Twice-Told Tales Redux
This edition of Twice-Told Tales was originally published ten years ago this week on Wednesday, August 5, 2015.
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Ten Years Ago – 2015
A dry hydrant is installed at Wilson Lake thanks to a cooperative effort of the Belmont Soil and Water Conservation District and the Wayne Township Trustees.
Reserved football season tickets are now on sale.
Barnesville merchants will conduct the semi-annual Dollar Days Sale this weekend.
Mr. and Mrs. John Bryan (Otis) Gallagher mark their silver wedding anniversary on July 25 while Mr. and Mrs. Ron Shepherd observed their 45th on the 2nd.
Natasha Dawn Skinner, daughter of Todd and Donna Skinner, is named to the Dean’s List at Ohio University, Zanesville.
The Barnesville Junior Women’s Club was well represented as six members attended the annual statewide convention in Columbus.
Twenty-five Year Ago – 1990
Barnesville resident Al Hunter concludes a 39-year career with the Ohio Power Company.
Rev. Carl Orphanides and family have moved into the parsonage for the Main Street United Methodist Church where he is the new pastor. Prior to coming here he was assigned to Grace UMC in Warren.
The Third Annual Civil War Re-Enactment will take place at Barkcamp State Park this weekend.
Belmont Cooperative Electric will hold its annual meeting at Barnesville High School, Tuesday evening.
The doll collection of the Steve Mueller family is loaned to the Barbara Barbe Doll Museum. Mueller, a Bethesda native, resides in North Carolina.
Anniversaries of note this week include Walter and Virginia Brown, Somerton, 50 years; Mr. and Mrs. Richard Roe, 35 years, and Mr. and Mrs. John Carpenter, Barnesville, 25 years.
Mark Livingston and Peter Byers, Jr. receive their Eagle Scout pins at ceremonies at the First Presbyterian Church. The church sponsors the troop.
Fifty Years Ago – 1965
A bumper crop of township trustee candidates file for election – 41 seek posts in six surrounding townships.
Enrollment at the Belmont County Branch of Ohio University is expected to reach 900 by the September opening.
Record low overnight temperatures in the mid-forties are recorded.
A parade and queen’s contest will highlight the two-day Somerton Firemen’s Festival this weekend.
The engagement of Beverly Lou Mayberry of Quaker City and Jess Leroy Baker is announced. She is employed at the LGAM sewing factory, Woodsfield, he at Bob’s Feed in Somerton.
Rocky Mann, owner of the Phillips “66” station at the corner of S. Chestnut and E. South, opens a self-serve automatic car washing unit. Each wash costs 25 cents.
Employees are sought at the new GIANT department store located on Route 40 at the east of Cambridge.
Seventy-five Years Ago – 1940
More than two miles of city streets were improved through a state program that includes a local contribution of $13,500.
The 8th annual Jersey Day will take place Tuesday at Rodgers Speidel Farm.
Seven members of the Girl Scouts were seen on the streets of Barnesville last Saturday selling buttons for the Pioneer Days Celebration. They were attired in pioneer clothing. They are: Mary Martha Twinem, Eula Persons, Virginia Davis, Margaret Mercer, Jean Palmer, Nancy Schafer and Betty Palmer.
The deal for the purchase of the local hospital is now done. It is hoped to have the new hospital up and open in the next few days.
Insurance officials remind the city that it should purchase a new fire truck in order to retains its current low insurance rating.
The three-story Bradfield building, home to the G.C. Murphy Store for the last 11 years, has been purchased by Walter C. Shaw, Jr. of Uniontown, Pa, who is a son of the vice president of the McKeesport-based company. The price paid was $46,000. The First National Bank owns the corner portion of the building.
The American Legion has placed marble markers at the graves of 19 unmarked graves of Civil War and World War veterans in the city.
A new Estate Gas Range is $79.50 at Niebel – Heating & Appliance Store, 113 W. Main.
One Hundred Years Ago – 1915
From the Whetstone
Fifteen Barnesville fire fighters left this morning to attend the state firemen’s convention at Bellaire.
Heavy rains prevailed Thursday and Friday. It is claimed that more water fell in a short length of time than has been witnessed here for a long time.
The privilege granted for years by National banks in allowing customers to make over-drafts on checking accounts is about to cease according to new rules of the Office of the Comptroller.
The residence of the late Stewart Watt on Mulberry Street, now a boarding house owned and operated by Mr. Duffy, was damaged by a fire that originated in the bathroom Friday.
Fifty or more children, wards of the Children’s Home, were guests of the Metropolitan Carnival Tuesday and the fun they experienced was almost indescribable.
A large army of men stormed the employment office of the Riverside Steel Plant in Benwood, WV, Monday morning blocking the entire street. There was no difficulty getting all the men needed to start up the big factory.
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Twice Told Tales is compiled by Bruce Yarnall, former general manager of the Barnesville Enterprise.
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