June 04, 2024
25 Years Ago - June 8, 1999
At a special school board meeting June 2, bids were approved for additional classrooms, gym and track at Phillip A. Sharp Middle School.
The board originally opened bids a month earlier and rejected them as too high. The rebidding process saved about $200,000 on the project.
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Pendleton County High School graduating senior Bridgett Mains was presented with an award for 13 years of perfect attendance.
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Pendleton County High School sophomore Allison Flaugher broke her own school record in the 100-meter dash, running it in 12.7 seconds in the regional track and field meet May 29. The first place finish qualified her for the state finals.
Also going to state was junior Dar Simpson, who set the school shot put record of 32 feet, 5 inches. She holds the school record for discus throw as well.
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The Kincaid Bassmasters met May 25 at Kincaid Lake State Park for their annual “trash tournament.” Instead of fish, they pulled as much trash as they could muster from the lake.
50 Years Ago - June 7, 1974
Pendleton County Fiscal Court voted to advertise for the repair of the courthouse clock and to make it electrical.
The court also will advertise for bids to blacktop the courthouse driveway and parking lot.
The court also voted to increase the fee for rental of precinct voting places from $4 an election to $6 an election.
Presiding Judge David H. Pribble was authorized to purchase 55 chairs for the grand jury room and the new community meeting room at the courthouse.
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The master plan for the new Pendleton County airport is proceeding.
The Pendleton Airport Board accepted the No. 1 site, known as the Auchter farm, as the location. The farm runs from Lightfoot Fork Road over to near Highway 22 at Turner Ridge.
Architects are now completing the master plan. The cost would top $1 million and half of the cost would have to raised locally.
Falmouth Mayor Max Goldberg, Falmouth City Council and Judge David Pribble and the Pendleton County Fiscal Court will have to consider how to raise the money once federal and state officials green light the master plan.
75 Years Ago - June 10, 1949
Butler has a new mayor, Charles Moreland. He became active in the high office Monday night when the board of trustees met in their June meeting.
The trustees discussed the matter of buying a new fire truck.
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Falmouth firefighters are now assured of having at least $2,200 in their treasury to purchase a new fire truck for the city. Their festival closed Saturday on Main Street with more than $1,000 profit.
C.A. Taliaferro, keeper of the firefighters’ funds, still has four ducks on his hands at his home on South Maple Avenue, left over from the festival. Those persons with ticket numbers 212651, 212523 and 212845 may call at Mr. Taliaferro’s residence and secure their ducks.
A ham still has to be claimed as well. The ticket number for this is 212937.
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Elmo Naugle of 513 S. Liberty St, Falmouth, posted this ad that read, in part: “It won’t be long now before nasty, buzzing flies will be bother your stock and getting in your home to spread filth and disease germs. Be ready for them with a fly spray that kills not just stuns. Watkins Fly Spray is quick in action, dependable, clean and stainless. It’s just the thing to use in the house as well as the barn.”
100 Years Ago - June 6, 1924
Mr. and Mrs. B.F. Arnold of Falmouth received a message last Thursday apprising them that their daughter, Miss Nancy Arnold, was married that day in Louisville to Marion Rhodes Jr. of Flemingsburg.
This announcement was received with much pleasure by the many friends of the bride in this city and other sections of Kentucky, but it did not come as a surprise, as it was rumored that the happy event would take place this month.
The bride is one of Falmouth’s most highly cultured, accomplished and beautiful young ladies. She is a graduate of Falmouth High School, and last week graduated with honors from Transylvania University, Lexington.
She has been very popular at home and at college, and has been very prominent in athletics, having starred on the university basketball team the past year.
The bridegroom is a son of C.E. Rhodes, cashier of the Peoples Bank, of Flemingsburg, and he holds a position in the same bank as a bookkeeper. He is a young gentleman of fine personal bearing and held very high in the estimation of his hometown.
After a bridal trip, the happy young couple will return to Flemingsburg to make their home.
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The Incorporation Day outing in Butler was attended by a large ground of people.
The ball game in the morning between the Henpecks and Single Bucks was won by the latter, after which the athletic events were run, including the 100-yard dash, the fat man’s race and the boys free-for-all race.
At 2:30, the ball game between Butler and Falmouth was started, and from then until the finish, a very one-sided contest was witnessed, with a final score of 13 to 2 in favor of Butler.