25 Years Ago - February, 1996
Skip Allen #33 the first African American to play for the Pendleton County school system predicts in a letter to the Outlook titled, “My role in Pendleton Co. basketball history,” about his future generations, “As far as the future from that seed will come a basketball star in which the University of Kentucky and the University of Cincinnati will compete and lobby for his service. That will be a great day.”
Pizza Factory and house on Rigg Street burglarized. The Pizza Factory was robbed of $125 while the residence lost several musical instruments, an amplifier, 30 CDs, and a half barrell of beer.
Rick Elrod, Pendleton County High School Class of 1978, has been named to the 10th Region Hall of Fame. His coach Phillip Wood, has nothing, but praise for one of his star players saying he was one of the better players to ever play at Pendleton County.
Nobel Prize winner Dr. Phillip Sharp serves as chairman of Research Kentucky, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advance medical research.
Bluegrass Tobacco Outlet Store opens. The outlet will soon be carrying a line of imported cigars and cigarettes, as well as imported pipe tobacco.
Dale Jarrett wins Daytona 500 in a Robert Yates Ford Thunderbird by one half a car length over Dale Earnhardt. NASCAR Winston Cup will be in Rockingham next week.
Fifth Third Bank’s Athletes of the week: Kristina Butcher and Nathan Peoples
Why a lodge is needed at Kincaid Lake State Park? Because no other lodging exists in the county for out of area guests. In October the state provided National Guard troops to help with congestion and traffic at Wool Festival. The troops had nowhere to stay.
50 Years Ago - Jan./Feb., 1971
About three inches of snow fell Saturday and Sunday night, the temperature dropped to below zero at Falmouth.
Mrs. Lillian Mullins, aged 73, widow of the late M. M. (Chuck) Mullins of Grassy Creek, operator of a general store there for many years passed awaySunday January 31, 1974.
Mr. and Mrs. David Shipp are receiving congatulations upon the arrival of their first child, Laura Susan, on Monday, February 1, 1971.
Pendleton County rallied in the final period for 22 points to defeat the Grant County Braves 72-62 Friday at Grant County. Pendleton held an advantage in the first quarter with Grant County tying the score in the third quarter. The Wildcats gained their 10 point margin in the final quarter.
Pendleton County was blanketed by nine inches of snow on Monday, February 8, 1971, all activities were either slowed or halted.
Mr. and Mrs. Jess Brown of Marcus recently celebrated their 49th wedding anniversary.
75 Years Ago - Jan./Feb., 1946
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bell and family are rejoicing over the advent of another bouncing baby boy. This is their sixth heir and fourth son. He was born Tuesday January 8.
The Butler Bobcats defeated Crittenden Friday night on the Pendleton County floor 45-28.
The Falmouth Red Devils dropped a 46-22 game to Augusta on the Bracken County floor. Augusta is showing great form having defeated Brooksville Polar Bears 37-32 recently.
The A. J. Jolly basketball five got another Pendleton County scalp last Tuesday night when they handed a 32-31 defeat to the Butler Bobcats in an overtime contest on the California floor.
D. C. Davis and Orie Rankin of Mt. Auburn sold 2,332 pounds of tobacco at the Wiglesworth House at Cynthiana on Friday at $43.66 per hundred.
The new Falmouth Theater will re-open this Thursday January 31, with a two day run of the picture, “What Next Corporal Hargrove?” according to the owner Max Goldberg. Mr. Goldberg has gone to considerable expense in modernizing this show in Falmouth. The lobby is now entirely glassed in, there are new sound and heating plants, and a baby’s crying room from where the show can also be seen. Mr. Goldberg has also installed earphones for the benefit of those who are hard of hearing. The admission will be 16 cents plus 3 cents federal and 1 cent state tax. Falmouth now has two of the most modern picture shows in Northern Kentucky.
Max Goldberg, proprietor of the Falmouth and Pastime Theaters, was guest speaker at the Falmouth Rotary Club. A World War II veteran, recently returned from Europe, he spoke on France, England, and Germany
100 Years Ago - February, 1921
The price paid for tobacco on the Falmouth market during the past week have had an unexpected and upward tendency. The average for the past week has been around $15.50 with an occasional floor of good weed going up to $18.
Jackson Dunaway, one of Pendleton County’s aged and highly esteemed citizens, passed away at his home near Butler on January 30.
Mr. and Mrs. John Blades of Bachelor’s Rest are entertaining a fine little son, born January 7, Myron Glyndon.
C. W. Hart of Cynthiana Pike sold eight fine Rhode Island Red cockerels at $1.50 each. These cockerels were bred in the purple.
The Falmouth tobacco market started off again Monday with all floors full. Prices on all grades were strong, the low grades showing a marked advance over any day of the season. Some fine crop averages made up as high as $35 per hundred. The general average for that day was $16.50.
William Ducker and son, Charles Ducker, have purchased of John Luke his farm of 318 acres near Demossville, and will move to their new possession about March 1. Mr. Ducker sold his farm near Butler to his son, Howard Ducker.