September 19, 2023
25 Years Ago -September 23, 1998
The City of Butler has a new part-time police officer, Debra K. Merse. Mrs. Merse lives in Ft. Mitchell with her husband David.
Falmouth City Council voted to issue two conditional building permits for the Falmouth Housing Authority's Hughes Ridge Place Project. A review of the requirements will be made in 120 days to see if they are in compliance.
The Butler Fire Department was called to Highway 177 East near Moreland's Curve at 8:59 September 17 to respond to a call that an 89 red Nissan pickup was sinking in the Licking River....At 4:16 a.m. that morning, Rick Collins of Falmouth placed a call to the Pendleton County Dispatch reporting the 89 Nissan stolen.
A public hearing was held to set the 1998 tax rate for real estate at 13.0 per $100 assessment, tangibles at 15.6 per $100 assessment, and water craft at 15.6 per $100 assessment.
50 Years Ago - September 21, 1973
Starting Monday, September 17th, the employees of Fuller Manufacturing Co. went on strike. The Fuller Manufacturing Co. and the union have been negotiating on a new contract to replace the one which expired August 31, 1973.
Tax levies were made for 1973 taxes as follows: general expense fund, 9.1 per $100; Road fund, 6.1 cents, _____, $1.50; hospital, 5.3 cents; library, 2.2 cents, health, 2.2 cents.
Fire badly damaged two Falmouth businesses, Carrousel Dry Cleaner and Falmouth Laundromat, both owned by Earl Wallace, Saturday morning. Loss is placed at $40,000.
The examining trial of Raymond Aulick, charged with willful murder by shooting Earl Gillespie on January 14, 1973, got underway Tuesday morning in Pendleton Circuit Court with the beginning of a selection of a jury.
75 Years Ago - September 24, 1948
The body of PFC Roy G. Armstrong...arrived from Columbus, Ohio at the Union Terminal, Cincinnati, Tuesday, September 21....He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Armstrong of Falmouth and died in Italy while fighting with the American Army.
Mr. and Mrs. Herb King have purchased from Mr. and Mrs. Will Wyatt their restaurant on Shelby Street.
Reports from Butler Monday were that the Butler Lions Club made over $1,000 from their street carnival held Wednesday through Saturday. This money will be spent, it is reported, to build a playground for the young people of that city.
Sheriff Alvin Thompson and deputy Clarence Aulick are investigating, as we go to press, the possibility that the empty two-room home of Enoch Browning, situated on Wilson Street near the railroad overpass, which burned to the ground, had been purposely set afire. No one was living in the home and the electricity in it had been turned off.
Falmouth Council met in a called meeting Friday night and elected a new policeman, Paul Reeves, at a salary of $135 per month.
100 Years Ago -September 14, 1923
The first frost in Pendleton County was observed last Friday morning, September 14. Practically no damage was done, excepting the low places where tobacco was on the sticks in the field. This is the earliest frost in several years, and it followed a hard freeze in the northern states.
George Weisbrudt had the misfortune to get his buggy wrecked Saturday night when an automobile ran into him. His mother-in-law, Mrs. W.A. Cookendoerfer, was thrown out of the buggy but was not seriously hurt.
Some children playing in a stable in the East End one cay last week found some moonshine liquor, and it is said drank some of it. This would get to the ear of the owner of the stable who dislodged the man that had it rented. The prohibition officers, Sheriff and Marshal are making efforts to break up the manufacture and sale of moonshine liquor in Pendleton County, and a good start has been made. There are a number of men who are suspected of handling this forbidden fruit, and they will be caught sooner or later.
Marshal James O. Perrin arrested Elmer Ramsey of this city Saturday on a warrant, charging him with selling moonshine liquor. He was released on bond of $500.
The State Highway Commission at Frankfort has promised to have the Washington Trace Road from Lenoxburg to the Campbell County line surveyed just as soon as engineers can be secured to do the work. The object is to have everything ready for actual work to begin in the spring.
Acting on a tip from residents in the Morgan section, Prohibition Officer W. C. Huddleston of Covington, Sheriff C. B. Peoples, and Charles Ravenscraft and Charles Ashcraft went to the home of Henry Hand about a mile west of Morgan and found Mr. Hand busily engaged in the operation of a moonshine still.