25 Years Ago - December 2, 1997
City council met in special session Nov. 24 to negotiate Falmouth’s contract with Steve Hasson who was voted on Nov. 17 as council’s choice candidate for the city’s new administrator. The motion to hire Hasson was set in place in favor of hiring him for a one year term with a salary agreement in the amount of $37,000, not before Mayor Max Goldberg and a minority of the council demanded a promissory note from Ron Moreland who has promised pledge to raise $50,000 would be funding the new position.
Many of the stores in Falmouth will be having Moonlight Madness sales on Friday, Dec. 5.
Dr. William Verax announces open house from 9-11 a.m. Saturday, Dec 6, in his Falmouth Office. Coffee and pastries will be served.
The Butler Decoration and Creation Committee would like to announce that the community Christmas tree has been planted in the lot of Butler Methodist Church located on the corner of Mill and Matilda Streets in Butler. The committee would like to invite the community to attend the lighting of the community Christmas tree at 7 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 6.
The annual Pendleton County Extension Homemakers Christmas home tour will be held from 5-9 p.m. Wed.Dec.10 around Morgan and on HWY 22.
50 Years Ago - December 1, 1972
Pendleton County Jaycees announces that Santa Claus arrives at the Pendleton County Courthouse, Falmouth, this Saturday, Dec. 2, at 2 p.m.
The management of the Bi-Rite Super Market, U.S. 27, Falmouth, announces this Thursday, Nov. 30, 1972. The public is invited to visit the store, see the merchandise, and perhaps win one of the three grand prizes to be given away Saturday, Dec. 2.
On Monday, Nov. 26, 1972, the Pendleton County “Wildcat” Boosters Club met at the high school cafeteria. Since the club is in the initial stages of development, the major portion of the meeting was devoted to procedural and organizational considerations.
State Trooper J.L.Clark of Falmouth recovered a 1972 Chevrolet that had been stolen from James Howard, Cincinnati, and then burned on River Road, Butler, Friday night, Nov. 17. The car was towed to Showalter’s Garage in Falmouth. The car had been burned but not stripped.
Falmouth Police Chief Wayne Oliver announces that parking in Falmouth will be free during the period of Dec. 8 thru Dec. 25. Falmouth City Council is doing this to aid merchants in the area and promote trading in every store in Pendleton County.
75 Years Ago - November 28, 1947
The 1947 burley tobacco market will open next Monday, Dec.1, and reports from Covington, Maysville, Paris, Cynthiana, and Lexington are that tobacco floors are now filling up for the first sales. The burley weed is described as the best quality leaf grown in this section for many years.
The new city electrician of Falmouth is Russell King. He succeeds Hobart Lawson, electrician of the city of the past five and a half years.
D. R. Barnes & Son of this city announce that they are opening their skating rink on Main St. opposite the courthouse on Saturday, Nov. 29. The rink will be open to the public on Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays. The other nights will be reserved for private parties.
Kentucky Funeral Directors Burial Association, Inc., of Frankfort, a corporation of $150,000 of paid-in capital, has made available to the people of Kentucky a new series of burial insurance policies through the Commonwealth Life Insurance Company. Firms affiliated with this group include Woodhead Funeral Home of Falmouth and Berry, Thomas, Fossett & Yelton of Falmouth, and Peoples Funeral Home of Butler.
Sunday School attendance for Nov. 23 at Second 12-Mile Baptist was 74 with a collection of $110; at Turner Ridge Baptist, 73.
100 Years Ago - December 1, 1922
Frank Schultz and J.E Ferrell, tenants on Mrs. J. W. Cookendorfer’s farm near Concord, have just finished cribbing a good crop of corn which was raised without rain.
The Ladies’ Aid Society of the Mt. Vernon Methodist Church will give a window sale at the store of Clarence Wilson in Falmouth on Thursday and Friday, Dec. 21 and 22. Come and get something good for Christmas.
The growers in Pendleton County who have not pooled their tobacco have had buyers nibbling around at 25 cents, but none have sold. Last year, Pendleton County produced two million pounds of tobacco and it graded out at 28 percent green. That was the meanest crop Pendleton County ever raised. This year we will have 3,500,000 points, and it is a fine quality.
The heretofore undefeated Falmouth football team went down to Bellevue Sunday and got their first taste of defeat at the hands of the celebrated Wiedemann eleven.
The Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association will open its warehouse in Falmouth on December 11 to receive tobacco. Up until Christmas, growers can deliver any part of their crops, but after that time, they must deliver their entire crop in one lot.
J.J. Austin shipped 1,400 rabbits to the Cincinnati and Baltimore markets Monday. He also shipped 1,500 pounds of turkeys besides other country produce. Other Falmouth and Pendleton County merchants shipped large consignments of produce to markets.