LOOKING BACK

 30 Years Ago (May 7, 1981)
 PVA Don Tandy has issued a recapitulation of the property tax roll, and the total assessment, minus motor vehicles and bank shares, amounts to $83,721,833.
Vanessa Barron was chosen to represent Trimble County in the Youth to Washington contest sponsored by Shelby Rural Electric. She will join fifty young leaders from all over Kentucky who will participate in the National Rural Electric Youth Tour June 12-19.
More than one hundred alumni attended the TCHS banquet coming as far away as Texas.

 70 Years ago (May 15, 1941)
 As a final event of commencement week activities, the annual alumni banquet and reception in honor of the graduating class was held Saturday evening in the high school gymnasium. The PTA served a delicious dinner to the approximately seventy-five members of the alumni association, their guests and friends who gathered together for the occasion.
Graduating at the twenty-eighth annual commencement exercises of Trimble County High school Thursday evening were: Rudolph Barnes, John Earl Jones, Mary Inez Fisher, Alice Louise Ginn, Lois Pryor Jennings, Naomi Miller, Mildred Elizabeth Pardo, Martha Louise Raisor, Lucille Sherill, Mary Lois Spillman. There were 60 promoted at the grade schools of Bedford, Milton and the county at large on Friday night, May 9. Advertisement: Island Queen Moonlite Dance Excursion Tuesday, May 15, sponsored by Carrollton Hop Club. Leaving Carrollton at 9:30 p.m., music by Johnny Lewis and His Orchestra, Dancing Free-Advance Tickets (till 12 noon day of ride) 65c; Fare at Boat (Kentucky tax included) 85c. A delightful trip on the world’s finest river steamer, All-steel, glass-enclosed, smokeless. Get tickets today!
Deaths: Mrs. Annie Goley Joyce, 83, Bedford; John Frances Barringer, 67, Columbus, Ind., former resident of Milton.

 80 Years ago (May 21, 1931)
Activities are numerous as school draws to close. Everything is all ready for a big commencement week. The seniors are hard at work on their play, “The Cat and the Canary,” a mystery, which bids fair to be one of the best ever presented here.
Milton High School is preparing for their commencement program. Baccalaureate service is Sunday, May 24; Senior class play, “Beads on a string,” is Tuesday, May 26; class Day is Thursday, May 28 and Dr. Jesse Adams, University of Kentucky will address the seniors Commencement night, May 29.
The Bedford Nine baseball team, under the management of William Hoffman, made its third appearance at the new ballpark just south of town Sunday afternoon when they failed by a small margin in their effort to conquer the nine from Patriot, Ind.
Contractors will complete the paving job on the new concrete road between Bedford and Louisville this week, if good weather prevails. After the paving is finished, the road must stand for twenty-one days, before the dirt is removed from the surface and travel permitted to pass. Plans are being made to give State route 37 from Bedford to Milton a coat of oil, and it is rumored the same route from Bedford to Campbellsburg will be given the same treatment this year.
W.C. Morgan, County Judge, made a statement to the false reports circulating regarding the signing of the lease of part of the courthouse yard for a filling station. “This is not true. I signed the orders of the Fiscal Court for that meeting the same as always, but did not sign the lease.” He went on to say it is the duty of the County Judge to sign the orders as passed by the Court whether he likes them or not but the law is mandatory and says the County Judge shall sign the orders as passed and should he refuse to affix his name to the record, he would be compelled to do so by mandamus proceedings and stand a first class chance of losing the office he holds.
Deaths: Mrs. Eugene Greenwood, 40, Crestwood; Logan Gillum, 56, Milton; Ruby Colliers Fendley, 23, Oldham County.