Twice-Told Tales Redux
This edition of Twice-Told Tales was published ten years ago this week on Wednesday, April 29, 2015.
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Ten Years Ago – 2005
The Barnesville School Board rejects a “pay to participate” plan to underwrite the cost of sports and extracurricular activities for the cash strapped district.
Next Tuesday voters in the Barnesville School District will return to the polls to vote on an income tax levy to support local operations, a similar .5 percent levy previously rejected.
A late spring storm coats the Barnesville area with a blanket of snow.
The Batesville United Methodist Church Outreach Committee will sponsor a wiener roast and entrainment on May 1.
The 2005 chamber of commerce Christmas bulbs have arrived and are available for sale. This year’s bulb features the Watt Center, the former Watt Car and Wheel office building.
The oldest graduate of BHS, 1920 alumnae Elizabeth Dewar Thompson, will mark their 103rd birthday on May 10. She currently resides in Sebring, FL.
Twenty-five Year Ago – 1990
As a highlight of National Hospital Week, May 6-12, Barnesville Hospital will hold an “open house” to commemorate in the words of administrator Richard Doan, “50 years of service to the community.”
Fire last Wednesday extensively damaged the building, equipment and three trucks of the Morristown Volunteer Fire Department. Damage to the building are is $25,000 while assessments on the condition of the trucks and equipment remain underway.
Inducted into the BHS Honor Society at impressive ceremonies last week were Heather Harrison, Erin O’Grady, Erica Kaiser, Ann Bunfill, Penny Wells, Brian Clymer, Brian Wehr and Holly Strous.
Bill Merritt was honored at the annual Veterans of Foreign Wars Past Commander and Past President’s banquet. Merritt, a WWII vet, also officially retired from post and County Council activities and that time.
The Barnesville Homemakers Club marks 60 years of service to the community with a dinner at Woody’s Restaurant. Three of the charter members present for the event were: Helen Phillips, Mary Campbell and Agusta Jones. The club has 18 active members with Pearl Reischman, Myrtle Rowley and Margaret Smith, current officers.
Fifty Years Ago – 1965
The 37-year-old superintendent of the Mt. Pleasant School District, James A. Wright, is named the superintendent of the Barnesville Schools.
The local confusion of fast time vs. slow time has made national and international headlines including an article from Germany sent to Mrs. Walter Reischman by her brother, Pf. G.M. Gallagher, who is stationed there.
The village council voted Monday night to place the issue of slow-fast time before the voters on the November ballot.
The local Kiwanis Club marks its 18th anniversary and the 50th anniversary of the founding of the service organization at a ladies’ night dinner at the Presbyterian Church. Also attending the dinner were members of the Cambridge Club which fathered the local organization.
Mary Jo Carpenter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Carpenter, was crowned May Queen at BHS to highlight annual May Day festivities.
Seventy-five Years Ago – 1940
Only $600 is needed to reach the goal of $10,000 to reopen the General Hospital. In the meantime, the state inspector approved the building, the old McCartney residence on W. Main, for opening with only minor changes.
Announcement was made this week that the insolvent Home Savings and Loan Company will pay a 15% dividend of $34,500 will be paid to 700 depositors.
C.J. Bradfield, president of the First National Bank, was taken by Campbell’s ambulance to a Wheeling hospital Wednesday after falling at his home and cracking his hip bone.
David Graves, who has been employed for several months by C & P Telephone Co. at Wheeling will be transferred to Huntington, May 1. He is being sent there for a year to learn the dial system which will be put in Wheeling in 1942.
One Hundred Years Ago – 1915
From the Whetstone
Miss Alice McGill has accepted the position of teacher in the fifth room of Rose Hill School, Bellaire, and assumed her duties Monday. This is the room previously taught by Miss Dora Elliott, who recently died.
At the Beall Law election held in Bethesda Tuesday, the “Drys” won by a vote of 195-53. The village has always been dry, but since its incorporation the”Wets” have been making efforts to get the saloons. The election passed off quietly and no disorder of any kind occurred during the day.
Saloons will probably open in Bellaire and other river towns next Saturday, the names of the successful applicants for licenses having been announced last week.
The Pasadena Star reports that a Belmont County Reunion was successfully staged at that city recently. The occasion was planned and carried out by L.S. Hoge, David Hoge, and Isaac Stanley, who were ably assisted by their wives and the wives and daughters of others present, who provided and served a delicious picnic supper. At the close of the banquet Miss Lydia Vail read selections of the writings of her late father Isaac Newton Vail, a noted scientist and native of this city.
Mr. George Wilson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Wilson, and Miss Gertrude Wilson, daughter of Mrs. Thomas Galloway, surprised their friends Monday when the report came that they had been married in Oakland, Maryland. They left here Sunday on the B & O. Wilson is a hustler and assists in his father’s grocery, opposite the National Bank. At present they will live in the home of the groom’s parents.
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Twice Told Tales is compiled by Bruce Yarnall, former general manager of the Barnesville Enterprise.
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