On May 5, 1904 . . . John Edwards, 38, died of diabetes at his home on
Green Street in Versailles. He was a bookkeeper at the Amsden Bank and
secretary and one of the founders of the building and loan association,
and an officer at Glen’s Creek Baptist Church. He leaves a wife and two
children.
Henry Saultman, 35, of Anderson County, went Saturday to the home of his
former wife and daughter (now living at the home of William Cumber of
Shryock’s Ferry Pike0) and demanded the return of his daughter who had
been awarded to the wife and whom he had previously carried off to his
home. He got into a difficulty with his ex-wife’s brother, Curtis
Wafford, and each shot the other at point blank range with shotgun. Both
will apparently recover. Saultman was arrested.
A Southern Railway passenger train bound for St. Louis and the World’s
Fair ran through an open switch yesterday in Versailles and plowed into
several L&N freight cars. Only the engineer and fireman were injured,
neither seriously, and about an hour’s delay ensued.
About 18,000 people witnessed the running of the 30th running of the
Kentucky Derby for a purse of $5,000. Elwood won the race over Ed
Tierney and Brancas in the best duel since the race between Proctor
Knott and Spokane.
Quite a number of our citizens went out to the creek fishing on
Saturday, as that was the first bright sunshine we have had for many weeks.
Starks & Co. started their soda fountain Tuesday for the season.
Midway Public School graduating exercises will be held at the Opera
House on June 1. The two graduates are Kittie McMullen and Maner Wallace.
A frost is predicted for May 7.
R.H. Nutter offers for public sale the 240 acre farm of the late James
B. Nutter on Leestown and Browns Mill Roads, four miles from Midway.
There is a two-story brick residence and 60 acres of virgin soil, and
three never-failing springs.
April 4, 1924 . . . The Chautauqua will be held in Midway during the
latter part of June this year. Officers names to make the arrangements
include Ike Parrish, Dr. J.S. Lehman, Arthur Graves, W.C. Morris, R.C.
Richardson, A.B. Rumley, J.S. Lehman and Mrs. Milton Davis.
Margaret Ware Parrish, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Parrish, is
ill with measles.
Miss Ida Kennedy Risque, of the University of Kentucky, is spending
spring vacation with her parents, Dr. and Mrs. W.E. Risque.
James Cleveland has sufficiently recovered from an operation for tonsils
and mastoid to be taken to his home in the county.
Invitations have been issued by Mrs. John Crittenden Mountjoy, principal
of the Kentucky Female Orphan School, to the 75th Anniversary and
commencement of the KFOS, 1849-1924.
Reminder: The Blue Grass Clipper was published in Midway from 1875 to
1935, and The Sun publishes corresponding date appropriate excerpts,
warts and all. We hope you enjoy reading these as much as we enjoy
researching them in our archives.