Twice-Told Tales Redux
This edition of Twice-Told Tales originally appeared in the November 9, 2016, edition of the former Barnesville Enterprise. Dates have been changed to reflect the current year.
Twenty Years Ago – 2006
Don Carpenter is honored as Outstanding School Board Member of the Southeast Region. He currently services as Barnesville Board president and has served locally since 1988.
BHS standout athlete Stephanie Morgan finishes 5th overall at the state cross country championship Saturday.
Sarah J. Giffin, 82, retired decorator at Lotus Glass Company, died Monday. She was active in the American Legion and VFD auxiliaries.
Robert and Shirley Kildow of Bethesda marked their golden wedding anniversary on Oct. 11, while George and Linda Tremblay of Wilson will celebrate their 60th on Nov. 11.
Mabel McConnell Modie of West Main Street celebrated her 100th birthday on the 8th. The Morristown native is the widow of Edward J. Modie who owned and managed the State and Ohio theaters here.
Thirty-five Years Ago – 1991
Barnesville Hospital will become smoke free on January 1, 1992. Special smoke cessation classes will be offered free of charge to employees and the general public.
The 1992 Barnesville Historic Calendar, featuring local industrial concerns, is offered by the Development Council.
The condition of Marianne McFrederick, who was taken to Ohio State University Hospital by medical helicopter, is grave. She is a victim of rheumatoid arthritis and has contracted histoplasmosis.
Bill and Thelma Froehlich mark their golden wedding anniversary on Nov. 23.
The BHS volleyball team posts an 18-4 season.
Sixty Years Ago – 1966
Voters in the Barnesville School District favor a new high school bond issue and a 1.6-mill operating levy by 57% margins. The new school will cost $1.48 million.
A campaign is underway to finance construction of the new lodge at Epworth Park. The new facility with seating for 200, will cost $125,000.
Governor Rhodes’s successful re-election campaign saw him carry every precinct in town and Warren Twp. with more than 67% of the votes.
Dr. Harvey Murphy, physician here for 28 years, died Friday afternoon at the age of 54.
A special Veterans’ Day program will highlight a WW I Veterans meeting at the Belmont Legion Home Sunday afternoon.
A Latin Club is chartered at Barnesville High.
Larry Peddicord is a cadet at the Ohio State Highway Patrol Academy.
Eighty-five Years Ago – 1941
Republican Walter V. Smith is elected Mayor by a 226 plurality in a four-man race.
Barnesville becomes the largest city in the State of Ohio to vote Dry as electors vote to eliminate all sales of alcohol within town limits.
“If the crowd listening to returns in front of the Enterprise Tuesday night is any indication, there was more interest in this week’s election than any ever held. The crowd was the largest ever seen. Results announced through a loudspeaker could be heard from Chestnut to Arch streets.”
Jersey breeders at the big statewide auction in Columbus were elated last week with average price of $265 a head.
Daniel J. Castelo, 54, a well-known Barnesville man, died at the Belmont County Tuberculosis Sanitarium on Saturday. Also, Claude Wesley, 62, longtime garage operator in Hendrysburg.
One Hundred-ten Years Ago – 1916
From the Whetstone
Voters in Barnesville and Warren Twp. Cast 1,629 votes ballots last Tuesday. The weather was perfect. Locally electors favored the Republican Charles Evans Hughes over the national winner President Woodrow Wilson.
In a letter received from Aunt Eliza Thomas of West Liberty, Iowa, known to many of our citizens here, she says she is past 90 years of age, cannot do a great deal, but does read and thinks of her old hometown friends.
Miss Mary Henderson, 8th grade teacher in our public school, gave a Halloween party for her pupils last Friday evening at which all sorts of stunts were indulged in.
Miss Jesse Shankland, who has been in the employ of the Hanlon Paper Co. for several years, was promoted to a position in their office made vacant by the resignation of Miss Margaret Hanlon, whose marriage takes place next week.
Mr. and Mrs. B.J. Hager of E. Walnut Street will celebrate their 65th wedding anniversary Friday. They are among our older residents.
A devastating fire hit Bethesda last Wednesday night that destroyed all buildings on the east side of North Main Street between the railroad and South Willow Street (current location of the Orrison Building). Also severely damaged were the building fronts across the street, including the Park Theater.
The Presbyterian Church has a country church board at work to discover the cause of the decline of the country church and how to arrest it.
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Twice-Told Tales are compiled by Bruce Yarnall, former Barnesville Enterprise general manager.
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