July 15, 2025
25 Years Ago - July 18, 2000
Two Kincaid Lake State Park lifeguards, Sarah Kelly and Kara Cross, saved a 5-year-old Bracken County girl from drowning on July 12.
Hayley Kiskaden, a Daisy Scout, had accompanied her Girl Scout troop to the park pool for a day of happy swimming with her older sister, also a scout, and their mother, an assistant scout leader.
At one point, another scout accidentally bumped into Hayley, who was wearing a diving mask and floating face-down. The other scout realized Hayley wasn’t responding and became screaming for help.
Sarah reached the unconscious girl first, removed the mask and saw that Hayley’s face was blue. Sarah and Kara began mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and CPR. After performing three sets, Hayley began breathing again.
“I was so happy to hear her cry,” Kara said.
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In a bold move, Pendleton County Fiscal Court decided to transport prisoners to out-of-count jails for an undetermined length of time, and put on hold plans to build a 67-bed facility in downtown Falmouth at an estimated $2.1 million.
Judge Executive Henry Bertram made the motion to transport prisoners while the situation is examined further. The motion was quickly seconded by Magistrate David Dunaway.
Dunaway and Magistrates Jeff Dicken, Bill Klaber, Jim Roseberry and Lee Roy Faulkner voted aye, while Magistrates Jack Sumpter, Anthony Messmer and Sandy Wells voted nay.
The decision follows years of planning and more than $200,000 spent in engineering fees.
50 Years Ago - July 18, 1975
Today’s front page featured a photo of The Lodge in Butler, the former Butler High School which has been remodeled into efficiency apartments.
The building is managed by Mrs. McCarter and is owned by gilbert Laycock of Fort Thomas.
“It is a beautiful apartment building, one that Butler can be justly proud,” according to the photo caption.
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Dr. Loren Fisher of Parkersburg, West Virginia, has arrived and is taking care of the practice of Dr. Robert McKenney in Falmouth through July 22.
McKenney is attending a seminar in New Orleans.
Fisher plans to open his own medical practice in the former location of Dr. William Townsend. He still has not received his papers from the National Health Service. If everything is completed in about a week as anticipated, he will open his practice.
For the present, Fisher is staying in the doctors’ quarters at Pendleton County Hospital.
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Work on the new Pendleton County Library is expected to begin within a few days.
The Library Board met at the library on Thursday with the low bidder on the new building, Marty Zalla, president of ABM Contracting Corp. of Dry Ridge.
The Library Board awarded the contract to Zalla for $211,598.
Architect for the building is John S. Morgan of Lexington.
The library will be built on Main Street in Falmouth at the former C.F. Held jewelry store building.
75 Years Ago - July 21, 1950
The annual Firemen’s Festival is to be held Thursday, Friday and Saturday on Main Street in Falmouth.
The purpose of the festival is to raise money to buy a new fire truck. Falmouth badly needs a new truck, so won’t you help the firefighters by attending their festival and patronizing the booths?
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During the July 13 Pendleton Fiscal Court meeting, Judge Executive William J. Newkirk and Magistrates Raymond McGraw, L.E. Moore, T.G. Anderson, S.R.Allender, Ross Perrin, Harry S. Bowen, Ed T. Kidwell and Wreford McNay instructed County Road Superintendent D.M. Wilkins to repair Morgan-Boyd Road, a distance of 2.8 miles, as soon as possible.
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On July 13, Mrs. Kenneth Doggett, Mrs. Charles Cordray, Mrs. Jimmie Browning and Mrs. W.H. Cordray and daughter, Jeanie, went to Cincinnati to celebrate Mrs. Charles Cordray’s birthday.
They went to the “Morning Matinee,” starring Ruth Lyons at WLW Studio, and in the afternoon, went to see Ernie Lee on his television program.
100 Years Ago - July 17, 1925
The Booher Motor Co. on Chapel Street in Falmouth advertised the new standard sedan from Overland for $655. Or you could pick up the all-steel touring car for $495 or an all-steel sedan for $715.
The ad touts Overland as the “World’s Lowest-Priced Cars, with Sliding Gear Transmission.”
“Always willing to pass on to the public the savings of huge production, Overland now offers a full-sized, five-passenger sedan at a price that never before commanded so much quality.”
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The Coca-Cola Bottling Co. (phone, Falmouth 48) placed an notice stating that “a year’s output of Coca-cola in bottle would extend 11 1/2 time around the earth, of 287,500 miles.”
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An ad for Hamman’s Drug Store in Butler stated, “Summertime is picture-taking time. Eastman Kodaks and films: We develop and print them...
“Visit our soda fountain when in town. The best ice cream, sodas and cooling refreshing drinks served ice cold all times.”
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W.C. Tharp of Falmouth advertised newly arrived hot weather suits for men for $14.50.
“Also other light and dark summer suits and fancy patterns at $19.75 and $24.75.”
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Citizens Bank of Falmouth advertised 4% interest paid on time deposits, and safety deposit box rentals for $1 a year.