January 20, 2026
25 Years Ago - January 23, 2001
Russ Roe, naval science instructor at Pendleton County High School, reported on the Jan. 10 flight taken by 65 PCHS Navy Junior ROTC members, which read, in part:
“At 0930 hours, the cadets departed Luncken Airport (in Cincinnati) en route to mission destination aboard the U.S. Marine Corps C-9B Skytrain. The plane proceeded at 575 mph at an altitude of 33,000 feet.
“The cadets arrived at their mission destination (Cherry Point Marine Corps Air Station, North Carolina) at 1050 hours. They were served their chow and commenced familiarization with military airport operations.
“Once they were ready to board the U.S. Marine Corps CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter, they received safety briefing prior to boarding. All 65 cadets successfully completed training flight over Croatan National Forest (Havelock, North Carolina).
“At 1615 hours, the cadets boarded the C-9B Skytrain for their return flight to their point of origin.”
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A photograph by Cory Wilson, the son of Richard and Dawn Wilson, is part of a Cincinnati Art Museum show entitled “Snapshots: Works on Paper by Area Students.”
The Pendleton County High School ninth-grader’s photograph is of his father’s work shoes, and is accompanied by an essay about the shoes and “the man who walks in them every day. He is strong, hardworking and tough, much like the shoes themselves.”
The exhibition will open Feb. 16 and continue until May 6, 2001.
50 Years Ago - January 23, 1976
Pendleton County Schools will pay tribute to the nation’s bicentennial Friday night, Jan. 30, at the Grant County vs. Pendleton game with a special pregame patriotic musical production.
A special arrangement of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” and a new patriotic song entitled the “Red, White and Blue” will be performed.
A special Bicentennial Chorus has been formed in all the schools in the county. The choruses in the respective schools will be combined for the performance. Featured soloists include Miss Debbie Brock, senior, 1976.
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In his “Pendleton County Agent’s Corner” column, Cooperative Extension Agent Robert M. Jones wrote:
“Every farmer is now making plans for his 1976 cropping and livestock program. This could be a simple process if a quick decision is made to do the same as last year. This will save a lot of worry, but doesn’t leave room for improvement.
“The old saying that once cannot stand still is very true of today’s agriculture. Growth doesn’t necessarily mean more cows or more acres or more machinery. It may mean making better use of resources available.”
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Heritage House, U.S. 27 in Falmouth, advertised an all-you-can-eat buffet for $2.25 a person from 5 to 8:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays.
75 Years Ago - January 26, 1951
During the Falmouth Parent-Teacher Association’s Jan. 18 meeting in the schoolhouse, Postmaster Kenneth Marquette led a group of junior and senior students in a discussion of communism, bring out its beginning, its development, its relationship to the United States, its workings, and its part in the war in Asia.
The students showed themselves to be well informed. Participants were Daisy Ann Kimble, Marth Jo Mori, Doris Jean Hobday, Roberta Ramsey, Jean Wagner, Bob Kellum, Bill Reed, Jim Allender, David Parker, Bob Chipman and George W. Lach.
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Two Pendleton County grand jurors revealed Saturday that there was a steady stream of witnesses before the body that afternoon, which resulted in five more indictments, bring the total of indictments for this term to nine.
This is the most indictments returned by a grand jury in at least 10 years.
The new indictments were William Moore Jr., failure to provide for children under the order of the court; Bailey Bascom, forgery; Viola Hobday and Shirley Hobday, selling intoxicating liquor in dry territory; Elbert Cooper, unlawfully selling intoxicating liquor in dry territory; and an indictment on a conversion charge in which Sheriff Jack Dickison has not yet served a warrant on the defendant.
100 Years Ago - January 22, 1926
A Pendleton County Circuit Court jury dealt out sentences aggregating to 17 years on the four men who were captured the week before in the act of breaking into L&N freight cars near Falmouth.
Sam Simmons, the burly, 6-foot man who is said to be a professional car robber, was sentenced to eight years in prison. Simmons, according to evidence introduced in the case, has served two previous penitentiary sentences.
The other three men were sentenced to three years each.
The jury reached the verdict within 20 minutes of deliberation.
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From “High” Hill’s Pendleton County Farm Agent column: “I have already heard reports of a disease attacking ewes just about to lamb. I clipped the following from County Agent Miller’s column of the Bracken County Review, which was prepared with the help of Dr. Polk, Extension veterinarian:
“This is the time of year when sheep breeders begin to lose ewes — more often than not the bet ones in the flock. This disease of ewes heavy with lamb is not well understood and once it develops, the chance of saving affected sheep is not good...
“We have found ... during the past several years that this disease seldom strikes a flock which is fed properly and has plenty of exercise.”
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The heirs of the late William Wright will sell the farm of 134 acres at public auction to the highest bidder at the courthouse door in Falmouth on Monday, Feb. 1, 1926, at 1:30 o’clock. This farm contains 134 acres and is situated four miles south of Falmouth on the LLL Highway and is all slightly rolling land, two six-room houses, two barns, plenty of water 3 1/2 acres of timber, two orchards, good outbuildings, etc.