March 17, 2026
25 Years Ago - March 13, 2001
The contract for paving and improving the county-maintained road system was awarded by the Pendleton County Fiscal Court to the Mago Construction Co. in the March 8 meeting of the legislative body.
The bid of $4.80 per ton of blacktop and 78 cents per gallon of SS1H finishing coat was accepted by the court.
The overall road budget for the county amounts to $390,000, which is made up of a combination of county and state funds.
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The fourth annual Evening of the Arts was held March 8 at Phillip A. Sharp Middle School. Participants from all four county schools had their works on display.
“This public display of the students art fest started four years ago,” Michelle Lustenberg, middle school art teacher, said.
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Keeping the cowboy tradition alive has become an important hobby for recently retired Pendleton County Circuit Clerk Marvin Sullivan.
Sullivan now spends as much time as he can on wagon train rides. A front page photo shows him in the 42nd annual South Texas trail ride from Corpus Christi to San Antonio, which took place from Jan. 25 through Feb. 3.
Sullivan writes the “Back Yonder” column for the Outlook.
50 Years Ago - March 12, 1976
In the finals of the 38th District Tournament at Pendleton Gym Saturday night, the Pendleton Wildcats got by the Augusta Panthers in a real thriller, 66-65, to win the championship.
The two teams simply traded baskets in the first half and were tied 30-30 at the intermission.
The Wildcats came out in the second half and played extremely tight defense to hold the Panthers to 10 points in the third quarter while racking up 16 for themselves.
Going into the final quarter ahead 46-40, the Wildcats became careless and allowed Augusta to pull within one point with 5:15 to play, and take the lead 56-55 with 3:40 to go.
Tied at 65 with seconds to go, Danny Hinton brought the ball up court and was fouled as he drove down lane. The fiery little guard missed the first of two free throws but sank the second, giving Pendleton the lead with 17 seconds to go.
The Panthers got off two shots, but Rick Wood pulled down the timeliest rebound of his career to give the Wildcats the victory.
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Falmouth firefighters were called out at midnight Saturday to extinguish flames in a rear room in the Conrad Hardware and Furniture Store, 222 W. Shelby St.
Smoke damage to the store’s contents was heavy, but damage to the building was held to a minimum, perhaps only two broken windows and an axed side door so firefighters could get inside.
Fire Chief Melvin Hart credited Mr. and Mrs. James W. Priest of West Shelby Street with averting a bad fire by turning in the alarm promptly after Mr. Priest saw smoke pouring out of the top of the Conrad building.
75 Years Ago - March 16, 1951
District champions the Morgan Raiders, coached by veteran Richard Gulick, missed going to the state basketball tournament in Lexington this week when they were defeated by Paris 34 to 32 in the regional finals Saturday night at the new Harrison County Consolidated High School at Cynthiana.
The refereeing in the game could have been much better. The rough work that went on underneath the Morgan basket by the Paris boys was out of reason, to say the least and could have been no worse at midnight.
Yet the lights were one and the Lexington referees could not see the rough treatment of Clarence Adams, Morgan’s big center, and Kenneth Woods, forward, the latter having spent a good part of the night being knocked to the floor.
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An as important city council meeting as any ever held in Falmouth’s history was conducted Monday night at City Hall, where it was unanimously voted to appoint three or five appraisers to equalize property assessments.
Council members said they do not want to order a blanket tax increase because some property, they believe, is not fairly assessed.
Council also voted to look into the matter of purchasing electrical current elsewhere. Council said the city is in dire need of standy-by equipment at the utility plant and needs more electrical current.
100 Years Ago - March 12, 1926
“I’ve just had two days of the greatest industrial education in the world,” said Frank Carpenter, local Ford dealer, when he returned to Falmouth from a visit to the Ford Motor Co. in Detroit
Mr. Carpenter was a member of a party made up of Ford dealers and salesmen from all over this territory.
“To the average person, the name Ford probably suggests a Ford car, truck or Ford tractor. Yet that name in its familiar script is also the trademark for scores of either industries which have organized into one big unit to make the cars, trucks and tractors a greater value.”
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The Booher Motor Co. on Chapel Street in Falmouth invited “every farmer and his family in Pendleton County to visit our showrooms during Better Farm Equipment Week, March 15-20, and to enjoy the special entertainment and educational features ... An interesting display of new machines will show you the latest developments in the farm machine field.”
Among the McCormick-Deering machines were manure spreaders, mowers and tillage implements, all to be drawn by a team of horses, tractors “always ready for field or belt work,” and the McCormick-Deering ball-bearing Primrose cream separator, which “has been making friends faster than any implement we have ever sold.”
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Hamman’s Drug Store in Butler offered bourbon stock tonic that “will keep your cattle healthy” in 30-cent and 60-cent sizes, and bourbon meat smoke, “the easy way to smoke your meat,” quarts for 90 cents.