July 28, 1904… The Kentucky Female Orphan School made history this week by electing two women to its Board, Mrs. Louella St. Clair of Lexington and Mrs. Maurice Powell of Frankfort. The school now has an endowment of $250,000 and is educating 125 children.
Due to an attack on Carrie Nation by a saloonkeeper in Elizabethtown, Mrs. Nation’s visit to Midway this Sunday at which a large audience was expected has been canceled. We wish her a speedy recovery from a terrible injury.
West Combs, a colored man who runs a little store at Zion’s Hill near Payne’s Depot shot and killed Charles Daugherty, also colored, on Sunday. Eye witnesses say the killing was in self-defense and Combs will not be charged [Ed. Note: The Sun publishes the original story as it appeared in our archives, including the use of now offensive vernacular. We do so for historically accurate purposes.].
Patterson Steele is making extensive improvements in the house on J.B. Nutter’s farm which he recently purchased.
Miss Nettie Hughes will begin school in August.
The Midway Dancing Club will give a dance at the Opera House on August 10. Saxton will furnish the music.
Howard Kerfoot Bell and Miss Mary Jane Stone will be married at Newtown on August 18. Mr. Bell of Midway is a promising engineer.
Dry weather threatens the tobacco crop at this point with serious injury.
During a terrible thunderstorm last week, lightening struck the pump and ran down into the well at the home of J.B. Owen. Since then, the water has not been fit to drink, tasting as it was charged with electricity.
July 24, 1924… Mrs. Herman Williams has moved from the county to the Jones residence on Gratz Street.
A distillery owned by R. A. Baker of Woodford County located at the Forks of the Elkhorn burned to the ground. 2,200 cases and 1,500 barrels of whiskey were, lost valued at $1.1. million at prohibition prices and $178,000 in legitimate prices.
George Wise is getting a new concrete foundation on his store front.
R.W. Hicks is wearing a broad smile over the arrival of an 8 pound boy born at St. Joseph’s in Lexington.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Martin Jr. are receiving congratulations over the birth of a daughter on Monday also at St. Joseph’s hospital. She is named Kathryn Brooks Martin.