March 12, 2024
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3/12/24
25 Years Ago - March 16, 1999
The Department of Local Government (DLG) told fiscal court members March 11 in so many words that the jail project is locked up until the court goes back through DLG, filing a letter of intent, providing certified appraisals on property purchased for the jail project and showing the DLG where the revenue will come from to pay for the new jail.
Tom Armstrong, state a local finance officer, and Tom Dodson, local government adviser from the DLG, were both present at the meeting.
Armstrong told the court he had reviewed the county’s budget.
“You’ve done a good job. You’re a conservative county,” Armstrong stated. “You don’t have the ample revenue in your budget to help pay for long-range projects.
“My office looked at a plan to build a 125-bed jail and then that project was scrapped due to cost. Then you looked at a 75-bed facility and said it won’t produce the extra income needed. We needed more information on this and have not received it,” Armstrong added. “I would have a hard time approving a project with a debt like this without pretty good revenues coming in.”
Armstrong added the county’s only revenue is the approximate $375,000 it brings in on property tax.
50 Years Ago - March 15, 1974
The director of the Cincinnati-based Army Corps of Engineers said in Washington that a hydroelectric power plant may be built at the proposed Falmouth Dam in Pendleton County.
Brig. Gen. Wayne S. Nichols, said Wednesday the dam project may “provide critical hydroelectric power for the region.”
He testified before the House appropriations subcommittee on public works, headed by Rep. Joe L. Evins, D-Tenn.
Figures released Wednesday by Nichols boosted the revised cost estimate for the dam-reservoir to $80.4 million, up $7.4 million.
“Hydroelectric power is beginning to look like a possibility for the Falmouth project,” Nichols told the committee.
He said that a preliminary estimate by the Corps pegs the Falmouth potential at 83 million kilowatts hours a year.
75 Years Ago - March 18, 1949
The second annual fiddlers’ contest, sponsored by the senior class of the Morgan High School, will given March 18 at 7:45 EST in the gymnasium of the Morgan School at Morgan.
There will be prizes awarded for the winners in the various contests of champion fiddler, champion guitarist, best banjo player, best vocalist, best novelty act and best string band.
Anyone desiring to enter should contact Kenneth Price, Morgan High School.
Admission will be 20 and 35 cents.
The class wishes to thank all business houses that have contributed to this contest.
Sunday School Attendance
The most important meetings held among men are those that bring people together to worship God. It is doubtful if many people would agree to this; however, it remains true and shall always be so.
Only God knows the extent of His leniency and long suffering with the world for the sake of the “elect.” It is reasonable to believe that God does smile upon Falmouth because small groups of his people do meet together and worship Him. Though this group be in the minority as fas the population of Falmouth is concerned, yet their meeting together brings it results and fruits.
These groups met Sunday:
Falmouth Baptist — 158
Falmouth Christian — 101
Falmouth Methodist — 89
Falmouth Pilgrim Holiness — 73
Falmouth Mission — 25
Total — 446
It will soon be Sunday again. Plan now to attend one of these Sunday schools or another one somewhere. Be sure that the next Lord’s Day finds you in the House of the Lord.
100 Years Ago - March 14, 1924
The Board of Health of Cincinnati is about to place an embargo on milk shipped from Pendleton County to that city.
A committee from this county met with the Board of Health Monday in that city and made arrangements to bring about a better condition. An extension of time was granted, but a strict surveillance will be kept on individual milk shippers, and if accepted and the dairymen shipped such milk, he will be the loser.
It is not necessary to state that the dairymen are required to as each one is familiar with the situation. If an embargo is placed on our milk, many of our dairymen who are complying with the law will suffer along with the careless ones and county will be deprived of great revenue.