Question Mark Town Roundup for the week of 11/20 - 11/26
Town Announcements
Priceless spoon collection missing
At 07:16 this morning, Ms. Mabel Vickery Dupree reported her signature historical spoon collection missing. As many of you know, Ms. Dupree has spent decades collecting spoons owned or used by several U.S. Presidents and many international celebrities including Theodore Roosevelt, Marilyn Monroe, and James Mason.
A five hundred dollar reward is now being offered. Please contact the Question Mark Police Department with any information.
It is unfortunate to admit that everyone being asleep for eight days really put a dent in this type of behavior and perhaps people could consider at least napping regularly.
Posted by Gus Holt, Question Mark Chief of Police on November 26, 2023
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Community Notes
Hello.
As November arcs closer toward December, it is hard for our thoughts not to turn toward questions of time and the end. Now that my days in the garden are over, I have time to ponder the quickly fleeting nature of our experience and the many odd events that have travailed us these past few months.
What has happened to Question Mark?
One has to wonder what we have done to deserve such a fate, to witness the cruel passing of time as what we love slowly slips from our hands? In the end, isn’t this what time does, does it not take the people and things we hold dear and pry them from our tender embrace?
One only has to recall that famous bard, who once wrote:
Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion’s paws,
And make the earth devour her own sweet brood;
Pluck the keen teeth from the fierce tiger’s jaws,
And burn the long-lived phoenix in her blood
My garden is dead and now all I have left are my books. And hopefully they will be enough to slow the passage of time for me.
—Gladys Parker
Crime Reports
November 26
7:15 a.m. — Third Avenue and Eastwood, theft. A Question Mark woman, Mabel Vickery Dupree (70) reported her priceless historical spoon collection missing. No signs of forced entry. Officer D. Holland reported to scene.
November 25
12:01 a.m. — 2100 Center Ave. Assault and attempted kidnapping. A 17-year-old Question Mark person reported her and her companion were attacked by three men wearing masks. Said assailants attempted to force the victim into the car. Victim bit hand of one of the assailants. Officer T. Holland reported to scene.
We are asking the people of Question Mark for any leads regarding the homicide of one Tom Childs on October 14.
Please continue to distribute missing persons fliers to help notify the public about the disappearance of Quentin Quinn.
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Upcoming Events
November 30, 2023
Reginald Willey Jr.’s Birthday. Come celebrate the person who helped create the town’s one-of-a-kind library through a children’s pageant, performed by Ms. Holly Peterson’s third grade class. Free bookmarks!
Question Mark Public Library
December 1, 2023
Winter Clothes Child Fashion Show and Holiday tree lighting ceremony. 7pm
Question Mark Town Square
December 6, 2023
Question Mark Elementary School Band concert. 7pm
Question Mark Elementary School
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Did You Know?
Tanned hides from the now-defunct Ames Tannery were used to create a pair of stunning gloves for Claudia Alta “Lady Bird” Johnson on the occasion of her husband Lyndon B. Johnson’s 1963 inauguration.