Looking Back

25 Years Ago - August 7, 2001

Some 2,000 tires and at least 56 dump truck loads of old shingles have been cleaned up and hauled away to a landfill at a cost of $23,4000 to the estate of the late Floyd Pope.

The illegal dump was discovered on the Pope farm on Highway 330, west of Falmouth, some time ago. Pendleton County Solid Waster Coordinator Fred Edwards has been working with the state Division of Waste Management, State Inspector Ray Prater to have the dump site cleaned up.

Someone, or more than person, had been dumping the old tires and shingles for some time at the site. The area filled with items was down over a steep embankment and filled an area approximately 75 feet by 150 feet.

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Danny Colemire of Lenoxburg loves to cook. Danny and Jennifer Colemire are opening The Cabin Restaurant on U.S. 27 in Falmouth on Aug. 14.

The old log cabin was build in 1889 from huge oak logs cut by hand. The cabin originally rested on a stone foundation at the fork of the Little Kincaid Creek. Several families were raised in this cabin.

Walter Moore and Alexander Caldwell purchased the cabin in the early 1940s and had it moved to its present location with plans to turn into Ye Olde Kentucky Tavern, a sort of restaurant with a filling station. It never happened.

Moore and his wife, Virgiline, eventually made the cabin their home. Mrs. Moore sold the cabin to Mike and Debbie Whaley after the 1997 flood. It was home to Whaley real Estate, Auctions and Appraisals, and Log Cabin Collectibles and Gifts.

Colemire thought the cabin perfect for his longtime dream of opening a restaurant, which also fulfulled Moore’s dream of some 60 years earlier.

50 Years Ago - August 6, 1976

Navy Airman Recruit Dennis L. Matney, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Mullikin of Route 2, Butler, has completed recruit training at the Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, Illinois.

A former student of Pendleton County High School, he joined the Navy in March 1976.

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Pendleton County is getting an increase in its annual county road aid funds, according to an announcement made here by State Transportation Secretary John C. Roberts.

Roberts said that the allocation to the county for this fiscal year, effective July 1, will amount to $109,829 as compared to $79,792 a year ago.

The allocation will provide for maintenance and improvements on four bridges and along 134 miles of county roads. The listed mileage includes 111 miles of blacktop and 23 miles of gravel roads.

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Falmouth City Council met in special session Wednesday to confer with city supervisor and electrician Raymond D. Lawson concerning the acceptance of his resignation. He submitted the resignation to Mayor Max Goldberg with an effective date of Aug. 15.

After a lengthy discussion, council proposed a salary increase if he would change his mind. Lawson said he would.

A motion by Howard Showalter Jr., seconded by W.A. Caldwell, and passed unanimously by council, increased Lawson’s annual salary by $3,000. As of Aug. 1, he now earns $12,200 a year.

75 Years Ago - August 10, 1951

The Falmouth Fair will be held Aug. 15 to 18. Admission will be 35 cents for adults and nine cents for children each day, or you can buy a season ticket for 85 cents.

The fair this year is under the ownership and management of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Breeze and they will stage one of the best fairs since its founding in 1880.

A good night horse show is being featured on Friday and Saturday nights. The stirring band music of Herbert Tiemeyer of Cincinnati will be heard Wednesday, Friday and Saturday nights. Mr. Breeze has also secured the services of John L. Cummins of Cynthiana.

On Wednesday, there will be a baby show at 1 p.m. and TV wrestling on Wednesday night. On Friday, the beef cattle show will be held, with farm horse races, and on Saturday morning, there will be a horse pulling contest.

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James Browning, well-known businessman, broke his arm Sunday afternoon on the Falmouth Fair racetrack when a horse he was racing fell and threw him over his head.

Mr. Browning suffered painful injuries and was taken to St. Elizabeith Hospital in the Thomas, Fossett &Yelton ambulance. However, he returned home Sunday night.

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The City of Falmouth is in an emergency. The utility plant, owned and operated by the city, is now selling 480 kw and its capacity is only 20 kw away, or 500 kw.

In other words, the Falmouth City Council now believes that the utility plant will be called on to produce more electricity than it can manufacture, possibly by this winter.

100 Years Ago - August 6, 1926

The final gap in the concrete road between Greenwood, this county, and the Campbell County line near Grants Lick was completed last Saturday. The last construction work was on the street in Butler, a distance of several hundred yards.

The State Highway Department requires the road to be closed 21 days after the concrete is poured. The citizens of Butler will hold a big rally about Aug. 18.

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The administration of the colored school in Falmouth will be looked after by the city board of education pending final decision of the test case which has been taken to the Court of Appeals.

A suite was recently filed in Fleming County, testing the constitutionality of the new law, which requires that colored schools be administered by the city board of education in which the school is located, and not by the county board, which has looked after the colored schools under the old law.