January 24, 2023
25 Years Ago - January 27, 1998
The Rebound Bowl, sponsored by St. Luke Hospitals Health Alliance, in honor of Pendleton County’s “rebound” from the 1997 Flood, recognized Jo Ann Florence, director of St. Luke Alcohol and Drug Treatment Center, and David Tackett, principal of Phillip Sharp Middle School and coach of the PHS girls’ varsity basketball team, were honored for their service to the Pendleton County Community.
Pendleton county is gearing up to celebrate its birthday this year. The county will turn 200, and the special events will celebrate the Bicentennial on July 4.
A fire that began in a child’s bedroom sent a mother and two children into the night on January. 19. The fire in the home of Donna Sullivan, a resident of the Housing Authority, destroyed the unit at 505 Weaver Drive.
Jim Woodrum from Architecture Plus, Inc., presented PC Judge/Executive Don Maysand the court with a proposal for converting the existing jail into a 75-bed facility with a 2-bed, 24-hour hold for juveniles. This would provide an 8,000 sq. ft. parking garage, as well.
The Lewis Owen Community Service Award was presented to The Falmouth Outlook Staff by the Kentucky Press Association for outstanding community service.
50 Years Ago - January 26, 1973
The nation mourns Ex-President Lyndon Johnson.
The examining trial of Raymond Aulick, sharged with willful murder by shooting Earl Gillespie on January 14, was begun in PC Court Saturday afternoon before County Judge Ambrose Fields. Assistant County Attorney Edwin A. Monroe opened court by reading the murder warrant signed by Deputy Sheriff Harold Wright and issued by Judge Fields.
All offices in the Pendleton County Court House will close at noon Thursday, January 25, in respect for the memory of the late Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th Presiddent of the United States--Judge Ambrose Fields.
Pendleton County was well represented at the Miss Kentucky County Fair Beauty Pageant at Stouffer’s Inn at Louisville Saturday night. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Colvin, daughter Kathy Colvin, Miss PC Fair Queen, and Mr. Fred Hafer, President of the PC Fair were in attendance.
The Butler Fire Department was called Wednesday, January 17, to the George Keys farm on Flour Creek Road at Butler to extinguish a grass fire. Upon arriving, Butler Fire Dept. turned a second alarm in to Northern Pendleton.
75 Years Ago - January 23, 1948
Rev. Carl Sears, well-known and popular young pastor in Campbell County, has been unanimously elected as pastor of the Falmouth Baptist Church. It is understood that he will take up his new preaching duties around March 1.
Sheriff Alvin Thompson and Deputy, Clarence Aulick, were called to the Carntown Road in the extreme northeastern part of Pendleton last Friday night about 6 o’clock, where two automobiles and a motorboat had been destroyed by fire. Russell Cushman, who resides at Carntown, was driving his 1934 Plymouth coup and pulling a trailer and a motorboat which he had purchased in New York. He collided with a 1940 Willys coupe driven by Ray Hancock of 123 W. 5th Street, Covington, causing the motorboat to overturn and spark the blaze that destroyed it and the two cars.
Mrs. William Blades of this city has purchased the C.H. Bonar Grocery Store on Shelby Street in Falmouth. Mrs. Blades announces she will continue to operate the store daily, but she plans shortly to have her opening date.
Dr. and Mrs. J.E. Wilson observed their 50th wedding anniversary with an open house at their home on south Main Street.
100 Years Ago - January 26, 1923
Acting on information, prohibition officers James Wood and W. C. Huddleston with Sheriff C. B. Peoples and deputies Charles Ravenscraft and Charles Ashcraft, and special deputies Joe Yelton and W. L. Crout, raided a moonshiner’s rendezvous on the old Trapp property near Menzies Station last Saturday afternoon. A regulation mountain moonshine still of fifty gallon capacity was taken. A quantity of mash and moonshine whisky was also found by the officers. As a result of the raid, Emmiet Cummins, a well-known farmer of this county whose farm adjoins the Trapp property, was cited to appear before U.S. Commissioner Roetken in Covington Monday. Mr. Cummins is charged with manufacturing, possessing, and transporting liquor. Warrants were also issued for Fred Coldiron who lives in a shack on the Trapp place near where the still was found, and W.P. Gill, who lives on Emmet Cummins Farm. Moonshine whisky was found in both of these homes.
Caddo Local Union has 35 live members, and is accomplishing good for the farmers of that section.
At the close of the last scholastic year, our County Board of Education was $3,000 in debt. Next June, it expects to be $5,000 to $6,000 in debt. For this reason, by majority vote, the board raised the county tax levy to 30 cents on the $100.