June 2, 1904 . . . J.W. Newman and John Arnett, both of Woodford, are the only candidates this time for the State Senate from this District.

T.S. Forman was appointed to fill out the unexpired term of W.B. Harper as magistrate but declined to accept.

A fine rain on Sunday broke the extended drought in these parts.

The Knights of Pythias and Red Man’s street fair at Versailles began on Monday morning and will continue through the week.

The Frankfort baseball team came by train on Saturday to play Col. Wallace’s team and emerged with a 15-12 victory. However, during their stay they were separated from their extra cash by the various Midway merchants and it was found that only one of the nine had money enough for the train home. Col. Wallace and his men took up a collection but could only raise 65 cents. The Frankfort lads finally had to board the “hog train” and take their chances, and when last seen were clinging to the sides of the train as it headed out of town.

The first honor at Sayre Institute for the year was divided between Misses Sallie Mullen of Midway and Elizabeth Marks of Pisgah.

Miss Jennie Farris Railey of Midway won the German and French medals at Canpbell-Hagarman College in Lexington.

John Gay dies last week of blood poisoning from gall stones. He dies early Tuesday morning at his home near Faywood. He was 81 and one of the best known farmers in the county. He was a breeder of fine saddle horses and his sons have carried on the business. He owned between 1,600 and 1,700 acres of fine land as well as other holdings. He is survived by three sons, James, Robert and John T., and five daughters, Mrs. David James, Mrs. John Fields, Mrs. Garnett Watts, Mrs. B.F. Parrish and Miss Mattie Gay.

May 29, 1924 . . . The identity of the young man who was stripped of his clothing and left on the Perryville Pile in Boyle County last week by some companions, who then drove away in a car, has been learned. The youth was a member of the freshman class at Centre College and was kidnapped on the night of the flag rush by a group of sophomores who took him out in the country and relieved him of everything but his B.V.D.s and a pair of shoes. The freshman, Jim Parrish, who hails from Midway, walked back to town clad in his underwear wrapping himself in tree branches.

Thomas Duffy offers for sale his Ford Touring car.

Dr. J. W. Tyler, former pastor of the Midway Presbyterian Church, died Monday at his home in Winchester after a brief illness. 

W.O. Davis, 62, a prominent Woodford County attorney died unexpectedly of apoplexy last Friday at his Versailles home. Davis was for many years the Woodford County Attorney. In 1915, he became general counsel of the Kentucky River Coal Corp. He was born in Clover Bottom in 1862. He received his law degree from the University of Virginia. He was associated with the YMCA and Cleveland Orphan Home, and was head of the local “Santa Claus Syndicate”.

Mr. and Mrs. T.F. Rogers have moved to Clifton for the summer.

The Women’s Club will present Booth Tarkington’s “Trysting Place” at the Amusu Theater on June 4. The cast includes Florence Cannon, James Cogar, Mrs. A.B. Barnett, Mrs. A.L. Wills, Mr. A.L. Wills, F.V. McChesney and R.W. Lacefield.

 

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