September 12, 2023
25 Years Ago -September 16, 1998
In a special meeting of the Pendleton County Fiscal Court held on September 9, a five-to-one vote was taken to build a 75-bed jail at the present location of the 25 bed at the present location of the 25-bed Pendleton County Facility.
The city of Butler and community park team meeting was held September 1. An 18-member committee has been set up with Butler Mayor Delbert Reid chairing this committee....Plans for the playground/park include a basketball court, tennis court, parking lot, playground equipment, walking/bike/skating trails.
Paul Haddix was recognized for 20 years of service to the city of Falmouth at the September 8 Falmouth City Council meeting.
50 Years Ago - September 14, 1973
Pendleton County court is now in session and the next case to be tried will be one regarding "murder," and the Commonwealth of Kentucky vs. Raymond Aulick.
Raymond McGraw, age 65, of Fooks Road, Falmouth, passed away suddenly on Saturday, September 8, 1973, at 3:35 a.m. at the St. Luke Hospital in Ft. Thomas....McGraw was a former magistrate for the county.
75 Years Ago - September 17, 1948
Judge J. C. Dedman, presiding over Pendleton Circuit Court, Monday evening at 6:40 o'clock sentenced Charles Warner, Jr., of Falmouth to life imprisonment for a period of his natrual life. A jury of 12 Pendleton County citizens ...[found] the young Warner guilty of rape.
Vandals broke windows in the Mt. Auburn Consolidated School sometime between Friday night and Sunday morning. They threw rocks through new windows in the front of the building, broke windows in the cafeteria, entered and destroyed food, and then used the cafeteria with these acts.
Falmouth will now have a new territory annexed--Shoemakertown. The little community lays just across the Main Licking River from Falmouth. Council voted unanimously in a roll call vote Monday night in their September meeting for the annexation.
Falmouth defeated Rickey's Cafe of Cincinnati, a Buckey League team, Sunday afternoon at the fair grounds by a close score of 7-6.
Clarence K. Wilson, well known here at Falmouth, is now going strong in his confectionery business at Georgetown, Ohio.
It has been revealed here that efforts are being made by the art department of the Falmouth Women's club to have the State Highway Department sponsor a roadside park somewhere near Falmouth up new U.S. 27.
Kenneth T. Marquette has been advised by the Highway Department that they intend to place gravel and chips at each mail box along new U.S. 27. This will make an ideal approach for the mail carriers.
100 Years Ago -September 14, 1923
The city council will submit to the voters of Falmouth a proposition to issue $12,000 worth of bonds at the coming November election for the purpose of installing a filtration plant in connection with our water works. The object is to enable our citizens to have clear and pure water the year found.
The Falmouth team defeated the Star Tailors of Covington at the Fair Grounds Park Sunday 2 to 0.
Delegates from this county to the district convention of the Burley Tobacco Growers' Cooperative Association next Monday will be elected by the tobacco growers who are members of the Burler Tobacco Growers' Cooperative Association in an election to be held Saturday at the court house between the hours of 8 o'clock in the morning and 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Growers may vote either in person or by mailing their ballots to the election officers or by sending the ballots to the election in time to be counted before the closing of the polls.
J. W. Booher and son, J. M. Booher, returning from Cincinnati, found the Ford coupe which was stolen from "Squat" Arnold in Louisville last Thursday.