Dec. 10, 1903 . . . Two tickets for sheriff are already being made up.

One will be headed by James T. Wilhoite with J.L. Johnson and W.D.

Wilson as deputies, the other will be headed by Judge J.L. Parrish with

Joe McDonald as one of the deputies.

Henry S. Halley, 63, died at his home near Paynes Depot on Saturday. He

hd been ill for nearly two years and died of meningitis. He had served

in the Civil War under the command of Col. W.C.P. Breckenridge in the

Confederate States Army.

Burnett Ellis has rented his farm of 178 acres on the Midway &

Georgetown Pike to Claude Rodgers for five years at $1,000 a year. Ellis

will move to Lexington.

W.L. Graddy of Versailles has been elected second vice president and

John T. Greaves has been elected a director of the National Fox Hunters

Association.

Mr. and Mrs. J.E. Rouse and children have returned home from a visit to

Mrs. Rouse’s father of Boone County.

Dec. 11, 1923 . . . The high winds Monday afternoon blew down two

tobacco barns, one on H.L. Martin’s place and the other on the Davis and

Turner Farm The Martin barn contained 13 acres of tobacco, of which

one-half had been sold and the other half in bulk was not damaged. The

other barn contained 12 acres of tobacco. The trees in the woodland of

Mrs. Annie Swope on the Versailles Pike were badly damaged. A buggy in

the yard of C.W. Hawkins was carried some distance away.

Mrs. W.E. Risque will return soon from a month’s stay with Mr. and Mrs.

Wallace Harper and Wallace Harper III of Green Cave Springs, Florida.

Frank M. Nave of Versailles, a prominent former councilman, farmer and

democrat, died this morning on Elm Street.

Backwater from the Kentucky River covered the tracks of the L&N Railroad

near the mouth of Glenn’s Creek eitght to ten miles from Midway.

Passengers were taken to Frankfort by bus.

Reminder: The Blue Grass Clipper was published in Midway from 1875 to

1935, and The Sun publishes corresponding date appropriate excerpts,

warts and all. We hope you enjoy reading these as much as we enjoy

researching them in our archives.