July 13, 1899… Great preparations are being made by the Confederates for their reunion, which will take place at Bond’s Mill, on Salt River, about three miles from Lawrenceburg. A large crowd is expected from adjoining counties on July 15 and invited orators include Col. Bennett H. Young, Col. R.J. Breckinridge and Col. W.C.P. Breckinridge. John Bright has always contended that farmers sow too much wheat to the acre and now he appears to have proof. Last fall, he sowed 100 pounds of Michigan Fultz seed as follows: one bushel, or 60 pounds, on one acre, and 40 pounds on 1-1/4 acre. From the acre where 60 pounds was sown, he had a yield of 30 bushels, and on the 1-1/4 acres, sown 32 pounds to the acre, he got of yield of 32 pounds. He concludes that 45 pounds, or three pecks per acre, is sufficient to produce a good crop. The Rev. S.E. Smith, African-American preacher and politician from Owensboro, says that the African-Americans are nearly all supporters of Republican Bradley and they will not vote for the GOP nominee, Attorney General Taylor P.J. Weisenberger, standing just below the dam at his mill last week, shot two carp in the creek, one weighing 6 pounds and the other 9 pounds. July of 1899 shows great contrast to July of 1898. Last year it was too much rain. This year, not nearly enough. Homer Klem, of The Woodford Sun, was in Midway Tuesday boarding the train for Henderson to attend the press convention. The tenant house on Van Shipp’s place, occupied by Lee Tate and family, burned last Saturday. All contents were destroyed, leaving the family without a thing. Werter Combs and Bus Wilson, of Midway, arrived Monday in Pendleton to visit friends, having made the trip by bicycle. They planned to cycle to Cincinnati and Dayton before returning home. Misses Matilda Hughes and Ella Settle and Miss Corbett and Messrs. Charles Parrish, W.B. and Quinn Cogar, Albert Sleet, H.L. Martin Jr., Lawrence Leavy and Frank Hawkins attended a barn dance near Pisgah Monday night. The Jewish yearbook says that of the world’s 11,000,000 Jews, one-half live in Russia. The new Episcopal Seminary to be established at Versailles is to be called “Bishop Burton Seminary,” in honor of the Rev. Lewis Burton, Bishop of the Lexington Diocese. (This actually became Margaret College.) Dr. S.J. Anderson’s new residence is being rapidly pushed to completion. The appeal of tramps for something to eat at this season of the year should not be granted, as they can find work upon farms but are too trifling to do it. Sells Brothers Circus will strike the state later in the month and will visit eight or 10 of the larger towns. Ringling Brothers show will follow close behind and visit five or six towns in August. It will be hard to induce the small boy to spend the remainder of the summer away from home. A woman notary public in Colorado, who was recently married, asked the attorney general what name she should use officially in the future. He has replied that she must sign all documents as before her marriage, for he finds no law compelling or even authorizing a woman to drop her maiden name on the simple excuse of marriage. In fact, he says that there is no authority for a change of name at marriage or at any other time. July 14, 1921… The pump on pump on Higgins Street, between Winter and Gratz, has been ordered repaired by the city. The Community Club picnic was held Saturday in Crosby’s woods, on the McKee Pike. The lovely new bungalow erected for Mr. and Mrs. R.M. Fogle by R.W. Lacefield, contractor, will be ready for them to occupy in a few days. It is quite an addition on to the beauty of Railroad Street. The Rev. Dr. E. F. McConnaha is leaving the Baptist church in Midway to accept a call in Rome, Georgia. Midway’s baseball team lost to Frankfort, 4-3 and to Forks of Elkhorn by the same score, but defeated Mt. Vernon 19-6. Players include G.T. McKinney, Eddie McConnell, Junior Childers, Pete Thomas, Pinky Osborne, Vina Wheeler, Buck May, Bill McKinney and Brown Keith. Lewis Dedman, a former resident, died at home in Tennessee Sunday at age 78. He served under Gen. Abe Buford and also under Gen. Morgan. He ended the war as a prisoner of the Federals. He married in 1869 to Miss Lou Stout, the daughter of John Stout. She died 10 months later. In 1881, he married a Miss Jennie Clarke of Danville, who died in 1906. They had one son, Robert C. Dedman, who survives. Mr. and Mrs. L.A. Linton, who have been living on Railroad Street, moved to Cogartown Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. W.E. Simms and family will leave today for Wequetonsing, Mich. for the remainder of the summer. Mr. and Mrs. Porter Hammond have rented rooms in the Rau Building and will soon set up housekeeping there. A party of young people are enjoying an outing at Cogar’s new camp on the Kentucky River. Sen. J.N. Camden sent 25 yearlings to Lexington this week to be broken and trained at the stables of J.C. Milam on the Kentucky Jockey Club grounds. The three Versailles banks have declared semi-annual dividends as follows: Harris-Seller, 4 percent; Woodford Bank, 5 percent; Amsden Bank, 12 percent. All are in a flourishing condition, notwithstanding the hard times. Gov. Charles M. Harriss, who was so seriously hurt recently, was able to take an automobile ride Friday. Eighteen new additions to the Millville Baptist Church were baptized in the Kentucky River Sunday. Forty-three members of the Hillsboro Baptist Church were baptized Sunday at the pond of Mr. Davis, near Mortonsville. Additional rural teachers for next year will be J.E. Booth and Miss Mary Fletcher, Mortonsville; Miss Janie Bronston and Mrs. Ella Watson, Mt. Vernon; Miss Ruby Guyn, Elm Corner; Miss Eva Carpenter, High Bluff; Miss Ella Felty, Millville; Miss Mattie Wells, Nonesuch; and Mirs. Corinne Shields, Pleasant View.