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Thursday, July 27, 2023

CLIPPINGS FROM THE HISTORIC BLUEGRASS CLIPPER



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July 30, 1903… 

The great Kentuckian, elected official, US Ambassador, newspaper publisher and, after hearing William Lloyd Garrison speak in 1832 while a student at Yale, became a leading Abolitionist (which cost him in his political endeavors), Gen. Cassius Marcellus Clay died at White Hall, Madison County, on Wednesday. He was a cousin of Henry Clay. The end came peacefully. He was in his 93rd year. His children by his first wife are left nothing except the estate lands of 2,022-¼ acres in Madison County, which was set aside for them in 1870 after the separation of Clay and his first wife.Among his other requests, he left $2,000 for the erection of a Methodist church near Pinckard, where his child bride, Dora Brock, lived while in Woodford.

During the storm last Tuesday night, the Henry Clay monument at Lexington was struck by lightning and the head of the statue was knocked off. 

The Red Men have just installed a new gas lighting machine in Collins’ Opera House.

July 31, 1924… 

The Clipper strongly supports Sen. Augustus Owsley Stanley for the U.S. Senate against John Junior Howe of Carrolton. Fred M. Sackett is favored to win the GOP nod on Aug. 2.

Henry L. Martin Sr. suffered a painful accident Friday when he was thrown from his buggy after his horse started rearing in the driveway of his son’s residence. Mr. Martin received head and shoulder lacerations and was treated by Dr. Risque.

Thomas Douthitt of Spring Station is a candidate for jailer. He is nearly six feet five inches tall, weighs about 240 pounds and which would make an ideal jailer.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ockerman, who live on the Simms farm, welcome a son born on July 24. 

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Shryock welcome a son born on July 23.

Grant Jones is lying seriously ill at his home on Railroad Street.




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