Twice-Told Tales
This edition of Twice-Told Tales was originally published ten years ago this week on Wednesday, July 15, 2015.
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Ten Years Ago – 2005
Dick Reichley, owner of Dick’s Barber Shop in Bethesda for more than 40 years, has sold the business to Jean Hoffman of Barnesville. The renamed Jean’s Barber Shop will be open six days a week.
Inductees into the Barnesville Education Foundation Hall of Fame are Bob Matthews and Dick Skinner.
Death claims Virginia M. Taylor, 79, an active member of the Morristown Christian Church.
The Belmont County Chapter, Ohio Genealogy Society and Barnesville Hutton Memorial Library have teamed up to purchase a new Canon microfilm reader/printer for the genealogy room.
The village of Barnesville inks a $305,000 low interest loan from the Ohio Works Commission for the water treatment plant expansion project.
The 5th annual Mail Pouch Barnstormers Picnic is slated for the Belmont School gymnasium, Saturday, July 23.
Twenty-five Year Ago – 1990
Inductees to the Barnesville Area Education Foundation Hall of Fame this year are educator and administrator Donald Shepherd, former U.S. State Department Foreign Service Officer Martha Laney, and United States Navy Rear Admirable Dean Howard Hines.
Bill and Carol Tracy, longtime leaders for the Ohio Hills Festival who are active in a variety of other Quaker City community efforts, will be this year’s parade grand marshals.
Removal of the Pike Street Bridge over the former railroad right-of-way is now on ODOT’s plans for 1994.
In other railroad news, village council members are fed up with the conditions of the old depot and railroad bed. Several members want to sue the owner, CSX Corporation.
On hand for the Gay 90s Mansion Museum gazebo dedication Sunday were Vernon Burkhart, one of the founders of the museum, and Mrs. Bea Hanlon, museum officer who donated the land for the structure. Also present were Charles Moore, president of the society, and Miss Margery Brown, director, as well as State Senator Bob Ney and Alton Smith, museum director, who designed the gazebo.
Fifty Years Ago – 1965
A major development campaign is launched at the Friends Boarding School for several new buildings on the campus, higher salaries for teachers, a retirement system for employees and improved classroom and library facilities.
Two local businessmen, Bob Shepherd and Clyde Wittmer, have teamed up to provide concrete block for the new stadium field house. Shepherd paid for the block and Wittmer provided free transportation to get the product on site.
Asa R. “Jim” Hughes announces his candidacy for village council. He is currently an assistant cashier at the First National Bank.
The Methodist Church in Jerusalem was the setting for the June 20th wedding of Miss Lola Crum and Mr. Kenneth Phillips.
Seventy-five Years Ago – 1940
The 50th Chautauqua at Epworth Park opens on July 13. Programs begin Saturday night and continue for one week.
Crews of the Ohio Power Company removed the abandoned electric poles in front of businesses on Main Street this week. The only poles that remain are street light poles.
Barnesville native Cecil Carnes of the New York World Telegram announces his new book titled, “Jimmy Hare: New York Photographer”, will be released in October by the MacMillan Co. of New York.
John B. Chaney of this place has accepted a staff position with the E.I. duPont Nemours & Company in New Jersey.
Word is received that bids for the relocation of Route 40 at Morristown will be taken on July 27. The new road will be 70 feet wide with a 22-foot concrete pavement and will run just south of the village. The estimated cost of the project is $717,500.
Just received at Bairs Furniture – 1941 Philco cabinet radios. Many models are as low as $1 a week and trade-ins are welcome.
One Hundred Years Ago – 1915
From the Whetstone
Work on the Church of the Assumption, corner of Main and Gardner streets, is progressing and the building is beginning to assume an imposing appearance. The members hope to occupy their new home by early winter.
Owing to the death of their pastor, Dr. J.A. Donahey, the preaching services at the Presbyterian Church next Sabbath morning and evening will be dispensed with.
The property on S. Chestnut owned by Mrs. Elizabeth Hinton and for years occupied by the firm of Jackley & Lowe, was purchased this week by Mr. C.H. Little, the buggy dealer. It is his intention to move his business to the new location. In addition to dealing in buggies, wagons, etc., he will probably add harnesses and other farm accessories to this stock.
The game of pool, says a writer from Morristown, which has been popular in our village, drawing players from towns and the whole countryside since it opened several months ago, lost some of its attractiveness after it was raided by a squad of the deputy sheriff’s department and a quantity of liquor was confiscated.
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Twice Told Tales is compiled by Bruce Yarnall, former general manager of the Barnesville Enterprise
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