July 9, 2024
25 Years Ago - July 13, 1999
Crystal Lynn Greene, 21, took the title of Miss Pendleton County at the Pendleton County Youth Fair on July 8.
She is the daughter of Darrell and Donna Greene. She is a senior at Northern Kentucky University, majoring in management with a minor in business administration.
Crystal won Little Miss Pendleton County in 1983. Her mother won the same title 25 years ago this month.
Lacy Layne Wright, 13, won the title of Miss Teen Pendleton County.
Wright is the daughter of Jack and Cynthia Wright. She attends Sharp Middle School.
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A man and woman were injured in a plane crash just before 1 p.m. July 12 at the Gene Snyder Airport off Highway 22, west of Falmouth.
The single-engine craft crash landed some 500 feet short of the runway.
Neither injury was life-threatening, according to Craig Peoples, director of Pendleton County Emergency Management Agency.
The names of the people injured were not released.
50 Years Ago - July 12, 1974
The Pendleton County Youth Fair will feature a bicentennial program for Kentucky’s 200th birthday 7:30 p.m. July 16 at the Falmouth Fairgrounds.
Jeffrey Shonert will serve as master of ceremonies. The Oakland Christian Church Choir under the direction of Lonnie Browning will present the hymn sing.
Lynn Booher and the Rabbit Hash Ramblers will present country music through the evening. Andy Shipp will call the square dance.
The Young Historians of Pendleton Middle School will present a Kentucky pageant. Prizes for best historic costumes are sponsored by the Pendleton County Homemakers.
The Youth Fair dates are July 16 to 20.
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The Pendleton Food Bank, 311 Chapel St., Falmouth, is offering a 12-ounce can of Hormel Spam for 89 cents, Folger’s Instant Coffee for $2.29 for a 10-ounce jar, cube steaks for $1.09 a pound and hamburger at three pounds for $2.89.
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Falmouth Baptist Church is leading Division A of the Church Softball League with a 6-0 record, followed by Turner Ridge and Fairlane Baptist, each with a 4-1 record.
In Division B, Oakland Christian was at the top of the standings at 6-1, followed by Lenoxburg-Pine Grove at 3-1 and Fairview Baptist at 2-2.
Each division consists of seven church teams.
75 Years Ago - July 15, 1949
There will be an important factory meeting 8 p.m. Thursday at Falmouth City Hall. Another factory is interested in locating here. Funds are now nearing the $6,000 mark, according to the city.
This meeting is important to all concerned, especially those who have subscribed to stock in the Falmouth Rimco factory, for four reasons: We’re only a few hundred dollars short of completion; it will add payroll to the city; neighboring cities will snatch away the project; and trustees and committee members will be appointed at the meeting.
Councilman Clark Houchen said he received a letter from a casket factory that wishes to locate in Falmouth. Houchen said he favors that factory only if the city fails to land Rimco.
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Small, light-green plant lice have been found on a number of crops of tobacco by County Agent Robert W. White.
Four farms were visited one afternoon last week to examine the tobacco and the insects were found on all four crops.
The number of the insects, so far, is small, but they multiply very rapidly, and new generations are being produced every four to five days. Severe damage was done by these insects last year to a good many crops in the burley belt.
100 Years Ago - July 11, 1924
The L&N line is offering a round trip to and from Cincinnati for $1.50.
On Sunday, July 13, special trains will leave Falmouth at 9:30 .m., returning will leave Fourth Street Station, Cincinnati, at 4 p.m.
For further information, consult your local ticket agent.
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Also from L&N lines:
“There is much discussion and agitation in political circles about the financial problems of the American farmer and the so-called “relief” that might be given him by the reduction of freight rates.
Here is an interesting fact — established by United States Government statistics. The average farmer pays to the railroads for transporting his products the very small sum of $90 a year, less than 25 cents per day; and if the railroads were to haul his crops absolutely free of all cost, his economic conditions would be bettered only by this paltry sum.
If the suggested reduction of 7 billion dollars in railroad valuation were put into effect, it would reduce the income of the railroads by 35%, yet save the average farmer only four dollars a year.
Freight rates are not responsible for the farmer’s troubles and most farmers know this despite the effort of vote-seeking politicians to “pass the buck” on all disturbances and depressions to the transportation systems.