August 1, 2023
25 Years Ago -August 5, 1998
Motorist on U.S. 27 recently have taken a double-look when they glanced down at the low weir dam just below the U.S. 27 bridge entering the city of Falmouth. Recent rains and the high water washed a dead tree and its roots onto the dam where it has found a resting place.
At long last, what many Falmouth residents have been waiting for, a date when the buyout will actually begin. August 7 was the date given to Falmouth City Council by Barbara Dickison at their July 28 meeting for the first closing on buyout property.
One of the items brought under discussion when the Pendleton County Fiscal Court met on July 30 was the payment of $2,500 to James Godman for easement to his property along the South Licking River.
50 Years Ago - August 3, 1973
The Southern Elementary School will hold its first annual festival the Saturday, August 4, at the Southern Elementary School grounds.
Planning funds for Falmouth Dam and Eagle Creek Lake in the amounts of $100,000 each were approved by Congress Monday.
Congratulations are in order for Mr. and Mrs. Orville Moneyhon of Caddo, whose 50th wedding anniversary will be August 4, 1973.
R. K. Displays of Cincinnati, Ohio is moving their factory operations to Butler, Ky, and will begin business there about August 1st.
75 Years Ago - August 6, 1948
Jon Dressman, editor of the Kentucky Times-Star, one Kentucky editor who is really all out for the Falmouth Dam. In an editorial Friday, Mr. Dressman reasoned that the Falmouth Dam "Holds the greatest possibilities for recreation and for tourist attraction in Northern Kentucky."
Falmouth's crack baseball nine continued to win Sunday afternoon by defeating the Traveling Clippers of Covington 8 to 4 behind the seven-hit pitching of Allen Flaugher.
Grasshoppers of the Kansas variety are damaging all growing crops in many sections of Pendleton County. They seem to be worse in the Short Creek and Elizabethville sections, and they are attacking tobacco, corn, gardens, and alfalfa. It is reported that crops in the Goforth section have been totally destroyed.
Alex McClanahan, well-known farmer residing on Lenoxburg Road, has had three pairs of twin calves born on his farm in the last six months.
100 Years Ago - August 3, 1923
The school authorities have more difficulty in procuring desirable drinking water for the schools than in any other matter. The drinking water is always a problem.
W.C. Chipman is closing out his stock of general merchandise at Portland, this county, at cost and below cost.
Falmouth defeated Cynthiana at Fair Grounds Park Sunday afternoon in a score of 5 to 2. Ennis King pitched for Falmouth and proved very effective against the visitors.
The ice man's death knell has sounded. Bad news for the ice companies, but a cause for rejoicing among housewives. Electric refrigeration will soon make a matter of history of this devil-may-care individual who drags his dripping lead across the kitchen floor and dumps it with an unsettling thump into the waiting ice box.
The Falmouth Board of Education has recently elected Mrs. Paul Woodhead as a teacher for the seventh grade. Under the new arrangement, the Falmouth City School will operate on the 5-7 plan, with a seven elementary and five high school grades. The eighth grade will continue to have departmental work along with the high school group.
The Outlook has printed and delivered to County Clerk R. A. Thompson at his office in the court houses, the ballots for the coming Democratic and Republican primaries, which will be held on Saturday,
August 7. There were 4,765 Democratic ballots printed while 2,335 Republican ballots were prepared for this coming election.