October 3, 1901… It is reported that the estate of President McKinley will amount to between $225,000 and $250,000. Powers, Youtsey, Howard and Ripley, having been tried for the murder of Gov. Goebel of Kentucky, are still trying to have former Gov. W.S. Taylor and Charles Finley extradited from Indiana for trial in the conspiracy. Leon Czolgosz, not allowed to plead guilty, was tried in eight hours and 26 minutes and sentenced to be electrocuted. He said “There was no one else but me” in the plot to kill the President. He will be executed during the last week of October. He is 28 and has no criminal record. When Czolgosz reached the prison at Auburn, N.Y., where he will be executed, he collapsed completely. In the trial of Leon Czolgosz, the examination of witnesses took five minutes and the jury reported agreement in 28 minutes. Kentucky ranks eighth in the number of lynchings held in the past 20 years. Mr. and Mrs. S.D. Pinkerton will rent out their country place on the Clifton Pike near Versailles and will move to Lexington to educate their children. F.B. Harper entertained Sen. J.C.S. Blackburn and a number of his friends at dinner Thursday. The occasion was the senator’s 63rd birthday. Those present included Gov. Beckham, Mrs. D.C. Holt, A.W. Martin, E.T. Lillard, Joe Blackburn Jr. Capt. Jim Blackburn, Mrs. Blackburn, Miss Henrietta Blackburn, Mr. and Mrs. C.B. Hawkins, and G.V. Green and S.J. Shackelford from western Kentucky. Sam Jackson, colored, was apparently struck and killed by a train near the cut on the east side of town Saturday night. He was on his wheel. Foul play was a possibility but has finally been ruled out. Miss Amanda Johnston has moved to the house on Gratz Street, which she purchased last winter from John Wise. She will open a boarding house. There isn’t any doubt that the coming winter will be awful cold. The prophets all say so and the man is insane who disputes them. They have found moss growing thick on the trees, frogs standing on their heads, sunflowers pointing towards the North Pole, grapevines running down the pole instead of up, and there are a thousand other signs to show that every human being will be frozen stiff before the close of January. October 5, 1922… Two Negroes were killed in Midway Friday night on the L&N at the colored cemetery. There was no identification upon them, and they were buried at the colored cemetery the following Monday. The last great tract of untouched pine timber in the United States is soon to be tapped. It is located in the Malheur National Forest in Oregon. J.G. Brown offers for sale his cottage on Railroad Street. John Wallace McCabe and Jane Holloway, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. U.G. Holloway of Troy, will be married in November. Midway defeated Harrodsburg 12-0 on Sept. 29 with Penn scoring in the second, his first game in the backfield, and Littrell scoring the final touchdown. Littrell made several spectacular runs but missed the blocking of Faust and Portwood, who were not in the game. Gatrell starred and fine work was done by McKinnivan, Lynn and Portwood. James Starks has taken a position in the Commercial Bank, made vacant by George Rouse’s resignation. Miss Florida Wilson suffered severe burns on both hands while handling an acid in the chemistry laboratory. John G. Brown, one of the former owners of the Clipper and for many years a resident of Midway, moved to Frankfort on Monday. The Midway Colored Christian Church has bought the lot on Stephens Street and soon hopes to build a bungalow for a parsonage. One thousand four hundred sixty-three students have enrolled at the University of Kentucky. William Reed and wife of Versailles announce the birth of a son, Sleet Reed. In looking over some old documents, Mrs. John H. Barnett of Louisville found an old Versailles paper giving an account of the raising of a fund at Versailles to entertain Daniel Webster, U.S. Secretary of State, when he visited Versailles. Eugene Allen Davis substituted for Grand Prelate John T. Graves in a Knights Templar ceremony. Graves was kept home by the death of his wife’s grandfather, Samuel D. Elmore. Gray Lodge #27, Knights of Pythias, banqueted 65 local members and 100 visitors at Landsberg’s Hall Thursday night. One of the speakers was Richard H. Gray, 85, for whom the lodge is named. H.A. Schoberth also made a speech. The sensation of the week was the Versailles-Lancaster football game on Saturday. There was a parade from the Southern Depot down Main to Morgan and up to Childers Field. Lancaster won a hard-fought game by 21-7. The Versailles team had only had a couple of practice games.