September 29, 1904…  Charles B. Jones, colored, charged with attempted criminal assault was hurried to Lexington on Monday night from Versailles and placed in the Fayette County jail to escape a lynch mob. Miss Lucy Fogg, the beautiful 16-year old daughter of Capt. Sam Fogg of Duckers Station, was the intended victim of the assault. She positively identified Jones as her assailant. Family members, neighbors and indignant citizens at once began to form a mob so that County Judge Robert Stout felt justified it would be unsafe to hold the prisoner in Versailles and spirited him away to Fayette County. 

When he learned of the assault, Capt. Fogg and his friend Ed Porter Thompson rushed to the home of Jones with the intention of killing him. When the men reached Jones’ place, they approached him and the darkey made no attempt to flee and protested his innocence. Thompson persuaded Capt. Fogg to take Jones to let his daughter identify him as the assailant. Upon arrival back to his home, Capt. Fogg presented Jones to his daughter who exclaimed “That’s the man!” Jones was taken to jail, again at the urging of Thompson, and from there taken to Fayette County.

[Ed. Note : We re-publish verbatim the historical story as it appeared in our pages at the original time of publication to remain historically accurate and to present that history unvarnished. There are several issues raised by this story, aside from the pejorative use of “darkie” – the issues of lynching, the failure of the criminal justice towards African-Americans, assumption of guilt based on race. We will republish the outcome of this matter in the coming weeks.]

Near Pinckard, Bruce Bailey was shot and mortally wounded by James Walton. The tragedy was the outcome of a quarrel between the men six weeks ago.

Credon McGann has gone to Louisville to enter St. Xavier’s College. He will live with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John Coleman.

A hayride to Lexington was given by a party of young people of Paynes Depot on Friday night. Those in the party were: Misses Jennie, Nancy and Susie Payne, Jennie and Lela Hurst, Hattie Piatt, Adline Griffith, Fannie Prewitt, Nancy Cooper, Finley and Louis Hopkins, Henry Hamilton, Warren Griffith and chaperoned by Dr. J.B. Blades.

September 18, 1924…Joseph Clemmons, 24, the new druggist in Midway, comes from Louisville.

In the show window of John Wise & Sons on Railroad Street can be seen the biggest red beet on earth. It weighs 12 ½ pounds. It was raised by A. Klosterman on the farm of A. Klosterman on the farm of W.E. Simms.

Miss Ruth Clark left this week for Jackson, Mississippi, where she accepted a position as Bible teacher in a school.

Miss Anna Cunningham left Monday for Richmond where she will attend normal school.

Mrs. Palmer Harris, who was injured in a runaway accident on Friday, is resting very comfortably at her home on Big Sink Pike.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Nave and son have moved to Frankfort where Mr. Nave has accepted a position with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.