Editor’s Note: Having completed the adoption of the current Kentucky Constitution in August 1891 and the start of America’s involvement in World War I in winter-spring 1917, the Sun now moves to the last months of WW I, the period of the United States major involvement. This period also saw the impact of the deadly Spanish Flu epidemic in the U.S., including Central Kentucky. For historical purposes, the Sun reprints the Clippings “warts and all,” and so derogatory and racist stereotypical words are reprinted in an effort to combat any attempts to “clean up” history for modern eyes or assuage modern consciences.
The Woodford Sun
November 7, 1918
[PISGAH BROTHERS] Mr. George Dunlap left last Friday for Chicago to report for duty at the Great Lakes Training camp, and is going into the naval aviation branch of the services. He is the third one of the Dunlap brothers to enlist in the service of his country. Whitney and Branham having gone several months ago.
[HARRY BROUGHT HOME THE BACON] The splendid result of the election in Woodford is due more to the untiring work of two men – Theodore Harris, the chairman of the Democratic County Committee, and Hon. Harry Schoberth, chair of the Democratic Campaign Committee, and more so due to the efforts of Mr. Schoberth. He has done in this race what he has done in everything of a patriotic nature since the War commenced. He has been energetic, vigilant and watchful. If there is a square inch of road in Woodford which his automobile did not touch on election day, it muse have been a hole. Owsley Stanley has won his race for the Senate over Ben Bruner by 8,238 votes.
[JEWISH HOMELAND] Nearly 100,000 Jews, including a large group from Kentucky, have enrolled as prospective immigrants to a new Jewish National Homeland in Palestine.
[WAR NEWS] The Kaiser has told the Reichstag that he is ready to abdicate whenever the interests of Germany demand it, but that the time does not yet seem to be present. It is said he plans for his grandson to succeed him. The Bavarian Premier has informed Berlin that the Bavarian Royal Family claims the Imperial throne in the event of the Kaiser’s abdication. Austria has surrendered and an armistice was signed on Monday. Germany is expected to give way soon, and the Allies have given her their terms. When our boys come marching home, can you take their hands, and looking them squarely in their eyes, say “I did my part”?
[RUSSIAN NEWS] The Bolsheviks are said to have openly declared that the night of Nov. 10 will be a general “St. Bartholomew,” with the murder of the entire bourgeoisie and intellectual class. Indescribable panic is said to have gripped Petrograd.