Looking Back

25 Years Ago - July 24 2001

The Pendleton County School Board took the first step toward bringing a new emergency services facility into the county last week.

Members of the school board voted unanimously to turn over to the county at the July 19 meeting a portion of its property next to Pendleton County High School to be used for both a temporary and permanent easement.

The driveway  leading back to the site earmarked by county leaders for its new Disaster and Emergency Services Facility.

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The residents of Pendleton County are invited to attend the groundbreaking ceremony for 28 miles of water main extension.

Water mains are being extended in the East Pendleton Water District with CDBG funds secured through the Pendleton County Fiscal Court, a Rural Development loan and grant and local contributions.

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Baby Miss Cutie Pie and her court were crowned July 11 at the Pendleton County Youth Fair. Baby Miss is Brianna Cain, first runner-up was Micheala Pitman and second runner-up, Sierra Baucom.

Baby Mister Cutie Pie is Kenton Wells, first runner-up was Ian Tackett and second runner-up Noah Whittaker.

Tiny Miss Cutie Pie was Makayla Reed, and Tiny Mister Cutie Pie was Chase Owens.

50 Years Ago - July 23, 1976

Falmouth’s modern and beautiful post office was broken into early Sunday morning. More than 1,000 letters were stolen and many dollars worth of mail merchandise taken.

The burglary was discovered at 7:30 a.m. by postal clerk George Lach, and by Monday, a warrant was issued in Pendleton County Court for a suspect, Terry L. Gooden of Falmouth, charged by Kentucky State Police Detective Elmer Ray with burglary in the third degree.

Gooden was arrested in Dayton, Kentucky, Monday evening and now is in jail in Falmouth.

Postmaster Wilbur T. Ritter reported that all mail cases of city and rural carriers, plus city boxes, had been rifled.

Falmouth police Chief Wayne Oliver heads the investigation with Ray.

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At the July meeting of the Pendleton Hospital Board, Lloyd Bockerstete was named as a director of the hospital board. He takes the place of J.L. “Jay” Beyersdoerfer, who served faithfully for many years.

The business of the board also included election of officers for the fiscal year: Frank Harris, chairman; Joe Kearns, vice chair; Loraine Conrad, secretary; and Gary Barnard, treasurer.

Other directors are Alex Caldwell, Roy Harwell, Hildreth Kidd and Louis McClanahan.

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Pendleton County’s youngsters made a good showing July 12 at the annual District Dairy Show at the 4-H fairgrounds near Cynthiana.

Tom Moore showed his fall senior calf, which stood first in the class. His junior yearling finished fourth in the class.

Brent Moore showed two senior calves, which were placed second and fourth in the class. His sister Ann showed one of the calves.

Karen Neal had a junior calf, which placed third in the class. Her 3-yer-old cow also placed third.

75 Years Ago - July 27, 1951

Clark Thomas and Charles Flaugher, two outstanding businessmen and gentlemen farmers, have been very successful in operating Thomas and Flaugher Trucking Co. Their fleet of milk trucks haul fresh, Grade A milk from Bracken, Pendleton and Mason counties into Cincinnati daily.

They have installed two 1,000-gallon propane tanks for operating their trucks on bottle gas. Thomas and Flaugher know they can effect quite a savings in fuel gas, oil and repair bills with the change.

It has been proven by petroleum companies that they can operate their trucks on 50 percent savings on oil and also reduce repair cost by 40 percent.

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B.N. Wilson, well-known Pendleton County farmer residing just west of Falmouth, placed his loss of his larger dairy and tobacco barn on Hayes Road at $5,000.

The barn was struck by lightning at 7 o’clock Monday night during the violent rainstorm.

Mr. Wilson had about 18 tons of hay in the barn and had just hauled 124 bales from Ohio and placed in the barn that day. A Brown Swiss bull valued at $500 was also consumed in the blaze.

Mr. Wilson and two sons, Holton and Sonny, were standing at the milk house when the barn was struck. They believe that the bull was killed instantly.

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In classified ads, Roy Abercrombie posted, “I am hauling water from Falmouth to any section in 1,000-gallon tanks. Call butler 6441.”

100 Years Ago - July 23, 1926

Louis Caldwell, of near Demossville, has a unique relic of antiquity at his home. It is a petrified mastodon tooth weighing 2 pounds, 3 ounces.

The tooth was found by his son, Bert Caldwell, at Bloomfield, Indiana, on the White Water River. Mr. Caldwell was dredging for gravel when he unearthed this tooth which belonged to a species of animal thousands of years extinct.

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The state purchasing commission last week awarded the contract for the 1927 motor vehicle license tags to the National Colortype Co. of Bellevue at 15 cents a set. The delivery of the plates to the county clerks must be made between the first and fifteenth of November, according to the contract.

The license tags for 1927 will have a bright blue background with white numerals. The commission adopted a new design patented by Charles C. Wilhelm of Covington in which each county’s plates will carry the name of the county and well be numbered numerically, beginning with No. 1.