Looking Back

25 Years Ago - Feb. 9, 1999

Morag Adlon of the NKADD spoke to Butler City Council at their Feb. 1 meeting and told them they have been awarded the million dollars toward the water project.

“There are many things that have to be done first,” she added. There is to be a meeting on Feb. 9. She told of taking bids if necessary and relocation if anyone's property has to be bought for the water project. The project is in design now. Adlon told Council of the need to amend the budget ordinance to include the million dollar grant.

Don Willingham of PDR told council about some of the water project. He also asked if the city would be interested in some aerial photos of the city. The cost would be around $500 for the photos.

Councilman Stacey Dunn had a question about the map being laminated; this was tabled.

50 Years Ago - Feb. 8, 1974

President Nixon's budget was announced officially Monday and allocated $200,000 for advanced engineering and design work to begin on the aging Falmouth Dam idea.

Bill Tanner, of Rep. M. Gene Snyder's office, made the disclosure Friday, saying that, “When you get $200,000 for that, you're pretty close to construction.”

Congressman M. Gene Snyder said that the appropriation would go for “advanced engineering and design,” in a story in the Louisville Courier-Journal.

The idea of a dam on the Licking River at Falmouth has been a controversy since it was proposed several years ago.

Feasibility studies have come and gone, last Monday's disclosure was the first tangible evidence northern Kentuckians might get another lake.

But the dam still has several hurdles to clear before it can become a reality.

75 Years Ago - Feb. 11, 1949

* The people of Pendleton County have given a total of $253.75 to the current Infantile Paralysis Drive to date.

Many sections of the county have not reported as yet. The county's quota is $1,000.

If you desire to give to this worthy cause, please do so at once. All solicitors are urged to send in their reports as soon as possible in order that the drive may be brought to a close.

* Melvin Hart, International Harvester dealer of Falmouth, will have the annual family party and entertainment night at Falmouth High School on Wednesday, Feb. 16, at 8 o'clock. There will be a stage show and a picture show. Admission is absolutely free. The show is being brought to Falmouth by the International Harvester Co.

100 Years Ago - Feb. 8, 1924

Several hundred more perfectly good American dollars left Falmouth and Pendleton County last Monday, never to return again. One of those slick tongue, ferret-eyed, dyed-in-the-wool street fakirs separated three or four hundred Pendleton County citizens from some good hard-earned money, but was kind enough to leave a few brass collar buttons, earrings and other no account trinkets in exchange for good money.

Several reliable merchants in Falmouth conducted a cooperative auction sale last Saturday, which lasted the entire day, and each and every merchant lost from one to twenty dollars. 

Every article offered for sale at this auction was taken out of regular stock and consisted of every day household and personal necessities. Just why our good people will contribute money for the support and upkeep of out-of-town slickers in preference to spending it with their local merchants for merchandise they can use is a mystery.

The street vendor collected his money when he sold the articles and left town, never to return again until next court day, and then only carry away some more money.

The home merchants buy their goods and place it on their shelves, where it remains as real capital until someone buys it, and then he only makes a fair profit and is always ready and willing to carry the sale on his books for a reasonable length of time. To say nothing of circulating their money right back into the local business world.