May 16, 2023
25 Years Ago - May 19, 1998
Two male juveniles, ages 14 and 17, have been taken into custody on charges of burglary second degree and theft by unlawful taking of over $300, both felonies, and a misdemeanor charge of criminal mischief second degree. The burglaries, as many as six, all took place in the vicinity of the LLL Highway.
Ruby Wyatt and Dixie Owen are being recognized for rebuilding their supermarket after a major flood hit Falmouth last spring causing over $1 million in damages to their business which had been in the family for 53 years. After receiving an SBA disaster loan, they reopened their store two months after the flood.
50 Years Ago - May 18, 1973
The Pendleton County Hospital Board met at the hospital on Friday, May 11, and again on Monday, May 14, for the purpose of interviewing applicants for the position of hospital administrator. On Friday, two applicants were introduced to the eight board members and five advisory board members present. Approximately an hour was spent with each candidate.
Four Michigan residents escaped with minor injuries Sunday afternoon about 1:50 p.m. when their single-engine airplane crash landed on the farm of Tommy Ammerman, on Morgan Road, two miles southwest of Falmouth.
The Pendleton County Horse and Pony Club will be held Saturday, May 26th at the old Falmouth Fairgrounds.
Paul Hall and Denise Best were both blue ribbon winners in Area 4-H Speech Contest. Miss Best was also judged Champion in the Senior Girls Division.
Contestants in the Junior Division in the Area Speech Contest were Sharon McDonald, blue; Nan Mains, Blue; Ronald DeWald, red; Jill Conrad, blue and champion in the 12 year old division.
Special attention to the pageantry of ceremony was given as Northern Kentucky State College held its first commencement exercise in its history.
75 Years Ago - May 14, 1948
A signal victory has been won by Falmouth Dam forces when it was revealed at a meeting of the Northern Kentucky Federation of Sportsmen's Council in Ft. Mitchell Monday night that a new survey on the project had been ordered. It is said that the survey had been ordered because of the disaster of the Licking River flood in April.
The new mayor of Falmouth is D. Barnett Casey, former city councilman, who has had much experience in the city's affairs. Mr. Casey was elected unanimously by the city council Thursday night at the city hall. He succeeds Harry S. Myers, resigned.
The Butler Lions Club has been organized with Aril R. Ducker, prominent Butler businessman, as its first president. Other officers are O.H. Curtis, Jr., first vice-president; Supt. A.B. Arnold, second vice president; Ralph Bowling, third vice-president; Wilson Johns, secretary; Rev. D. F. DeHart, treasurer; C.B. Peoples, lion tamer; and Henry Bradbury, tail twister. Directors of the club are Charles Moreland, William O. Harrison, Marvin P. Cosby, and John Franks.
Arnold's, one of Falmouth's oldest businesses, will formally open its new modernized store Thursday, May 20, with a special eight-day sale in which many values are to be offered. This hardware store was established 75 years ago by W. M. Applegate, and the present owner, Mr. Arnold, has spent almost 40 years in the business, having started as a clerk in the fall of 1908.\
100 Years Ago - May 18, 1923
Eaton Oil Works of Covington received the contract for 10,000 gallons of road oil applied upon the streets at 10.5 cents per gallon, also 8,000 gallons more or less of Tarvis at 15.5 cents applied. While the oil is one-third cents higher than last year, the Tarvis is 1.5 cents cheaper.
Dr. F. D. Bush of the Second Presbyterian Church, Lexington, delivered the baccalaureate sermon for the graduating class of Falmouth High School at the Christian Church Sunday night.
B.E. Blackburn's passenger bus that makes daily trips from this city to Covington turned over Wednesday morning about 7:30 near Doan's saw mill about four miles south of Falmouth. There were six passengers on the bus, four men and two women, two of whom were cut by glass.
A delegation of representative citizen from the Demossville section was before the fiscal court Thursday night urging the county to build the proposed bridge over Grassy Creek at Demossville. It now looks like this improvement will be made. The citizens have agreed to construct about three-fourths of a mile of pike leading to the bridge.