Twice-Told Tales Redux
This edition of Twice-Told Tales originally appeared in the former Barnesville Enterprise on April 27, 2016. Dates have been adjusted to reflect the current year.
Twenty Years Ago – 2006
School was delayed two hours Thursday due to vandalism to all 17 of the district’s buses. At least two tires were flattened on each unit.
After a 40-year run, the International Paper plant at Bethesda will close, according to a statement released by the company. About 35 will lose their jobs when the plant closes. In April 1981 the plant was heavily damaged by fire ignited by a lightning strike. The factory originally opened in 1965 as the Hilltopper Mobile Home factory.
Former Bethesda Mayor Chares C. “Buzzy” Gay dies at the age of 71.
The Ohio Hills Health Services feted Joann Merritt, N.P., for 11 years of service upon her retirement.
Thirty-five Years Ago – 1991
Emergency Room volunteers Robert Outland, Ray Jorden, Virgil Danford, and Frank Brock are profiled. Each man contributes about 10 hours a week at the local hospital.
The Barnesville Railroad Fund drive is $15,000 short of the goal to raise the final funds to purchase the B & O Depot and grounds. A gigantic yard sale is planned for May 9 at the depot to help reach that goal.
The King Pumpkin prize is revised for the 1991 competition. The winner will now receive $1 per pound,
The 7th annual BHS “Blood Bash” will take place at the high school on Wednesday, May 8. The senior class and student council will provide free entertainment and refreshments throughout the day.
Sixty Years Ago – 1966
The Speidel Development Corporation has given the name “Old Farm” to the 65-acre development tract it purchased from the E.D. Bailey farm east of here last fall. Marion V. Packard, nationally known Columbus land planner, has laid out 100 half-acre lots on the plot.
Denham’s Restaurant in Bethesda announces the opening of a new dining and banquet room with a seating capacity of 60. An Open House will take place on April 30.
Persistence paid off for Barnesville Police Officer Walter Cook who chased a 14-year-old Monroe County driver from Barnesville to Batesville before ending in a barnyard near Somerton last Friday morning.
Somerset Township Trustees name John Martin to fill the unexpired trustee’s term of the late Joe Butler.
The P.T.O. will host a Family Fun Night at the junior high gym on Saturday night. Features include booths, games and a cake walk.
“The Outlaws”, a band consisting of John B. Merrill, Gene Wright and Bill Hasbrouck, is featured in a photo along with their “go-go girls,” just one of the groups featured in the BHS Y-Teen sponsored Variety Show last Friday and Saturday.
Eighty-five Years Ago – 1941
In this week’s “Interesting Neighbors of Yours”, the Enterprise profiles Mrs. Audra Grear of N. Chestnut Street. She is the clerk for the local Draft Board.
The Ehlermann filling station on S. Chestnut was sold at sheriff’s auction on Monday for $8,000. The purchaser is J.O. Murphy who states he hopes to sell or lease the building.
Barnesville city officials have been invited to attend a meeting of other municipal officials in Belmont County for the purpose of deciding whether to adopt daylight savings time. Agitation for the change is reported to have originated in Martins Ferry.
Mansel Hunkler has accepted a position with the Ohio Bell Telephone Company here, taking the place of David Pugh who is transferring to Dayton.
Two copperhead snakes were killed here in the last week, one by T.S. Fowler of W. Main and another on the Tedrick home on W. South.
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Burkhart and children moved Tuesday into their new home “Burkwold” south of town.
One Hundred-Ten Years Ago – 1916
From the Whetstone
William P. Moore, who was born in Malaga in 1849, died at his sister’s home on W. South Street Friday. In his early life he was a brick maker and contractor. Later, he was associated with the late J.T. Moore in the porcelain china and stoneware business.
The boys of Quaker City High School deserve the plaudits of their fellow citizens. The senior class, which numbers 26 members, is comprised of 18 boys and eight girls.
The E.C. Flaccus Co. at their plant here (South Chestnut Street) recently signed contracts for this year’s supply of tomatoes. The farmers here will plant nearly 100 acres of the best catchup fruits to be marketed at the local canning factory this fall – an industry which circulates considerable money in this community.
Al Bowen, the expert shoe repairer, can be found at the old stand on S. Chestnut. Machine or hand work on shoes is done neatly, quickly and substantially. Prices are always reasonable.
At the Moore’s Opera House on East Church Street, on May 2, the Williams’ World-Famous Colored Singers will perform. The company has toured two continents – Europe and North America. Ticket prices are adults 35- and 50-cents; children, 25 cents.
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Twice Told Tales is compiled by Bruce Yarnall, former general manager of the Barnesville Enterprise.
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