Twice-Told Tales Redux
This edition of Twice-Told Tales originally appeared in the former Barnesville Enterprise on August 3, 2016. Dates are adjusted to reflect the current year.
Twenty Years Ago – 2006
After 27 years, Barnesville’s clerk-treasurer, Marie McCrate, retires.
Beallsville celebrates Heritage Days and honors fallen soldiers.
Bethesda council discussed property clean-up and completion of the N. Main paving project.
Barnesville Chamber of Commerce’s 3rd annual picnic/auction will take place August 19 at the depot pavilion.
George and Marge Bunfill Pfalzgraph of the Lewisville community will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on August 13.
Volunteers from St. Joseph and John Catholic Church and Strongsville United Methodist Church, participants in the Epworth Park Center SOWER program, repaired the roof of the Jr. Women’s Club shelter house at Memorial Park.
Thirty-five Years Ago – 1991
Barnesville Medical Center marks 25 years of service to the local community.
The merger of two mining equipment firms into the largest company in the world will hopefully have a positive impact on the future operations of Watt Car and Wheel Company. The headline suggests the local firm “rides merger of two German firms into the future.”
The Somerton VFD and Ladies Auxiliary will host the community’s 31st annual festival this weekend.
Citizens National Bank is expanding its services by uniting with Columbus National Bank with offices in Cambridge, Gahanna, Quaker City and Reynoldsburg. The local bank maintains offices here, St. Clairsville, Shadyside, Morristown, Flushing and Freeport.
Deaths include Charles W. Armstrong, 84, N. Lincoln resident who was a retired draftsman for Watt Car and Wheel.
Employees of the former Campus, Jonathan Logan and Burns Apparel, will gather at the Senior Center, August 11, for their annual reunion.
Sixty Years Ago – 1966
Hopes to develop a golf course on land at Memorial Park are dashed.
Barnesville Boosters club president, Clarence Boyd, announces plans to construct a new press box at BHS Stadium.
Doctors who have practiced in downtown Barnesville, many on second stories for decades, will move into new offices at the Barnesville Medical Center Monday.
The entire front page of a special section in the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader features a picture of Barnesville’s Bob Corbin dressed in clown costume promoting the Blue Grass State Fair.
A resolution was passed by council Tuesday night that would authorize the town’s acceptance of Bradfield Airport, west of town, as a village-owned public airport.
A Beallsville soldier, Pfc. Jack Pittman, dies of injuries suffered in combat in Vietnam. The 20-year-old was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl C. Pittman.
An editorial recognizes the passing of Alice H. Watt who was Barnesville librarian for over 20 years. The commentary notes “it is regrettable that her untimely death came before she could enjoy the realization of her fondest dreams – a new public library – that will be constructed in the near future”.
Eighty-five Years Ago – 1941
The 9th annual Jersey Field Day program is announced. The event will take place next Tuesday at the “model Rogers Speidel Farm” located between Barnesville and Bethesda. Ohio State dairy specialist, Professor Ivan McKellip, will judge the competition.
Retired barber Charles Nicholas Allen, known to his many friends as “Nick”, died at his South Chestnut home Tuesday night
Ohio Power Co. employees of the Sunnyside Division, which includes Barnesville, voted in favor of the International Brotherhood of Electrical workers (AFL) as their bargaining agent.
Homecoming and an all-day meeting will take place at the Mt. Horeb Church, Sunday, August 2.
Around 250 pounds of aluminum scrap for defense was gathered here last Thursday by the American Legion and Boy and Girl scouts.
The Eastern Ohio bus line running from Cambridge through Lore City, Quaker City, Barnesville, Bethesda, Belmont, Neffs and Bellaire, which was closed several days ago, has been restored. The local station is located in the Graves Book Store on E. Main St.
With the opening of the Friends Boarding School almost two months away, the school has reached the limit of its student capacity and has turned down eight applications for admission. Insufficient dormitory space compels the school to take only 90 pupils.
One Hundred Years Ago – 1916
From the Whetstone
R.W. Stancil has resigned his work here as pastor of the First Church of Christ and will move to Washington, DC to devote his entire time to evangelistic work. During his seven months here, 40 were added to the church.
The 26th annual Epworth Park Chautauqua Assembly opens Friday evening and runs until Saturday, August 19.
Mrs. F.J. Tanneyhill, who is employed in this office, and whose services we value highly, has been off duty for 10 days on account of sickness.
W.F. Schafer, proprietor of the Acme Theater, accompanied by his family with Thomas Jordan as chauffeur, left this morning for a 10-days’ trip through Kentucky and Tennessee.
Morristown – Sunday was a record-breaking day for autos passing through here seeming a continual procession going east and west most of the day.
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Twice Told Tales is compiled by Bruce Yarnall, former general manager of the Barnesville Enterprise.
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