Looking Back

25 Years Ago -October 27, 1998

Pendleton County Industrial Authority Director Jack Wright informed fiscal court on October 22 that the Kentucky Housing Corporation and Department of Military Affairs will sell the 50 mobile homes at New Hope at an absolute public auction on November 5.

Playground equipment that was donated to the children living at the New Hope Mobile Home Complex after the flood has been moved to its final destination. Mrs. Lisa Greene, director for the Falmouth Housing Authority, secured the additional funding to have the equipment installed on two playgrounds. Most of the playground equipment was installed on a public playground on Weaver Drive and the remainder was installed on the playground on Beech Street for the children at the Housing Authority of Falmouth.

Community-minded, a soft voice and always a willingness to help others are just a few of the words one could use to describe Genevieve Hancock Shonert. Mrs. Shonert died early Sunday morning at the hospice unit of St. Elizabeth Hospital North in Covington. She had suffered a stroke only two weeks before.

Allenda Williams, 25, of Falmouth, confessed Monday, October 19, to being responsible for the recent bomb threats against the Movie Gallery, a local movie rental, and tanning salon business located on U. S. 27.

50 Years Ago - October 26, 1973

Greetings from the Falmouth Christian Church. This coming Sunday, October 28th, is an important time for our congregation and we want to invite you to be a part of it. This Sunday, we will celebrate our Centennial.

Gov. Wendell Ford recently announced that according to a state government analysis, Pendleton County received $2,623,0000 in state monies and services this past fiscal year.

On Saturday, October 20, the Pendleton County High School Marching Band concluded their 1973 marching season with a superior rating at the State Marching Festival held at Morehead State University.

Oakland Athletics became the world champions the second time in a row by defeating New York Sunday 5-2 at Oakland, California.

Newt Becknell and Phillip Henry Hoelsman were found guilty Friday of the willful murder of a Crittenden service station owner and were sentence to life in prison.

75 Years Ago - October 29, 1948

Lawrence Colvin, 38, manager of the Falmouth Theatre, Fourth Street, this city, was held up and robbed of $90 to $95 Sunday night. Mr. Colvin told this version of the holdup to Covington police, to which city he was eventually taken.

Chester Richie, 23, who allegedly resides at Fourth and Madison Avenue, and a man registering as Raymond Sharp, who gave his address as 3725 Glen Avenue, Rosedale, both of Covington, have been arrested and charged with armed robbery of Lawrence Colvin, Falmouth Theatre manager, Sunday night. The two are to be arraigned before Judge Early Commins Wednesday morning, and County Attorney W. Marvin Davis will recommend that their bonds be set at $5,000 each on the armed robbery charge. Mr. Davis said that the maximum penalty for this charge is death and that if the pair waive their examining trial, they will be held to the January term of the grand jury.

Pendleton County-owned fox hounds won major honors at the Northern Kentucky Rox Hunters Association meeting at Brooksville last week.

100 Years Ago -October 26, 1923

More than 100 business men accompanied by a brass band from Cincinnati made their first stop here Wednesday morning on a "good will tour" to the Hazard coal field. The boosters came on a special train which arrived in Falmouth at 10:20.

The Falmouth High School football team went to Paris last Friday afternoon and was defeated by the Hi team of Paris City School in a score of 12 to 7.

Ben Pritt's garage at Stanford burned on October 12th, together with the contents including eight cars, a tractor, and a lot of tools of various kinds. Nothing was saved, and Mr. Pruitt was working some distance from that city at the time.

Harry Norris, well-known farmer of near Mt. Auburn, sent to our office Monday four apples as large as hen eggs which were the second crop of apples grown on this tree this year.

Football of the Centre-Harvard variety was displayed at the Fair Ground Park Sunday afternoon when the Fighting Falmouth Tigers went down in history the hands of the strong Ibold team of from Cincinnati by a score of 6 to 0.

Jack Frost has nipped the flowers in our gardens and now is the time to plant the winter and spring flowering bulbs such as tulips, hyacinths, crocus, and narcissus. 

I am conducting a blacksmith shop and garage at McKinneysburg. If your Ford won't go let me know, and if your horse needs showing, bring it to me.