Twice-Told Tales Redux
This edition of Twice-Told Tales originally appeared in the former Barnesville Enterprise on February 17, 2016.
Ten Years Ago – 2006
The Dickinson cattle ranch will be featured on Ohio Public Television stations on February 22 as part of the “Our Ohio” television series.
While the slip has been repaired and Railroad Street reopened, street department officials indicate it will be spring when new asphalt can be applied and the work is complete.
The Somerton VFD is holding a raffle fundraiser to purchase needed equipment and supplies.
The annual popular Enterprise FFA Section is included in this week’s edition.
Storytime and Toddlertime sessions return to Barnesville Hutton Memorial Library on Tuesday and Wednesdays each week.
Twenty-five Years Ago – 1991
Models for the Garden Club’s Spring Style Show and Box Luncheon are featured in a phase one photo in outfits each has chosen from the Mayfair Dress Shop. Pictured are Cathi McClelland, Paula Doudna and Sue Terrett. The fashion event will take place on Sunday March 17 in the Elks Ballroom.
The Wheeling landscape architectural firm, Dalby-Barger and Associates, presented at this week’s council meeting introducing preliminary plans for improvements to Memorial Park amphitheater.
Mr. and Mrs. Willis Yarnall, Somerton, celebrated their 40th anniversary Feb. 10 with a special family gathering and a “memory” card shower.
A spotlight, timer and new flag will be placed in front of the Belmont Village Hall building following a vote by the town council.
The Barnesville Rotary Club donates $500 to the Friends of the Park for improvements at Memorial Park.
Fifty Years Ago – 1966
A large crowd was on hand last Saturday morning for the Bethesda groundbreaking of Hilltopper Mobile Homes Corporation.
The phantom, or is it a phantom, cougar, continues to roam about the Barnesville area. The cougar talk was started late last summer when an orchard operator reported it in his area. Since then, it has been sighted at the old reservoir, and one woman claims it slithered across the road in front of her car on Route 8 north of town.
The newly organized Belmont County Historical Society hopes to purchase the former Earl Watt home on the corner of N. Chestnut and Walton for a museum. John Bradfield and Everett E. Hanlon purchased the home, built between 1888-93, last year from the Watt estate. They indicate a willingness to sell the property to the group for $10,000.
Seventy-five Years Ago – 1941
The 1940 high school football season showed a profit of $280 from ticket sales, the school board learned Monday evening. This enabled the district to wipe out the ticket deficit of $277 incurred in 1939.
The Barnesville Eagles this week celebrates the re-opening of their remodeled lodge home, the former Bradfield mansion at N. Chestnut at Church. A series of nightly events will continue through Saturday night.
John Hardwick of this city was among 85 successful applicants for admission to the Ohio Bar who passed the state examination recently. His plans for practice are uncertain, but he will probably open an office in Barnesville.
A genealogical index containing 3,000 names of people mentioned in historic sources pertaining to Barnesville and Warren township was presented to the public library this week by Francis Hibbard.
Hibbard, a direct descendant of three of the city’s pioneer families, including the Barnes family, is particularly well qualified for the task. His research took him to Columbus, the county court houses and courthouses in nearby counties. The index covers the city’s first 100 years, 1808-1908.
One Hundred Years Ago – 1916
From the Whetstone
After remodeling and reconstructing their building at the corner of E. Main and N. Arch, the Ely & Wilson Drug Store was thrown open to the public Saturday evening from 7- 9:30 for the public to inspect the new pharmacy. Music for the event was provided by a Victrola grand record player, in care of an operator from the Matthews Furniture and Victrola Store at 130 W. Main Street.
Following a downpour of rain on Saturday, a blinding snowstorm began in this section near midnight and when denizens of the city awoke Sunday morning, they found the earth blanketed with snow varying in dept from six-to ten-inches.
David Price, 74, once having charge of the toll-grate on the Barnesville and Hendrysburg Pike, died at his home Friday evening.
The work of reconstructing the factory of The Eastern Ohio Glass Co. proceeds with considerable satisfaction, although the work has been delayed some time on account of the fickle weather conditions.
E.M. Wilkes, proprietor of the Globe clothing store at 151 E. Main, is in Cincinnati this week attending the Ohio retail Merchants Association and making selection of new goods for his store.
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Twice Told Tales is compiled by Bruce Yarnall, former general manager of the Barnesville Enterprise.
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