Twice-Told Tales Redux
This edition of Twice-Told Tales was published ten years ago this week on Wednesday, January14, 2015.
Ten Years Ago – 2005
Randy Lucas is hired as superintendent in a 5-0 vote of the local school board. Lucas resides in Buffalo, Oho with his wife and two sons.
Bob Greenwood, superintendent of the East Guernsey School District, pens a message to district residents concerning the projected deficit for the coming year.
Heavy rains caused a section of SR 379 near Temperanceville to collapse.
Robert D. “Hoot” Gibson, 82, died at Barnesville Hospital this past week. He was very active in Barnesville service as scorekeeper for Barnesville basketball for many years and as a football announcer. He also filled the role of Santa Claus for many events including the annual community Christmas Parade.
The Barnesville Hutton Memorial Library will host a children’s “Super Bowl Party” on February 5. Participants are encouraged to wear their team colors for a day of fund, food, games and prizes.
A birthday card shower is slated for Clarence Kemp of Morristown who will mark 90 years on the 16th. Kemp is a retired farmer and former trustee of Goshen Township. He has served as a Union Township trustee for the past 25 years.
Jean Davies profiles the new book “Lotus – Depression Glass & Far Beyond” written by glass historian Dean Six of Harrisville, WV.
Twenty-five Year Ago – 1990
Fellow council members re-elect Charles Bunting as president of the Barnesville Village Council. Other members of the body are Ernest Howell, Jr., Arthur Seneff, Virginia Waggle, Tim McKelvey and Mark McFrederick.
Exchanging property purchased at 749 E. Main for the Dr. C.A. Edwards Office at 316 E. Main is the first step of a planned $1 million expansion of the Barnesville Hutton Memorial Library.
William Finnical, owner and operator of Finnical Drugs for the past 21 years, has been named to the board of Directors of First National Bank. His appointment came at the December 12 meeting of the board.
Herb Hall, S. Chestnut Street grocer, is recovering from a gunshot wound to his shoulder after he was shot by one of two masked men who robbed Hall’s store last Thursday night.
The House of Paper, 137 E. Main Street, is closing up shop. Future sales will be handled at the Hanlon Paper Company at the plant on S. Gardiner Street.
Fifty Years Ago – 1965
Barnesville Police Chief Beryl Giesey discovery of a fire in the second story of the former Harry Grier residence west of town while enroute home form the Wharton’s Sportmen’s Club undoubtedly saved the lives of the 11-member Wesley Beck family. Many of the children were asleep on the second level while their parents and their two eldest sons, unaware of the fire above them, watched television in the main living room. The family lost everything but the clothes on their backs.
Having served but one year of his four-year term, Paul W. Ferguson has submitted his resignation as a member of Board of Education. He has accepted a worthwhile position with the Ohio Bell Telephone Company in Columbus where he and his family will relocate.
The Board of Education voted to move the kindergarten class currently taught by Mrs. Wayne Bartlett from the junior high auditorium to the basement of the First Christian Church.
Lawrence R. Derry will lead the Barnesville portion of the campaign to raise funds for the Belmont County Community Improvement Corporation CIC).
Mr. Thomas Carissimi, high school English teacher, is profiled in this week’s “Shamrock of B.H.S.”
Everybody invited to the PTA Hootenanny – Saturday January 16, 8-11 pm at the Albert S. George Youth Center. Music will be provided by four Muskingum College freshmen. All area high school students welcome. Admission is 50 cents.
Seventy-five Years Ago – 1940
Seventeen days of the New Year have passed and the first baby born of 1940 has failed to arrive in this community. A check of all doctors and hospitals in the vicinity reveals that so far the first baby of 1940 for Barnesville has not been born.
Joseph McLaughlin was elected first vice president of the Catholic Action Council of Belmont County at the organization’s annual meeting held Sunday in Bridgeport.
Prompted by insufficient quality pictures to satisfy the requirements of both State and Ohio theatres, the Ohio theatre has limited operations to Friday and Saturday only, Ed Modie, manger of the theatres, announce this week.
Following completion of moving the Home Savings and Loan Company from its present location to the State Theatre building where new offices will be established, workmen started repairing and remodeling their former offices Tuesday to make ready for the Peoples Building and Loan Co. The later firm will move from its present location next to Fowler’s Market.
A.E. Smith has been elected president of the Warren Township Trustees. Roy Coulter will serve in the same capacity for Somerset Twp. where Mary Detling will continue to serve as Clerk. Henry Fletcher is clerk for the Warren board.
Save up to 50% and more at Kirk’s Expansion Sale currently underway.
One Hundred Years Ago – 1915
From the Whetstone
At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the People Building and Loan Co., the following officers were elected to serve for the coming year: James M. Cassells, Peter Giffen, George E. Hilles, E.T. Petty, Lin Patterson, H.C. Patterson, and Ira I. Smith.
Approximately 800 pupils of the Bellaire Schools have been vaccinated. Despite the smallpox scare, the attendance in their schools during the first week of the new years is unusually good.
Rev. Dr. Shaffer of Chicago, bishop of the 3rd Episcopal District of the AME church, spoke at Hanlon’s Hall Thursday night under the auspices of the Club No. 2 of the local colored church. He spoke or over an hour and a half on the topic “The Supreme Moment of Opportunity.:4770
Ad. – Why the work and trouble of making mincemeat and the worry for feat it won’t be just right? We have delicious homemade mincemeat that is just right. A trial will convince you. Wilkins & Cassells Meat Shop. Phone 270.
Wanted – Beef Hides and Horse Hides. Will pay 15 cents per pound for green hides, $2.50 to $4.00 for horse hides. Max Hendler, The Junk Man – Opposite Wood’s feed store, Chestnut Street.
Mrs. William Hays and little son, Reed, of Groveport, Miss., are visiting Mr. Hays’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Hays on West South Street.
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Twice Told Tales is compiled by Bruce Yarnall, former general manager of the Barnesville Enterprise.
