25 Years Ago - November 18, 1997
Butler City Council voted at their Nov. 3 regular meeting to proceed with the purchase of the old Farmers National Bank building at the cost of $70,000. Greg McElfresh made the motion, seconded by Harold Lee.
Two young girls in pajamas, carrying fishing poles and backpacks, led two county police departments, Pendleton and Campbell, and four fire departments on a not-so-merry chase across the hillsides of Peach Grove for over an hour last Thursday morning. Both were eventually recovered, cold, but unharmed.
Mrs. Louise Pettit, Pendleton County Women’s Chairman for Farm Buerau took first place honors with her committee’s entry at the American Farm Bureau Convention recently. The story that won was on the young students birthday party at the high school for those turning 16 years old.
Seventeen-year-old Dana Farrar of Falmouth won the Farm Bureau Outstanding Youth contest on the district level on Oct. 26.
50 Years Ago - November 17, 1972
Walter Huddleston next U.S. Senator of Kentucky; Breckinridge elected U.S. Representative; Nixon carries every state but one.
The Northern Kentucky Regional Crime Council held its monthly meeting in Falmouth, KY on October 19, 1972. Pendleton County’s representative to the crime council, Magistrate Paul Hall, announced to the council and guests that Pendleton County had been awarded a communications system grant. The grant will provide funds to purchase and implement a system which is designated to Phase * of the State-Wide Communications Plan of point-to-point communications. Phase I of the plan will allow voice radio communications between police agencies. The Phase II portion of the plan is a base-to-mobile radio communication between a fixed station and its mobile units.
St. Luke Hospital births are recorded: Barry and Debbie Daugherty, Butler, twins, a son and a daughter, born November 7; Charles and Nellie Nickell, California, a daughter, born November 9; Edward and Ann Thornton, Butler, a son, born November 10; David and Karen Butcher, Falmouth, a daughter, born November 10.
Mr. And Mrs. George William Lach are the proud parents of a baby girl weighing 5 lbs, 73/4 oz, born November 5 at Pendleton County Hospital. She has been named Leslie Ann and is welcomed home by three sisters and one brother.
75 Years Ago - November 14, 1947
The official majority that Pendleton County gave its next governor, Democrat Earle C. Clements, was 432. This was indeed a gratifying vote for Mr. Clements, a man who is now a United States Congressman.
Hardin-Browning Post No. 109 American Legion, preparing to build a War Memorial in the south courthouse yard on Shelby St. in Falmouth to both World War I and II veterans, to cost about $3,000. It was revealed at a meeting of the Pendleton Fiscal Court on Tuesday.
A Falmouth bank cashier, D. Barnett Casey, appeared before Falmouth City Council at its November meeting Monday night and advised Mayor H. S. Myers and the council that it would be wise to sell their utility bonds of approximately $75,000 now rather than until the delivery of their new equipment. The council recently purchased a turbine for its utility plant, and it will be necessary to float the bonds in order to pay for the equipment.
The Campbell County Junior Chamber of Commerce has called a dinner meeting of all young men of Falmouth to meet at the Phoenix Hotel Wednesday evening, Nov. 12...to form a Chamber of Commerce here in the city.
The Falmouth basketball cagers will take to the hardwood next Tuesday night in a Penogram game with Crittenden on the Red Devils’ floor.
100 Years Ago - November 17, 1922
Pendleton County has the best crop of tobacco this season that she has produced since 1912. The crop in Pendleton County will amount to about 3 million pounds which is below an average yield, but the quality will make up for the loss in pounds.
The fast and heavy Falmouth football team hung another trophy on their belts Sunday when they administered a crusting defeat to the Russell Athletic Club team of Covingto. The score was 54 to 0 in favor of Falmouth.
Everybody, large and small, is cordially invited to the Apron Social at the city hall Friday evening, Nov. 17, at 7:30 o’clock p.m. Bring your smallest purse to “waste”, a few pennies on your waist, and enjoy a social evening with friends is all we ask.
Supt. G. H. Wells and Attendance Officer W. Q. Daniels are making their fall visits to the rural schools of Pendleton County this week.
Concord school will open next Monday, Nov. 20th. Mrs. Florence A. Hightower of this city has been engaged as a teacher. The Concord school failed to open this fall owing to the fact that a teacher could not be secured.
County Tax Commissioner E. C. Atkins has finished the work on the Falmouth Magisterial District and the total assessment of real and personal property amounts to $3,711,252, which is an increase of $260,000 over the assessment of 1921. This is proof positive that Falmouth Magisterial District pays over one-third of the taxes of the county.
The fire department was called on Sunday afternoon to the cottage of the late J.D. Wyatt on the corner of Second Avenue and Montjoy Street. The house was occupied by James Trayler and family said the fire originated from a defective flue. A portion of the roof burned off.