August 26, 2025
25 Years Ago - August 29, 2000
Pendleton County resident Eric Ross, 18, won reserve grand champion market steer Aug. 23 at the Kentucky State Fair with his Simmental-Angus.
The 17-month-old, 1,326-pound steer finished second out of 101 entries across 13 classes at the fair. It sold at auction for $18,000 to Kentucky Cattlemen’s Association and Kentucky Farm Bureau Insurance.
The steer finished as grand champion earlier in the year at the Pendleton County Youth Fair.
Ross, a freshman at Morehead State University, is the son of Matt and Judy Ross of the Gardnersville neighborhood of Demossville and Mary Ann and David Cummins of Foster.
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Pendleton County Fiscal Court set a public hearing date of Sept. 14 on a proposed four-tenths of a percent increase for the 2001 property tax rate.
The proposed rate of 12.8 cents per $100 assessment would produce $473,499 in revenue, according to the court. The rate was 12.7 cents the previous year.
Also during the fiscal court meeting, Judge Executive Henry Bertram said the Department of Corrections set Oct. 1 as the date by which the county jail needed to be closed.
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It will take a tri-axle turnip truck to haul Alvin Bonar’s harvest this year. The Butler man has been a farmer all his life and said he has never seen a crop like this year’s.
Last fall, he sowed his turnip seed and allowed it to self-sow this season, covering his former tobacco patch.
The specimen he brought into the Outlook office measured 20 inches in circumference and weighed more than three pounds. He said he has a field full of the giant turnips.
50 Years Ago - August 29, 1975
Fresh off their honorable mention placing at the Kentucky State Fair, the Pendleton County High School Wildcat Marching Band will perform a free concert Sept. 5 on the county courthouse lawn.
The band boosters will serve homemade ice cream and cake, hot dogs and Pepsi Cola. A country store will be featured.
Tickets are being sold on an RCA 12-inch black-and-white TV and a Juliette eight-track player. Tickets can be purchased from any band parent or at Houchens Store.
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Sheriff Harold Wright reports that several Pendleton County people have received threatening and harassing telephone calls in the past week.
Some calls have asked for ransom, others say that someone was killed, and in others, the caller says if a sum isn’t paid, the recipient of the call will die.
Wright said he has held several stakeouts, but so far, they have been unsuccessful.
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From the “Here and There” column:
Mrs. Gaylord Morris, Mrs. Dempsie Biddle and Mrs. Helen Hanselman visited Mr. and Mrs. Clay Cooper and Mrs. Stanley Cannon on Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Gene Cooper was a visitor also.
Mrs. Harley Biddle and son Bob, visited Mrs. Paul Faul on Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie King were supper guests of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Reed on evening the past week.
Sheila, Sharon and Alicia Reed spent a few days the past week with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hamilton.
Mrs. David Sharp returned to the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fonzie Morris after being at her home in Louisville.
75 Years Ago - September 1, 1950
In a crackdown on drunken driving and drunkenness, Falmouth’s police judge, Fred H. Fisher, levied fines Monday against several defendants totaling $734.50. This was thought to be one of the busiest days in city police court history.
There were a total of five who were fined $100 and $9.50 costs each for driving while under the influence of liquor.
The total of those fined for being intoxicate in a public place numbered five, each of whom got a fine of $19.50.
Three were fined $19.50 for improper driving, one was fined $19.50 for driving in a reckless manner and one was fined $11.50 for having no operator’s license.
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The Pendleton County Court issued warrants late Thursday afternoon against three people for “setting up and operating gambling devices (cigarette machines).” Some cigarette machines offer the chance to win tokens with a package of cigarettes.
Sheriff Jack Dickison stated Monday that the warrants had not been served but that they would be sometime this week.
Dickison and Deputy Jonathan Smith raided the establishments on Aug. 4 and confiscated three cigarette machines, which he has held in his office since.
The sheriff issued a statement March 24 that he would not tolerate any cigarette machines or gambling devices of any kind during the four years he is in office.
100 Years Ago - August 28, 1925
Falmouth folks, and hundreds from nearby cities, showed their interest in our town and county last Thursday when 2,000 people gathered at the fairgrounds to witness and take part in the formal dedication of the eastern branch of the Dixie Highway, from Covington to Lexington.
Hundreds of machines were in the parade which opened the day’s program, and it was by far the greatest automobile parade in the city’s history.
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Herbert Belew, 20, of the Grassy Creek neighborhood, was arrested Sunday night at the Mount Moriah Church, charged with theft of automobile accessories from a number of cars belonging to persons attending the revival at that place.
Deputy Sheriff Charles Ravenscraft and Marshal J.O. Perrin were called to the church and arrested Belew. They took him to Falmouth and lodged him in jail.