Twice-Told Tales Redux
This edition of Twice-Told Tales was originally published ten years ago this week on Wednesday, June 3, 2015.
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Ten Years Ago – 2005
A September 11, 2001 monument is dedicated at Barnesville’s Veteran’s Plaza, corner of E. Main and N. Arch, during Memorial Day ceremonies.
Come July, the Ohio Hills Folk Festival in Quaker City will feature an antique tractor show.
Members of the Barnesville Garden Club donate $2,000 to the Bill Ball Snowflake Fund supporting the annual community Christmas lights display.
Members of the Barnesville Eastern Star gather to mark the 100th anniversary of the local chapter. There were 98 members present including Gene Cook and Leone Mantz who were accorded 65-year pins. Preceding the gathering, Ruth Cook, a resident of the Barnesville Health Care Center was also presented with a 65-year pin.
The Quaker City High School Graduating Class of 1958 is featured in this week’s Enterprise Album.
The annual food drive by members of Curves collected 5,250 pounds of donated food for local food banks at St. Vincent De Paul and Project Manna.
The local Kentucky Fried Chicken/A & W Restaurant annual car cruise-in is set for Sunday, June 12.
Twenty-five Year Ago – 1990
The Benjamin Lundy Questers honor First National Bank upon the 125th anniversary of the institution’s founding and the 100th year of the Bradfield Building.
“After Hours”, a bi-monthly informal get-together for members of the Barnesville Area Chamber of Commerce, will take place Thursday evening at the offices of Watt Car and Wheel.
The Barnesville Fraternal Order of Eagles Auxiliary No. 4252 was installed during formal ceremonies at the lodge on May 19.
Flags fly proudly over downtown Barnesville thanks to the efforts of a group of Ohio Bell employees who are members of the Telephone Pioneers of America
The Whiskey Run Golf Course near Batesville opens nine new holes creating an interesting and challenging 18-hole layout.
Ed Parsons announces the closing of the Sohio Bulk Plant located at 235 S. Gardner. Longtime employee Larry Wehr will continue to deliver bulk gasoline for the new supplier, Phil Carpenter of Cambridge. Parsons will continue to offer oil supplies, grease and other petroleum products at Parson’s Warehouse, 220 Harrison Street.
Fifty Years Ago – 1965
Two Barnesville Elementary students who attained perfect grad marks during the past school year and their respective teachers, were dinner guests of principal Robert Mallernee at Harp’s Restaurant last week. The two are Leonard Guindon, 7th grader, and Judy Plumly, 6th grader.
The Bethesda Volunteer Fire Department will stage its annual Firemen’s Carnival next week. The carnival vendor, P & J Amusements, is the same as last year. A parade will take place Saturday night.
Mabel Edgerton will show colored pictures of her trip west last summer at the regular meeting of the Belmont Grange Saturday evening.
Park A. Tolbert, 88, retired cigar roller, died this week. Burial took place at Bethesda’s Methodist Cemetery.
Two steam engines purchased by the Switzerland of Ohio Scenic Railroad Association passed through here this week on a truck headed for Woodsfield. The group hopes to eventually operate a tourist railroad in Monroe County.
Seventy-five Years Ago – 1940
Funeral services were held at the late home of Charles Joseph Bradfield on N. Chestnut Saturday afternoon. Bradfield, president of the First National Bank, died at the Ohio Valley General Hospital Wednesday. Internment followed in the family lot in the Southern Cemetery.
As plans are readied for the annual Memorial Day Program, organizers are decorating the graves of war veterans today. In the Southern Cemetery lie 189 veterans, in the Northern, 134; in the Gibson Chapel cemetery, 8; Bethel Cemetery near Bailys Mills, 14; Catholic Cemetery 7l, and Crestview plot, 5.
Former Governor Myers Y. Cooper was Commencement speaker at Bethesda last Wednesday night. Of note, he said, the United States can and should stay out of the European and Asian wars.
Barnesville may become the third city in the county behind Bellaire and Martins Ferry after Mayor David Laughlin found over 18 residents missed by the Census enumerators.
Superintendent Silas Warfield announces that the Mother’s Club has accepted an invitation to prepare the ceremonies for the laying of the cornerstone of the new grade school building.
One Hundred Years Ago – 1915
From the Whetstone
Town Marshal Dave Wilson handed his resignation to Mayor Colpitts and council last Saturday morning. Former policeman Isaac Cox has been appointed to fill the vacancy.
Sam Fowler, who secured the contract for paving S. Gardner Street, has a force of men at work doing the grading.
Mr. John Mercer, a well-known resident of the Somerton neighborhood, and Mrs. Lura Murphy of S. Chestnut, were married at St. Clairsville Tuesday morning.
Members of the Commercial Club have installed a pool table in their suite of the Miller Block on Main Street, and during the hours set apart for recreation, the boys devote some of their time handling the ball and cue.
Seventy-five miners were imprisoned in the Tunnel Mine at Flushing Friday, when timbers at the mouth gave way, along the entry to fill up. They all escaped through an air shaft after several hours.
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Twice Told Tales is compiled by Bruce Yarnall, former general manager of the Barnesville Enterprise.
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