April 3, 1902… The 55th annual Conclave of the Grand Commandery of Kentucky, Knights Templar, will be held at Versailles on Wednesday and Thursday, May 21 and 22. There will be at least 1,000 Knights and ladies visiting and among other features will be an exhibition drill, receptions, balls, lawn fetes and carriage drives to various historic stock farms. Three hundred sixty-nine candidates for Grand American Handicap honors at Kansas City, shooting at 12 live birds each, have been narrowed down to only 36 who hit a bird in each of their 12th shots. Annie Oakley, of Nutley, N.J., the only woman entered, missed her second and eight birds. Fiscal Court met Tuesday for the purpose of considering the advisability of building a new jail and jailer’s residence. It was determined to do so, and Judge Stout, County Attorney Davis and Squire Mulcahy were appointed a committee to obtain plans and specifications. Fiscal Court voted to subscribe $1,250 per mile to complete the Versailles and Military Pike to the Lexington Pike. James Starks is to be the new postmaster with Albert Sleet as his assistant. The trimming of the trees has given our city quite a bare look. When the leaves come out, they will take on a different appearance. Midway is noted for the beauty of its shade trees, and it is the hope of every citizen that the trimming, which they just received, will result beneficially. April 5, 1923… Mrs. Elizabeth Lehman, widow of David Lehman, was 90 on Tuesday. She was born in Germany and came to this country when only seven. She came to Midway from New York about 75 years ago. The Rev. R.C. Gresham and his Boy Scouts gave a minstrel show Monday night at the public school. Participants included Henry Clark, Wade Littrell, R.C. Shannon, Leslie Childers, Kenneth Lacefield, William Thomas, Craig Starks, C.B. Wilson, Charles Portwood, Foster Rose, Forest Yocum, Neville Hall, Milton Lacefield, Arthur Woodruff, John White, Sam Gatrell, Joe Hall and William McKinney. Catherine Parrish was the pianist. Shannon, Clark, Rose and Hill sang; White and Thomas recited poetry; Childers and Clark danced; Starks, Childers and Littrell sang; Portwood, White, Gatrell, Shannon, Littrell, Hall and Woodruff sang “The Little Red School House;” Ed Offutt danced; K. Lacefield, Yocum, Thomas, Rose and K. Lacefield (again) sang; and they all joined in Old McDonald’s Farm. The “Girlless Wedding” featured “Sweet” Riddle as parson, Jesse Woodruff as groom, Claude Linn and Alfred Portwood as flower girls. Bridesmaids were Joe Lehman, Charles Gatrell, Cecil Campbell, Charles Donovan and Ernest Farmer. R.W. Lacefield was groom’s mother, Leslie Woodruff was bride’s mother, Jesse Faust was groom’s grandmother, Van Johnson was ring bearer. Other principals were John Edward Rose, John Parker, J.L. Newman, Scott Cook and Max Wilson. J.W. Cunningham was the bride and Howard Sacra was train bearer. William M. Kearney, 36, of Versailles, well driller, and Mrs. Stella L. Bell, 30, were married Tuesday. A fire Saturday in Versailles caused $300 loss to the home of Mrs. Mary Henton, Elm Street, from a defective flue. A lot with barn in Wooldridgetown was sold to Wade H. Henton on Court Day for $1,215. NC sold 38 acres on Dry Ridge Pike to Mr. Hunter for $100 an acre. MC sold 160 acres on Frankfort Pike to Theodore Harris for $160 per acre. Optimist Club members heard Col. Tandy Ellis Friday night in Landsberg Hall. Eighty were served by Sublette & Slaughter. Mr. and Mrs. B.M. Hieatt have moved to the residence of W.B. Cogar on the Versailles Pike. George Collins, Lexington, purchased Thistleton, the country home place of the late Col. E.H. Taylor Jr. in Frankfort, for $73,735. Collins will not move to Thistleton at this time but will place a caretaker in charge. The place contains 337 acres.