August 5, 2023
25 Years Ago -September 9, 1998
The second precipitation gauge to monitor rainfall in the Falmouth area was installed on the Licking River near the Shoemakertown Bridge on August 31. Kentucky Utilities provided the pole and set it in place to which the Integrated Flood Observing and Warning System (IFLOW) gauge was attached.
Governor Paul E. Patton officially made the announcement the announcement on September 3 that Sandy Jo Wells, Falmouth, will fill the vacancy created by the death of Joey F. Wells.
Farmers National Band and Elaine Gosney were recognized in the Original Program category in Lexington July 17 at the KBA' Young Bankers' Award Banquet.
50 Years Ago - September 7, 1973
Falmouth, county, and state police were involved in a raid, arrest, trial, and conviction of the participants of a poker game at the F. H. Mains Clubroom at 210 E. Shelby Street. Saturday afternoon at 2:40 p.m. Sgt. Leslie Simpson of Dry Ridge State Police Barracks, led the raid that resulted in the arrest of six defendants on gambling charges. All pled guilty.
75 Years Ago - September 10, 1948
The Warner trial is to begin next Monday, September 13, promptly at 9 o'clock. Circuit Judge J.C. Dedman will preside and has instructed prospective jurymen to be present on time.
Falmouth defeated the Traveling Clippers of Covington...Sunday afternoon at the Fair Grounds by a 3-2 score.
Plans are now being completed for the street carnival to be given by the Butler Lions Club three nights, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, September. 16, 17, and 18. There will be free movies and prizes, street dancing, and hillbilly music each night.
County Clerk Chas. E. Ashcraft announces that trappers' licenses are now on sale. Mr. Ashcraft has information on trapping according to the law and will gladly give it to any hunter.
Richard C. Redmon, fomerly of this county, but who is now making his home with his sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Harold H. Keith in Newport, last week began his apprenticeship in the mechanical department of the Cincinnati Enquirer.
100 Years Ago -September 7, 1923
The American-Italian Fireworks Company of Dunbar, Pa, will present a $500 display of fireworks each evening September 20, 21, and 22 of the Falmouth Fair.
Mr. and Mrs. I. W. Sorrell of Greenwood met with a bad accident last Thursday evening after dark. They were driving to church services at Butler, and when they reached a point just this side of that place, their horse and buggy plunged over a ten-foot embankment. The accident was caused by Mr. Sorrell's buggy attempting to pass an automobile with only one light, he being unable to judge the position of the car when he pulled over to let it pass. Mr. and Mrs. Sorrell were fortunate in only receiving a severe shaking up, but the horse was skinned and bruised, and the buggy was demolished.
Allie Arnold, of Louisville, spent the weekend with his parents here, and on Sunday he returned to his home in his father's 1923 model Ford coupe. He left the machine standing in front of the Y.M.C.A. where he rooms, and during the night it was stolen....A reward is offered for its recovery.
Monday was the dullest court day in Falmouth in many months. There was a large crowd in town, but very little business was transacted.
The Pendleton County Farmers' Fire Insurance Company has had a remarkable business during the past several months. The company has accepted $46,242 worth of new business.
Will Tharp has sold his grocery and cream station in the old Outlook office on Shelby Street to Emmet Shelton, who will take charge Saturday. Mr. Shelton is a fine young man and will treat the public right. Mr. Tharp has purchased a half interest in the tailor and pressing shop of Rome Kinman on Main Street, and will enlarge the business by putting in a stock of men's wares.
The Board of Education of the Falmouth school district has elected Lisle Gulick as janitor at the new school building at a salary of $1,200 per year.
Charley Hamilton, well known farmer who resides on James Showalter's farm near Neave, has a mountain cow that has given milk for eleven years and has only missed one milking. Bob Clayton, of Oakland, is authority for this statement.
The Devoe and Raynolds Paint Co., of New York, rewarded W.D. Mefford of Falmouth a handsome premium in cash as a prize for the best poem on their paint demonstration given at the Applegate Hardware Store in this city a few months ago. There were several thousand competing for the prize, and Mr. Mefford was the lucky man.
Mrs. J. T. Robinson of the Broadford Pike, was struck by an automobile at the corner of Main and Shelby streets in this city Wednesday afternoon last. Mrs. Robinson was crossing the street and in avoiding one machine, she stepped in front of another which struck her. She fell on her face, and her nose and face were painfully, but not seriously, hurt.