October 6, 1904… The Rev. J.F. Watson has decided to give up his work with the Baptist Church here and will go as a missionary to Indian Territory.
Flour is selling in Midway at $7 a barrel and the prospect for another rise. Verily, eating is a costly business these days.
We lavishly praise Judge Parker for his decisions in favor of the working man especially on the 8 hour Law and against the supreme egoist President T. R. Roosevelt who has criticized his predecessors calling Jefferson “the most incapable executive who ever filled the President’s chair, Monroe having “no special ability”, Tyler “a politician of monumental littleness”, Pierce “a small politician of low capacity and mean surroundings. In fact, Roosevelt says there is only one President wince the government was organized and “modesty forbids me from speaking his name.” Meaning, his own oafish self.
Fiscal Court rejected the jailer’s proposal to build an office between the courthouse and the Odd Fellows Hall. They reappointed D.J. Allen as superintendent of the Poor House, J.W. Miller to the County Board of Health, and sent a sharply worded message to the Fayette Home Telephone Company telling them to string their lines on McCracken Pike soon or face annulment of their franchise.
A warrant was sworn out this week by A.B. Florian of Millville against E.P. Stewart charging him with unlawfully detaining Flowian’s daughter Miss Mary Belle Florian, aged 20. Miss Forian says Stewart decoyed her too the house of a neighbor last night by telling her a falsehood, and on her way home Stewart sprung out of a clump of bushes at the side of the road and seizing her by both arms, attempted to drag her into the bushes at the same time making indecent proposals. The girl screamed, Stewart fled and was later arrested.
The new Registration Law says that the registered voter is issued a certificate, a pink slip, which he will keep and return at the polls on election day in order to be admitted to the voting booth. The Negroes, at the recent registration, generally meekly handed over their pink slips to a Republican politician who just happened to be standing at the site. [EDITOR’S NOTE: We reprint verbatim the news as it appeared in the Clipper at the time of its original publication – including the use of pejorative terms for African-Americans and implying or expressing, wrongly and often tragically, an inferior status. As members of this community, we regret our paper’s participation in this stereotyping and its frequency. Our sole purpose in re-printing is to be historically as accurate as possible and, in our own way, do what we can to insure this community’s troubled past in race relations is not forgotten or glossed over].
J.P. Donovan, one of Midway’s oldest citizens, died last Thursday after a long illness.
Miss Caroline Steele has gone to Philadelphia to enter one of the splendid schools in that city.
Mr. and Mrs. B.S. Branham moved back to Midway on Wednesday and have taken rooms at Mrs. Alberta Nave’s home.
James C. Starks, Midway, and Miss Lora Craig Kansas City, were married Tuesday. They will make their home at the residence of R.S. Starks which has recently been remodeled in view of their living their. Mrs. Starks is a daughter of Mrs. Ben Craig and a granddaughter of Mrs. Nettie Viley.
The Haggin Baby Ball was held last week and was splendid in all respects.
October 2, 1924…The first football game of the season takes place on Friday afternoon when Midway plays Harrodsburg at the local high school. Midway went undefeated last year.
The Midway Picture House is showing the film “Daddy” starring Jackie Coogan.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Rouse, Mr. and Mrs. C.W. Hawkins, Mr. and Mrs. Turner Carpenter, Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler Belt, Mr. and Mrs. Ry Farmer and Miss Elizabeth Carpenter spent the weekend at Camp Bide-A-Wee on the Kentucky River.
Carrie Carter, a Negro woman, shot her husband, John Carter, while he was asleep in bed early Saturday morning killing him. She then attempted to kill herself with the gun but the shot went into the ground. She then jumped into a 30-foot well head-first and was drowned. The double tragedy occurred in Firmantown on Paynes Mill Pike. The Negroes were newcomers there and the couple are survived by four children. She had recently been discharged from the insane asylum. Carter was employed by Robert Wasson near Pisgah. [Editor’s Note: We reprint verbatim the news as it appeared in the Clipper at the time of its original publication – including the use of pejorative terms for African-Americans. This is done for historical purposes and to make sure a true reckoning of our past is not lost].