October 16, 1902… Sen. and Mrs. J.C.S. Blackburn are visiting his brother, James Blackburn, near Spring Station, where they will remain until the reopening of Congress. Mrs. Blackburn is recuperating from a severe attack of typhoid fever. S.L. Gatrell became Midway Postmaster on May 1, 1902 after a strenuous fight for the post. B.J. Mitchell has purchased the residence of Mrs. Mary Collins on Turner Street for a price of about $2,500. The Colored Methodist Church at Versailles was partially destroyed by fire early Sunday. Owing to the rains and the warm weather, the earth still remains carpeted with green, as in the springtime, and the garden spot of the world never presented a more lovely appearance than just now. October is the month of all months, and this year is unsurpassed in loveliness and charm. Police headquarters have been opened in the room back of the post office in the Odd Fellows Building, and a telephone has been placed in the room. The best graduating course a girl can take after receiving a common school education is a thorough course in roastology, biology, stitchology, darnology, patchology and general domesticology. The Blackburn residence on Rose Hill in Versailles, for many years the home of Sen. Joseph C.S. Blackburn, was sold Thursday by Miss Corrinne Blackburn to John E. Harris for $5,000. Sen. Blackburn last winter transferred his interest in the place to his daughter. Gus L. Macey, the widely-known trotting horse owner, will move to Lexington from Versailles on Nov. 1, where he will open a training stable. He sold Saturday his handsome residence property on Rose Hill to Paul Lansing for $7,500. Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Newman of Versailles are at home at Mrs. John Wasson’s on North Main Street. Versailles will soon have the best pavements of any city of its size in the state. New concrete pavements are being built in all parts of the city and especially along Main Street. Jesse Blackburn, 13, colored, son of Wash Blackburn the Versailles barber, was held on $500 bond for manslaughter by Judge Stout. He is charged with fatally stabbing James Bowman Jr., a boy about his own age. October 18, 1923… Midway rolled past Paris 32-0 Friday for its third victory in a row this season. The opposition has yet to score. A brilliant run by Littrell advanced the ball to the five-yard line and Tarter carried it over from there for the first score. Portwood added another score a few minutes later and Green, the diminutive quarterback, followed with the first of his three touchdowns. Governor Ed Morrow has granted 743 pardons during his term, and this has become a large campaign issue. Sarah Clarke of Midway has written a graphic description of the Japanese earthquake. The account appears on page one in this week’s Clipper. She is a missionary and was an eyewitness but escaped unhurt. Editor Reigner writes that Charley Dawson has no chance to be elected governor next month and that Kentucky is definitely not a Republican state, as candidate Dawson claims. Kentucky has not given a complete electoral vote to the Republicans for president in 70 years and has not elected three GOP governors since the Civil War. Winfield Scott in 1853 was the last GOP candidate to get the electoral vote of Kentucky totally. McKinley, in 1896, got all but one electoral vote in Kentucky. Mrs. McDaniel has sold her restaurant to Mr. and Mrs. Reed and moved to Higgins Street for the winter. Mrs. S.C. Reid has become the only lady ever from Woodford County to take the state pharmacy examination. The $1,000,000 breach of promise suit brough against Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney by Evan Burrows Fontaine, dancer, will be renewed immediately, her counsel announced.