September 24, 2024
25 Years Ago - September 28, 1999
Jennifer McCall doesn’t have a problem lately telling people where she lives. It’s the house on U.S. 27 near Butler with hundreds of pumpkins decorating her front lawn.
She and her four sons have placed the pumpkins around all of her rock flower gardens, down the side yard and back, and there are still hundreds of them everywhere on looks.
“We stopped counting after we got to 1,600,” McCall said.
“We have about 550 in the fruit cellar and about another 400 in the barn to keep the sun off them,” she said.
McCall said that she and her boys have had so much fun growing the pumpkins and picking them. The pumpkins are for sale.
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Miss Kentucky Heather Renee French of Maysville was crowned Miss America 2000 before a sold-out crowd Sept. 18 in Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Convention Hall.
French, 24, is the daughter of Diana and Ronnie French of Maysville, and the niece of Linda and Adarin Williams and Ray Kelley of Falmouth.
She is the first Miss Kentucky to wind the crown in the history of the pageant.
50 Years Ago - September 27, 1974
Falmouth City Council at its last meeting went on record supporting the sale of alcoholic beverages in the city of Falmouth.
In a joint statement, City Council and Mayor Max Goldberg said the reason for their support is the need for new revenue for the operation for the city’s electric system.
“We are in hope that by the sale of alcoholic beverages, by the sale of licenses necessary for the sale of each and every bottle of alcoholic beverages sold in the City of Falmouth, the city will received enough revenue to offset the approximately $3,000 fuel charge on electricity a month that the city has been paying for many months,” the statement reads.
“The city treasury cannot continue absorbing this extra fuel charge on the electricity indefinitely without raising the cots of electricity to the users of electricity approximately 25% to 30% per month to cover this additional cost added to our costs of purchasing electricity.”
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Meanwhile, in a front page editorial, the Falmouth Outlook urged city voters to side with the dry forces on the special vote on Saturday.
“If the election were held in Pendleton County today, a majority of the people would favor the county remaining dry, as it is now. ... This is a true statement because if it weren’t, the wet forces would have called a countywide election, which they did not.
“In addition to this, all the people of Pendleton County are paying for this election; therefore, the majority of the people deserve, certainly, to have their wishes known since the Fiscal Court is paying for it, per law.”
75 Years Ago - September 30, 1949
Two tickets for city offices of Falmouth have been field in County Court Clerk Charles E. Ashcraft’s office. They are the Peoples Party ticket, headed by D. Barnett Casey for mayor, and the Payroll ticket, topped by Max Goldberg for mayor.
For city council, the Peoples Party is running Clark Houchen, D.M. Daugherty, Joseph W. Woodhead, Clarence Rice, William Cordray and W.A. Cadlwell.
The Payroll party is running for council Harry R. Miller, C.F. Stith, Herman Ramsey, Alva Cushman, Raymond Cookendorfer and J. Hurl Weaver.
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Another era has come to Falmouth and other cities along the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.
The State Railroad Commission has seen fit to permit the L&N to discontinue passenger trains 31 and 34 between Corbin and Cincinnati by way of Paris and Lexington.
For the first time in its history, train passengers, unless schedules are changed, will not even be able to get direct transportation to Lexington.
No. 31 leaves Falmouth at 7:06 p.m. fast time for Lexington and Corbin, and No. 34 leaves Falmouth at 10:27 a.m. for Cincinnati.
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Grant’s Lick won the first game of the three-game series they are playing against Falmouth by a score of 8-0.
Nagel went the route for Grant’s Lick. He struck out 14 batters. Florence went the distance for Falmouth. He struck out three batters.
Next Sunday, Grant’s Lick will play Falmouth at the Falmouth. The third game will be played at Grant’s Lick.
100 Years Ago - September 26, 1924
Thieves forced their way into the Booher Garage on Chapel Street last Thursday night and attempted to blow the safe in the office.
Their efforts were unsuccessful.
The cracksmen rolled the safe from the front office to the workshop in the rear of the garage and placed on some auto tires, evidentially with the view to deadening the sound of the explosion.
They also placed a heavy overcoat over the top of the safe. This overcoat had been left in the garage the day before by a stranger.
The yeggs succeeded in knocking off the combination from the heavy door, and placed a charge of gunpowder in the hold where the combination was taken out.
When the charge was set off, it failed to blow open the safe.
Mr. Booher came to the garage early Friday morning and found the front door open. When he entered the garage, he smelled rags burning and found the workroom filled with smoke. The burglars had set fire to the overcoat, and it lay smoldering on the concrete floor of the workshop.
The safe had contained $13.85 and the garage books. The safe was so badly wrecked that it could not be opened, and the mechanics in the garage had to cut it open to remove the books.