On May 19, 1904 . . . Dr. J.D. Neet and Henry McWilliams, both of Woodford County, were hanged in effigy at Versailles yesterday because they did not apparently support the effort made at Lexington to nominate County Judge Robert L. Stout last Thursday night for Congress. The two Versailles night policeman were summoned to a Negro suburb on a false alarm, and when they returned to Main Street the two effigies were dangling from a telephone cable on the Public Square with the names of Neet and McWilliams under each and the words “Traitor to Woodford County”.
A very rare frost came Saturday night but did little damage.
Dr. W.T. Risque has been quite ill at his home near Payne’s Depot. He is reported as some better.
Bob Glass has opened a butcher shop in the meat house in the Simpson yard on N. Railroad Street. He will run a meat wagon to accommodate the country trade.
There are several vacant store rooms in Midway main section just now.
Professor Edwin H. Boone delighted a large crowd at the Opera House here with his feats of mesmerism, mind reading, rapid calculation and slate reading. He is a Woodford native, of whom we are terribly proud. He was born and grew up in the Faywood neighborhood.
Master R.W. Hicks entertained a number of his friends at a Bo Peep party on Saturday. Each guest was given a horn and told to hunt for the toy sheep hidden about the yard. The hunt was interesting and lively particularly when one of the lads donned his horn like a ram and knocked master Hicks in the derriere. All the little folks were made to have a good time.
May 8, 1924 . . . The Woodford County Country Club met Monday night in the county courtroom with 45 members present. Elected for the year were: Miller Turner, chair of board of governors; L.A. Railey, vice chair; Lewis M. Moraney, secretary; W.S. Hunter, treasurer; L.S. Hunter, Dr. N.E. Berry, John Winn, Joseph Carter and Roy Williams, board of governors.
W. B. Coogar published a letter-to-the-editor recounting his recent trip out West.
Theodore Harris, chair of the county Democratic Party, has issued a call for a convention to meet in Versailles on May 10 to appoint 16 delegates to the Lexington State Convention.
The election last Saturday to elect two school board members from the Midway District resulted in Thomas Roach and W.G. Lehman winning over Dr. W.E. Risque and James Starks.
Gus Courtney, a former Midway resident, dies Monday afternoon at his home in Frankfort of tuberculosis. He leaves a wife and six children.
Misses Mary King Burrier, Susan Peffer, Lucile Stokley and Carrie Watson chaperoned members of the botany class of Midway High School to Clifton on Friday where flowers were gathered and lunches enjoyed. Pupils on the trip included: Misses Mary Lewis Marvin, Ruth Williams, Viola and Florence Rogers, Edna Cracraft, Frances Lancaster, Ethel Mitchell and H. James Dragoo, Elmer Smith, G.P. Lancaster and Alfred Pottwood.
The contract for the new Grier’s Creek Baptist Church has been awarded to Fred Rump for the brick work and to L.O. Duncan for the carpentry work. The work will begin when the weather allows.
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