Twice-Told Tales Redux
Ten Years Ago – 2005
Retired BHS coach and teacher, Aggie Timmons, will be inducted into the OVAC Hall of Fame at a special program in Wheeling Saturday night.
Thinking they were going to Paul’s last depot committee meeting and picnic Tuesday, August 9, Paul and Carol Livezey arrived at the depot to find it filled with dozens of friends and associates who gathered to send them off to their new home in Florida with thanks for their many years of friendship and community service.
Members of the Barnesville Boosters’ Club will conduct a membership drive Saturday.
Pictured are members of the BHS class of 1965 which recently marked their 45th class reunion.
Walter and Virginia Brown, Somerton, celebrate their 65th wedding anniversary.
Twenty-five Year Ago – 1990
The 20th anniversary is observed by Barnesville Hospital’s CCU-ICU unit with a reception in the Robin Kirk Lounge.
One of 20 Ohioans sent to help fight the many forest fires in the west is Tim Humphrey, manager of the local Ohio Fire Protection Unit.
The Barnesville Chamber announces the closing of its gift shop primarily featuring Lotus Glass at 175 E. Main. The chamber office will remain open.
Barnesville Hospital Branches donate $2,808 to the hospital to purchase wheel chairs, IV holders and step stools.
Former Somerton feed mill operator Wilfred Mann, 67, dies in Las Vegas. Also passing was Marjorie Ferguson Echeto, Long Beach, Calif., a 1940 BHS grad.
According to the Ohio Extension Service, Bed and Breakfast operations are growing in popularity in the state.
Warren Lallathin marks 35 years of service as a minister of the Churches of Christ. During this time he has preached at more than 90 congregations in 10 states.
Fifty Years Ago – 1965
A group of young bicyclists, members of the Wheeling YMCA, spend the night here before departing on the last leg of their 650-mile round trip through Ohio.
The Ohio Power Company has taken option on 13 acres of ground from the Charles E. Fisher farm at Speidel as a site for a new substation.
Jo Mott announces plans to open a new pizza business at the corner of N. Arch and E. Church. The establishment will be known as Korner Pizza at 205 E. Church, a site formerly occupied by Mrs. Mott’s Nearly New Used Furniture Shop.
Grace Avenue and several other village streets get a fresh treatment of stone chipping this week.
An article this week notes that “remodeling may be more expensive than building a new home.”
Seventy-Five Years Ago – 1940
The last call for rentals of men’s costumes for the Pioneer Celebration is issued today as the order must be sent to New York tonight. Walter Thomas or Robert Atkinson at the J.C. Penney Company will take measurements for a suit, collar and hat.
Floats, buggies and old vehicles will be featured in the Grand Parade of the Pioneer Day Celebration.
The annual field day for the Eastern Ohio Guernsey Breeders Association will take place at the A.S. George Hilltop Farm three miles south of town on Saturday.
Announcement is made today that the Barnesville General Hospital will be open for service on or about September 1.
E.J. Patterson, local contractor, is awarded construction contracts for new Sinclair service stations in New Philadelphia and Coshocton. Fred Patterson of this city was awarded the electrical contracts on both jobs.
Mrs. Palmer Laughlin has an interesting correspondence with Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt.
One Hundred Years Ago – 1915
From the Whetstone
While enroute to Epworth Park, where he addressed a big audience last Saturday, Governor Frank B. Willis was a visitor in Barnesville at noon when he lunched at the home of G.W. Bradfield. His address at Epworth was of the popular sort, and for two hours, the big audience which filled the auditorium was delighted.
The death of Mrs. Jane McMichael, aged colored woman from Mount Vernon, took place at the home of her son, B.O., on South Broadway Saturday. She was born a slave in Georgia but came north after the War of the Rebellion.
The 36th annual Pennyroyal Reunion was an event of last Wednesday at Giffee’s Grove near Fairview.
We predict that once the paving of the National Road is completed, the town of Fairview will return to the leading commercial center between Wheeling and Cambridge, a distinction she bore some 60 to 70 years ago.
The officers and directors of the People’s Building and Loan Company of this place mark its 30th anniversary at a banquet at the Schafer Hotel.
I will pay $100 reward for the arrest and conviction of the culprit who defaced the plate glass showcase in front of my clothing store Monday night – J.J. Kirk.
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Twice Told Tales is compiled by Bruce Yarnall, former general manager of the Barnesville Enterprise.
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