Twice-Told Tales Redux
Ten Years Ago – 2005
The mayor’s appointment of Amy Jackson to the position of clerk-treasurer was unanimously approved by council.
Hurricane Katrina fundraisers are on tap at both Barnesville and Union Local high schools.
Ruth A. Cook, 98, retired operator for the Ohio Bell Telephone Company, dies. She was an elder of the Presbyterian Church, member of the Eastern Star and Telephone Pioneers of America.
Twenty-five Year Ago – 1990
A “Support Your Schools Committee” is formed to help promote the upcoming November 6 operating levy.
The Barnesville Development Council publishes its first community calendar as a fundraiser. The 1991 publication features historic downtown photographs with the theme “Meet Me on Main Street.”
More than 60 exhibitors will profile Belmont County attractions at a free tourism show at St. Clairsville Sunday. “Showcase Belmont County” is an event of the county tourism council.
The Barnesville Victorian Theatre Company announces the cast for the upcoming production of “Gypsy.”
Fifty Years Ago – 1965
The 2nd Annual Barnesville Fall Fair is an event of this weekend. The Catholic Church and Assumption School will again be the scene of displays.
Somerton Lodge of Masons, #354, will mark its 100th anniversary Saturday evening with the Grand Master of Ohio Masons, Edgar L. Mott as guest of honor. The Grand Lodge has granted special dispensation to hold the celebration at the Somerton grade school instead of the lodge hall. A turkey dinner will be served prior to the services by Eastern Star members.
Two BHS juniors, Barbara Reynolds and Marlin Harper, are appointed as student members of the Barnesville Park and Recreation Commission.
Construction of the 4.9 miles of Interstate Route 70 in Kirkwood Twp. including the Barnesville Interchange is now 25 percent complete.
The following are installed as new officers of the Bethesda Oakleigh Garden Club: Mrs. Ed Ridgeway, Mrs. Donald Bailey, Mrs. Howard Jarrett and Mrs. Arthur Russell.
Mrs. John W. Kirk (nee Mary Helen Smith), 74, died at Barnesville Hospital Sunday following two operations and an illness of several weeks.
The September 4 wedding of Mary Fowler and Ronald Stevens, an event at the Somerton Methodist Church, is profiled.
The Frances Willard Rebekah Lodge, Morristown, hosted of the annual District School of Instruction last Friday.
Seventy-five Years Ago – 1940
Work started this week on a new building at the United Diary Co. which will be devoted to exclusively to the handling of milk and cream for city markets. The 50 x 75 building will be concrete, brick and tile and will house modern machinery for the cooling and pasteurization of milk.
Gibson’s Chapel, one of the oldest churches in this community, will probably be closed this week when members of the church appear before the Methodist Conference in Delaware and ask them for permission to close the church due to a lack of funds and low attendance.
The Mothers’ Club is again cooperating with the WPA to prepare hot lunches to serve underprivileged students at the school. Last year they served 8,757 meals.
Enrollment this year is 1,074 students, 66 less than the 1939 term.
The Ohio Bell Telephone Company reports there are 897 telephones in use in Barnesville.
Mrs. Dorothy Byers will open a new women’s and misses’ apparel shop in the State Theatre building store room this week.
The Barnesville Merchants baseball team will play the Zanesville Hazel Atlas team at City Park Sunday. Regis Jefferis, who formerly played for the local team, is on the Zanesville squad.
Ad. – Roller skate on one of the finest portable skating rinks in the state located on “the firemen’s lot on Harrison Street in Barnesville.”
One Hundred Years Ago – 1915
From the Whetstone
The new homes of Messers A.E. Kennard, Jr. and Serg. Joseph Dailey on Bond Avenue are nearing completion. The home of Frank Robinson on N. Chestnut has been finished and is now being occupied.
For the past several days hunters, real and would-be, have been busy shining up their guns, raking up their boots, purchasing ammunition and buying licenses in preparation for squirrel hunting season which opens today.
Mrs. Martha French McCartney died Monday not necessarily from the fractured hip we reported upon last week, but gall stones that hastened her death. She was the mother of Dr. J.T. McCartney.
Cashier G.E. Bradfield and his son, Shannon, who have been visiting at the Panama-California Exposition in San Francisco for several weeks, have returned to their home here.
Twice Told Tales is compiled by Bruce Yarnall, former general manager of the Barnesville Enterprise.
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