January 30, 1902… The editor says: “Our patent insides” were delayed on the road this week and failed to reach us in time Wednesday. As we were late last week, we determined to get the Clipper out without any “insides” as it were. This will be a considerable extra expense to us, but we dislike being behind in going to press, and willingly undergo it to come out on regular time. The so-called “’insides” amount to about half the paper and contain national, state and international news and features. The paper without the “insides” amounts to just four pages. Woodford is classed with Bourbon and Scott counties in the new Senatorial District, rather than with Scott and Jessamine as heretofore. The Clipper calls on Mrs. McKinley and Mrs. Harrison, both wealthy women, to renounce their $5,000 annual pensions from the government. There are 50 counties in Missouri named after prominent Kentuckians or after Kentucky families. A petition forwarded to Congressman Trimble seeks a rural delivery route extending from Versailles out the Nicholasville Pike and the Munday’s Ferry, turning to and beyond Seller’s Mill, returning via Mortonsville and the McCown’s Ferry Pikes. The proposed route is 25 miles long and would serve 169 families. Another route from Versailles to Pisgah and Mt. Vernon and returning to Versailles via the Midway Pike is also being sought. Mrs. James P. Amsden will leave soon for New York where she will be the quest of her daughter, Mrs. J.B. Haggin. Mrs. Susan E. Porter, as mentioned last week, died last Thursday. She was born Miss Susan Singleton and was a native of Versailles. During the greater portion of her residence in Midway, she conducted a hotel and boarding house. She was the original of “Sunshine,” one of the heroines of Mrs. Holmes’ famous novel, “Tempest and Sunshine.” Her sister was “Tempest.” She had but one child, Mrs. Brashear, who died several years ago. Two grandchildren survive, O.L. Brashear and Miss Susie Brashear. Burial was in the Versailles Cemetery. J.B. Haggin’s palatial mansion on his 4,000-acre Elmendorf Farm will cost about $400,000 and will have six architects. February 1, 1923… Mrs. Kate Buford Poynter, 84, died Friday of bronchial pneumonia. She was the widow of Dr. M.E. Poynter. James W. Parrish of Midway is one of the supervisors of the county tax books for 1923. Of 23 pupils in the 5th grade room at the high school, only 13 are attending school. The others are all sick with colds. Miss Ida Kenney Risque is a member of the girls’ Rifle Club at UK. Blue Grass Motor Company in Versailles, Main and Green streets, is owned by Gentry McCauley and South Hudson. Breckinridge Viley has returned home from a hunting trip in Mississippi.