Looking Back

25 Years Ago - December 29, 1998

Eleven local children had their Christmas made a little brighter on December 23 when they spent the evening shopping  with law enforcement offers in Falmouth.

"It was a Christmas miracle David's okay,"said Elmer Kuhl, one of the first rescuers on the scene when the water truck David Colvin was driving Christmas Eve overturned and caught on fire at the intersection of Tailpoint Road and U.S. 27 at 2:38 p.m.

Matt Neace, 19, of Butler, escaped from Pendleton County Jail into the bitter cold Sunday afternoon wearing only an undershirt and a pair of boxers.

Ann Thaxton vice-president of Taxton's South Fork Canoe Trails, Inc., was presented the Professional Paddle sports Association's highest honor during the recent 1998 National Paddlesports and Waterways Conference in Florida.

50 Years Ago - December 28, 1973

Pendleton County elected officials for the next four years have not been sworn in as yet, it was learned this week. Some of them are planning to be sworn in before they take office January 7th.

Some statistics for Falmouth and Pendleton County for the year 1973 follow: life squad runs made: 6; fines reported, county court: 377; fines, Falmouth Police Court: 331; fire calls: 29; coroner calls: 20; bootleggers arrested: 3; electricity off: 1.

Pendleton Fiscal Court will meet Thursday and the ambulance problem may be solved. County Judge Ambrose Fields received word that the government will pay 10 veterans to operate the two ambulances in the county beginning January 1.

75 Years Ago - December 31, 1948

The new police judge of Falmouth is Fred H. Fisher. He has been appointed temporarily during the absence of Dr. K. B. Woolery, regular police judge, who is ill at his home on South Main Street.

Falmouth's "old faithful" passed to the great beyond. Dr. J. E. Wilson, mayor and councilman for 30 years, and Pendleton County's oldest practicing physician, died Monday morning, Dec. 27, 1948, at 6:10 o'clock, at his home on Main Street.

Pendleton County Draft Board No. 80 has a call for 40 men to be examined for Army duty during the month of January.

The LLL Restaurant, Falmouth, announces that it will remain open 24 hours a day, starting Dec. 27.

The Falmouth Baptist Church and Sunday School, in the disguise of Santa Claus, sent a deacon Friday to borrow the car of the pastor, Rev. Carl Sears. When it was returned, it was wearing a new set of white sidewall Kelly air cushion tires.

100 Years Ago - December 28, 1923

Mayor John J. McCabe this week received from the mayor Huston Quinn of Louisville, Ky., a letter asking him for the names and addresses of all Kentuckians who are residents of this city or county. ...The idea is to invite every native of the Blue Grass State to a big home-coming to be held June 16-29 during which time the state will be host to such of its sons and daughters as may feel the call to return.

Mrs. John Powell of Catawba is one of Pendleton County's most successful farmer women. She recently delivered 480 pounds of tobacco to the pool warehouse in Falmouth which graded her $13 peer hundred, and brought her $108.30 on the first advance.

We published a statement handed to us recently to the effect that Miss Eula B. Vaughan, who was tried for conduct unbecoming a teacher, was given an unconditional verdict of not guilty. We have since learned that this was a mistake. The verdict was rendered with the assurance from her lawyers that she would resign as teacher of the Gardnersville School. These are the facts.