Feb. 21, 2023
25 Years Ago - February 24, 1998
The Falmouth police and fire departments wish to thank Billy Hall for locating a missing care facility resident after hours of search came to no avail.
Kathy Schlueter, a real estate agent with the Falmouth office of Century 21 Garner Properties, was awarded the Gold Associate Award for outstanding sales achievement in the Century 21 system during 1997.
The Wildcats begin their post-season adventures tomorrow when they play Bracken County. They’ll need to shake out of a late-season slump in which they’ve lost nine of their last 10 games. Bracken is playing well, and brings an 18-11 mark into the post-season while the Cats stand at 9-17.
In their final game of the regular season, the Ladycats used an 11-3 run to begin the second half as they defeated Walton-Verona 57-45.
50 Years Ago - February 23, 1973
Word was received in Falmouth Thursday that the Corps of Engineers may be changing the location of the Falmouth Dam. However the Corps at Louisville sat a present they were preparing a site selection for the dam and that this was a routine in any great project of this nature. Probably three sites will be considered, the present and two more.
Darwin Bailey reported to the Pendleton County Sheriff’s office this week that someone took a new door he had just placed on a tenant house. Investigation is now being made.
Kentucky State Police, Sheriff Victor Moore and Falmouth Policeman Carl Purcell conducted an alleged bootleg raid Saturday afternoon, February 17, at the home of William Earl Richie. Falmouth Police Judge William Johnson said that he had issued a warrant for selling alcoholic beverages in dry, local option territory and that a prior sale had been made in the raid.
Mrs. Dora Helen Fields presented her first customer, Rev. James McLean, with one of the lovely centennial plates. The Falmouth Christian Church now has on sale the Centennial Church Plate with a limited edition.
Falmouth Attorney Robert Bathalter...attorney for self, has filed a lawsuit of $50,000 against Pendleton County Judge Ambrose Fields over hospital matters. Bathalter alleges Fields “willfully, unlawfully, violently and maliciously assaulted Defendant, Bathalter, and pushed Bathalter” from the board meeting room.
Paul Hall, Pendleton County magistrate, announced to the NKy Regional Crime council at the regular meeting of the council on Thursday evening that he had recently completed successful negotiations with the Campbell County Fiscal Court for the acquisition of a 200-foot communications tower presently situated in Campbell Co....The tower is valued in excess of $5,000 and will be made available to Pendleton County when they are able to relocate present communications equipment to other sites in the county.
75 Years Ago - February 20, 1948
James M. King has sold his stock of general merchandise at McKinneysburg to Virgie Holmes. Mr. King purchased the house of E. L. Harper containing 17 acres of land, and will again take up farming.
I have taken over the Singer Sewing Machine Agency in Falmouth and Pendleton County, and if you need a machine in part of any make of sewing machine I can get it for you. I also have a large supply of needles, bobbins, belts and oils. Bring in your machines for repairs.--J. W. Kellum
The local chapter of the National Aeronautics Association met at the Falmouth Airport last Thursday. Clarence Rice, president, presided. The following were appointed on the program committee: W. A. Caldwell, Allie Tucker, C. A. Taliaferro, and Walter Mains.
A new clothing factory may locate in Butler, it was learned this week. A representative from a Cincinnati concern is coming to Butler on February 27 to interview girls and women who would like jobs operating sewing machines. The factory would manufacture ladies’ and children’s clothing. C. B. Peoples and Councilman C.O. Ducker and Marvin Cosby were in Cincinnati Monday discussing the situation with the factory executives.
Flood waters here at the forks of the Licking River, Falmouth, endangered homes in Shoemakertown, a suburb of Falmouth, crossed State Hwy. 22, and threatened the city of Falmouth.
100 Years Ago - February 16, 1923
A four-foot snow drift in front of the front door of Babe Ruth, the home run king, drove him to New York City where he could warm up on his way to Hot Springs.
Miss Nancy M. Mullins of near Demossville topped the tobacco market last week when she sold her crop of 100 pounds on the Kenton Loose Leaf Market at $9.50. Miss Mullins is the daughter of H.E. Mullins, and she raised this tobacco in her flower garden and stripped the weed out with her own hands.
Collector of Internal Revenue, Robert H. Lucas, announces that on one of his deputies will be in Falmouth on February 19, 1923, for the purpose of assisting individual tax-payers in the preparation of their 1922 Income Tax Returns.
J.N. Rule, ex-Postmaster of this city, has purchased of his brother, W.J. Rule, the dry goods department of The Old Home Store, and will take care March 1. Mr. Rule is an experienced man in his line of merchandising. His son, Seaman, will be associated with him.
In the Winter Egg Laying Contest being conducted by a number of Campbell County farmers in cooperation with the Poultry Department of the State University, the leading flock was owned by A.H. Nordwick, who secured an average production of 18.7 eggs per bird from his flock of 247 White Leghorns.