April 8, 2025
25 Years Ago - April 11, 2000
A sophisticated new gauge on the Licking River bridge at Shoemakertown will give emergency management leaders an important edge in monitoring dangerous river levels.
State and local emergency management workers will install the new gauge April 11 at the Highway 22 East bridge near downtown Falmouth.
The gauge will detect even small elevations in the river depth and will electronically feed the information to the state’s Emergency Operations Center in Frankfort.
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The Kincaid Bassmasters are sponsoring a new chapter, Junior Bassmaster, designed for children interested in learning about fishing.
The class will be held 7 p.m. April 14 at the Falmouth School Center.
Programs slated to be offered teach all about lures and rods and reels.
50 Years Ago - April 11, 1975
The body Jack Gillispie, 44, of Falmouth, was over an embankment on New Hope Road, and Richard Hitch, 19, of Butler was arrested on a charge of murder.
Gillispie had been hit in the head, strangled, and his chest was crushed, according to Pendleton County Sheriff’s reports.
The possible motive was listed as robbery. Gillispie’s wallet was found later in the creek at East Side Park, where Hitch lived. His car, a 1967 Pontiac, was found behind the home of Hitch’s mother-in-law.
Hitch was being held in the Pendleton County Jail in lieu of a $200,000 bond.
Gillispie had gone to a tavern on U.S. Highway 27 to play cards and was last seen leaving with two women, reports state.
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A new rooster weather vane is ready to be placed on the roof of the Pendleton County Courthouse. Jailer Earl Gillespie said the rooster really crows at daybreak each morning.
The previous weather vane, an eagle, was struck by lightning and blown away.
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Moreland Drug, on the corner of Main and Shelby streets in Falmouth, and pharmacists Ron, Tom and O.T., celebrated the store’s 30th year with advertised specials that included Cepacol mouthwash, regularly $1.79, for 97 cents; Q-tips 170-count, regularly $1.29, for 63 cents; Phillips Milk of Magnesia, marked down from $1.21 to 83 cents; and Bayer Aspirin, 100-count, down from $1.37 to 93 cents.
75 Years Ago - April 14, 1950
Falmouth City Council agreed to cooperate with Hardin-Browning Post 109 in the completion of its war memorial in the courthouse yard.
A committee composed of Alva Cushman and C.J. Hamman appeared before the council and asked that they furnish water for a drinking fountain that will be placed at the memorial, furnish benches, plumbing and a flood light.
Council agreed to do so.
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Final reports show that Pendleton County Chapter of the American Red Cross reached its 1950 quota with a total $1,700.36 collected to date.
Among organizations to contribute were the Junior Chamber of Commerce, $25; St. Xavier Forresters, Falmouth Women’s Club and Second 12-Mile Sunday School, $10 each; Harrison County Rural Electric Cooperative, $6.64; Colored PTA, $5.50; Eta Pi Kappa sorority, American Legion, Jr. OUAM, Orion Lodge 222, F&AM Washington Council, D of A 46, Falmouth Chapter 481, OES and Mount Moriah Ladies Aid, $5 each; and Cocord Sunday School and Demossville Chapter 430, OES, $2.50 each.
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Judge J.C. Dedman of Cynthiana convened the April term of Pendleton County Circuit Court. Commonwealth’a Attorney Albert H. Barker was also present.
The grand jury returned two indictments and ignored two others cases that had been sent to them from the Pendleton County Court.
Indicted were Herman H. Hall on a count of forgery and Paul T. James and Luther Teegarden Jr. on housebreaking.
100 Years Ago - April 10, 1925
The Pendleton County Board of Education rescinded an order previously passed to abolish three small schools — Mount Pleasant, Thompson and Stone — in the southwestern part of the county and combine them into one district building, a modern, three-room schoolhouse at Marcus.
When the order for combination of the three schools was made about a month ago, it was done on the recommendation of a large number of patrons from the three districts involved.
Later, opposition to the subject was argued, and the board concluded that the proper course was to defer the matter until it was better understood among the patrons.
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There is an increasing shortage of horses and mules in the country. Low prices have caused a declining interest in breeding until the number of colts bred is almost negligible.
This condition is bound to bring about a reaction in a few years.
There are certain tasks on the farm and in the industrial world that can only be performed by horses.
Prices for horses and mules are likely to start an advance any day and the man who has young stock coming on will derive the benefit.
It takes four years to raise a foal to maturity.
Now is the time for our farmers who have brood mares to get busy with a breeding program.
Profit awaits the smart farmer.
Farms need horses and mules to operate efficiently.