July 23, 2024
25 Years Ago - July 27, 1999
A Falmouth man was arrested at his residence on Highway 330, five miles west of Falmouth, on July 19 after he allegedly made threats against a judicial official and allegedly planned to blow up the courtroom in the Pendleton County Courthouse.
Daniel Justice, 33, was arrested by Pendleton County Constable Pete Samples and charged with terroristic threatening.
Justice was scheduled to appear before District Judge David Melcher on July 20 in connection with previous charges of six counts of wanton endangerment involving an incident in which he rammed a moving vehicle in the Butler area.
The warrant states that Justice had expressed intentions to kill certain witnesses in the pending felony cases. Justice was suspected of preparing the bombs with intent to use them while appearing in district court, Samples said.
Falmouth fire Chief Marty Hart blocked off a one-mile area while they searched Justice’s car and residence. The Cincinnati Bomb Squad defused two bombs.
His wife, Debbie, was detained after police found two pipe bombs in a duffel bag in the back of her vehicle. She was released pending charges.
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Pendleton Fiscal Court voted to increase the cost of an ambulance run, the flat rate charge and increase costs for oxygen at the July 22 meeting.
The old flat rate was $150 per run, $3 per mile, and $12 for oxygen use. The flat rate increased to $300 per run and $25 per oxygen tank. The $3 a mile rate stayed the same.
50 Years Ago - July 26, 1974
Approximately 80 people gathered July 21 at the Pendleton County Courthouse in Falmouth to organize the opposition to a proposed ballot issue to legalize the sale of intoxicating liquors in the city.
The meeting was called to order by the Rev. Carl Sears, who was elected chairman of the organization.
While the issue would affect only Falmouth, Sears said the support of all residents of Pendleton County would be needed, requested and expected.
“To all interested people, let it be positively stated that the committee intends to work hard, plan carefully and earnestly seek the guidance and help of the God of our Christian religion to make this opposition effort victorious,” Sears and the group stated.
The Dry Forces will be in need of campaign funds and any interested person, church or organization may contribute by sending their gifts to Hall Sharon of South Maple Avenue, who was elected treasurer.
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Miss Carletta Chaney has been accepted for a teaching position at Pendleton County High School in the English department.
Chaney is a native of Somerset in Pulaski County. She attended Somerset Community College and graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. She will complete requirements for a master’s degree in special education in August.
75 Years Ago - July 29, 1949
The Falmouth Dam appropriation has been killed in Congress, more for a political issue than for a conservation or “savings for the taxpayer.”
It has been killed because Joe B. Bates of Greenup, Democrat, has proved himself more a power in Congress than thought.
Senate-House conferences took out the $50,000 appropriation for the Falmouth Dam that was to be used in further planning and surveying. A total of $230,000 has already been spent on the project in preparing plans for construction.
Supporters of the Falmouth Dam are disappointed; however, they said they will continue to fight for it in coming years. It is a project that would bring relief to the flood-weary, recreation to sportsmen, electricity to the people and prosperity to everyone.
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There were a lot of shoats on the Falmouth stock market last Thursday, and they were bringing $19.50 per 100 down.
Heavy, fat sows were priced at $15.20, and boar hogs were bringing $32.50 per head down.
Altogether, there were about 400 receipts on Thursday’s market and a very large crowd was present.
Top calves brought 25.5 cents a pound; second calves 22.5 cents a pound; and baby calves $15 to $25 per head.
Five black cows and calves were in the ring at one time and brought $165 down.
Bulls were priced at $19.50 per 100 down. Top heifers were bring $23 down.
Stockyard officials reported that no sheep were sold.
100 Years Ago - July 25, 1924
The primitive, weather-scarred log cabin is fast disappearing from the slopes and valleys of old Pendleton. This antiquated type of dwelling, the habitation of the early settlers, has given way to the advance of civilization, and few remain to tell the story of pioneer days.
Only now and then is the presence of one of these cabins of our forefathers noted — and almost without exception, those that remain are deserted. Weeds grow about the doors, chinks between the logs crumbling away, windows are vacant eyes — all is desolate, ruine.
The log house is essentially a product of pioneer days. The vanguard of the sturdy army of backwoodsmen first came to the county about the year 1780, although the county was not definitely laid out until the year 1798. Kentucky was then a part of the state of Virginia, and few white men had set foot on the soil which bears the honored title of the famous Virginian, Edmund Pendleton.