I just want to second the congratulations to my home state and home county. I live in California and politicians and bureaucrats all act like the worse junior high school delinquents you can find. Their very being defines ill-manners, lack of caring, ignorance and wish to make their responsibilities zippo and thus no more than a money-grubbing sinecure! Good for Missouri! Good for Carthage! Good for Jasper County! Mel McKee P. S. My sister just sent me a handsome Missouri t-shirt. I wear it proudly. ned72@webtv.net wrote: > Just want to let everyone know how pleasant, helpful, courteous and > obliging every employee that I encountered at the court house was. I > was looking into probate records and land deeds and the personnel at the > court house itself as well as at the "annex" (for probate records) and > the separate office in the Bank of America Building (for land deeds) > were extremely helpful. Coming from California, it was a real pleasure > to be treated so well. I highly recommend a trip to Carthage!!! > John Sandy from Sandy Egg-Oh.