Twice-Told Tales Redux
This edition of Twice-Told Tales originally appeared in the October 3, 2016 edition of the former Barnesville Enterprise. Dates have been adjusted to reflect the current year.
Twenty Years Ago – 2006
Senior Lacy Butler was crowned BHS Homecoming Queen Friday night.
The Village of Barnesville purchases the former First National Bank main building from WesBanco. The building will be leased to the Ohio Hills Health Services for a medical center.
Bethesda area farms and sites will be featured on the annual Rubberneck Tour next Sunday.
Jean Davies outlines the history of the Kirkwood Township High School at Hendrysburg School.
Thirty-five Years Ago – 1991
Proposed strip mine operations near Rotary Lake at Barnesville Memorial Park by Marietta Coal prompt village officials to write a letter seeking particulars from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.
Homecoming Queen candidates for 1991 are Heather Back, Chris Drake, Melissa Messenger, Lorie Dowler, Krystal Kirk, Angie Mumma, Kathryn Clayton, Shari Doty and Amy Thompson.
More than 6,000 from 21 states and Canada view the Barnesville B & O Depot during the pumpkin festival. The building was opened to the public for the first time since the village purchased the building and grounds in May. Over 600 hours of volunteer labor went into readying the site for the festival.
A B & E at the Fraternal Order of Eagles net thieves over $5,800.
The 86-year-old Flower Gardens is in the hands of the third generation of the Sells family as Arnold Sells turns the business over to his son Stanley. The younger Sells’ grandparents Bennie and Verna Woods were long-time employees of the greenhouse when his parents, Arnold and the late Pearl Sells purchased the business from Cecido Polla in 1955.
Sixty Years Ago – 1966
An architect’s drawing of the proposed new high school to be erected at the village’s eastern edge is printed this week.
Ken Woods, manager of the Barnesville office of Columbia Gas, is the newest member of village council. He was named to the post recently vacated by Donald Woodland.
Marlin Harper, BHS senior, is named a 1966 National Merit Winner.
The Belmont County Historical Society will assume care of the Governor Wilson Shannon monument at Mt. Olivett. The boulder will eventually be moved to the Bradfield Mansion on N. Chestnut Street.
Homecoming Queen hopefuls Friday night include Jane Hall, Margie Broomhall, Melva Carpenter, Kathy Talbott, Elaine Kaiser, Jeannie Linville, Beverly Finch, Mary Helen Watson, Mary K. Smith, Becky Reed and Audrey Johnson.
A dairy dispersal auction will take place at the Willis Wharton farm at Stumptown next Saturday. Harold Amos will call the sale.
Eighty-five Years Ago – 1941
Weekend auto accidents take the lives of six people including Calvin Bailey, 7, who died in an accident at the intersection of routes 8 and 148 south of town. Also killed was BHS graduate George William Fowler, 23, who died in an accident in Batavia.
Plans are complete for the horse-pulling contest sponsored by the vo-ag department at the high school stadium Friday afternoon at 2.
Local native Louis J. Edgerton, son of Mrs. Anna Edgerton of east of town, and the nephew and namesake of Louis J. Taber, master of the National Grange, received a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Cornell University last week.
Henry H. Rinehart, Somerton, left Friday for Windsor, Canada, where he has enlisted in the Canadian Royal Air Force.
One Hundred-ten Years Ago – 1916
From the Whetstone
The death of Mr. Samuel Webster Blowers, 59, occurred at his home Tuesday morning. For 14 years until about a year ago he was employed by the Watt Car Wheel Co. and only abandoned his work there on account of an accident. Since October 1, 1915, he was the faithful janitor at the First Methodist Church.
It was announced this week that the Eastern. Ohio window glass factory on South Gardner Street will start work on October 25.
Telephone companies must take their poles out of the highway so as not to inconvenience the public and if this is impossible, rights be acquired from the adjacent property owner.
It is evident that one of the fights in the coming Ohio legislative session will be further protecting the quail.
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Twice Told Tales is compiled by Bruce Yarnall, former general manager of the former Barnesville Enterprise.
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