Twice-Told Tales Redux
This edition of Twice-Told Tales originally appeared in the former Barnesville Enterprise on March 23, 2016.
Ten Years Ago – 2006
Barnesville Hospital’s Laboratory has earned the Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval accreditation according to Richard Doan, hospital CEO, CFO.
Six of the top seven BHS seniors are taking part in the Close-Up Program in Washington, DC. They are: Alyssa Burns, Kati Gallagher, Chelsey Hunter, Sammi McClelland, Christina Starr and Tiffany Stephen. Each student must raise $1,300 in order to make the trip to our nation’s capital.
Village council members and VFD personnel continue to grapple over a proposal to create a paid Emergency Squad. The unresolved debate is now several months old.
Jean Davies profiles Leone Mantz on the occasion of her 102nd birthday. Mantz and her late husband, Howard, ran Mantz Bakery, a Barnesville institution for many years. After the business closed, she was a volunteer at the hospital for another 20 years. A member of the Barnesville Kiwanis Club, she is the oldest active member of the organization in the state of Ohio.
Twenty-five Years Ago – 1991
Two more BHS coaches resign their positions as football coach, John Marks, and girls’ basketball coach, Mark Brown, step down. Marks moves on to fill the position of high school counselor. Brown has been serving as vo-ag instructor and is now middle school guidance counselor.
As of Monday, $16,616 has been raised for the Barnesville Railroad Fund. That leaves a balance of $38,000 needed in the next eight weeks.
William H. “Billy” Crawford, park and recreation director, suffered a heart attack at his home Friday. He was Life-flighted to University Hospital in Columbus where he underwent a heart catheterization operation.
Sixth grader Sarah Hampton’s project titled “Junk Mail” won the “Principal’s Award” for the most outstanding project at this year’s Barnesville Middle School Academic fair.
Three members of Barnesville Veterinary Services captured the $300 first prize in the working Chute Rodeo competition at the Ohio Beef Expo at the state fairgrounds recently. They are Joe Baker, Dave Carpenter and Dr. Fred C. Claugus.
Former resident Pat Smith, son of Charles and Jean Smith of Bethesda Street, was part of a five-man crew that filmed the David Frost interview with Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf who led Allied Troops during the recent Kuwait War. The piece airs on PBS tonight. Smith is a free-lance TV film director who now resides in Texas.
Fifty Years Ago – 1966
Tickets will go on sale Monday for the Chamber dinner featuring Ohio Governor James A. Rhodes. The event, slated for the high school gymnasium, is expected to draw over 500.
The All-Ohio Youth Choir, whose membership includes two BHS students, Cindy Harper and Judy Bailey, will appear in concert at the State Theater here on Sunday, March 27.
The town’s confusion continues to make national news, this time in the Los Angeles Times, that includes a quote from Barnesville Mayor Victor Peddicord. A pending bill in the US House of Representatives would establish nation-wide times for EST and DST changes each year. The Times article noted “each year about half of Barnesville’s 4,000 citizens switch over to day light time and half stick with standard time because the residential town is caught in the middle with factory areas to the east going on “fast time” and the farming areas to the west staying on “slow time.”
Two veteran members of the First Christian Church were honored during morning worship services last Sunday. Charles Fisher and Emmett Fisher have been members of the church for 65 years. Charles has also been an elder for over 40 years.
Seventy-five Years Ago – 1941
Four nearby high schools will graduate 110 seniors in May. Belmont leads with 47 graduates. Bethesda will have 23; Somerton, 21; and Quaker City, 19.
Slight improvement was reported yesterday in the condition of P.B. Worthington, but he is still in a grave state as a result of a coronary thrombosis, a blood clot in the heart. He is required to lie motionless in bed, denied even the exertion required to hold a newspaper. He is at his home on S. Lincoln Avenue.
John W. Kirk is planting thousands of pine trees on an 80-acre farm he recently purchased from Sam Flower on Sixteen in Somerset Twp. Five thousand trees will be planted each year for the next 10 years for sale as Christmas trees.
Postmaster I.A. Foglesong started an evergreen nursery at the southeast edge of town several years ago, and this past Christmas season furnished several hundred trees for Barnesville homes.
Dr. Basil C. Hall of West Main Street was installed as president of the Ohio Chiropractic Research Society recently.
George Lotti of Columbus has been sent here to temporarily manage the Miller-Jones Shoe Store on E. Main. He succeeds Pernard J. Weilbahcer who left last week due to the military draft.
One Hundred Years Ago – 1916
From the Whetstone
Dr. J.W. Wellons, ear, eye, nose and throat specialist, recently moved his offices from the suite over the gas office to the second floor of the Eisenberg building, three doors east.
R.W. Stancill, minister of the forming First Church of Christ, reports 25 additions to the congregation as a result of gospel meetings over the past four weeks.
Miss Daisy E. Nuzum, 45, a stenographer employee of the Western Reserve Medical College, Cleveland, died in a hospital in that city following an operation. She was the only daughter of Mrs. Margaret Nuzum of Fairview.
A newly organized male choir made its first appearance at the Presbyterian Church last Sabbath. Members are Wilbur Hilles, Earl Kearns, Palmer Laughlin, George Giffen, Dr. Hall, Joseph Dailey and Dr. Cook.
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Twice Told Tales is compiled by Bruce Yarnall, former general manager of the Barnesville Enterprise.
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