On March 10, 1904 . . .  Dr. W.E. Street purchased 51 acres of the

Parrish land in the vicinity of Weisenberger’s Mill at $70 an acre.

James Starks has been taken to Lexington where he will submit to an

operation for appendicitis.

Mr. and Mrs. George Douglass have moved to town and are occupying the

Beauchamp property on Higgins Street.

Miss Ruth Gay of Faywood is engaged to Robert Berryman of Versailles.

They will be married on May 11. She is the sister of Mrs. B.F. Parrish

of Midway and he is the son of Postmaster Berryman and is engaged in the

drug store business in Versailles.

The rainfall for 1903 was 33 ¼ inches, four inches more than in 1901,

but less than any other year in the past 32. The average for Kentucky is

44 ½ inches but that has been reached only once in the past five years.

The greatest rainfall of any one year for the State came in 1882 when

the figure reached 56 ½ inches.

During the past year the temperature accumulated 222 degrees above

average during the spring and summer, but during December, January and

February there was a deficit figure of 592 degrees, making this the

coldest winter on record.

Anthoney Dey of New York recently sold Sherwood Farm of 195 acres at the

junction of Leestown, Spring Station and Woodlake Pikes to George Wilder

of Paris for $19,521.25. Wilder is erecting a residence on the place and

the John Bell family will move there to take charge of the horses. Mr.

Wilder has already sold 5 oak and walnut tress off the place for a total

of $1,000.

On March 6, 2024 . . . Clara Gray Kinney and Chester Horace McLemore

were married at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Ware Parrish on Feb. 27.

The bride is the adopted daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Parrish and the groom

is from Mt. Vernon, Georgia. He is the superintendent at Woodburn.

The Clipper editorialized that Attorney General Daugherty is a great

embarrassment to the country and the Coolidge Cabinet. He was unpopular

in the Harding administration even before the Tea Pot Dome Scandal.

Edgar Cheatham and George Cox have taken rooms at the Southerland Hotel.

Mr. and Mrs. George Noel will move this week from the McKinney Flats to

the Brown property on Park Avenue.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Columbia are moving from the Crosby Farm to their

home in Cogartown.

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.