August 25, 1904 . . . Monroe, Michigan, will honor the many Kentuckians who fell there in 1813 at the Battle of the River Raisin with the erection of a $5,000 monument.
Mrs. S.L. Stout of the Faywood neighborhood celebrated her 80th birthday Tuesday last week with a dinner with close friends.
The Woodford Sun’s publisher and editor Dan Bowmar is getting up a personal conducted tour to the World’s Fair at St. Louis, Missouri for September 15. The trip will include rail fare, dinner en route, five days lodging and breakfast at the Epworth Hotel, admissions each day to the Fair and a tour of the best shows for a reasonable $22.75 per person.
A prominent farmer tells us that he will raise 20 acres of tobacco this year at a cost of $230. He has spent $80 so far and figures to spend another $75 to cut and house his crop and $75 more to strip and market the crop.
H.C. Poynter and family will remove to the Martin homestead to live for the present.
I.N. Biddle and George Martin came to Midway last week in an automobile, making the run from Lexington in 45 minutes. Vroom!
George Berry Cannon, some of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Cannon, fell from a farm wagon on Saturday and suffered a broken arm and other injuries from a wheel passing over him.
Among those present for the wedding of Miss Henrietta Blackburn to Benjamin Harris Wallace of Chicago, were uncle and aunt, Senator and Mrs. J.C.E. Blackburn and her brothers and sisters, James Blackburn, Samuel Blackburn, Dr. Alfred Blackburn and Mrs. Lily Hempstead.
Arch Childers died Sunday morning at his home near town. He had been sick for some time since contracting measles which affected his lungs and brought about consumption. He was quite a young man and had clerked most recently at the store of John Wise.
August 21, 1924 . . . The main article in this week’s Clipper deals with a horse being taken to Saratoga by Warren Viley to be sold. He received a telegram which read “sold for $2,000” instead of “hold for $2,000”. Consequently, he sent the horse back to his mother, Mrs. J. Breckenridge Viley at Stonewall and thus lost a sale for $5,000 on the horse at Saratoga.
Ashlin Logan has returned home after several months on the Redpath Chautaugua circuit.
Sherman Hancock left Sunday for Hazard, Kentucky, where he has accepted a position.