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July 23, 1903 … 

The per capita amount to be paid the schools this year from state funds will be raised to $2.60 from $2.32 last year. Each school district in Woodford will therefore receive $2.60 from the state for every pupil listed in this year’s school census. No district will receive less than $117, with 45 pupils being the minimum number of children allotted to a single district.

Miss Hattie Holand is now one of the “hello” girls with the East Tennessee Telephone Co.

Miss Emma Sleet, of Warsaw, has been elected music teacher at the Orphan School in place of Miss Boyle, deceased.
Mr. Smith of Lexington succeeds John C. Hay as manager of the East Tennessee Telephone Exchange here.

Misses Mattie and Bettie Hughes, Alice Baxter, Columbia Davis, May Allen and Sallie Pates attended the Teachers’ Institute at Versailles last week.

Mr. Wiggins and family of Frankfort have moved into the Wise property on Winter Street adjoining Dr. Sleet’s office. Mr. Wiggins is the Singer sewing machine representative.
Midway Lodge #220, I.O.O.F., has added a new gasoline light system, which makes its meeting room one of the most attractive anywhere. Nearly all the business houses of Midway are now equipped with gas light.

July 24, 1924… 

Mrs. Herman Williams has moved from the county to the Jones residence on Gratz Street.

A distillery owned by Thomas Hinds of Chicago and R.A. Baker of Woodford County, located at Forks of Elkhorn, was destroyed by fire on July 21. Two thousand two hundred cases and 1,500 barrels of whiskey stored in Warehouse B of the Hinds & Baker Distillery were lost. The loss amounts of about $1.1 million at prohibition prices and $178,000 at legitimate prices. The whiskey was worth $1 million, and the building was worth $100,000. In addition to Hinds & Baker, Mrs. W.E. Dowling of Lawrenceburg was a big loser.

R.W. Hicks is wearing a broad smile over the arrival of an 8 lb. boy at St. Joseph Hospital Tuesday night.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Martin Jr. are receiving congratulations over the birth of a daughter born Monday, July 14, at St. Joseph Hospital. The babe has been named Kathryn Brooks Martin.

The Mortonsville area was heavily damaged by a cloudburst Thursday morning.

In Kelso, Washington, the tale of a “tall gorilla men” or as several called them, the “ape men,” who were credited with having attacked a party of trappers in the mountains there last week, is a myth, two forest rangers declared. Hmmmm.