March 19, 1903… The average factory hand gets $1.40 a day and creates $3.75 worth. Robert Berryman, 38, died last week in Versailles. Tuesday was the warmest day of the spring, the thermometer reaching 75 in the shade. There seems to be a difference of opinion around Midway in regard to rural free delivery. Some think it will work injury to the town in that it will deprive many of an excuse and of an opportunity to come to town. Men in the country often have mail as an excuse for going to town. Arriving here, they seldom fail to make a few purchases, thus helping along trade. With their mail delivered at their doors every day, they cannot explain their city visits so readily to their good housewives, so they remain at home. Others think the system will be a source of great satisfaction to those along the route. The daily receipt of mail means a luxury to many country people and keeps them in constant touch with the rest of the world. Daily reports from the markets can be received and farmers will thus know how to sell their stock and produce. The good housewives can keep up pretty well with the neighborhood gossip by daily exchange of letters, while the lovelorn lads and lasses will not have to wait so long for the mutual receiving of sweet and tender missives. The majority of those who now enjoy rural free delivery seem to be delighted with it, and this will likely be the case along the route soon to be established out of Midway. L.B. Weisenberger, owner of the Royal Mills in Frankfort, and an extensive dealer in grain, has been missing for several days. Weisenberger left notes held by Frankfort banks amounting to $52,500, endorsed by Dudley Blanton, his partner. To the notes are attached warehouse receipts covering about 90,000 bushels of wheat. About 20,000 bushels are stored in Weisenberger’s elevator. A warrant has been sworn out for his arrest. He is a son of the late A. Weisenberger, so well and honorably known in this community. The new rural route, previously described, will be 23-1/2 miles long, will serve 190 houses and 855 people. The salary of the carrier will be $600 per year. The post office at Lenerson will be discontinued. March 20, 1924… Ordinance on the sale of the telephone franchise for Midway takes up nearly half of page one. Miss Bennie Tucker, 13, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Tucker, has apparently taken all her belongings and run away from home. She was last seen on the auto bus to Lexington. Mrs. Harris Lehman entertained Wednesday in honor of her mother, Mrs. Gertrude Hawkins’ 78 birthday. The Clipper violently disagrees with Sen. Allie Young’s bill to cut the House from 100 to 50 members and cut the Senate to 20 members, in order to save money. There is a long editorial setting out the editor’s objections. The Withrow farm, two miles from Midway on the Weisenberger and Craigs Mill Pikes, is listed in a dissolution sale. It has an 11 room home with basement of eight rooms, two never-failing springs and is partly bounded by South Elkhorn; it has 267 acres of which 38 is in clover and bluegrass, 70 is orchard grass, 28 in wheat, 26 in barley, 40 in old clover sod and the rest in bluegrass sod. It is well fenced and adjoins the land now being worked by the phosphate people. Cecil Strausbaugh and Roger Kearney left Tuesday for Muncie, Indiana. D.M. Adams and family have moved to their farm, two miles from Midway on the Georgetown Pike. J.L. and Ollie Babbitt have rented the residence of Earl Farmer. Mr. Sellers will move to the Nat Alford farm.