July 14, 1904. . . Acting Kentucky Governor Brooks Parker issued a pardon to Johnson Hatfield for crimes committed in the famous feud of some 20 years ago.
Robert C. Nuckols, well known in Woodford and Scott counties, has been arrested in Louisville for giving worthless checks.
Mr. and Mrs. W.L. Cannon of “Elkwood” announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Eleanor Steele Cannon, to I.F. Starks.
John R. Pates has been appointed Superintendent of the L. & A. Railroad in place of A.C. Hone resigned.
Again the “oldest inhabitant” says he he has never known any weather like this summer. So far, there has been no need to go to summer resorts to find a cool place.
Lewis Simpson fell off of his ice wagon on Monday with the wheel passing over his head and was seriously injured. Drs. Parrish and Sleet saved his life.
Mrs. C.J. Fleming, Miss Maggie Martin and Misses Louise Kasselman, Margaret Poynter and Caroline Steele left on Monday for a ten day stay at the World’s Fair in St. Louis.
July 19, 1924 . . . The 1924 burley tobacco crop will hardly be 85 to 90% of the 1923 crop. The Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association president and general manager James C. Stone made the announcement.
Versailles will have the Redpath Chautauqua again next year. About 350 tickets have been pledged and 23 citizens, many of whom stood behind Chautauqua and paid off the previous deficits, have signed the 1925 contract as guarantors. A.B. Chandler has agreed to take the chairmanship which will again be held behind the grade school building in Midway.
From the days of the Civil War until 1900, farm land values showed little change, according to the Sear-Roebuck Agriculture Foundation report. But by 1910, the acre price has doubled topping out in 1921 at $80 an acre. After the War, the collapse in grains and livestock sent farm values plummeting in the last year.
R.O. Lewis had a narrow escape from losing an eye Sunday night. He was cranking his Ford auto when the crank slipped out of his hand and struck him in the eye and cut his face badly.
Neville Cook, Forest Yocum and Leslie Childers left Tuesday for a month’s stay at Camp Knox.
On Monday, a birthday dinner was given in honor of the 91st birthday of Mrs. Eugenia Williams.
Citizens Bank of Midway shows resources of $327,417.96 and deposits of $221,491.58. H.L. Martin and M.D. Offutt are president and cashier.
According to records kept by the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, there were five lynchings so far in 1924; 15 last year; 30 in 1922; and, 36 in 1921.