May 8, 1902… When Senator Blackburn wants to tell a man that what he says is not true, he goes about it in this fashion “It goes without saying that the truth is innocent of any appearance in that statement.” Dr. Austin M. Harvey and family have moved into a part of Mrs. Mary Johnston’s house on Turner Street. After many delays, summer has come with all its intensity. The past week has been almost insufferably hot. Midway’s Public School Nine journeyed to Georgetown and defeated a combination team of school, college and old men by 11-8. Playing for Midway were Rodges pitching and Sacra catching, first base, Williams; second base, Johnson; short stop, Rau; third base, Mitchell; Cogar, Cannon and McKinney in the outfield. During four years of high school, the following excellent averages have been attained: Miss Mitchell 93-1/3; Miss Baird 92; James L. Cogar Jr. 94-12/13; and John Cannon 93-1/4. Samuel L. Gatrell took charge of the Midway post office on May 1. Wilson Martin will also assist him for a while. Miss Rena Sacra is now day operator and Theof. (sic) McKinney night operator for the Fayette Home Telephone Exchange. There will be 21 graduates from the orphan school this year. May 10, 1923… Various party leaders and the Kentucky League of Women Voters have won a victory over the Haley-Bingham wing of the Democratic Party by the almost unanimous vote of the party central committee to have a primary election rather than a convention. The primary will be held the first Saturday in August. This will be the first statewide primary the women have participated in since they received the vote. The McLemores, new owners of the former Reid Drug Store, are calling their store Macks Drug Store. Billy Sunday, after two weeks at Louisville, will be in Lexington Monday and will also conduct service at Harrodsburg and visit High Bridge and Shakertown. Georgetown preachers and citizens are trying to arrange for the famed evangelist to be there on the 21st. The Rev. and Mrs. S.M. Logan are receiving congratulations on the birth of a son Monday night. Both barbershops by agreement will close on Sundays after May 13. The school board election last Saturday brought out only a light vote with 51 cast and the two incumbents, J.C. Wheeler and John F. Mitchell, received every vote cast. The Optimist Club met Thursday at noon at the Masonic building in Versailles. Clinton B. Hawkins of Versailles has sustained a nervous breakdown and is very ill at his home on Locust Street. Mrs. D. Edgar Wasson fell at her home on Elm Street in Versailles Friday, spraining her knee and wrist. Mr. and Mrs. William H. Sudduth sold to John Blackard 132 acres on McCoun’s Ferry Pike for $26,500. Mr. and Mrs. James L. Cleveland and Mr. and Mrs. K.S. Cleveland sold to Clarence Miller 131 acres on the Lexington Pike for $26,110. One thousand thirty-five were registered in the five Protestant Sunday schools on “Go to Sunday School Day.” They included 501 Christian, 402 Baptist, 151 Presbyterian, 150 Methodist and 31 Episcopalian. What do you think of snow on the ground on the 9th of May? Are we going to have winter all summer? Claude and Reginal Ryley in Lexington say that Combs, Perry County, where the Ryleys have large coal interests, was swept by fire recently. Five buildings burned with a loss of $50,000. The commissary of the Superior Coal Co. was the chief loss. A picture theatre building was also lost. The Ryleys are heavy losers.