July 25, 2023
25 Years Ago - July 29, 1998
Governor Patton announced July 24 that the residents of 68 flood-ravaged homes in Falmouth will never have to worry again about rising water invading their homes. "Thanks to a $3 million project sponsored by FEMA," the governor said, "these homes, heavily during the great flood of '97 will be purchased as a fair market value by the city of Falmouth."
Ben Cook, director of planning and development for Housing and Urban Development, met with the Falmouth City Council and the citizens of New Hope Complex on July 21 at Falmouth City Hall. The meeting was held for the purpose of discussing rental assistance and housing for those flood victims still without permanent housing.
"Doc" William Clinger was a pillar in his community. His involvement with various projects over the years has touched the lives of so many.
50 Years Ago - July 27, 1973
Miss Darlene Hall, 16, daughter of Mr and Mrs. William E. Hall of Kells Road, Falmouth, was chosen Thursday night as Miss Pendleton Youth Fair. She will be a junior at Pendleton High School this September.
Pursuant to the continuation of the of the July 10, 1973 council meeting. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the fluoridation problem now facing the city which is being imposed on them by the Kentucky Department of Health.
Mr. and Mrs. W. Alex Caldwell of Falmouth have sold their Western Auto Associate Store at 10 West Shelby Street, Falmouth, to Mr. and Mrs. Hobe Ball of Fort Wayne, Indiana, a veteran of Western Auto Supply employee of many years.
Sen. Walter D. Huddleston reports that the Senate Appropriations Committee has reported legislation which inclues funds for a number of Kentucky Corps of Engineers projects. Funds for all Kentucky projects recommended in the Presidents Fiscal year 1974 Budget have been approved with the exception of the Paintsville Reservoir project. Falmouth Lake construction was approved at $100,000.
75 Years Ago - July 30, 1948
The registering of young men 18 through the age of 25 will begin on Monday, August 30, the date set by President Truman.
The Falmouth Fire Department was called late Sunday afternoon to extinguish a small blaze in a truck box on the property of R. Risk Arnold, near the rear of the Falmouth Methodist Church.
The Butler dress factory is now in operation and is known as the Don Lee Manufacturing Co. At the present, they are manufacturing children's dungarees. The management is in urgent need of female power machine operators. They want experienced or inexperienced women for this work between the ages of 18 and 35. Anyone wanting a good-paying job is asked to call the factory between 8 and 4 o'clock.
Behind the pitching of Ralph Wright, the Falmouth Merchants defeated the strong Loveland, Ohio team, nine Sunday afternoon at the Falmouth Fair Grounds by an 8-5 score. Falmouth's pitcher struck out 15 batters, and allowed no runs until the ninth inning.
Two solo students, Lyle Pribble of Butler and Marion High of Brooksville, airflight trainees, are receiving training under the G.I. Bill of Rights at the Pendleton County Airport.
The rising cost of living has gotten the consumers' goal, and is cutting in on their sunny dispositions as well as their lean pocketbooks. The politicians who are partly responsible for inflation are now entering every crackpot scheme to halt rising prices.
100 Years Ago - July 27, 1923
Mrs. Thomas Perry and her two daughters, Louise, 18, and Elizabeth, 16, and Grasvill Elkins, 8, of Memphis, Tennessee, were drowned in the Mississippi River Sunday, July 15th. Mrs. Perry was before her marriage Miss Belle Wilson, who was born and reared to girlhood in Falmouth. She was a daughter of Newt Wilson, who now resides in Florida.
A serious auto accident took place on the state road near Berlin in Bracken County Monday afternoon. A seven-passenger Studebaker automobile, owned and driven by Dick Ward of Hamilton, Ohio, overturned in the road....Mr. Ward was running his car at a terrific rate of speed, and the members of the party cautioned him repeatedly. When the car overturned, it was going 50 miles and hour.
Cole Lovelace of this county is wearing a broad smile and the occasion was brought about from the fact that he became a grandfather twice on July 11. His daughter, Mrs. W. W. Tait, of Cleveland, Ohio, gave birth to a son, and the same day another daughter, Mrs. Willard Taylor, of Butler, welcomed a son.
The Falmouth baseball team went to Williamstown Sunday and was defeated 8 to 4. These two teams have played three games this season, and Williamstown has won two.