Twice-Told Tales Redux
This edition of Twice-Told Tales originally appeared in the former Barnesville Enterprise on June 15, 2016.
Twenty Years Ago – 2006
The late Louis J. Taber was remembered and honored April 30 when members of the Hocking County Granges gathered at the Taber Forest for a presentation from the Wayne National Forest. At the presentation were the following nieces and nephews of the late Barnesville resident and Master of the National Grange – Robert Rockwell, Louis Rockwell, Susan Price and Flossie Rockwell.
This summer will once again be without the fruits of summer for a Strawberry Festival at the Barnesville Depot as the committee was unable to recruit enough active volunteers to pick the strawberries.
Belva Tychonski’s old family recipe for blackberry cobbler will be published statewide in the next issue of Ohio Magazine.
Police Chief Dave Norris reports the recent resignation of policeman Robbie Carpenter, the fourth departure from the department recently. The local force is now down to four officers.
Eugene M. (Gene) Burkhart, retiree of Riesbeck’s Markets here and at St. Clairsville, died June 7. Services were held at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Temperanceville, followed by burial at Ebenezer Cemetery.
Randall and Anita Lucas of Barnesville marked their 55th wedding anniversary on June 9. They are the parents of six children and their families.
The Ohio Hills Health Service marks 30 years of providing comprehensive health services at the Monroe County Clinic, Freeport Clinic and Barnesville.
Thirty-five Years Ago – 1991
Barnesville Village Council Monday night accepted the resignation of police officer Erik McCort. He is moving to Licking County where he will work for the sheriff’s department.
The Barnesville Elks Lodge is a major sponsor of the bicycle journey around the state of Ohio by Kent State grad Peter Zeidner who is raising funds for more research into the causes of the cerebral palsy.
The Enterprise welcomes a new member to the staff. He is Garry Hanasky, 25, Shadyside native and Ohio University grad. He will do general news reporting and sports coverage.
Golden Wedding anniversaries profiled this week include the William Nesbitts of Barnesville and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Phillips, of Mineral City, formerly of Barnesville.
Marking 65 years of marriage are Rawley and Ruth Hagan Conway of Somerton.
Deaths reported this week include Fred Campbell, 64, of Dallas, Texas, retired Barnesville postmaster, and Bernice L. Claugus, 65, owner of the former Needle Nook in Barnesville and Woodsfield.
Also passing this week was retired Methodist minister Rev. Starling Perkins.
Sixty Years Ago – 1966
The Production Credit Association has purchased a 12-acre site near the new Bob’s Chevrolet for a future office building. The PCA is currently located on South Chestnut Street opposite the Farm Bureau Store.
Impressive capping ceremonies were held at Barnesville Hospital Wednesday for the following Red Cross Volunteers: Mrs. John Lewis, Mrs. Lois Neff, Mrs. Miles Myers, Mrs. Eugene Dubois, Mrs. Lewis Rehner, Mrs. Burdette Deal, Mrs. William Shepherd and Mrs. Carrie Owen.
The Belmont County Historical Society reports 350 members as the group holds its first session in the proposed museum, the former Dias Bradfield/Earl Watt home on N. Chestnut St.
A BHS student will be crowned Firemen’s Queen at next week’s Barnesville Firemen’s Festival and Fair. Candidates are Becky Carpenter, Mary Reischman, Mary Finch and Mary Jane Murphy.
The Barnesville Kiwanis Club unanimously votes to go ahead with plans to erect a new shelter house at Barnesville Memorial Park.
The Albert S. George Youth Center was the setting for the Rose Luncheon and Flower Show of the Barnesville Garden Club Last Tuesday.
Eighty-five Years Ago – 1941
Barnesville’s new $11,200 fire truck arrived last Friday and was “put through its paces” last evening for crowds of curious and interested spectators at Church and Chestnut streets, and later at East Main Street and Warren Avenue.
The Trico Conservation Club has leased the Van Fossen farm of 20 acres overlooking the Piedmont Reservoir and plans are to improve this site for a club house and camp. Paul Damsel, membership chairman, notes that the club meets regularly each month at the Barnesville Eagles Lodge.
Oscar Bell, who opened the Kroger Store here and has managed it for 15 years, will become manager of the Central M-K Store. David Moore, Kroger meet department manager, succeeds Bell. The M-K Co. also announced yesterday the opening of a new store at Roscoe near Coshocton.
Morristown physician, Dr. Hugh R. Jeffrey, a native of Barnesville, died there Tuesday where he had practiced medicine for many years. He was 74 years of age.
Forrest Patterson and Oscar Smith are the low bidders on the construction of a five-room bungalow for Mr. and Mrs. Lee Mason on a vacant lot just east of the C.R. Burdette home on W. Main. Excavation work was started Tuesday.
One Hundred-ten Years Ago – 1916
From the Whetstone
Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Barnes, popular movie stars, will appear here in the Metro picture, Pennington’s Choice, on June 20. The five-part movie will play at the Acme Theatre, 157 E. Main Street.
Somerset Grange will hold a picnic at Day’s Grove, Saturday, June 24, consisting of a program at 10 o’clock of recitations, short talks, and vocal music. After the basket dinner in the grove, several speakers will make addresses including Harry A. Caton, Grange editor of the National Stockman magazine, L.P. Bailey, ex-president of the state Board of Agriculture, and G.A. Colpitts, current mayor of Barnesville.
Mrs. Silas Freas of Walton Avenue was operated on for appendicitis at her home last Friday by Dr. W.E. Stephens, attending physician. She was aided by Miss Wilda Lowe of Mt. Carmel Hospital, Columbus, as nurse.
The Women’s Christian Temperance Union Floral Mission will be held at the home of Mrs. Gerald Smith on North Broadway Street on June 16.
Morristown – The Groves-Barr Garage is ready for all repair work and for selling and hiring autos. The garage is splendidly equipped.
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Twice Told Tales is compiled by Bruce Yarnall, former general manager of the Barnesville Enterprise.
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