June 23, 1904 . . . The Clipper editorialized against Sunday baseball vehemently.

Milton Davis has accepted a position at Farmers Bank for the summer vacation filling in for Albert Sleet who is on vacation. 

Postmaster S.L. Gatrell returned Sunday from French Lick Springs, Indiana. He comes home with much improved health to the delight of his wife.

Hiram Cannon and Charles Steele have gone to Lancaster to attend the State Athletic Tournament where each is entered in several contests.

In a lovely society wedding of leading families, Dora Dean Davis married William Bennett Cogar at the residence of the bride’s mother on Winter Street. The Rev. George Kemper performed the nuptial ceremony with a vigorous sermon. Miss Mayme Cogar and Miss Henrietta Witherspoon were bridesmaids and Allen Davis and Quinn Cogar were groomsmen.

Thomas Osborne died Sunday at the home of his mother on Railroad Street after a long illness of consumption. He served in the Spanish-American War and was on duty in the Philippines and China. He was a young man and has been sick ever since his return to Midway.

Tennis is becoming quite popular in Midway.

The Mayor of Lexington ordered that women were no longer to break stone at the city work house, including prisoners from Woodford County.

June 19, 2024 . . . Mrs. Delie Taylor, 82, Winter Street, was with her daughter, May, Monday at home when she was taken sick. Drs. Anderson and Risque tried to help her but she passed away on Tuesday. She had lived in Midway for 60 years. She was the widow of Oscar Taylor who died in 1883. Her maiden name was Suggett and her mother Lucy Johnson was from Virginia. She was born in the Brown Place near Great Crossing. Her husband built the Odd Fellows Building and ran the store of Taylor & Paynter. She laves two sons and a daughter.

Grover Burkhardt was killed, Owen Chism is under arrest for drunkenness and Mrs. Audrey Chism is hospitalized as a result of an auto accident on Monday. Burkhardt’s head was caught between the car and a telephone pole when the auto left the road. Apparently Burkhardt fell asleep at the wheel and his head was hanging out the window when the car veered of Lexington Pike.

Mrd. John T. Gatrell gave a party for her daughter, Miss Morrell Gatrell, who celebrated her 11th birthday.

 

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