Twice-Told Tales Redux
This edition of Twice-Told Tales was published ten years ago this week on Wednesday, February 18, 2015.
Ten Years Ago – 2005
Communities throughout the Ohio Valley welcomed home the United States Army Reserve 660th Transportation Unit from Iraq last Sunday. U.S. Representatives Bob Ney and Ted Strickland spoke at a reception held for union at the Harrison Central High School, Cadiz. Seven local boys – Jake Lucas, Jesse Starr, Aaron Anslow, Stephen Kovalick, Robert Miller, Jason Weiss and Matt Hughes – are members of the unit.
The Barnesville Area Rails to Trails organization has applied for a transportation grant to develop a multi-purpose trail on the railroad bed that runs through the village.
Mary Alice Smith, widow of Rev. Francis Smith, 95, a member of the First United Methodist Church, died Wednesday.
Also passing was M. Lucille Earliwine, 69, retired telephone operator for Ohio Bell (38 years), and director of the Barnesville Senior Center.
DeFelice Brothers Pizza, located on E. Main, donates to the Main Street United Methodist Church mission trip planned for Jamaica this summer.
Twenty-five Year Ago – 1990
Memorial services are set at the First Presbyterian Church for John Bradfield, 86, retired president of the First National Bank, who died at University Hospital, Columbus, Monday evening.
Local attorney Lodge L. Hanlon announces his candidacy for State representative.
A Barnesville couple, Howard and Theresa Lemasters, is thanked by officers of the Belmont County Rescue League for their generous donation of $10,000 to the organization.
Dan Boyd, Shadyside resident, has assumed duties as a loan officer at First National Bank.
Mr. and Mrs. James Fisher of Leatherwood Road will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary on February 19.
Marie Landefeld, oldest active member of the Barnesville Senior Citizens, was feted February 3rd for her 95th birthday. (Note: Marie lived another 11 years, passing away in April 2001 at the age of 106. She lived in three centuries – 19th, 20th and 21st)
Fifty Years Ago – 1965
Barnesville is at the “side door of huge coal development” as Hanna Coal announces plans for the Egypt Valley Strip Mine.
Barnesville Superintendent of Schools, Jack Berryhill, who has been associated with the local district since 1932, tenders his resignation.
Volunteers are building a new home for the Buddy Barker family of seven which lost their home south of Somerton in a fire in January.
Bob Shepherd of Bob’s Chevrolet is elected president of the local chamber of commerce.
Officials of the State Department of Development will be present at a meeting in the council chambers tonight to discuss the town’s future.
Dr. Wesley Childs is recovering after suffering a heart attack.
Advertisement: Complete Prescription Drug Service – Danny Hostetler Drug Store, Main Street, Bethesda.
Smith Lumber Company advertises savings of $1,000 to “build on your lot. We complete a 3-bedroom home for $8,990.”
Seventy-five Years Ago – 1940
Local citizens move to buy the equipment at the recently closed General Hospital. The proposal calls for 50 persons to contribute $100 or more to a fund to purchase the equipment at the auction scheduled for today.
The heaviest snowfall in years blocks traffic in this vicinity. The average depth of snow was 15 inches on Wednesday. Rural roads are impassable with drifts reaching five feet high in places.
The $400 robbery of the local eagles Lodge Saturday night, February 3, remains unsolved by local and county officials.
Saturday customers at First National Bank were greeted with a profusion of flowers in the bank lobby surrounding a huge white birthday cake, trimmed in yellow, a gift from Hunkler’s Bakery. These expressions and many telegrams and letters marked the Diamond Jubilee Celebration of the founding of the local institution.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Robinson and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bratton plan to spend Monday and Tuesday at Western College, Oxford, Ohio with their daughters, Margaret Robinson and Elinor Bratton. They will attend the senior convocation, a banquet and reception.
One Hundred Years Ago – 1915
From the Whetstone
The ladies of the Presbyterian Church will hold their annual supper in the church dining room, tomorrow night. The cost is 25 cents. Supper will begin at 5:30 and no tickets will be sold before 4:00.
Messers John Colpitts and N.M. Boswell of the firm of Colpitts and Boswell, are in Cleveland this week attending the annual meeting of the Ohio Marble and Granite Dealers Association of which Mr. Boswell is president.
Mrs. Emma Dent of S. Lincoln is quite sick at her home with grip.
Mrs. Harry Barnes of E. Main entertained members of the Entre Nous club at her home Thursday evening. Fancy work was the chief diversion of the evening.
Because Annie Drabina, a pretty Polish girl of Steubenville, refused to marry Ludwig Admack after he had spent $1 for a license, $1.10 for a restaurant dinner, and $8 for wedding refreshments, he had her arrested for alleged false pretenses.
There are 1.5 million automobiles in use in this country, one-half of which are owned by farmers.
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Twice Told Tales is compiled by Bruce Yarnall, former general manager of the Barnesville Enterprise.
