August 4, 1904 . . . As Mrs. Carrie Nation was forced to cancel her lecture in Midway last Sunday due to the succorious and injurious attack on her person in Elizabethtown, which has ignited an overwhelming desire to ban saloons there, we are providing extensive extracts from here address in Elizabethtown prior to her being struck down.
(Pres. Theodore Roosevelt) is a Dutch New York City aristocrat beer guzzler who cares naught for the common people . . . If we cannot save the old bloated bogs from the brewer’s swill slops, we can at least save the pigs . . . The only difference between the Democratic and Republican parties is that one is in power and the other is striving for ascendancy . . . My object in demolishing illicit dives in Kansas was not for the purpose of destroying them, but to attract the attention of the public to the accursed evil . . . The men in Kentucky are the most chivalric gentlemen in the world provided they do not use whiskey and tobacco . . . The man who smokes tobacco and blows smoke in a lady’s face upon the street is a foul germ propagator and transmit disease to passers-by . . . A man who drinks and turns his money over to the barkeeper is really considering the saloonkeeper and brewers paupers and contributing alms to their support . . . The platforms of the two parties are exactly similar, and I defy the members thereof to show a distinction . . . Ten years hence the two parties will be extinct and there will be but one party, the Prohibition . . . The habitual drinker gives his money to the saloonists and then envies his wearing apparel and jewelry . . . The government creates anarchy by issuing whiskey licenses . . . Saloons are murder mills, and if they do not kill their patrons outright, they eventually bury them in premature graves . . . The Bible is the greatest hatchet or smasher in existence, It put a sling in Goliath’s hand to annihilate Goliath. It is the most formidable weapon in smashing a whiskey still . . . The Constitution was formed for the purpose of establishing justice, to secure domestic tranquility, to provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and to secure the blessings of liberty to our posterity, but the government stabs itself, creates anarchy and overthrows itself, issuing saloon licenses to ruin our families and to murder its electors . . . Why a man will drink whiskey, a poison, to murder himself and beggar his family, is a problem unsolved by philosophers and scientists . . . It is a mystery why man will line up against a saloon bar and slowly kill themselves by guzzling various kinds of poisons. Why not take arsenic, or strychnine and kill themselves at once instead of beggaring himself and his family and then dying a lingering death at last?
[Ed. Note: Carrie Nation was a famous cultural figure in the late-19th and early 20th centuries who as a radical member of the temperance movement opposed alcohol before Prohibition became law in 1921. Nation was noted for attacking alcohol-serving establishments (most often taverns) with a hatchet. She described herself as “a bulldog running along at the feet of Jesus, barking at what He doesn’t like”, and claimed a divine ordination to promote temperance by destroying bars.]
Alfred Stanhope and Willie Mitchell, who have been touring with the Frankfort baseball club, have been putting up some fast work in the games they have played. Stanhope, the backstop, recently caught an excellent game with a broken finger, and the fast plays of Mitchell was another feature of the game. Mitchell is also somewhat of a fine pitcher.
Dr. Joe Lehman, while in Midway on a visit, lost his office fixtures and bedroom furniture when the Browinski Building in Carrollton caught fire.
The fallowing young ladies compose a house party being entertained by Miss Ray Williams this week: Misses Nan Finley and Nell Nunnelly of Georgetown, Nellie Belle Pinkerton and Isola George of Versailles and Sarah Weathers of Avon.
The Colored Fair will be held this year on August 26-27 in P.P. Parrish’s woodland. [Ed. Note: The Sun publishes the stories as they appeared in the paper at the time published, including the use of racial vernacular which is offensive today).
R.S. Starks is having his residence on Winter Street remodeled, a system of water works put in and other improvements.
Elijah Osborne, after good service, has resigned as assistant policeman of Midway. Marshal Ed Stephens will name his successor soon.
Mr. Jesse Martin, 81, was injured by a barn door falling on him last week, breaking several ribs and jarring him badly. He seems to be mending well.
Judge R.L. Stout has appointed P.M. Blackerby as Fish & Game Warden for the county. William Preeman will be his assistant.
July 31, 1924 . . . Henry Martin, Sr., suffered a painful accident Friday when he was thrown from his buggy after his horse started rearing in his son’s driveway. He was treated for multiple lacerations to his face, head and shoulders by Dr. Risque.
Thomas Douthitt of Spring Station is a candidate for Jailer. He is nearly six feet, five inches tall, weighs about 240 pounds and would make an ideal jailer.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ockerman, who live on the Simms Farm, welcomed a son born on July 24. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Shryock welcome a son born July 23.
Mr. and Mrs. G.T. McKinney have sold their attractive home on Park Avenue to Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Craig. The McKinneys will move to the McKinney Flats for the present.
Grant Jones is lying seriously ill at his home on Railroad Street.
A.C. Pettit was taken to the Sprague Sanitarium in Lexington for treatment.