Twice-Told Tales Redux
This edition of Twice-Told Tales originally appeared in the July 6, 2016 edition of the former Barnesville Enterprise.
Twenty Years Ago – 2006
On the calendar this weekend is the Ohio Hills Folk Festival at Quaker City, the Chautauqua Homecoming at Epworth Park in Bethesda, and a Pennyroyal Bluegrass Show at the Opera House in Fairview on Saturday night.
The Commencement speaker for Barnesville High School in 1931, Branch Rickey, is profiled. Rickey, a relative of the Barnesville Superintendent at that time, later broke ground in professional sports as the manager who broke the color line when he signed Jackie Robinson for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
At least four members of the 1931 class plan to mark their 75th anniversary at this year’s BHS Alumni Banquet. They are Mabel Murphy Culbertson, Virginia Bailey Hunkler, Bernita Bundy Bundy and Mildred Wilkins. There are 12 members of the class living.
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Eschbaugh will mark their 50th wedding anniversary on July 7. They were married by Rev. Floyd Workman in Barnesville. A party for family and friends will take place on Sunday at Salesville.
Thirty-five Years Ago – 1991
Sandra Stalder, DVM, joins the staff of Barnesville Veterinary Services. She is a Monroe County native.
Businessman, community leader and “Mr. Rotary” Vernon Burkhart, a 1923 graduate of Barnesville High School, was one of two distinguished alumni inducted to the Barnesville Area Education Foundation Hall of Fame at the BHS Alumni Banquet last Saturday evening. The other inductee was the late Elisha Gray, inventor, who just missed out on a patent as the inventor of the telephone.
Michael Froehlich, a Marysville man with local roots, is named interim director of the Ohio State Fair. He is the son of Charles and Dorothy Frace Froehlich, Barnesville natives.
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Johnson of Gardner Street mark their 45th wedding anniversary on July 20.
Winner of the annual Skinner Agricultural Scholarship of $1,000 is Steve Moore, son of John and Bobbi Moore.
Deaths this week include Earl D. Strous, 75, retired employee of the former United Dairy, and William A. Kidd, 68, retired postal worker for the Barnesville Post Office. Both men were veterans of World War II.
Also passing this week was Nada Caldwell Mowder, 95, of Alledonia. She was an associate of Mowder Brothers Store in Alledonia.
Sixty Years Ago – 1966
A gala Grand Opening observance this Friday and Saturday will introduce residents of the Barnesville area to the ultra-modern new facilities of Bob’s Chevrolet, Inc., located just east of town on Route 147. The following prizes will be awarded: two Shetland ponies, two boys’ or girls’ bicycles and four portable television sets.
Entertainment at Bob’s will feature a sky diving parachute team, diving from a plane 12,000 feet in the air at 7:30 fast time Saturday night.
Two attractive Barnesville girls, Miss Sandra Lee McBurney, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George McBurney, and Miss Marcia Harp, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Harp, have embarked on new careers as airline stewardesses.
A sudden shower that fell far short of providing a much needed rainfall nevertheless threw a wet blanket on the annual Chamber of Commerce fireworks at Memorial Park Monday night.
Raymond and Ethel Drake were awakened one morning last week in their trailer home on Bethesda Street by the rattling of a door. Mr. Drake approached the kitchen shouting out “who’s there?” No response followed. That’s when he eyed a large raccoon who was also eying him from atop the kitchen sink! Mr. Raccoon entered the house by removing a screen and existed the same way. Before the encounter, the critter had devoured a package of breakfast rolls and a boiled egg.
Eighty-five Years Ago – 1941
More rain fell in June than in any month for five years with a total of 7.5 inches recorded by W.H. Sears of Sandy Ridge.
Members of the Trico Conservation Club have made arrangements for the care of around 300 young pheasants which they will receive from the state this week. The birds are four weeks old. They will be given to farmers and vo-ag boys for another eight weeks, then released.
This week’s “Interesting Neighbors of Yours” profiles Miss Emma Laughlin, Barnesville librarian, naturalist and horticulturalist.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Mantz are attending the annual Ohio Bakers’ Convention at Cedar Point this week.
Temperanceville – The annual Malone family reunion was held here July 4th.
The 13th annual reunion of the Davis clan of Belmont and Monroe Counties was held Sunday, June 29, at the Mt. Horeb Church in Wayne Township.
One Hundred-Ten Years Ago – 1916
From the Whetstone
An estimated 3,000 attended the horse races at City Park here on the 4th. The weather was ideal for the sport, and the crowd certainly enjoyed it.
Bushala & Khoury, Main Street confectioners, will give the children at the county children’s home an outing and picnic in Smith’s Grove south of town July 20. All who will donate automobiles to carry the children to and from the picnic, please report to Mr. Khoury before the above date.
Mr. Frank Miller, an employee of the Prudential Life Insurance Company for several years, has resigned his position and will become a wholesale salesman for the McClelland & Kennard Company (M-K).
Robert Steele, son of street commissioner Ernest Steele, met with a severely painful accident on Wednesday. While “cranking” an automobile, the crank back-fired fracturing the young man’s right wrist.
Miss Helen Worthington of Bethany College visited over the 4th with her parents, Hon. and Mrs. P.B. Worthington.
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Twice Told Tales is compiled by Bruce Yarnall, former general manager of the Barnesville Enterprise.
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