Oct. 1, 1903 . . . The second annual county YMCA convention will be a 3-day affair and will be held in Midway. Midway area bred horses own both the pacing and trotting world records. Lou Dillon has set the trotting record at 2:00 flat, and Prince Alert has the pacing record in 1:57. W.L. Graddy is the new president of the National Foxhunters Association. C.N. Sheffield has removed his repairing and shoe shop across the street into the room adjoining the grocery store of G.L. Cooper on Railroad Street. Mrs. W.A. Long and Miss Eva Taylor will open a new and complete stock of millinery goods in the Wise storeroom on Winter Street. The new Rural Route #2 out of Midway will go down the Spring Station Pike, across to Woodlake and White Sulphur, then back to Midway. While playing football at his school in Versailles, Clinton Hawkins, son of Mr. and Mrs. C.B. Hawkins, was accidentally kicked in the mouth by one of his playmates and right badly injured. His lip and tongue required the taking of several stitches. Curt Jett passed through Midway on his way to the Louisville jail. It is estimated that about 7,000 people saw him on Sunday. It may be remembered that one juror prevented Jett from being given the death penalty at his murder trial in Cynthiana. Oct. 2, 1924 . . . The first football game of the season takes place on Friday afternoon next when Midway plays Harrodsburg. Midway did not lose a single game last season. The Midway picture house is showing “Daddy”, starring Jackie Coogan. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Rouse, Mr. and Mrs. C.W. Hawkins, Mr. and Mrs. Turner Carpenter, Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler Belt, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Farmer and Miss Elizabeth Carpenter spent last weekend at Camp Bide-A-Wee on the Kentucky River. Carrie Carter, a negro woman, shot her husband John Carter while he was asleep in bed early Saturday morning, killing him instantly. She then attempted to kill herself with the gun but the shot went into the ground. She then jumped into a 30-foot well head-first and was drowned. The double tragedy occurred in Firmantown, a Negro settlement between Versailles and Pisgah. The Negroes were newcomers there. The woman, who is survived by four children, had been in an insane asylum. John Carter was employed by Robert Wasson near Pisgah. [ Note – We state verbatim the language used in the original archival reporting even, as here, it is dated and possibly offensive so as to portray the historical record factually.] W.B. Cogar and his family returned to their home in Midway after spending the summer at his bungalow on the Kentucky River.

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