June 25, 2024
25 Years Ago - June 29, 1999
Pendleton County Fiscal Court agreed to allow the Pendleton County Ambulance Service to purchase a new ambulance in the next fiscal year.
Ambulance Administrator Phillip Hart appeared before the court to see what type of ambulance to put out bid specs on. Bids will be for a mini box type ambulance.
Estimated cost is around $68,000. Hart stated there was a grant that could be applied for some of the extra costs for the mini box type.
One of the current ambulances has a lot miles on it and the other one is broken down.
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There will be a Community Worship and Gospel Sing
7 to 9:30 p.m. July 4 at the Griffin Centre on Highway 27 in Falmouth.
Scheduled performers are the McElfresh Family, Just Forgiven, Triumphant, George Ent, and Paul and Holli Gabbard.
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Conrad Hardware, Furniture and Gifts, 226 W. Shelby St., Falmouth, is advertising a Beanie Baby sale for July 3. Beanie Babies will be sold for $4 each, with a limit of three to a customer.
50 Years Ago - June 28, 1974
Falmouth and Pendleton County will observe Ken- tucky’s bicentennial on July 6, starting with a parade at 1 p.m.
Prizes of up to $10 will be giving for best decorated floats, best decorated bicycles, horse and ponies, and best pioneer-dressed man and woman.
After a program at and tours of the newly remodeled Pendleton County Courthouse, old-time fiddlers and youth bands will play in front of the courthouse.
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The Falmouth Women’s Club will host an arts and crafts festival 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. July 6 at the courthouse yard to coincided with dedication of the remodeled court- house and the Kentucky bicentennial program.
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Due to the confusion over the Federal Flood Insurance Program, Falmouth City Council is holding an opening meeting 7:30 p.m. July 8 in the Pendleton County Court- house.
Experts on flood insurance will be present to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of federal flood insurance.
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A wet-dry election is in the offing in Falmouth.
Charles Habermehl of Falmouth accepted the manager- ship of the campaign to put Falmouth wet.
Falmouth and Pendleton County both are local option dry territory and have been for more than 25 years.
75 Years Ago - July 1, 1949
An ad from Pressman’s Department Store (on Shelby Street in Falmouth, opposite of the post office) read:
“Say Fellows! Are you ready for the big Fourth of July celebration?
“Come in and see what we have in those cool summer dress pants priced at $4.95 and $5.95
“Sport shirts, $1.98 to $3.95
“T-shirts, plain and striped, in beautiful colors, 95 cents and $1.95
“Dress straw hats, $1.98 and $2.98 “Swimming trunks, $1.98.”
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Highway Commissioner John A. Keck at Frankfort announced that the new spur from U.S. 27 at Flour Creek to Butler is to be built this summer.
The new spur is to cost $46,424.20, and the work or- der are to be let at once. The new road will be 0.4 mile in length.
The contractors will grade, drain and apply a traffic bound surface to the new spur. This will be good news for the citizens of Butler as well as the entire county.
100 Years Ago - June 27, 1924
Vandalism in its most flagrant form is being practiced in Riverside Cemetery by someone who holds in his heart neither respect for the departed nor regard for the law and its penalty.
Recently, the sexton of the cemetery has discovered that vases and flowers have been taken from the graves and possibly sold by the vandals.
Evidently, the ghouls enter the cemetery at night and remove these flowers from the graves and either place them on other graves or carry them away.
A close watch is being kept on the cemetery grounds, and if discovered, the perpetrators of this serious misdemeanor will be dealt with seriously.
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The Falmouth Fair Company will hold its annual Fourth of July celebration at the fairgrounds.
The management has arranged an elaborate program with continuous performances - trotting, pacing and running races, baby shows, pony races, mule races, watermelon race, sack race, pie eating contest, hog calling contest, a gun shoot and a ball game.
At night, the greatest moving pictures of the day will be shown in front of the grandstand - “The Deerslayer,” and wonder boy actor Jackie Coogan starring in “Peck’s Bad Boy.” Irvin S. Cobb puts the finishing polish on five reels of delicious laughter by writing the subtitles “just as Jackie would speak them.”