CLIPPINGS FROM THE BLUEGRASS CLIPPER - MIDWAY'S HISTORIC NEWSPAPER (SUBSCRIBE TO OR BUY THE SUN FOR COMPLETE STORY)

May 22, 1924... 

Four white robed Ku Klux Klan members marched down the aisle of the Methodist church after the sermon Sunday night and knelt and led in prayer and then presented a donation to the Rev. L.E. Williams. They then marched out of the church. No one knew them or believed them to be from Midway. [NOTE: we are reprinting this from the original edition of the Clipper for historical purposes as evidence of the overt racism the forebears of our African-American Woodford Countians faced only 100 years ago. We implore all Woodford Countians today to stamp out racism in all its overt and implicit forms].

Henry Phillips, Robert Jackson and Henry Richardson, charged witch striking with intent to kill, were tried this week in Versailles. Richardson pleaded guilty and got three years. The others each got five years. Phillips and Henry Green, charged with stealing an auto, were given five year terms. Richardson and Jackson pleaded guilty and will be tried later. They came here from Louisville on Mary 5 and were arrested by Deputy Sheriff James Lewis. Deputy Ewell Hoover was attacked and thrown out on the railroad while driving them to jail. They were then arrested and indicted.

Mrs. William Cannon and daughter, Annie Elizabeth, have been visiting C.H. Jones on Elm Street in Versailles.

May 21, 1903... 

The Telephone Girl will have to go. The Telephone Girl, like the street car mule, will have to “go.” Modern science has acknowledged what Cupid has failed to do, and it will only be a short time until the musical “hello” of the blond and brunette “centrals” will be a thing of the past. Already the “girl-less telephone” is in use and threatens before many moons to put the “hello” girl out of business. The new invention is an automatic and secret service telephone without a human central. Harper’s Weekly says that it is already satisfactorily working in a dozen cities of 25,000 or more. Its promoters claim that they are certain of its complete success in the larger cities. It is added that by mean of an automatic switchboard the Telephone Girls in the exchange or central station are absolutely done away with. When a number is wanted, one simply turns a small dial, like that which operates the combination of a vault, to the numerals which make up the required number, in their consecutive order, then a button is pressed which rings the call bell of the other telephone, and the connection is complete. Its operation is said to be instantaneous, no one can break it, interrupt or overhear it, and a person speaking cannot be shut off before he has finished talking.

Buried the Hatchet... The McCoys and Hatfields have settled at Greenup. Jones Hatfield, at one time a leader of one faction of the great West Virginia feudists, has purchased a fine farm in Woodford County and will spend is remaining years in peace and quietude. The venerable gentleman is now nearly 80 but as spry and active as many men of 40. He has been in a great many skirmishes with the famous McCoy family and always came out safe and sound. A great many of the McCoy family have also located here, but both parties apparently have buried the hatchet. They send their children to the same school, the adults worship in the same church, and vote at the same election house.

Dr. W.E. Risque has rented a portion of Mrs. Lucy Davis’ residence on Winter Street and will move his family there about June 1.

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