May 23, 1904 . . . there is no paper for this week in the Sun’s archive.
May 22, 2024 . . . students at Midway High this year who had grade averages above 70, no more than two excused absences and two tardies, included: Ida Gray, Grace Yocum, Adele Logan, Edna Craycraft, Mary Lewis Marvin, Warren Mitchell, Rosa Mefford, Lucille Gardner, Lottie Featherstone, Virginia Featherstone, R.W. Lacefield, Katherine Gatrell, Louise Gatrell and Mary Williamson. Mary Lewis Marvin won the award for the highest marks with strong competition from Adele Logan, Warren Mitchell and Lucille Gardner whose averages were above 95.
The principal address at the high school graduation was given by Rev. Benjamin F. Bush. The Rev. S.M. Logan handed out diplomas and Supt. F.V. McChesney gave the medals.
Honor roll for deportment included Gertrude Gray, Mary Catherine Wilson, Katherine Wagner, Julia Marvin, John Harmon, Elizabeth Dunn, Louise Adams and Dora Clifton.
Eight grade students include Louise Adams, Scott Cook, Lillie Mae Cooper, Elizabeth Dunn, John Harmon, Bessie Jones, Lelia Mitchell, Nellie Newman, Sara Jane Osborn, Margaret Steele, Frances Whittaker, Julia Marvin, Leslie Childers, Milton Lacefield and Dora Clifton.
Dr. M.G. Buckner of Owensboro will make the commencement address at the Kentucky School for the Deaf at 10:00 a.m., May 23. A number of short speeches will also be made in honor of the school’s 75th anniversary.
Four white-robed Ku Klux Klan members marched down the aisle of the Methodist Church after the sermon Sunday night and knelt and led prayer and then presented a donation to the Rev. L.E. Williams. They then marched out of the church. No one knew them or believed them to be from Midway. Ed. Note: See below, we publish these historical facts warts and all to help us see all of our history – good and bad. We leave it to our readers to decide for themselves if this “belief “ that no one from Midway was one of the four Klansman who made the donation to the Midway Methodist Church reasonable.