Twice-Told Tales Redux
This edition of Twice-Told Tales originally appeared in the former Barnesville Enterprise on May 4, 2016. Dates have been adjusted to reflect the current year.
Twenty Years Ago – 2006
Last Friday, 10-year-old Grayson Willis, a fourth grader with a big smile and an even bigger heart, took center stage at Barnesville Elementary School, to thank fellow students for contributing $1,800 for cancer research. Even more amazing is that young Grayson is himself a cancer survivor.
Front page photos of the Victorian Mansion style show featured l02-year-old Leone Mantz, who wore a rose wool evening coat, purchased in 1906 two years younger than the model. Morristown residents Pam McCort and Cheryl Harris are also pictured. A total of 28 models took part in the show which featured clothing from the museum’s large vintage textile collection.
Deaths reported this week include Mary Marling, 79, Bethesda, and Barnesville native Russ A. Henderson, 37, of Englewood, Colorado.
Thirty-five Years Ago – 1991
The Barnesville School District is asking voters to approve a 9-mill operating levy on the May 7 ballot. The issue, first presented at the November 1990 general election, lost by less than 300 votes at that time.
Effective today, Livezey’s True Value Hardware becomes Barnesville True Value as Doug and Jill Johnson of Bethesda take over ownership and management of the South Chestnut Street store.
Barnesville High German students, under the direction of instructor Vibeke Koler, once again take high honors at the Foreign Language Day competition at Bethany College. In fact, BHS was the only public, non-private school among the top winners.
Sixty Years Ago – 1966
Primary voting in the Barnesville district was light. Governor James Rhodes carried the town by a 20 to 1 margin.
The 50-year Masonic Pin was presented to member Frank Robinson at the Masonic Lodge last week.
A balance of only $7,500 is needed to put the county historical museum building purchase over the top. The Bradfield-Watt mansion at 532 N. Chestnut Street is the subject of the drive.
Teenagers are leading the charge opposing the Belmont County Fair Board’s plans to expand the annual county fair through Sundays. “What it boils down to is a teenage stand for observance of the Sabbath,” one source told the Enterprise yesterday.
The close out sale at Stiffler’s Department Store, 157 E. Main Street, continues as all remaining stock is sold.
Eighty-five Years Ago – 1941
A “living monument” to L.J. Taber of Barnesville, master of the National Grange, will be in the form of a “Taber Forest” within the Wayne National Forest in the Hocking Valley. The forest will be financed by penny contributions of members of Juvenile Granges throughout the United States.
Sawmills are going good in the district now. Operations are currently underway at the Brown farm near Sixteen schoolhouse, the Kirk farm north of Barnesville, and a mill near Temperanceville operated by a Mr. Clay. Demand for lumber in national defense and in the housing campaign has made it possible for sawmills to operate at a profit again.
One of the oldest residents of the county, David B. Pittman, 95, of New Castle, died Saturday. Burial took place at Jerusalem.
This week’s “Interesting Neighbors of Yours” features Barnesville jewelry store operator Henry Armstrong.
One Hundred- Ten Years Ago – 1916
From the Whetstone
Dr. Henry Price, born west of Barnesville in 1842 and a graduate of the Starling Medical College, Columbus, died at Cambridge following a long illness. He practiced in Sarahsville, Quaker City, and Somerton, before locating to Cambridge.
Commencement exercises for the class of 1916 will take place May 25. This year’s class numbers 35 graduates, one of the largest to graduate here.
Members of the Moose Lodge observed a Memorial Sunday for departed members last week. Members attended services at the First Methodist Church in the morning. After dinner, headed by the Quaker City Band, they marched to Moore’s Opera House where Senator Charles J. Howard provided a memorial address. Following the service, they marched to Greenmount, Southern and Catholic cemeteries where graves were decorated.
Having faith in the forthcoming warm period, N.M. Boswell, the South Chestnut monument dealer, officially opened the straw-hat season Sunday by donning his Panama. It requires some nerve to lead the procession, but Mr. Boswell was equal to the occasion and got along alright.
A dozen of the 19 “dry” states have laws prohibiting liquor advertising within their borders.
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Twice Told Tales is compiled by Bruce Yarnall, former general manager of the Barnesville Enterprise.
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