October 29, 2024
25 Years Ago - November 2, 1999
Ed and Kathy Denton of Falmouth, Massachusetts, made a point to visit Falmouth, Kentucky, on their way back home from vacation.
Their main purpose was to visit with Falmouth firefighter Lou Burke and fire Capt. Mark Hart to see the newly equipped rescue boat that Denton helped the local fire department to get.
Burke was surfing the web one night more than a year ago when he ran across the website for the Massachusetts Volunteer Firefighters Association. It was there he met Denton, a volunteer firefighter, in the Falmouth, Massachusetts, Fire Department.
Burke told Denton that the Kentucky department was hoping to get a rescue boat. Denton spread the word, and Falmouth, Massachusetts, residents Charlie Eastman, Ron Szpond and Barry Martin donated boats and Larry Costello donated 1,000 feet of rescue rope and some life jackets, Hart said.
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The Pendleton County Fiscal Court allocated $31,680 for an animal control shelter.
Judge Executive Henry Bertram said state statues requires counties to have animal shelters, therefore the decision to build one was not optional.
But the shelter will pay for itself in three years, he said.
50 Years Ago - November 1, 1974
There will be extra special police on duty Halloween night — members of the Falmouth Fire Department.
Fire Chief Taylor urged residents to not set any fires, destroy any property or do anything that would harm or injure anyone.
There is a fine of $50 for starting a fire.
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Older folks in Pendleton County and especially those living in the Goforth vicinity will remember Ralph V. Lents, who taught school there in the early 1920s and boarded at the home of Louis Conrad.
Recently, at the insistence of his many friends and former students, Lents wrote of his experiences in teaching and of his other activities. The book was published by the Walton Advertiser.
Mrs. Britton, representing the Pendleton County Public Library Board, bought a copy and presented it to the local library. The book is now processed and ready for lending.
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From an ad for Wyatt’s Food Market in Falmouth listing specials through Nov. 2:
Round steak, $1.19 a pound;
T-bone steak, $1.49 a pound;
Sirloin steak, $1.29 a pound;
Hickory Grove breakfast bacon, 99 cents, 12-ounces;
Kahn’s wieners, 89 cents a pound;
Blue Vally ice cream, $1.69 a gallon;
Coca-Cola, 99 cents for eight 16-ounce bottles;
Clover Leaf milk, 2%, 69 cents a half gallon;
Folger’s coffee, 95 cents a pound with coupon.
75 Years Ago - November 4, 1949
Citizens of Pendleton County will go to the polls next Tuesday and elect a set of county officials for the next four years. Very little interest has been shown in the election to date.
The polls will operate from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. slow time, or 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. fast time.
The Falmouth city election will probably see a heavy voter turnout to elect a mayor and city council.
At Butler, a bond issue to buy fire equipment will be decided.
There are two amendments on the general election ballot.
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The senior class of Falmouth High School will present its class play, “Three to Get Married,” at 8 p.m. Thursday in the high school auditorium. Mrs. L.H. Lutes, senior sponsor, is directing the play.
The cast will include Joan Delaney, Anna Whalen, Billy Johnson, Bobby Best, Hord Kimble, Guy Browning, Norma Wolfe, Kathryn Mullen, Jimmy Godman, Homer Brann, Edwin Browning, Janior Bell, Nora Lawson, Victor Marquette, Geneva Yelton, Betty Jean Clifford, Virgin Mardis, Howard Brann and Frankie Hamilton
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Government support prices by grades will be $2.10 less per hundredweight for this year’s burley tobacco crop.
The guarantees range from 10 cents a pound for two grades of nondescript leaf to 62 cents for choice lugs, averaging $43.30 per 100.
Burley growers whose crops do not come up to this year’s support prices have three alternatives — they can reject the bid, resell the crops at their expense or accept loans available to farmers complying with the Department of Agriculture’s tobacco program.
100 Years Ago - October 31, 1924
Shoemaker’s New Garage in this city has recently installed a steam heating plant in its building on Main Street, and the apparatus is now in operation.
The plant was installed at a cost of $2,500 and is one of the best and latest on the market.
The installation was made by Mr. Shoemaker’s force of expert mechanics.
The Shoemaker garage has a large storage space for cars, and this steam heating outfit will assure renters of space perfect safety for their cars during the winter months.
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L.E. McHatton, well-known theater operator of Butler, has purchased the Duncan Theatre in Falmouth from Charles Johnson, who has been proprietor of the show for several weeks.
McHatton is now in charge of the show house, and is making a number of improvements which will put the Duncan in a class with the best small-town movie houses in the state.
McHatton has had many years experience in the moving picture business, and hereafter, the patrons of the Duncan are assured the best pictures can be had.
The first really big feature under the new management will the showing of “The Covered Wagon” on Nov. 6, 7 and 8.