February 28, 2023
25 Years Ago - March 3, 1998
Many residents from Butler, Falmouth, and Pendleton County gathered on the courthouse lawn Sunday afternoon to watch as a granite bench containing the names of the five residents who lost their lives during the flood was dedicated.
The community room at the courthouse was filled Tuesday evening with citizens ready to comment on how they wanted the community to grow in the next few years. This community forum was held by Booker Associates, Inc. of Lexington, who is preparing the county’s comprehensive plan.
The Wildcats came out on the short end of a 68-65 score last Wednesday in the district tournament as their post-season hopes vanished in a double overtime loss to Bracken County.
50 Years Ago - March 2, 1973
Falmouth Firemen have been taking advanced Red Cross first aid class to go along with their emergency squad for the past six weeks of Falmouth City Hall on Sunday evenings. Wound care and CPR were covered.
Harold C. Wright, 50, Deputy Sheriff of Pendleton County, Falmouth, hereby announces his candidacy for Sheriff of Pendleton County, subject to the voters in the Democratic Primary Tuesday, May 29, 1973.
Falmouth and State Police Officers dumped a total of $250 (wholesale) liquor, beer and wine at Campbell’s Dump at Greenwood Friday morning. The booze had been seized at the home of William Earl Richie on Chapel St., Falmouth, Saturday, Feb. 17. The dumping took place after he was fined Friday morning for sale of alcoholic beverages $200 and costs, 30 days in jail suspended.
The Pendleton Fiscal Court, the City of Falmouth, and the City of Butler, local undertakers, and other interested citizens will hold a joint meeting on Wednesday March 7, in Pendleton Circuit courtroom for the purpose of discussing the ambulance problems of Pendleton County. The local undertakers of Pendleton County have announced they were discontinuing all service to the people as of Dec. 31, 1973.
75 Years Ago - February 27, 1948
C. B. Peoples and his son Charles W. Peoples announce this week that they are opening a new funeral home in Falmouth. The funeral home, redecorated and repainted, is the former home of the late Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Arnold and is located on South Maple Avenue.
The annual meeting of the Pendleton County tobacco growers will be held Friday night at the courthouse in Falmouth.
National FFA Week observed Feb. 21-27:The Morgan Future Farmers of America take this privilege to recognize the FFA Week by writing this article to inform the public about some of the features of the national organization of boys studying vocational agriculture.
An event that is certain to be a success, first because it is for a good cause and secondly because there has not been one of its nature in Pendleton County for some time, is the old fiddlers’ contest that the Morgan Senior Class is sponsoring Friday night, March 19, at 7:30 o’clock fast time in the Morgan School gymnasium.
Clark Houchen, Proprietor of Houchen’s Clothing Shop, Shelby Street, Falmouth, announces that his store has taken on Carol King and Martha Manning ladies’ dresses. These lines were formerly handle by Arnold’s Annex of this city.
Frazer Brothers Garage, Falmouth, delivered three new Buicks this past week, but failed to deliver a fourth one on account of it being wrecked in Covington by a transportation firm.
A 1947 Chevrolet school bus was stolen from the parking lot in the rear of the Butler high School some time Wednesday night or Thursday morning and later recovered on a one-way street in Covington.
100 Years Ago - March 3, 1923
The young people of the Baptist church will present “The Old Maid’s Convention” and Duncan Theatre on Friday, March 10th.
A house on the farm of John Wilson which he had purchased from Howard Browning, burned to the ground last Wednesday night about nine o’clock.
H. H. Shoemaker has just finished a new cottage on his farm one mile west of town.
The Falmouth Industrial Club will give a banquet at the Duncan Theatre Tuesday night, March 14th.
County Tax Commissioner Ed. C. Atkins received word from Frankfort Saturday that the raise of $650,000 made by the State Board of Equalization had been reduced to $425,000.
Mrs. Bertha M. Grimes of Pleasant Valley, has purchased of Harry Dougherty his residence on Montjoy Street.
A committee of enthusiastic school men from the north end of the county met with the Superintendent here Saturday to secure information for a special school election to be held in the near future in eight or ten school districts surrounding Butler to take the returns of the voters on the proposition of consolidating these districts into one.