February 5, 1903… A YMCA has just been started in Midway and seems to be quite successful. The local group is out of debt, has paid a year in advance on its room and has 40 members with more likely to join soon. Two tracts of town property owned by L.F. Lindsey will be auctioned on Feb. 14. One is on the east side of Winter Street, 44×44 feet and has a frame storeroom and another frame room adjoining. The other, on the east side of Gratz Street beyond Stephens Street, is 47×160 feet and has a four-room frame dwelling and out buildings. Prof. J.R. Sams, principal of the Midway Graded School, received a flattering mention in The Woodford Sun this week. Dora Clay Brock, the divorced child wife of Gen. Cassius M. Clay, and her husband Riley Brock, sold their household effects at auction Tuesday at Pinckard, preparatory to leaving Woodford County. Many articles which were formerly owned by Gen. Clay were among the items sold. A large amount of silver and china articles were eagerly purchased by those present. Miss Jane Harper, 66, died at her home in Versailles last Wednesday. She was a relative of F.B. Harper and Mrs. B.W. Owsley of Midway. Two men, Sam Kennedy and Sam Bell, were both found to have smallpox last week and both were quickly gotten out of town. They are both now in the pest house. P.P. Parrish has sold his house on Winter Street, now occupied by H.C. Poynter, to J.D. Hopkins for $2,500. J.P. Haley has purchased the Sleet cottage on the corner of Bruin and Gratz Streets. George Parker has rented a part of the Moore lands from J.W. Parrish and he will occupy the house to be vacated by I.S. Shipman. The I.S. Shipman and W.A. Offutt families ae removing to Shelby County, where they will engage in the general merchandise business. Honor roll for January 1903 – average of over 95: Van-de-Graff Shipp, Nancy W. Cooper, Sarah Hopkins, Margaret Poynter, John L. Cooper, Berry Walcutt and Sue Payne. Fidelity Perpetual Building and Loan Assoc. of Midway shows assets of $31,966.75 and income of $8,300.69 for the year ended on Jan. 28, 1903. The groundhog saw his shadow on Monday and according to ancient tradition went back to his hold to wait the passing of the six weeks more of winter which we are to have. Just what the mere fact of the sun’s shining on the ground of February has to do with the weather science has never yet been revealed, but there are many who regard the groundhog as a much better weather prophet than the weather bureau itself. February 7, 1924… City treasurer’s report for 1923 shows a budget of $9,478.30. Ad valorem taxes raised about $3,158 and distillery taxes another $1,100 for major revenue sources. Salaries accounted for some $1,574 and lights, fire department and streets all cost between $1,00 and $1,200. Mrs. Lydia May died Wednesday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Bessie Fisher, of double pneumonia. She had moved to Midway about 40 years ago. She was survived by three sons and three daughters. Western Union has moved its office from the Hughes Electric office to a room in the upper story of the Henry Building in Versailles. L.C. Stacet is the new operator. Robert Montgomery, son of John Montgomery of Troy, has assumed management of Prillman & Co.’s 5 and 10 cent store. He replaces James M. Saffell Jr., who resigned. A car occupied by Charles M. Sullivan, Mrs. And Mrs. Garnett Sullivan and Mrs. Grooms was struck by another car and overturned on the Lexington Pike Sunday. Mr. Sullivan suffered a twisted back and broken rib. The other car went on without stopping. The residence of Ed Smith, Douglas Avenue in Versailles, caught fire Monday but it was put out with a minimum of damage. The blaze started in a room occupied as a store by Mrs. Cotton. Woodrow Wilson is dead and the Clipper editor writes a beautiful editorial about him, comparing him to Washington, Jackson, Lincoln as a great leader of this nation. James S. Starks has been quite ill of pneumonia this past week. Mrs. Edna Hicks and Mr. and Mrs. R.W. Hicks moved to their new country home on the Leestown Pike Tuesday. Mrs. Phil Weisenberger is quite ill at the home of her sister, Mrs. J.P. Slavin, Lexington, Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Craig moved Saturday to the residence recently vacated by the William Campbell family. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Columbia will occupy the home where the Craigs lived. Woodrow Wilson was born in 1856 in Staunton, Virginia. In 1885, he married Ellen Louise Axen and they had three daughters, Jessie (Mrs. Francis B. Sayre), Eleanor (Mrs. W.G. McAdoo) and Margaret. Mrs. Wilson died in 1914. In December of 1915, Wilson married Edith Bolling Galt, a descendant of Pocahontas. He died in early February of 1924. He was ill for four years and in a coma near the end. His last words were “I am a broken man. A broken machine. I am ready.” He was buried beneath the floor of Bethlehem Chapel at Washington Cathedral. Six diseases which are still a puzzle to doctors are flu, cancer, polio, pellagra, encephalitis and the common cold.