September 10, 2024
25 Years Ago - September 14, 1999
A 62-year-old Pendleton County man died at the scene shortly after his 1949 T6G Harvard military plane he was flying crashed around 4:10 p.m. Sunday.
The accident occurred about 300 feet from his residence off John Denny Road in the western part of Pendleton County, 11 miles west of Falmouth.
Pilot John Kordenbrock was doing what he loved to do — flying his planes, neighbors said.
A passenger, John Stenger, 47, of Independence was taken to St. Elizabeth Hospital in Grant County, where he was treated and released.
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Gov. Paul E. Patton declared a water emergency on Sept. 9 for all or part of 53 counties in Kentucky because of the current water shortage and the lack of relief anticipated in the near future.
“Pendleton County is still under a water conservation request,” Craig People, county Emergency Management Service manager, said.
Residents are asked to continue every effort to conserve water.
50 Years Ago - September 13, 1974
The Pendleton County School District reported that the total enrollment on Aug. 30, the first day of classes, was 2,415, down 95 from the enrollment this time the previous year.
Northern Elementary School reported enrollment of 610 students; Southern Elementary, 604; Middle School, 454; and Pendleton High reported 747 in attendance.
Since Aug. 30, several more students have registered in all of the schools and more are expected to enroll on Monday.
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A 24-hour Pendleton County Rockathon for the benefit of the Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy telethon was held Friday, Sept. 6, and continued until 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 7, in the Community Hall in the Pendleton County Courthouse.
Mary Losey of Dickerson Lane, Falmouth, chaired the event. She reported that their efforts earned them $128.24 and all will be sent direct this week to the Muscular Dystrophy collection site in Cincinnati.
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Plans for the Miss Kincaid Park beauty pageant, which will be presented by the Falmouth Women's Club, are progressing nicely and all committee members are working enthusiastically.
The gala will take place 8 p.m. Sept. 28 in the Southern Elementary School auditorium. Tickets will be $1 each for all those who plan to attend.
75 Years Ago - September 16, 1949
All Pendleton County schools opened on Labor Day. The enrollment for the first week was 1,275.
Enrollments included Butler, 245 in the elementary and 145 in the high school; Goforth, 129; McKinneysburg, 117; Mount Auburn, 240; and Morgan, 181 in the elementary and 110 in high school.
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Jane Aulick, daughter of Mrs. Louise Aulick, left for Berea, where she will enter Berea College.
Although Pendleton County is not in the Berea College area, Jane was accepted as a student because of her outstanding record at Morgan High School, from where she graduated last school year as valedictorian, and because of the record made on the college entrance exam.
While at Morgan, Jane was a member of the school paper staff for four years, serving as editor while a senior. She was active in the Glee Club, Y-Teens and the Home Economics Club, and was a member of the Annual staff.
She plans to major in journalism.
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In an informal discussion Monday with three representatives of the Falmouth Fire Department, Falmouth Council agreed to take up with the Pendleton County Farm Bureau, the Fiscal Court of the county and the Pendleton County Farmers’ Fire Insurance Co. the possibility of going together to purchase a new fire truck.
The fire department has raised $2,000 itself toward the purchase of a new truck.
100 Years Ago - September 12, 1924
A delegation from the Portland and Oak Grover school districts appeared before the Pendleton County Board of Education Monday to ask that two teachers, Elizabeth Ashcraft and Lucy Swetman, be dismissed.
The patrons from the Portland district object to Ashcraft because she is Catholic, and many of the parents have refused to send their children to that school.
The Oak Hill delegation asked for the dismissal of Swetman on the ground that she has refused to read the Protestant Bible in chapel, and instead is reading the Catholic Bible.
State law requires the Bible to be read in the public schools, and as the law does not state what particular Bible shall be read, and the board is without power to dismiss a teacher on the grounds of her religion or for reading either Bible.
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Mrs. T.C. McKenney of Falmouth will again be in charge of the dining hall at the fair this year.
McKenney will serve three meals a day at 75 cents a meal. She is known as one of the best artists in the culinary line in the state.