methodist church, and Ulen Country Club of Lebanon, Mrs. Kent being a member of the Business and Professional Women's Club and Eastern Star of Lebanon, while Mr. Kent is a member of the Rotary Club. Elks, Eagles, Indianapolis Press Club, and Sigma Delta Chi, national professional journalistic fraternity.

When McAfee Bugs You, Really Kill It

Did your new PC come with the free trail McAfee virus tool installed? It can be very irritating, continuing to urge you to make a purchase even after you've uninstalled it.

Luckily, McAfee offers a removal tool to correct this problem, although of course they don't advertise it. To download MCPR.exe, go to http://download.mcafee.com/products/licensed/cust_support_patches/MCPR.exe.

First be sure you've used the Control Panel's uninstall utility (Programs and Features in Windows 10) to remove the McAfee program. Then run MCPR.exe to clean out the troublesome nag files left behind.

If you also have a good protection program like Norton 360, you're good. Otherwise, consider installing a free antivirus program like TotalAV
.

It Pays to Complain

Recently, I downloaded AnyTrans software from https://www.imobie.com/anytrans/ to preserve data from an iPhone that I intended to repurpose. The free trial version appeared promising but limited, so I purchased the full version. But the fulll version did not work as advertised, so I requested a refund.

That's when I discovered that publisher iMobie imposes conditions that make refunds nearly impossible by requiring the user to waste time and effort trying to "fix" the software. My multiple requests for a refund were met with instructions to re-install the software and work with iMobie's tech support by email even though I repeatedly noted that it didn't work.

Finally, I posted a review at https://www.pissedconsumer.com/company/imobile/imobile-publisher-of-anytrans-is-dishonest-201704141034276.html?update=1 and sent iMobie the link. The next day I had my refund.

In the email notifying me of the refund, imobie insisted that it would have issued a refund anyway after 60 days, and its website now also makes that claim. However, at the time I ordered the full program, that 60-day claim was not evident. In any case, denying a customer the use of his or her money for 60 days of jumping through hoops is not reasonable.

The moral is that the more noise you make, the more likely it is that injustices will be corrected.

When Your Router Won't Connect

Routers are marvelous devices that keep your home network humming and protect against intruders.

But now and then, a perplexing problem arises that doesn't respond to the expected solutions.

One of those is when the router works but won't connect to the internet. Or in the case of a new router that hasn't been configured, the problem can be worse because the setup process needs to examine your internet connection and may simply fail without recourse.

Before you pull all your hair out, take a look at your cable modem. Most such modems, like Motorola's, have more than one Ethernet-style port and these ports can develop problems. Try connecting the short cable between the router and the modem to a different port.

If that fixes the problem, you're done. The modem should handle input in any of its ports. If that doesn't work, disconnect from the router the Ethernet cable from a PC and plug it directly into a modem port; if that gets you online, then there may be a problem with the modem and you'll need to contact your cable company.

Are We Going to Have 4 Years of Lies?

Saturday, Jan. 21, was only the first full day of President Donald Trump's administration and already we have "alternate facts." That's how counselor Kellyanne Conway described the obvious misstatements by new Press Secretary Sean Spicer, who claimed the inauguration crowd was the "largest ever" despite widely distributed photos showing the opposite.

Let's hope that's not going to be the new norm for President Trump's minions. That could mean altered government statistics as Trump tries to continue building an alternate reality favorable to him just as he did during the presidential campaign.

Because the definition of "alternate facts" is simple: Lies.

If they're willing to lie about something as minor as crowd size, who knows what else they'll lie about? Maybe these:

"Everyone in the country now has a good-paying job and everyone's happy."

"President Trump did not say that!"

A Welcome Return to Entertaining Humor

Turbo Twenty-Three is the latest in the popular Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich.

Stephanie, as long-time readers know, is an unlikely bounty hunter working for her deviant cousin Vinnie. It's a formula that has proven durable for more than 23 books, and the gang's all here -- sidekicks Lula and Connie and love interests Morelli and Ranger.

Despite knowing the formula of a murder mystery involving bad guys, blowing up stuff, mooching dinner at mom's house and a wacky grandma, Evanovich's many fans enjoy the humor and the familiarity.

That enjoyment has dimmed a bit in some recent books in the series. But with Turbo, Evanovich rallies and delivers a book more consistent with her earlier books. There's even some twists and surprises for faithful readers.

Trump’s Inaugural Address

The Chrisman Courier has obtained an advance copy of President-elect Donald Trump’s inaugural address.

Reportedly, he hopes people won’t remember who he stole it from.

It begins: 

“Fourscore and seven years ago . . .”