December 9, 2025
25 Years Ago - December 12, 2000
Members of the Ladies Auxiliary from the Northern Pendleton Volunteer Fire Department and people from Second Twelve Mile Baptist Church in Peach Grover are trying to help an area couple after fire destroyed their home just before the holidays.
Chief Larry Miller said firefighters were dispatched in the early morning of Dec. 1 to the Pat and Don Wallace residence on Mays Road in Peach Grove.
The fire had spread rapidly from the attic and worked its way down. By the time they heard their alarm sound, the doors were overcome by fire, and couple escaped through a window, Miller said.
Fran Pangburn, president of the Ladies Auxiliary and a member of the church, said donations of cash, food and basic household items can be stored at the firehouse until the Wallace family gets settled into a new home.
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An ad for Anderson’s Equipment of Falmouth states that “baling hay has never been easier and paying for a hay baler has never been easier.”
The business is offering a $500 discount on any hay baler during December, or choose no interest until July 1, 2001.
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At the Kincaid Junior Bassmasters awards banquet, Bethany Bonar was presented the Angler of the Year trophy. She also was named Outstanding Club Member with a total 795 points.
Jacob Bonar won the Big Fish of the Year trophy.
50 Years Ago - December, 12, 1975
Audrey Carr, president-elect, home economics, Pendleton County High School, attended the 69th American Vocational Association Annual Convention in Anaheim, California.
She was among approximately 7,500 vocational education teachers and administrators who attended from across the United States.
More than 650 individual meetings in various areas of vocational education were held between Dec. 6 and 10. The theme this year was “Reaching Out Through Vocational Education.”
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Mrs. Winston Abernathy of Miami will arrive here Thursday to be the guest of her mother, Mrs. Edna Ritter, over the Christmas holidays.
This is the first time in 30 years that she has spent Christmas in Kentucky.
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Wyatt’s Food Market’s advertised deals for this week included whole fresh fryers for 46 cents a pound, smoked breakfast bacon at $1.79 a pound, jowl bacon for 85 cents a pound, ground beef for 75 cents a pound, ice cream at $1.89 a gallon, and Pepsi-Cola or Mountain Dew at 99 cents plus deposit for a carton of eight 16-ounce bottles.
75 Years Ago - December 15, 1950
Mrs. Margaret Beckett Lawrence, one of Butler’s high esteemed Christian ladies, will observe her 100th birthday Dec. 20 at her home on Central Street.
Mrs. Lawrence will spend the day quietly at her home, but is expected to be showered with many beautiful birthday and Christmas cards from her friends everywhere.
Mrs. Lawrence is the widow of James Lawrence, who was a well-known Pendleton County millwright. They had five sons and two daughters, two of whom survived their mother: H.H. Lawrence, a well-known merchant in Butler with whom Mrs. Lawrence makes her home; and Mrs. George Shotwell, also of Butler.
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During the Christmas season, the Rev. Claude Cummins, pastor of Falmouth Christian Church, is providing the community with some beautiful Christmas hymns and carols, which he plays over the public address system of the church.
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A.B. Arnold, superintendent of Pendleton County Schools, which have been closed since Monday, announced this week that the schools would probably reopen Thursday, weather permitting.
100 Years Ago - December 11, 1925
Dr. R.C. Clark, Pendleton County health commissioner, had an arrest warrant issued for E.M. Montgomery of Liberty Ridge on the charge of refusing to have his child vaccinated.
Montgomery sent his child to school without the required inoculation.
Mr. Montgomery appeared Saturday before Pendleton County Judge John R. Colvin but announced that he was not ready for trial. He asked for time to employ an attorney and prepare for action.
Colvin set the case for trial on Dec. 18.
This case is attracting attention in all parts of the county and there will be many spectators at the trial. Everyone is eager to learn if a parent can be punished for not complying with this order of the County Board of Health.
If Mr. Montgomery is convicted, there will be many other prosecutions.
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Joe Browning, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Browning of Falmouth, is now teaching cornet and trumpet in the Emerson-Hillsbrunner Conservatory in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
He can also be heard on the air from KWCR.
Mr. Browning is the best musician that Falmouth has ever given to the music world. For several seasons, Mr. Browning traveled with the Royal Scotch Highlander Band, one of the best musical organizations in this country.
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A large barn on the farm of Frank S. Wright at Greenwood burned Saturday afternoon. A crop of three acres of tobacco belonging to Leslie Warner, a tenant, an ensilage cutter, two buggies, spring wagon, about 10 tons of hay and other farm tools were also consumed.
Mr. Warner was stripping tobacco in a small stripping house close to the barn and had a fire. He left about 11 a.m. About 5:30 p.m., Mr. Wright discovered the stripping house on fire, which had spread to the end of the barn.