August 15, 1901… The 1900 census gives Kentucky 2,147,174 citizens; 1,090,227 are males and 1,056,94 are females. A full-page ad by the East Tennessee Telephone Company lists the names of its 73 Midway subscribers. Forty-five of the numbers are for residences, nine are office phones, pay stations are at Starks’ and Davis’ drug stores and at the Long Hotel. According to The Washington Post, the engagement of Mrs. Mary E. Blackburn to United States Senator J.C.S. Blackburn was formally announced yesterday. The ceremony will be very quiet and will take place early in September in Washington. Mrs. Blackburn is the widow of Judge H.H. Blackburn of West Virginia. The late judge was the law partner of the Hon. Ward H. Lamon, President Lincoln’s old friend and law associate. Senator Blackburn has denied the report of his prospective marriage. As was predicted in the Clipper, Mr. W.O. Davis was made president of the County Attorneys Association at Grayson Springs last week. August 17, 1922… City Council will meet Friday night for the purpose of taking up the pavement proposition with KFOS. John Starks of Louisville built a road and sidewalks from the school grounds to the town limits, which also included a bridge across Lee’s Branch, at a cost of about $5,000 and donated it to the school. KFOS now wants the city to meet them halfway by building sidewalks on Cross Street to the town limits. If this is done, the students of the school will have a way to get from the school to town without going up the L & N Railroad. George W. Searcy has purchased of Tucker Brothers 33 acres near Fort Springs for a dairy farm for his son, James Searcy. Price was $5,000. Prof. J.P. Beaman, the new superintendent of schools, has come to Versailles to live with his wife and three children. They have taken the house of Mrs. John Werner Crenshaw, corner of Morgan and Locust streets. Mayor W.S. Berry, 50, died Saturday morning after a long illness. He was elected mayor only last November. Bearers were R. Keene Arnold, William K. McCabe, Paul M. Smith, James N. Fisher (members of the city council), Douglas Stevenson, Theodore Harris, John M. McConnell and A.C. Hunter. Samuel C. Nuckols Sr. died also on Saturday morning at age 77 after a protracted illness. He leaves sons Louis A. and Claude and his wife; two daughters, Mrs. Robert Gray and Miss Lida Marie Nuckols. Bearers were Charles Nuckols Jr., W. Henry Graddy Jr., Joseph C. Carter, Sam. L. Wooldridge, John T. Graves and A.C. Hunter. Miss Sarah Clarke left for Japan by way of Seattle on Saturday after a year’s furlough spent at home. She expects to be gone for seven years.