September 8, 1904… A girl, Beinedia Harding, 18, an inmate from the Kentucky Reform School for Girls who had been taken in on a bond and employed by the family of J.E. Rouse as a domestic for the remainder of her term made an unsuccessful attempt at suicide Saturday morning by swallowing concentrated lye. The act followed the discovery by Mrs. Rouse that the dough to be used for that day’s bread for the family had turned yellow and was determined to be impregnated with lye. It is not charged the girl intentionally put the lye in the dough to cause the death of the family, but she had washed the doughboard with the lye. When Mr. Rouse found out what had happened, he said he would take her back to the Reform School. She replied, “I will drink lye before I go back there.” The girl then got the can of lye, poured it into a cup of water and drank it. A physician was summoned and the girl was saved but will likely suffer some paralysis. She will be returned to the Reform School once she is able to be transported.
Milton Davis, Robert McMullen John McCabe, Jr. and Mr. and Mrs. J.M. Roddy are among the folks from Midway currently visiting the St. Louis World’s Fair.
Lester Witherspoon was thrown from his buggy while driving on the Versailles Pike on Saturday and was considerably bruised up. He was driving a very spirited horse which became frightened at some work being done on a culvert near Pepper Hill and ran off overturning the buggy throwing Witherspoon to the ground.
The history of Mt. Vernon Baptist Church of Christ, now just Mt. Vernon Church, was published this week – the land for the church was gifted in 1820 by Tavner Branham and David Harris who each gave a half-acre. The original seven members were Randolph Harris, Henry Cassell, Mary Cassell, Joseph Eddings, Nancy Eddings, Milly Eddings, Mary Moffett and Mary Conover with attending elders James Fishback and William Spencer.
Saturday will be a Jewish holiday and the Midway stores of L.M. Epstein and Lee Bloomfield will be closed for the day.
The Bluegrass Clipper published the first ever annual report and catalogue for the Midway Graded School. The faculty for the school this year will be Professor W. R. Eubank, principal, Misses Mattie Hughes, Alice Baxter, Elizabeth Bowmar and Mrs. Jennie Clark.
.W. Crutcher, 65, died on Thursday at his home near Jetts. He was married to Mary Caldwell, his second wife, a teacher of many years at the Orphan School. He was a member of the first jury who tried Jim Howard and sentenced him to death.
The farm of the late George Phelps on Old Frankfort Pike, three and a half miles from Midway, is offered for public sale and includes a fine and good dwelling.
September 4, 1924… W.B. Cogar has announced as a candidate for Sheriff with James Lewis and Saunders Hunter as deputies.
Rev. R. C. Gresham, pastor of Midway Baptist Church since 1921, has resigned to spend a year studying at Columbia University in New York City before moving to William Jewel College as an instructor.
The public schools in Midway will open September 15. There will be two sessions each day, the grades from 8:30 to noon and high school from noon to 3:30. All books may be secured at Epstein’s.
Mrs. F.P. Merrill entertained with a rook party Thursday night in honor of her niece, Miss Lelia Nave.
James Driscoll, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Driscoll, who fractured his left arm about three months ago while playing, suffered a refracture of the same limb Saturday. The little fellow was taken to a hospital in Lexington.