July 29, 2025
25 Years Ago - August 1, 2000
Usually, the only objects floating on Kincaid Lake are boats and bobbers, along with the occasional duck family.
But last Wednesday, a sea plane landed on the placid waters.
The 1998 M-7 Maule, a four-passenger aircraft, was piloted by co-owners Tony Begley and Greg Williams, both of Florida.
The pair left Florida on Tuesday, spent the night near Lake Carrollton in Georgia before landing at Lake Kincaid Wednesday afternoon. They are on their way to an air show in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
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“The Today Show” was in Butler and Falmouth to film a segment on Bio G-3000, the innovative, nonfossil fuel prepared by Griffin Industries.
Camera crews filmed Griffin Industries’ Brian J. Griffin driving a road tractor picking up bulk grease from the Falmouth Dairy Queen.
The grease is used in the production of the biodiesel fuel in the Griffin plant in Butler. The fuel is considered safe, classified as combustible rather than flammable, and cost-effective and environmentally friendly.
Griffin Industries boasts the most advanced biodiesel production facility in the world.
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Dan Woodhead of Falmouth was honored by the Falmouth Rotary club as a Paul Harris Fellow.
This award is made in recognition of significant contributions to The Rotary Foundation, a humanitarian fund operated by Rotary International.
Woodhead has been a Rotarian since 1961 and served as club president for two term and eight years secretary-treasurer.
50 Years Ago - August 1, 1975
About 275 people attended services July 20 when Turner Ridge Baptist Church celebrated 100 years of Christian service.
In the morning service, Imogene Jenkins sang two selections. Cecil Sullivan, training union director of the church, rode his pony to the anniversary celebration because it is the way many of the members remember traveling to church when they were younger.
Pastor Tommy Williams spoke on “Space Age People,” saying God used those determined people 100 years prior to accomplish his will be establishing the church. He challenged those in attendance to be mindful of the fact that God has placed them there at this point “for such a time as this.”
The afternoon service included the invocation by former pastor James A. Sowder.
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The 105th annual meeting of the Beech Grover Sunday School Union, celebration and picnic is set for Aug. 9 in two sessions, 2:30 and 7 p.m., with supper from 5 to 7 p.m.
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Gov. Julian Carroll presented a new bookmobile to Pendleton County during a ceremony in Frankfort.
Those present at the ceremony included Dr. W.M. Clinger, library board chairman; library board members Thomas Moreland and Edna Ewing; and Carrie Powell, bookmobile librarian.
Carroll noted that Kentucky has the larges fleet of state-owned bookmobiles in the nation, 110 vehicles serving 102 counties. The bookmobile program began in 1954 with 83 donated vehicles. This bookmobile replacement program is designed to keep the fleet at the highest level of operation, according to state Department of Library and Archives Director Charles Hind.
75 Years Ago - August 4, 1950
The Rev. Kirtley Jolly, pastor of the Short Creek Baptist Church, is the evangelistic speaker at the Gum Lick Baptist Church revival this week.
Jolly will soon be leaving Pendleton County, having accepted a pastorate in the Nelson County Association.
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All men of the Falmouth Christian Church fellowship were invited to a free watermelon feed Aug. 2.
A special committee composed of Alva Cushman, Kenneth Bentle, John Browning, Ralph Perrin, Roscoe Tucker, O.D. McKenney and Claude E. Cummins made recommendations for organizing the men of the church.
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W. Marvin Davis, campaign chairman for Gov. Earle C. Clements in Pendleton County in his race for the Democratic nomination for U.S. senator, has called attention to the fact that all voters in the primary must mark their ballots twice for their favorite candidate. The nominations are for both a long and a short term.
Davis said that unless made aware of this, many voters will cast a ballot in one or another of the races and neglect to vote in both.
100 Years Ago - July 31, 1925
Mrs. Dimmie Hodge, who resides in East Falmouth, was sitting on her front porch Sunday afternoon, partaking of the sweetness and luxury of her old clay pipe.
She was trying out a fresh batch of long-grown tobacco, which her son-in-law, O.L. Gregston, brought her from the country.
A man was working on a Ford care in front of Mrs. Hodge’s home, and all of a sudden, an explosion occurred.
“Thinks I,” mused Mrs. Hodge, “that man has hit something he oughtn’t to have touched on his care, and the critter has blown up.”
At the same time, she glanced down the long, shining stem of her pipe, and behold, she was puffing on the stem minus the bowl..
She looked at the floor and saw a splotch of blood. She sensed a tingling in one of her fingers, and was surprised to find blood flowing from it.
In some way, a .22-caliber cartridge got mixed up with the tobacco and when Mrs. Hodge filled her pipe, she put the cartridge in the bowl also. When the fire heated the cartridge, it exploded with the above result.
Mrs. Hodge wasn’t the least bit excited over the incident. But she bemoans the loss of her favorite briar, mellowed and sweetened by the years.