January 14, 2025
25 Years Ago - January 18, 2000
At the Jan. 11 Falmouth City Council meeting, Mayor Gene Flaugher presented council members with copies of a brief letter, dated Jan. 7, which had been sent to police Chief Greg Reis. The letter states that Reis’ employment as police chief would be terminated effective 4:30 p.m. Jan. 10.
No reason for the termination was included in the letter or discussed at the meeting. Following the meeting, Flaugher declined to comment on the reason for the termination, but did say that the decision was not related to the recent issue of Reis’ outstanding water hauling bill, which had been settled.
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Hammer Strength donated six exercise machines to the city of Falmouth.
Hammer Strength general manager Mike Mason and his assistant, David Hughes, set up the equipment in a large room located at the Falmouth water and wastewater plant on Shelby Street.
“Donating these machines to the city is one way the company can give back to the community,” Mason said.
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The Pendleton County Wildcats have nine members in the 10th Region Boys Basketball Hall of Fame. Honored Jan. 28 were Terry Cummins, Bobby Wyatt, Talbert Turner, Rick Elrod, Lulu Record, Philip Wood, Richard Gulick, Cecil Hellard and John Griffin.
50 Years Ago - January 17, 1975
The basketball game between the Pendleton County Wildcats and the Carroll County High School Panthers that was to be played Jan. 24 at PCHS has been rescheduled to Jan. 23 at Freedom Hall in Louisville.
The game now will be a preliminary to the Kentucky Colonels-San Diego Conquistadors ABA game.
High school game time will be 5:45 p.m. Tickets are $2 and $5 and will be good for both high school and pro games.
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The Falmouth local wet-dry option election held Sept. 28 is being challenged by the wet forces.
The dry forces won the election by 21 votes.
The Pendleton County Election Commission is in the process of answering the questions raised. Once that is done, the matter may proceed to question all concerned to learn if the basis for the challenge has merit.
Judge John P. Lair will decide the outcome of the challenge. If the judge nullifies election results, the wet forces could call for a new vote.
The more than 100 questions asked in the challenge center around whether absentee ballots were handled properly, whether people voted in wrong precincts, and if voter registrations were up to date and legal. One question insinuates that one woman cast a vote for her husband.
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More of the George Gedge estate was sold at auction.
Gene Flaugher bouth the Kentucky Restaurant building in Flour Creek for $15,900, Bob Bay bought the Shell Oil station across from Northern Elementary School for $34,000, Keith Fardo gave the winning bid for the Farmers Market building at Flour Creek for $13,600 and Ray Howard picked a storage building in Butler with the high bid of $1,835.
75 Years Ago - January 23, 1950
Sheriff Jack Dickison is busily engaged in the investigation of the shooting of five shotgun blasts into the home a newly arrived Polish family in Pendleton County.
Dickison reports that shooting happened at the refugees’ home near DeMossville. The windows in the home were shot out at night
About a dozen red and blue shotgun shells were found near the home. The shells were sent to the FBI laboratory in Washington.
The Polish family — and man and wife and their three children — arrived about a month ago
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Holton H. Pribble was promoted to lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force.
Pribble is the son of Mrs. Nell Pribble of Butler and a graduate of Butler High School.
He served in World War II, including in Okinawa and other points in the South Pacific.
100 Years Ago - January 16, 1925
Thirty-three persons were buried in Riverside Cemetery during the year 1924, according to Mrs. Janie Frazer, sexton of the burial park.
The number of burials in 1923 was 28, according to the sexton’s records. The average has been practically the same for the past five years.
The Falmouth cemetery grounds, which have been under the care of Mrs. Frazer for the past three years, are in splendid shape. While there are 17 acres of land in the entire cemetery, only about 10 acres are being used at the present time, the remainder being held until it becomes necessary to expand the bounds of the cemetery.
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Civil engineers are now at work on the survey of the great, $7 million hydro-electric dam on the Licking. The official survey was started last week at the courthouse door in Falmouth, and the engineers were at work on the streets in Falmouth for several days.
The level of the land between Falmouth and Myers Eddy, the site where the dam is to be built is being taken.
It is said that 10 or more engineers will be at work at once at different points along the licking River, from the proposed dame site to the farthest reaches of the pool the dam will create.
S.A. Teacher, who is credited with having discovered the Falmouth site, is here directing the work.
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Pendleton County is richer yearly by $160,000 because of the soil fertility produced as a by-product of dairying.
The average quantity of manure recovered for used on croplands in the area studied was 7.4 tons per cow, and since the fertilizing value of a ton of manure is $2.60, the by-product value of each cow is approximately $20.
The application of this figure to the 8,000 dairy cattle in this county brings the total added value to the soil fertility here to the almost unbelievable figure given above.