Twice-Told Tales Redux
This edition of Twice-Told Tales was originally published ten years ago this week on Wednesday, July 22, 2015.
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Ten Years Ago – 2005
Baseball’s “Beast of the East” tournament coordinator Paul Reed is profiled in a page one story.
Barnesville area revelers at last week’s Jamboree in the Hills are profiled.
The Barnesville School Board has hired Jeff Crosier as BHS principal effective August 1.
Friendships are renewed, memories recalled, stories embellished at a Shamrock Athletic Reunion held in Cambridge on Friday night. Players and coaches from 1954-1968 attended the event.
Eighty-five attended the annual Quaker City Alumni Banquet on June 25 at the Quaker City firehouse.
Twenty-five Year Ago – 1990
First National Bank will mark its 125th Anniversary with a benefit ox roast at Memorial Park. Tickets will cost $1.25 each, proceeds will go to the Shadyside/Pipe Creek flood relief effort.
The Ohio Pumpkin Festival committee expands the Queen’s Pageant this year and inks plans to purchase a new information/souvenir wagon.
The former railroad right-of-way and train tunnel, abandoned by CSX Corporation six years ago is lambasted by Editor Bill Davies with “this mess is a public nuisance.”
In response to the recent shoppers‘ survey, Barnesville merchants adopt the following goals: 1) uniform hours; 2) establish an advertising and promotional fund; 3) create educational programs for employers, employees, and consumers; 4) promote a cleaner and more attractive downtown. A long-term goal is downtown parking.
Applications are now available for downtown storefront façade loans as part of the Victorian Village Project.
Fifty Years Ago – 1965
The modern, new cafeteria in the new wing of Barnesville Hospital is profiled.
From now on Barnesville area residents will know the time and temperature as First National Bank erects a large electric sign at the prominent corner of downtown.
The fast time dilemma in Barnesville may not reach the ballot for decision on the November ballot.
An outsider rates Barnesville. He notes “there are two problem areas which are mentioned by the majority of the people I interviewed. They were the schools and the need for more employment.”
Carrie Harris Kilgore, 87, former tourist home operator, died at the Sunshine Rest Home in Morristown where she was a patient.
Seventy-five Years Ago – 1940
Bishop Herbert Welch of the Methodist Episcopal Church will preach both morning and afternoon at Methodist Day to be held at Epworth Park this Sunday.
Funeral service will take place this afternoon for Wayne Davis, 22, who died Monday evening when he drowned while swimming in the B & O Reservoir near Eldon.
Congressman Lewis names Barnesville as a possible site for a naval gun factory.
Workmen will start this weekend tearing down the old warehouse in back of the building now occupied by the Western Auto Supply store, formerly Smith Hardware, at 149 E. Main,
The new Sunoco service station at the intersection of S. Chestnut and W. South will open on Saturday. This spring the property of the old tobacco warehouse was purchased by Andy Rataiczak of Quaker City. After tearing down the building, he erected a house on the rear of the lot and now completes the work with the opening of the station.
The world’s tallest man, Robert Waldow, 22, who visited Bohandy’s Confectionary here last year, died in Michigan this past week from an infection caused by braces he work on his ankles. He was eight feet, nine and one-half inches tall.
One Hundred Years Ago – 1915
From the Whetstone
The Redpath Chautauqua, which closes at the high school park (side yard) Thursday evening, has been one of the most magnificent ventures of its kind ever attempted in Barnesville.
Articles of incorporation were issued to the Barnesville Garage Company, capital stock $5,000. Incorporators are J.W. Doudna, E.B. Galloway, Ruth B. Doudna, Ella L. Galloway and Atty. W.O. Chappell. The company takes over the stock and business of J.W. Doudna on Arch Street and will continue to deal in automobiles and do general repair work.
Chief Isaac Cox and policeman Ernest Steel were called to Day’s Grove north of Somerton Sunday afternoon to subdue two belligerent persons who disturbed the AME camp meeting in progress at that time.
Supt. Roy Hobbs and a force of men are repairing a broken water main on N. Chestnut at Walton and Euclid.
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Twice Told Tales is compiled by Bruce Yarnall, former general manager of the Barnesville Enterprise.
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