January 31, 2023
25 Years Ago - February 3, 1998
Charges of discrimination being made against the city of Falmouth due to their hesitation to annex properties in Landview Acres and selecting appraisal services for the buyout program were on the agenda for the January 28 Falmouth City Council special meeting. City Administrator Steve Hanson presented letters to council concerning the city of Falmouth’s request for disaster recovery funds and charges of discrimination against the city due to failure to annex property in Landview Acres, property that has been selected as a building site for new units of the Housing Authority of Falmouth.
Assistant Librarian Cheri Figgins, who is also the children’s librarian, has the enormous job of entering every book on the computer. When the library opens, everything will be computerized. There will be no more card catalog to look up books. Visitors will look up the topic, author, or book they want on the computer.
Downtown Falmouth, Inc. (DFI) will be bringing Rozzi’s Fireworks back to Falmouth for the July 4 celebration.
The Falmouth Rotary Club presented a check for $2,750 to the Pendleton County Library on January 15, which makes the total sum of $3,000 they have donated to the library.
50 Years Ago - February 2, 1973
Four parties to the longest war in American history signed an agreement Saturday in Paris to end the conflict and bring U.S. Servicemen and prisoners of the war home from Vietnam within 60 days. The cease-fire provision in the document went into force at 7 p.m. Saturday night.
The following area men were killed in the Vietnam War: Lance Corporal Marvin Schafer, 27, who was with the U.S. Marines and died on April 20, 1967; PFC Bradly Bowling, 21, U.S. Army, of Demossville died on May 27, 1968; Boatsman’s Mate First Class John F. Bobb, 25, U.S. Navy, Demossville, died on July 31, 1968; PFC Clyde D. Downard, Falmouth, died on Oct. 24, 1968; Lance Corporal Gary Hisle, 20, U.S. Marine Corps, was killed June 3, 1969; Sp/4 Osborne Mattingly, Jr., Butler, was killed on his birthday with the U.S. Infantry on June 25, 1970. May they all rest in peace.
President Nixon’s budget proposal for the fiscal year 1974 contains $40,000 for advance engineering and “design work on the Falmouth Dam.
The Pendleton County Grand Jury has indicted Raymond Aulick on the charge of “Murder.” Judge John P. Lair permitted the defendant to continue free on $15,000 bond, as set in Pendleton County Court.
Mr. and Mrs. Porter Fryman of Georgetown are the parents of baby daughter Tanya Sue, born January 10, 1973.
75 Years Ago - January 30, 1948
A heavy snow fell in Pendleton County last week and the weather climaxed by the temperature dropping to 11 to 14 degrees below zero Monday morning. This is the coldest temperature here in several years.
It has been learned that the 28th District basketball tournament will be held March 3, 4, 5 at Brooksville High School. The tournament will be composed of teams from Falmouth, Butler, Morgan, Augusta, Mt. Olivet, and Brooksville.
The Baptist, Christian, Methodist, and Pilgrim Holiness Churches of Falmouth are cooperating in a crusade to increase the enrollment and attendance in all of their Sunday Schools during the month of February. A religious education census of the school children attend Sunday School or church on Sunday. After this census is completed, the information is given to the cooperating churches.
I will resume my regular runs to the Cincinnati Union Stock Yards beginning next Tuesday, February 3, and every Tuesday thereafter. If you have anything to haul to the stock market, call me. No distance is too far.~Harry Caldwell
100 Years Ago - February 2, 1923
Considerable anxiety is being shown by the Indian population of the village of Mixcoac near Mexico City following the recent declaration of Father Genaro Rivera, a Carmelite monk residing there, that the end of the world will come on December 12, 1954.
There will be preaching services at the Gardnersville Baptist Church on Saturday night and Sunday morning and night. Rev. M. Gash of Harrodsburg will occupy the pulpit.
I have opened a first-class barber shop in the Gruelle building near the depot. I solicit a share of your business in this line and guarantee the best service. Special attention given to hair bobbing and children’s hair cutting. ~C.A. Woots
I have just received two carloads of buggies of the Monarch and Phoenix brand, which have proven their worth in this territory. The buggies are the latest in style and are right up to the minute in every way. They sell from $95 and up. Come in and see them.--R.W. Lemmon
Miss Nancy Arnold of Falmouth and Miss Elizabeth Steele King of Flemingsburd tie for the honor of the “best all around” girl at a contest recently held at Transylvania College.
William Edwards, residing near Butler, sustained a broken leg recently by being caught beneath a falling tree that Mr. Edwards himself had cut down. The break is to his right limb between the ankle and the knee.