CLIPPINGS FROM THE BLUEGRASS CLIPPER

By Woodford Sun Staff

June 12, 1924… 

The Booth Tarkington play, “The Trysting Place,” is highly complimented by the paper this week. The cast included Miss Florence Cannon, James Cogar, Mrs. A.B. Arnett, Mr. and Mrs. A.L. Willis, F.V. McChesney and R.W. Lacefield. Mrs. Roy Farmer, Miss Lily Parrish and Mrs. T.M. Roach entertained with a musical and reading prelude. Miss Lucy Peterson directed, Mrs. W.G. Lehman was business manager and Miss Elizabeth Lehman was in charge of scenery.
More than 600 visitors crowded around Pinkerton and Parrish Halls for the 75th commencement of the KFOS last week. This is the first Protestant school for the education of orphan girls in America. Fourteen out of a student body of 138 received diplomas. Two hundred alumnae from some 30 classes, from 1876 to 1923, were on hand for the occasion. Last year 140 girls were turned away because there was not enough room. Mrs. Ella Johnson Mountjoy is superintendent, and the Rev. E.J. Clarke is financial director.
John Dupee has been granted a permit to build a garage on Higgins Street.
Two fiery crosses were burned in Versailles Thursday night. One on the old Seller Carriage Co. lot, the other on Court Place just north of the courthouse. There was an open meeting in the Troy and Nonesuch area. By actual count, there were 3,500 autos and some 12,000 to 15,000 people present Friday night on the Blake Farm, near Troy and Nonesuch, at a huge Ku Klux Klan meeting. Between 100 and 200 men were initiated and an address was delivered by a Frankfort minister. [Ed. Note: We are re-publishing this terrible event from the Clipper for historical purposes.] 

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