June 20, 1901…The Woodford County Schools census report shows 28 white
schools and 19 colored schools, with 2,630 whites listed and 88 colored.
The white districts and number of students for each are as follows:
Versailles 351, Grier’s Creek 100, Glens Creek 51, Stone Church 36,
Ducker 105, Grassy Spring 93, Kentucky Orphan School 98, Cooke 47,
Midway 119, Mt. Vernon 97, Millville 71, Pinckard 129, Elm Corner 90,
Troy 117, Clover Bottom 71, Nonesuch 93, Nugent 83, Mortonsville 81,
Glenwild 100, High Bluff 43, Clifton 68, Mt. Edwin 79, North Midway 111,
South Midway 85, Circle 100, Clear Creek 55, Pisgah 94, and Fair View
63. The colored districts and number of for each are as follows:
Versailles 270, Midway 455, Millville 42, Graddy 37, Firmantown 63,
Mortonsville 72, Nashville 41, Mt. Vernon 86, Frazier 46, Huntertown
100, Sycamore 42, Elm Bend 75, Clear Creek 73, Davis-town 74, Spring
Station 73, Jacksontown 89, Clifton 45, Wheelertown 47 and Pinckard 58.
D. Lehman has purchased a gasoline engine to pump water for his house.
It takes the place of the windmill.
The citizens of Cogartown are very desirous of having a suburb annexed
to Midway in order that they may enjoy the benefits of the Graded City
School.
The switchboard for the new telephone exchange has arrived and
subscribers will soon be able to “ring up” and “ring off.” The exchange
will be located over the Farmers Bank and will be in charge of Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Rodgers.
Last Thursday, a large party of Versailles and Midway gentlemen repaired
to the woodland of Mrs. Ada Patterson, near town, and as has been the
custom for several years, they spent the day picnicking, telling
stories and target shooting. Sen. Blackburn kept the crowd laughing with
his yarns and the shooting honors were carried off by Col. Bellfield
Suggett, Capt. John Andrew Steele, Sen. Blackburn and Dr. B.F. Parrish.
Others present included Isham Railey, Charles Nuckols, J.L. McCabe,
Isaac Parrish, T.M. Parrish, C.B. Hawkins, W.T. Hawkins, John Graham,
T.S. Forman, W.E. Railey, Capt. Gay of Frankfort, C.J. Fleming, Capt.
James Blackburn, Charles Coyle, Judge J.L. Cogar, Matt Winn and J.O. Cooper.
June 29, 1922… Mrs. Florence Berry Cannon, wife of W.L. Cannon, died
Monday morning following surgery for appendicitis. She was the daughter
of Col. Hiram Berry, who lived in Midway in the 1880s. She was 61. She
leaves sons John, Hiram and George; and daughters Mrs. I.F. Starks and
Miss Florence Cannon. George Berry of Frankfort is her brother. The
funeral took place at Elkwood, her country home just north of Midway.
H.M. Hammett, former manager of the phosphate plant, died Saturday in
Florida. He was 58.
A beautiful ceremony was solemnized Monday morning at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Tom Roach when their two babies, Helen Murray Roach and Lily
Parrish Roach, were christened by the Rev. George H. Harris of St.
John’s Episcopal Church.
Dr. J.G. Bow, who was first pastor of the Midway Baptist Church from
1872 to January 1875, was guest preacher at the 50th anniversary
celebration last week. The church was organized June 24, 1872 with the
following 25 charter members: Bennett, W.H., Asa S. and B.S. Branham;
E.A., James H. and J. Harvey Thompson; W.S. Worsham; R.H. Stout; John
Hammond; William Sacra; Lucy A., Sallie F., Annie M. Linnie and Cynthia
Branham; Susie E. Cogar; Mollie and Judith Ford; Louisa Sacra; Caroline
Verceval; Margaret J. Hammond; Nannie Pepper; Saphronia Routh and Ada B.
Railey. The 21 pastors have been: J.G. Bow, F.H. Kerfoot (two
pastorates), J.H. Eager, W.H. Pratt, J.M. McManaway, W.J.E. Cox, J.H.
Felix (supply), T.J. Shipman, F.W. Eberhardt, J.M. Roddy, B.H. DeMent,
H.G. Ferguson, J.T. McGlothlin, J.F. Watson, H.B. Folk, J.C. Scruggs,
William Stout, W.O. Blount, E.F. McConnaha and R.C. Gresham. Drs. Manley
(E. Jr.), R.P. Johnson and B.D. Gray have served as assistant pastors.
There are now 265 members of the church.
Charles W. Parrish is the current postmaster.
Mrs. James Parker, proprietor of the Parker House, has opened a section
which will be known as Dixie Garden.
William. H. Luddreth sold a nice lot, 75 X 212 feet on Montgomery Avenue
in Versailles to Nat Thompson, rural mail carrier, for $1,200. Thompson
will build a home there.
Ernest McWilliams and bride will go to housekeeping in their newly
purchased home on Montgomery Avenue, Versailles.
There will be about 200 pupils for the new consolidated Millville School
when it is built. It will serve the Millville, Old Crow and Stone Church
districts.
Funeral services for Miss Maude Bowmar of Versailles were conducted at
the home of her brother, A.A. Bowmar, Woodland Place.
Miss Sadie M. Wilson, of Versailles, daughter of W.H. Wilson, and James
Morgan Saffell were married Wednesday at the Christian Church. The groom
is the grandson of Col. E.H. Taylor Jr.