October 10, 2023
25 Years Ago - October 13, 1998
One man remains trapped at press time in a maintenance storage area at Black River Mine in the northern part of Pendleton county on Highway 8. His identity has not been released. The gravel bin's bottom collapsed, dumping 600 tons of rock on the building around 10 a.m. The roof of the maintenance building collapsed.
Mrs. Genevieve H. Shonert of Falmouth was chosen as the Outstanding Democratic Woman of the Pendleton County Democratic Woman's Club.
Pendleton Fiscal Court Magistrates voted 8-0 October 8 to send the Blight (Junk) Ordinance back to the 109 Board for review, suggestions, and to make improvements in it and then bring it back to the court to consider for adoption.
50 Years Ago - October 12, 1973
The superintendent of the maximum security Kentucky State Penitentiary says two men charged in six slayings last week are being held in "administrative segregation" at the prison.
Mr. Elva Harper, son of the late Ben and Bessie McKinney Harper, was born in Pendleton County, on June 25th, 1090, and was killed on Tuesday morning, October 2nd, 1973, when shot by escaped convicts at the Fisher Motel on U.S. 27 in Falmouth, Ky.
Two federal marshals said that one of the two prisoners who apparently used hacksaw blades to escape from a cell block in the federal courthouse on Monday were not searched after being brought from Fayette County.
75 Years Ago - October 15, 1948
First Lieutenant John William Montgomery, 25, was laid to rest in Riverside Cemetery, Falmouth, Sunday afternoon, with full military honors. Young Montgomery was killed in an airplane crash in Alaska on December 7, 1942, and had been brought home to be buried.
Radio announcements and official reports received as authorities here indicate the Judy Kay Butts of Falmouth, aged two years, is suffering with infantile paralysis at General Hospital, Cincinnati.
Ralph M. Light of Berry, Rt. 1, has enlisted in the United States Army and is presently stationed at Camp Breckenridge, Ky. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Light.
Kermit E. York, a native of Pendleton County, is now operator and owner of the York Camera Shop at 434 Main St., Cincinnati 2, Ohio.
Falmouth Council sold $158,000 in bonds Monday night at their October meeting at the interest rate of three percent and a premium of $50. The money is to be used to build a new addition to the utility plant and to purchase a steam turbine.
100 Years Ago - October 13, 1923
Coroner J. G. Galloway and County Attorney A. H. Barker held an inquest Monday, which consumed the whole day, on the death of Pearl Ginn who died suddenly on August 5, 1923, at his home in this city. ...It was testified that Mrs. Maggie Ginn, wife of the deceased, had purchased a quantity of strychnine at the drug store of O. B. Gayle in this city on May 22, 1923... Mrs. Ginn emphatically denied she administered the poison to her husband. A number of witnesses were introduced who testified that a man in the county had visited the Ginn home many times during the absence of her husband, and also of the passage of notes between them.... The coroner's jury charged Mrs. Maggie Ginn with poisoning her husband.
The garage of Ed Elliott who resides between Gardnersville and Fiskburg was destroyed by fire Friday night of last week together with a Ford machine.