October 03, 2023
25 Years Ago - October 6, 1998
As the chill of autumn rolls into the Ohio Valley, Dan Moreland of Hornbeck Road, Butler, decides it's time to harvest his crop of freshwater shrimp, or more correctly freshwater pawns.
A 76-year-old Pendleton County farmer died from injuries sustained in a tractor accident on his farm on Blackburn Road north of Falmouth on October 2. George Seever had left his house early that morning to cut wood. A neighbor discovered the accident and called the Pendleton County Dispatch to send help.
50 Years Ago - October 5, 1973
Three men were murdered in cold blood and two others seriously shot at the Fisher Motel early Tuesday morning sometime around 1 a.m. Pronounced dead at the scene was Elva Harper, 63, Falmouth, night manager of Fisher's Motel, Monroe Sizemore and Daniel Sizemore, both of Hyden, Kentucky. They were all shot in Room 6 at the hotel.
75 Years Ago - October 8, 1948
Final funeral services for 1st Lt. John W. Montgomery, who was killed in an airplane crash in Alaska, will be held Sunday afternoon at the Thomas, Fossett, and Yelton Funeral home at 2 o'clock. Rev. Carl Sears and Rev. R. E. McElmurry are to be in charge of the service.
Grant's Lick defeated Falmouth handily Sunday afternoon on their Campbell County Baseball diamond 4 to 1, and by virtue of their victory won two out of three games in the two teams' 1948 series. A total of 480 paid admissions to see the game.
John Marion Boyers, aged 50 years, former resident of Falmouth, and a native of Harrison County, was found in Indian River at Cocoa, Florida, Thursday, September 30, 1948.
100 Years Ago - October 6, 1923
H. H. Hopkins gave us the following information regarding the tobacco grown in the Grassy Creek magisterial district, which is being secured by the Burley Tobacco Growers Co-Operative Association: there are 661 acres of pooled tobacco in that district this year, three-fourths of which was in the barn last Saturday and the remainder will be cut and housed this week. So far, there is very little of it that has been house burned, and that cut since the 15th of September is curing up with a fine color.
There was only a fair crowd in town Monday owing to the fact that many of our farmers were busy housing their tobacco. There were a lot of plug horses on the market, and grazing cattle. J. G. Hardin, of near Peach Grove, bought a bunch of bred heifers which he expects to keep for his milk cows.
Miller Bros. of near Caddo have left at our office a stalk of Boone County White corn that measures 15 feet and four inches in height, and eight-and-one-half to the ear. Many counties have reported tall corn, but this stalk of Miller Bros. beats them all.
C. C. Purdy and son, Victor Purdy, prominent farmers of near Bethel, report that the milk from their herd of Holstein and Jersey cows is testing 4-8, which is an unusually high test. It would be difficult to beat this record.
Automobile owners in Kentucky are increasing at a rapid rate, according to a report made today by the Federal Bureau of Public Rads which is also concerned in an effort to get Kentucky to provide better roads for motor rolling stock.