July 18, 2023
25 Years Ago - July 22, 1998
The northern end of Pendleton County got a green light when the announcement was made July 16 that the Pendleton County Water District and the City of Butler had been approved to receive a U. S. Commerce Economic Development Administration grant for $1 million.
Pendleton School Board honored several retiring employees on July 16: Mrs. Nancy Harville, Mrs. Janice Bertram, Ms. Carletta Chaney, Mrs Susan Spegal, Mrs. Linda Thornton, and Mrs. Carol Klaber.
Mrs. Nancy Harville retired after 36 years of dedicated service as an elementary reading teacher. All of Ms. Harvell's time has been spent in Pendleton County classrooms.
Esther and Bob McClanahan had a lot of laughs as they participated in the Back Seat Driving Contest at the Pendleton County Youth Fair Saturday, July 11....The men were blindfolded and the ladies sat behind them through the obstacle course.
50 Years Ago - July 20, 1973
Falmouth Fire Department, through Falmouth City Council, has placed an order for a new 1947 fire engine....The new fire truck will be made at Columbia, Ohio, and will cost $35,148 and the color will be bright yellow.
Kincaid Amphitheater will be the scene of Bluegrass music at its best this Saturday, July 21.
Herbert N. Owen has been appointed as Guidance Counselor at Pendleton County High School. He began his new duties July 1.
A sky diving team from the 101st Airborne Division from Fort Campbell, KY, will be jumping throughout Friday, July 20 and Saturday, July 21, at the Pendleton County Youth Fair. Five men and one woman make up the team.
Falmouth City Council has named Joe Green as the new Assistant Chief of Police in the City of Falmouth, Wayne Oliver, Chief, announces.
75 Years Ago - July 23, 1948
Police Judge K. B. Woolery held Falmouth City Court Monday morning and fined two young Falmouth men on drunkenness charges. Officers present in court were City Police John Adams, Chief, Eddie Thomas, and Louis McCarty, Sheriff Alvin Thompson and City Attorney C. Harold Ewing. The court learned that the first youth up was 20 and had recently been paroled from the LaGrange Penitentiary. He was charged with drunkenness, breach of the peace, and resisting an officer.
This Sunday, July 25, Falmouth will play a strong team from Loveland, Ohio, at the Falmouth Fair Grounds. Manager Bill Cordray announces that the game will start at 2:30. Baseball fans are urged to come out and support the local team Sunday as this should be a real ball game.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Cummins announce the arrival of a fine 8-lb., 6-1/4 oz. daughter on Friday, July 9, 1948, at St. Elizabeth Hospital. The little miss will answer to the name of Linda Sue. Mrs. Cummins was formally Miss Gay Brown of Lenoxburg.
Born to the wife of Eddie J. Whitaker of Robbins Ave., Falmouth, twin sons, on Sunday, July 18, 1948, at St. Elizabeth Hospital. They were named Larry Lane and Garry Wayne, the former succumbing at birth.
100 Years Ago - July 20, 1923
The local baseball team defeated Augusta at Fair Grounds Park Sunday afternoon with a score of 6-3. Martin was on the mound for Falmouth, and he pitched a good game.
The Pendleton County Sunday School Association will hold its regular annual convention on Thursday, August 2nd, at Gardnersville Christian Church. Dr. Geo. A. Joplin, secretary of Kentucky Sunday School Association, will deliver the principal address.
Quite a number of people gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. McClanahan at Lenoxburg on Saturday, July 14th, it being his 79th birthday. Uncle "Pick" was born in a little log house in Pendleton County nearly eight decades ago, and he has resided in the county all his life. His wife was a Miss Addie Britton, also of Pendleton County. He is a charter member of the Christian Church at Lenoxburg.
Flour is $6.00 a barrel is the lowest in eight years.
The Department of Agriculture wants to buy 1,200 bed bugs for experiment purposes.
800,000 gallons of beer were poured into the sewers of New York by the enforcement officers.
Rollie C. Mains has opened his new garage just finished on South Main Street in this city and is now equipped in every way to do work on any and all cars... George Rankin, an experienced mechanic, is with Mr. Mains, and he asks his friends to call.
The local Overland dealer, F. Chipman, reports many sales. As fast as he gets a new car in, there's someone waiting to take it home.
George Ott, of the Walnuthurst Farm six miles west of this city, sent us five blackberry bushes by Elmer Woodhead on Tuesday that had the heaviest crop of berries we have ever seen.