Twice-Told Tales Redux
This edition of Twice-Told Tales originally appeared in the former Barnesville Enterprise on July 27, 2016. Dates are adjusted to reflect the current year.
Twenty Years Ago – 2006
Village Council considers a potential tax levy to fund the E-Squad and fire department.
Several private Morristown gardens will open for tours during the town’s National Road Bicentennial Celebration.
20th District State Senator Joy Padgett (R-Coshocton) is the featured speaker for the 127th Pennyroyal Reunion at Fairview on August 19.
Jean Davies recounts the history of the community’s swimming pools at Memorial Park.
M. Eileen Smithberger, 78, retired Ohio Bell operator, dies.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Turner will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary with an open house Saturday. He is retired from R & F Coal Company. She worked at the Barnesville Hutton Memorial Library.
Thirty-five Years Ago – 1991
Rosalie Dailey, Harry Hinkle, Angie Dalrymple, Fred Tolliver and Allen Wilcox, registered voters in the Barnesville School District, share their opinions on the upcoming special school levy election.
Darby Jones, stock dealer and Warren Twp. Trustee, will lead the 1991 giant Pumpkin Parade.
Barnesville native John O. “Jeep” Smith heads the MasterCard’s Debit Services Group. The 1957 graduate of Barnesville High School is the son of Alton Smith and the late Eleanor Brown Smith.
Brown Kinney, Jr., 72, retired auto dealer, died at Barnesville Hospital last week.
Also passing last week were Hildred Kemp, 86, of Belmont, and Jack Bates, 71, retired farmer of the Batesville area.
Sixty Years Ago – 1966
The Park and Recreation Board has initiated a study to see if a golf course could be developed on village-owned land near the park.
The first mobile home is produced by Hilltopper Manufacturing in Bethesda.
This week’s Pick Hotel/Motel vacation winner is Mrs. Mary (Oscar) Lucas of Somerton. The weekly promotion is sponsored by 32 merchants of the chamber of commerce.
The Belmont County Jersey Cattle Club is planning its annual tour for members. The August 3rd trip will stop at a Jersey farm near Wooster and a cheese factory at Sugarcreek.
Terry Neptune and Bob Lallathin, both of Stumptown, cross paths in DaNang, South Vietnam. Both are in the Navy.
Eighty-five Years Ago – 1941
A Barnesville soldier, Orland Cordner, 23, first local draftee, is a drowning victim. He died in municipal pool at Alexandria, Louisiana, near the draft camp.
Dr. Frank Raymond Dew, 63, former local physician and Belmont County Health commissioner, died Sunday at his home in Oberlin following a lingering illness of heart trouble.
Dry forces in Barnesville are circulating a petition asking for a local option election in November. Petitions were at the various churches on Sunday and were signed by persons as they left services.
Europe’s war and U.S. defense are going to force area women to pay more to look pretty. Tin foil used in permanent waves is no longer obtainable. When present supplies are used up, substitutes will cost more.
Someone is thought to have hidden in the Schafer Royal Blue Restaurant (today’s Blue Moon at 126 W. Main) at 12 Wednesday night until the place was closed and then riffled the cash register of a small amount of money – $8.76 – before fleeing the scene.
The annual Doudna-Hall reunion will take place Friday, August 15T on the grounds of Stillwater Meeting House.
One Hundred-Ten Years Ago – 1916
From the Whetstone
Thousands attend the75th Anniversary Sale at Bradfield’s Department Store.
There is now an earnest effort being made to organize a council of Boy Scouts in Barnesville.
The Redpath Chautauqua is now underway in the village.
The dog poisoner has been getting in his deadly work about Barnesville for the past several weeks.
Wanted – Boys 16 years of age and over. Pay is $1.40 for an 8 ½ hour day. Good opportunity for overtime – The Cambridge Glass Company.
Mesdames A.W. and P.H. Laughlin entertained the Magazine Club with a six o’clock dinner at the McCartney Tavern at Hendrysburg on Monday evening.
Morristown – The Lovejoy Glove Factory is now employing 14 girls and getting well started.
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Twice Told Tales is compiled by Bruce Yarnall, former general manager of the Barnesville Enterprise.
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