25 Years Ago - March 1996
Kathy Stewart starting member of National Championship team at Kentucky Christian College Lady Knights basketball team. While at Pendleton County High School Stewart she was the starting center for the first back to back 38th District Champions. In addition, she also started on the soccer and softball teams. Her KCC team went 28-4 while she averaged 7 points and 5 rebounds a game as a freshman. During the tournament in the first game she scored 14 points while pulling down 10 rebounds. In the championship game she had 7 points and 7 rebounds.
Pendleton County students Justin McElfresh, Rob Prewitt, Karsten McElfresh, and Andrew Gosney served as pages for Senator Ernie Harris during the recent meeting of the Kentucky General Assembly.
The Falmouth Firefighters Association is bringing USA Main Event Wrestling to Falmouth on April 30. The card will include a ten man rumble in a ten foot cage and a heavyweight championship match. Bad Business Brown vs. Mr. USA and Killer Ko Klu Kan vs. Yoshi Khan, who just came off the WCW two months ago. Also scheduled will be a tag team championship with the Japanese Connection vs. Steamboat and the Breeze. USA Ladies Championship match Sandy So Fine vs. Christy Monroe. The Mighty Midgets and PG- 13 vs. Little Farmer John, JD Thunder vs. Outlaw West and Wolfman vs. Young Guns.
Resolution of honor by the Pendleton County Board of Education recognizing Dorothy Mae Fields for thirty and one half years transporting students safely.
50 Years Ago - March 1971
Owensboro defeats Pendleton County by only three points 59-56 in the state basketball tournament opener.
Thomas E. Dewey, the Wall Street lawyer who was twice a Republican candidate for the presidency, passed away in a Miami Beach hotel on Wednesday, March 17, 1971 at the age of 68.
John F. O. Payne of 602 Chapel Street, Falmouth, passed away on Tuesday, March 16, 1971 at Harrison County Memorial Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. James H. Tomlin Jr. Route 4, Falmouth are receiving congratulations upon the arrival of a fine new son born March 8, 1971 at St. Luke Hospital. The little man tipped the scales at ten pounda, five ounces. He will answer to the name of James Carter.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Cummins announce the arrival of a son on February 16. He weighed six pounds, 14 ounces and answers to the name of Charles Edward.
75 Years Ago - March 1946
County Attorney W. Marvin Davis re-opened his law office in Falmouth on Monday to again practice law. Mr. Davis closed his office in November 1943 to enter the armed forces.
One of Falmouth’s best known and highly respected citizens, Hiram Hayden Shoemaker, aged 76 years, passed away at his home on East Fourth Street on Sunday, March 17, 1846.
E. E. Barton, master commissioner, recently sold at the courthouse door the 146 1/2 acre farm of the McCarty heirs, located on No. 159 at Peach Grove. The high bidder was C. C. McCarty at $7,500.
Mrs. Agnes Dawalt, aged 90 years, a lifelong resident of the Knoxville vicinity passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Carrie Elliott, near Knoxville on March 7, 1946.
Born to the wife of Harvey Record on March 13 at Bethesda Hospital, Cincinnati, a little daughter. Name Lois Ann.
100 Years Ago - March 1921
W. T. Harris passed away at his home in Corinth on March 2, 1921, aged 76 years. He was a Confederate soldier under John Hunt Morgan.
James H. Shields and C. W. Hart bought 18 milk cows in Clermont County, Ohio.
Tuesday the F. A. Neider Company of Augusta received an order for 7,500,000 auto buttons from the Ford Company.
J.J Austin and Walter Austin, produce dealers of this city, shipped by truck to Cincinnati last week 450 cases or 13, 500 dozen eggs.
B. F. Arnold of this city has purchased of M. Lawrence Oldham his farm of 103 acres (known as the upper Ridgeway Place) across the South Licking River from the fairgrounds. Price $18,000
Tar paper used by two farmers to line the ceiling of their home for warmth during the winter proved a death trap last Thursday night. John M. Garner, 89, former Kenton County engineer, was burned to death, and Joe Aydelott, 67, received probably fatal burns when a lamp in the three room cottage they occupied on the Fiskburg Gardnersville Pike near Gardnersville exploded setting fire to the room.