April 24, 1902… Newton Smith was elected janitor of the Woodford County courthouse at a salary of $12.50 per month. James R. Scott has been hired as architect for the new jail and jailer’s residence in Versailles. Poll tax for this year is $1.50 and ad valorem is 40 cents on the $100 of which 18 cents is for general purposes, seven cents for bonded indebtedness and 25 cents for turnpike purposes. The commencement exercises of the Public School will be held at Collins Hall on the 10th of June. Thre will be four graduates. Dr. Austice M. Harvey and family of Indiana have moved to Midway. He is an osteopath and magnetic healer and will practice his profession here. Albert Sleet has purchased the grocery stock of Nave & Co. He will move it to his storeroom on Railroad Street and will have probably the largest line of groceries ever brought to Midway. April seems to be trying to make a record in the way of windiness. The winds have prevailed more or less every day and their result has been a drouth that is becoming serious. Wheat is beginning to show the baneful effects of the dry weather and growing gardens are also being damaged heavily. Great clouds of dust have been blown all over the town, filling all the houses and nearly blinding pedestrians. A street sprinkler is desperately needed. Capt. John A. Steele showed us an interesting war relic the other day. It was a campaign medal of 1860 when Breckinridge and Lane were the Democratic candidates for president and vice president. The medal was recently found on the battlefield of Shiloh by Capt. Steele’s friend, Major Ashcroft, who sent it to Steele. The medal is about the size of a nickel and has a medallion of the candidates on either side. April 26, 1923… The late David Lowe Thornton became of member of the Cleveland Home Board on May 27, 1871 and its president on June 21, 1912, and served until his death on April 10, 1923, or 52 continuous years. J.C. Wheeler, a member of the school board since the school was organized, and John F. Mitchell, a member since Henry L. Martin Sr. resigned last Jan. 4, are both being encouraged to seek new terms on the school board. Other board members are Henry L. Martin Jr., chairman; T.M. Roach and J.V. Yocum. Gen. J. Tandy Ellis, assisted by Miss Lucy Kidd, little Jennie Walker and J.M. Foster, gave a delightful musical Friday night at the Versailles courthouse. Mrs. Mildred S. Burke has purchased the handsome former home of K.S. Cleveland on Lexington Street in Versailles from H.W. Hudson and will move in next week with her sisters, Misses Bess and Mary Shaw. Cards are out announcing that Hereford Farms, property of the late Col. E.H. Taylor Jr., will be offered at private sale in June. Col Taylor has desired that the farm be kept intact. This is known to be one of the finest and best improved breeding farms for cattle or horses in the world. Gray Lodge #27 officers are C.P. Goodpaster, James J. Jesse, Willis D. McCammish and James Ed Bond. Dr. L.O. Pindra of Versailles has been elected president of the Ornithological Society of Kentucky. Many have gone to Louisville this week to hear the sermons of Billy Sunday. Mt. Vernon School closed Friday night with appropriate exercises. Eight diplomas were given. Mr. and Mrs. George Noel have returned from Louisville and have taken rooms with Mrs. Harry Mastin. The oldest oil well in Kentucky was drilled in 1800 in what now is McCreary County. The second oldest well was drilled in 1829 in Cumberland County. The last surviving member of the Shaker Colony at Shakertown, Sister Mary Settles, passed away several days ago with paralysis. She was a native of Edinburgh, Scotland, was 86 years old last October and had been a member of the Shaker Colony for 60 years.