January 1, 1903… The skeleton forms of three of Kentucky’s more representative sires will soon be mounted and place in the museum of natural history at Kentucky State College. The noted trotting sire, George Wilkes, is ready; the might Hanover is being prepared for reception, and now Garrett Brothers have given consent for the bones of the famous hunting sire, Black Squirrel, to be exhumed for the same purpose.
The temperature dropped to 13 above last Thursday for the coldest day yet in the season.
George Honaker, under sentence of life imprisonment for murderously assaulting his wife and for two former penitentiary convictions, and Alfred Gray, awaiting trial for horse stealing, both white men, attempted to break jail. They had forced the lock of a cell door with a bar broken from an iron bed, when a negro accomplice weakened and alarmed the jailer.
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Campbell, son of the great evangelist and organizer of the Church of the Disciples, celebrated their golden wedding at Hamilton College, Lexington, the residence of their daughter, Mrs. Hagerman.
O.G. Finley, manager of the East Tennessee Telephone Exchange here, is moving to Arkansas with his family.
P.P. Parrish, R.H. Davenport, P.G. Powell and J.M. Burbridge have been assigned to duty at S.J. Greenbaum’s Distillery for this month.
James L. Cogar Jr. died Monday after an illness of two weeks. He had entered State College last September and became sick while there. He was forced to come home about two weeks ago with a high fever. He was just at his 18th birthday. Funeral services was held at the residence on Tuesday by the Revs. Kemper and McGlothilin. Burial was in Lexington. Bearers were John Cannon, Robert McMullen, Albert Sleet, Cronley Elliott, Willie Hall Hawkins, Werter Combs, Wink Williams and James Starks. He died from typhoid fever. He was a member of the college football team and belonged to Kappa Sigma fraternity. He boarded with Dr. Whitney Moore at 545 E. Main St.
John Wehrle, 70, died Saturday at his home near Payne’s Depot. He is survived by a son, Fred, and a daughter, Mrs. Luigart of Lexington.
Buford Lodge 494 F & A.M. officers elected are: W.B. Allison, T.H. Shipp, Ike Wingate, G.W. Kemper, M.D. Offutt, T.B. Forman, C.W. Parrish, C.N. Sheffield, J.T. McGlothlin, R.Q. Cogar and J.C. McMullen. Supper at the Long Hotel followed the elections.
Midway Lodge 220, I.O.O.F. elected Robert W. Hicks, W.J. Montague. H.M. Baxter, J.W. Pates and J.T. Heath.
Mrs. W.T. Hawkins offers for rent her cottage at the corner of Higgins and Turner streets.
A cabin on Railroad Street, opposite the L&N Depot, was destroyed by fire Christmas morning.
Midway city directory for 1903: Mayor Matt Winn, Clerk W.B. Cogar, Treasurer John Wise, City Attorney J.M. Hoge, Councilmen R. Godson, H.C. Kasselman, G.H. Wise, L.F. Sutherland, W.G. Lehman and B.F. Parrish; Policemen Ed Stephens and William Hammond.
Circuit court for 1903: Judge J.E. Cantrill, Commonwealth Attorney Robert Franklin, Clerk L.A. Berry and Master Commissioner R.L. Stout.
County court for 1903: Judge R.H. Stout, County Attorney W.O. Davis, Clerk R.N. Gray, Superintendent M.B. Hifner, Sheriff Arthur Sublette, Jailer R.D. Shipp and Assessor Starks O’Neal.
J.O. Cooper is editor and publisher of the Clipper.
January 3, 1924… Mrs. Louise Gaitrell, mother of S.L. and W.A. Gaitrell, was fatally injured Christmas night by a machine without light driven by Jim Penn. She was crossing Winter Street at the S.L. Gaitrell residence when the accident occurred. She was taken to her home on a stretcher and died the following morning at 8 a.m. She moved to Midway 42 years ago from Mason County. She was almost 74. Her husband, Isaac Gaitrell, died eight years ago. Pallbearers were J.W. Allison, S.M. Holman, Vernon Sutton, Milton Davis, Henry Thomas and William H. Martin.
The public schools of Midway, which have closed since Dec. 14 on account of the fire, which destroyed the building on Dec. 16, reopened last Wednesday, in the Jones building on Gatz Street. The building has eight rooms and the classes for the little ones will be held in the morning and for the larger ones in the afternoon.
Miss Lillie Parrish attended a dinner-dance at Miss Harriett McCauley’s in Versailles on Thursday.
Miss Evelyn Clarke, who has been at home for the holidays, has resumed her school work at Eminence as teacher in the graded school.
Mr. and Mrs. Cogar have sub-rented their apartments in Lexington and have taken rooms with Mr. and Mrs. A.B. Arnett on Stephens Street until their son, James, passes his semester at the University of Kentucky. Then they will make an extended visit to Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Matthews in California.
The following college girls and boys are a t home for the holidays: Miss Elizabeth Lehman from New York, Misses Lilly Parrish and Jeannette Lehman from Staunton, Virg., Miss Katherine Parrish from Louisville, Miss Winnifred Starks from Science Hill, Miss Ruth Rodgers and John E. Withers from the University of Kentucky, Miss Katherine Withrow from Hamilton College, and James Parrish and Ashlin Logan from Centre College.