Twice-Told Tales Redux
Ten Years Ago – 2005
Bob’s of Barnesville has on display an upside down artificial Christmas tree at the dealer’s Route 147 east showroom.
Deaths recorded this week include Ida Mae Kocher, 91, Bethesda, retired clerk of the Bethesda M-K Store and later Azallions of St. Clairsville; Bryon E. Rice, 67, of Woodsfield, former owner of Rice Chevrolet; and Belva Castello, 93, longtime babysitter for several families who as a young woman worked at Lotus Glass.
The nuptials of former Stumptown native Gary Finnicum of Zanesville is profiled on the family page.
Also featured is the 62nd anniversary of the Bob Shepherd’s of Bethesda.
Chamber officers for 2006 are Luci Pierce, Bill Steedle and Nancy Mayo.
Gerard Gallagher, Lore City, 1959 BHS grad, is recognized for 30 years of service to the US Postal Service.
Twenty-five Year Ago – 1990
The Barnesville Board of Education sets the 1991 organizational meeting, and following a lengthy and in-depth presentation and discussion on the pros and cons of televising Channel One in classrooms, members opted to do individual research on the topic before tabling any action.
At Saturday night’s championship matches for the 21st annual Barnesville Wrestling Invitational, Robert “Hoot” Gibson, 1940 BHS grad, was accorded the Fred Bonvenuto Service Award for his more than 50 years of service to the school sports program. Denver Kaiser, retired coach, a past Bonvenuto winner, presented the award to Gibson.
Ohio hospitals lost $173 million providing care for Medicare patients last year according to a new study. Hardest hit were rural hospitals.
Barnesville residents names to the Dean’s List at Belmont Tech include Bonnie Brooks, Tina Cook, Misti Detling, Linda Kurtz, Faye Littleton, Glen McVay, Stephanie Medley, Peggy Taylor and Charla Woods.
BHS students are raising funds for the spring “Close-Up” trip to Washington, DC.
Fifty Years Ago – 1965
Barnesville’s first Parks and Recreation director Robert Fleming has accepted a similar position in Winter Park, Florida.
Mayor Victor Peddicord selected the winning ticket Christmas Eve from several thousand entries for the Chamber of Commerce Merchants Color TV set. The winner is Richard Froehlich of 238 S. Lincoln Avenue.
The Enterprise “Year in Review” profile proclaims “1965 – A Year Offering Future Promise”.
The Bethesda PTA purchases a Bell & Howell strip film projector for the elementary school at a cost of $160.00
Temperanceville – Mr. and Mrs. August Schwendeman along with their son and daughter visited his brother, Rev. Fr. Schwendeman and attended Midnight Mass Christmas Eve at St. Mary’s Catholic Church.
Seventy-five Years Ago – 1940
The Rox Wineman family wins first prize in the Better Business Bureau home decorating contest.
Barnesville native Brigadier General Rufus H. Lane of Falls Church, Va. was honored by the Navy during the annual game against Army on Nov. 28. He is the only surviving member of the 11 Navy football players who took part in the first Army-Navy scuffle. Five of the Army players are living and were also honored.
Barnesville witnessed a premier showing of the great film at the Ohio Theatre here Wednesday when “Flight Command” starring Robert Taylor was presented to the public for the first time in the state of Ohio.
With exceptionally fine weather for holiday shopping, store and business places were crowded during the few days preceding Christmas.
Allen Price and Monford Lucas of the Temperanceville area, were both injured last Christmas afternoon when the car which Lucas was driving crashed into a bridge on Leatherwood Road when a tire blew out.
One Hundred Years Ago – 1915
From the Whetstone
Our people should not fail to attend the concert at Moore’s Opera House Friday evening by the Quaker City Concert Band assisted by the Barnesville and Quaker City vocal and instrumental talents.
The annual banquet and ball was given by the Roby Cigar Co. to its employees Thursday evening. Upwards of a hundred participated.
Frank L. Harrison of this place has been elected a director of The United Dairy Company whose main office is in Barnesville. This company is one of the largest milk distributors in this part of the state with additional interests in Wheeling and other points in the Ohio Valley.
The Sterling Manufacturing Co., 136 W. Main St., is headquarters for fine extracts, teas, coffees, spices, baking powder, washing powder, toilet articles, etc.
Ohio Anti-Saloon League Superintendent James A. White of Columbus has been spending the holiday week with his brother, Joseph W. Whiter and family on Grace Avenue. Mr. White was formerly mayor of Barnesville, the original prohibition town in the state!
Mrs. Mary Peters, the well-known lady who runs the Peters Boarding House, met with a painful accident on Christmas. She fell and broke her hip while arising from the dinner table at her son Herman Peters’ home on Gardner.
Christmas babies include: to Mr. and Mrs. A.W. Laughlin on Walton Avenue, a son Dec. 24; to Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Urban on Walnut, a 9 ½ lb. baby daughter Dec. 23.
Twice Told Tales is compiled by Bruce Yarnall, former general manager of the Barnesville Enterprise.
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