Twice-Told Tales Redux
Today’s column was originally published August 26, 2015.
Ten Years Ago – 2005
With the football season opener against John Glenn Friday night, the BHS stadium marks its 70th year. Jean Davies recounts the history of the stadium, its construction, and profiles the first team and its surviving members.
Barnesville High baseball coach Brad Wilson yield’s his post after a 26-year run where he amassed over 380 career victories.
The Barnesville Hospital Twigs Auxiliary presents a check to hospital administrator Richard Doan for $42,900 for the purchase of needed medical equipment.
Village Council accepts the Roosevelt Road Annexation petition now that all property owners in the covered area have signed the document.
Former Monroe County commissioner Thurman J. Christman, 92, of Route 1 Jerusalem, dies.
Fifteen members of the class of 1940 marked their 70th class reunion with a special gathering at the youth center and attending the Barnesville Alumni Banquet on July 9.
John and Judy Hutchison mark their 25th wedding anniversary on August 15. The Barnesville natives and former residents now reside in Hernando Beach, Florida.
Twenty-five Year Ago – 1990
A final organizational meeting of the newly-formed Barnesville Retail Association, part of the Victorian Village Project, is set for this evening.
A special meeting on extending hours at the Gay 90’s Mansion Museum will take place August 23. The Victorian Village Project is encouraging the officers to open the museum Wednesday through Sunday each season. At present the museum is open Thursday and Sunday afternoons or by appointment only.
Village council votes to put up $20,000 in seed money toward the purchase of the former B & O Depot and the abandoned railroad right-of-way in the village. The Victorian Village Project will spearhead the public fundraising efforts, the development council also approving $20,000 towards the total asking cost of $110,000.
Deaths this past week include William N. Boswell, 91, retired owner of Boswell Monuments; Evangelist McKinley “Ted” Bates, 99, Noble County native and minister for the churches of Christ including congregations in Somerton and Quaker City; and Lois Collins, 83, who served as the first female rural mail carrier out of the local post office.
Rex and Verna Kaiser will mark their golden wedding anniversary with an “open house” on September 2.
More than 1,500 ox roast dinners were served at Memorial Park Friday night to mark the 125th anniversary of the founding of First National Bank.
Fifty Years Ago – 1965
Bob’s Chevrolet breaks ground 1.5 miles east of town for the construction of a new auto dealership and garage on a 35-acre plot. The business currently operates on old SR 147 in the village.
Fred D. Bonvenuto, 34-year-old native of Point Marion, Pa., is the new principal at BHS. He is currently single but is engaged to be married.
Diehl’s Shoe Store, which has been in business on E. Main for the past four years, is launching a mammoth liquidation sale starting today. The company’s main store in Woodsfield will remain open.
The Union Local Booster’s Club carnival on the high school grounds in Morristown will continue through Saturday. Friday evening the “1965 Carnival Queen” will be crowned.
The Somerset Grange will hold a rummage sale and cake walk in Somerton this Saturday to raise funds “to pay their gas and electric bills this winter. There are but a few members and all help will be appreciated.”
Seventy-five Years Ago – 1940
Today’s Enterprise carries the same masthead as the 1870 edition, the title stating “Barnesville Enterprise for the FARM and FIRESIDE” as part of the Pioneer Celebration here this week.
The scheduled horse pulling contest will take place Friday afternoon at the football stadium.
The Eastern Ohio Garden Club Convention show will take place in the new Kirk Building, corner of Arch and Main. The program will feature the main address by Robert Lang at the Ohio Theatre.
Township Clerk Henry Fletcher has been employed by the trustees of the reorganized Barnesville General Hospital as acting business manager when the institution opens.
Mr. and Mrs. Lyman O. Foster of the Boston community will mark their golden wedding anniversary on August 31.
One Hundred Years Ago – 1915
From the Whetstone
There are 60 entries in today and tomorrow’s Barnesville’s Fall Races at City Park.
Mrs. Flora Russell has been engaged as head trimmer in Hunt’s Millinery Department and is expected here soon to begin the fall season.
A good many people are madder ‘n a wet hen because the new South Gardner Street paving, just completed, is being torn up to give water service. One of the popular manias in Barnesville, since the birth of street paving improvements, has been to frequently tear them up, and the results are apparent. Who has authority?
Mr. Frank L. Harrison, assistant cashier at The National Bank of Barnesville, resigned his position effective last Saturday. He has been connected with the bank for the past 20 years. Hereafter he will devote his time and attention to the Harrison Brothers Shirt Factory where extensive improvements and additions are now underway.
Governor S.V. Stewart of Montana, a native of the Jerusalem community, will be the featured speaker at the great Belmont-Monroe Reunion at Peterman’s Grove Tuesday next week. The honorable Wayne B. Wheeler of the Ohio Anti-Saloon League will also speak.
Theodore F. Mercer has opened a new grocery in the Hutchison Storeroom at the corner of N. Chestnut and E. Walnut streets. Prompt delivery is promised to any part of the city by asking the operator for phone number 82.
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Twice Told Tales is compiled by Bruce Yarnall, former general manager of the Barnesville Enterprise.
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