September 30, 2025
25 Years Ago - October 3, 2000
Phil Turner, vice chairman of the Pendleton County Industrial Development Authority, presented a check to Michael and Deborah Whaley to complete the Industrial Authority’s purchase of the Citizens Building, 135 W. Shelby St., Falmouth on Sept. 26.
In July 1999, President Clinton announced the Industrial Authority had been awarded a $200,000 federal grant by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for the purchase of the building and surrounding property to create and establish the county Economic and Community Development Center.
The price for the building and property was $150,000. The additional $50,000 of the grant are targeted for building renovations and property improvements.
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The Pendleton County Fiscal Court awarded the contract for a computer-aided dispatch system to InterAct. Their bid was $173,160.
InterAct will do onsite training for dispatchers.
Doug Sanders from Interact, Jackie Stephens, 911 coordinator, and Craig Peoples, Emergency Services manager, attended the meeting.
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Pendleton County Circuit Court Clerk Marvin Sullivan acted as master of ceremonies Saturday as Boston Union Church held a rededication celebration.
Boston Union formed as a church in about 1843 and alternated Baptist and Methodist services every other week until the late 1920s.
Growth in the Butler area had people moving out of the Boston area, and the church eventually closed. Efforts to renovate were attempted in the 1940s and the 1970s, but fell short until now.
50 Years Ago - October 3, 1975
Delbert Cox, Pendleton County magistrate, has been commissioned a Kentucky Colonel by Gov. Julian Carroll.
He received his commission Tuesday and
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Everyone is invited to attend the dedication service and placing of a marker at the grave of Revolutionary War soldier James Pribble.
The event is for Oct. 5 in the old section of the Mount Auburn Cemetery on Route 159, three miles south of the intersection of Highway 10.
The Rebecca Bryan Boone Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution will conduct the service. The chapter invites all members of the Pribble family to attend.
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Advertised specials this week at Wyatt’s Food Market in Falmouth included Jiffy or Banquet suppers, two-pound box for $1.39; first cut chuck roast, 79 cents a pound; R.C. Cola, a carton of eight 16-ounce bottles, 99 cents, plus deposit; bread, one-pound loaf, four for $1; and 2% milk, 71 cents a half gallon.
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Sonny Chipman defeated Steve Houchen by a stroke to win the 1975 Country Club Handicap Golf Tournament sponsored by the Dr. Scholl Shoe Co.
To get to the final, Houchen topped Bill Beatty and Chipman won his match against Tim Delaney.
75 Years Ago - October 6, 1950
Homecoming Day, the first since 1929, was observed Oct. 1 at the Falmouth Baptist Church, with 550 in attendance.
Principle addresses were given by the Rev. C.E. Brown and Roy Steger, former pastors. A church history was read by Lawrence Colvin.
At the noon hour, a delicious ham dinner was served.
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The biggest lot auction to ever be held in the city of Falmouth will take place Oct. 18. D.M. Daugherty, James I. Monroe and D. Barnett Casey have subdivided and are selling the lots in the Berger Subdivision.
The subdivision is to be improved with streets and sewers by the sellers, free of cost to the purchasers. These lots may be purchased on easy terms, 10 percent down, the balance in convenient monthly payments with no interest and no taxes.
To be sold for removal from the subdivision are the large Berger barn, tile silo, wood corn crib and small barn.
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Business at Max’s Motors on U.S. 27, south of Falmouth, is now moving along fine, the new operators report. Texaco gas is being sold and the firm sells Studebaker cars and trucks.
Some Studebakers delivered in the past few days went to Mary K. Arnold of Independence and Ralph E. Bell and Max Goldberg of Falmouth.
100 Years Ago - October 2, 1925
The Falmouth Fair closed its nineteenth annual session last Saturday with all records broken for attendance. It is estimated that more than 25,000 people passed through the gates during the four days. There were more than 12,000 people on the grounds Saturday alone.
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The Outlook has on display in its office two pieces of fabric from the covering of the Shenandoah, the giant dirigible which was wrecked near Ava, Ohio, several weeks ago.
The trophies are the property of one of the members of the Outlook force. They were given to him by a man who had visited the scene of the disaster.
This man stated that the day he visited the scene of the wreck, 25,000 people were there. Man of them took large strips of the canvas covering, he said, and were having it made into raincoats.
The fabric is of heavy material, resembling linen, and one side is coated with aluminum paint.
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The Outlook will hold a corn fair in its office on Oct. 17. There is a fine crop in Pendleton County and we want every farmer to participate in this display.
We want the farmer to bring a three-ear display to our office before that date. Pick out the three best ears you can find in your field and bring them in. We will have an expert farm agent to decide who has the best three ears and will give a year’s subscription to the Outlook to the blue ribbon winner.