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By Woodford Sun Staff
July 9, 1903…
GOP governor candidates so far announced are Morris B. Belknap of Louisville, Augustus E. Wilson of Louisville and Clifton J. Pratt of Louisville.
Miss Marie Boyle died in Lexington last Thursday night. She was for several years the teacher of music at the Orphan School here.
George Brand died Saturday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. W. J. Montague. He was 58 and had suffered a stroke. He formerly conducted a shoemaking business in Midway.
Quarterly report of the Farmers Bank of Midway shows resources of $83,330.89 and deposits of $60,556.53. C.W. Parrish is cashier and directors include John Wise, Richard Godson and W.E. Sleet.
With last week’s issue, the Clipper entered upon its 28th years as a newspaper.
Midway has an industry which is much larger and far more important than one might suppose. Sarks & Co., manufacturing pharmacists, have put on the market a number of remedies that have proven their worth many times over. Chief among these is Starks Headache Powders, now know and used in every state in the Union. Recently, it was found that the quarters over the drug store were inadequate for the proper handling of a constantly increasing business, so the firm leased the large room in the Odd Fellows Building adjoining the Clipper office. Here, under the supervision of R.S. Starks, manager, the work of putting up the powders, packing and shipping, and distributing advertising matter, goes on from morning to night. Upstairs is the compounding room, where the powder is made in large quantities to be accurately measured and put up in separate papers by a large force of girls in the room below. Two typewriters are kept busy answering inquiries, addressing sample packages and attending general correspondence. An immense amount of advertising is done by the firm every year. Eight years ago (1895) the business was begun by Mr. Starks in a small way and the increase has been rapid from the start. Each year since has found the volume of business double that of the previous year.
July 10, 1924…
the 1924 burley crop will hardly be 85 to 90 percent of the 1923 crop. The Burley tobacco Growers Cooperative Assoc. president and general manager James C. Stone made the announcement.
Versailles will have the Redpath Chautauqua again next year. A.B. Chandler has agreed to take the chairmanship of next year’s Chautauqua, which will again be held behind the grade school building.
An announcement was made Thursday that William C. Haydon jr. of Jetts Station and Miss Bess Shaw of Versailles were married Jan. 29. The young people had slipped quietly away to Jeffersonville, Indiana and were married. They have gone to housekeeping in the home of Mrs. Haydon on Lexington Street in Versailles.
From the days of the Civil War until 1900 farmland values showed little change, according to the Sear-Roebuck Agriculture Foundation report. But by 1910, the acre price had doubled. With the demand for agricultural products around the time of the World War prices of land averaged as follows: 1912 $45, 1913 $48, 1914 $50, 1915 $55, 1916 $60, 1917 $65, 1918 $72, 1919 $82, 1920 $90, 1921 $80, 1922 $70, 1923 $60. After the war, the collapse in grains and livestock sent farm values the lowest in 25 years.
On Monday, a birthday dinner was given in honor of the 91st birthday of Mrs. Eugenia Williams.
According to records kept at Tuskegee Institute, there were five lynchings so far in 1924, 15 last year, 30 in 1922 and 36 in 1921.
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