October 26, 1899… Congressman Evan Settle and former U.S. Senator Jo Blackburn addressed an enthusiastic crowd at Versailles Monday on behalf of William Goebel for governor and German B. Stout for state representative. Serious fighting erupted in Natal, South Africa, last week between the British and Boer armies. The British armies were uniformly victorious although they received severe punishment. British officers are not allowed to remain in any other than a standing position, a seemingly unwise regulation not followed in other armies, and many officers were thus killed in the battle of Talana Hill near Glencoe. A force of Boers set fire to cars left standing by British miners near Mafeking, not knowing that the cars were loaded with dynamite. The resulting explosions killed 80 Boers. Dr. Alford Blackburn went to Louisville last week to stay a few days. He expects to locate permanently in that city later on. The trial trip of the Battleship Kentucky will take place next week. The great ship is now almost complete, and the builders are engaged in putting her guns in position. The wife of Riley Brock, at Pinckard, has presented him with a son. Mrs. Brock was formerly Dora Clay, the divorced child-wife of Gen. Cassius M. Clay, of White Hall. He will be named for General Clay. Jehu Givens has rented the cottage of H.O. Stanhope, on Gratz Street, and he and his family will move back to Midway to live. The law provides that the new governor will take the oath on the fifth Tuesday after the November election. Other state officers go in on the first Monday in January. One of the results of Sir Thomas Lipton’s coming here to contest for the America’s Cup has been to interest him in tea growing here. His enormous fortune was made in growing tea in India and selling it to England. He is the head of the two largest tea concerns in the world and is the largest landowner in Ceylon, where he has huge tea, coffee and cocoa plantations. He believes he can grow tea cheaply and successfully in South Carolina and plans to invest heavily there. October 27, 1921… One of the most important transactions that has taken place around here in a long time was the purchase this week by Messrs.Barbee, Stone and Carrick from Kenneth D. Alexander of Escoba, the sterling son of Broomstick and Christmas Star by Star Shoot. Escoba will be immediately transferred from Bosque Bonita, where he has been under the charge of John H. Morris since his retirement. The price is around $35,000. Escoba started 19 times as a two and three-year-old, winning at least four important stakes races. He was the favorite for the 1918 Derby and finished second to the great Exterminator. A.B. Arnett has filed as a candidate for city judge of Midway. Mrs. W.C. Arnett, 78, died Monday at the home of a daughter in Atlanta. Among her survivors here are two brothers, George W. and Ernest Dunlap. Woodford Countians have signed up 4,548,769 pounds of tobacco for the new burley pool, 78 percent of the tobacco in the county. The Democratic ticket for November 1921 is as follows: Thomas. R. Welch, state senator; R.L. Stout, circuit judge; V.A. Bradley, Commonwealth’s attorney; R.S. Hawkins, county judge; Frank Bohannon, sheriff; John W. McCabe, tax commissioner Mrs. Ida F. Edger, jailer; David J. Howard, representative; Claude A. Witt, circuit clerk; Will D. Jesse, county attorney; John M. Gray, county clerk; William H. Wilson, Dist. 3 magistrates; John E. Harris, Dist. 4 magistrate; L.D. Carpenter, Dist. 5 magistrate; and W.W. Johnston, Dist. 6 magistrate. Midway defeated Eminence 49-0 Friday at Midway. Faust and Portwood’s running and Littrell and Thompson’s passing and end runs featured the play. Midway’s team travels to Lawrenceburg next week. Players used were Penn, Gatrell, Strausbaugh, Roberts, McKinivan, Lynn, Campbell, Portwood, Kearney, McKinney, Faust, Littrell, Thompson, A. Portwood and Parrish. James S. Starks, H.L. McLemore, Howard Rouse, R.W. Hicks and E.P. Faulconer of Danville motored to Boston this week where they will attend the Centre-Harvard football game Saturday. B.L. Hagedorn sold to Ben Wilson his interest in the Versailles Produce Co. on Locust Street for $1,500. A petition seeks to add the names of John W. Stone, Clarence Crutcher and Mrs. J.M. Garrett to those seeking a place on the expanded Versailles school board. Foster H. Winter has sold his residence and pool room on Lexington Street to D.W. Slaughter for $5,200.
Clippings from the Blue Grass Clipper
