Rev. A.R. Kasey was finishing his third year as pastor of the Columbia Methodist Church. (Rev. Kasey was returned by Conference to Adair County for another year, then reassigned to another church at the 1909 Conference.)

Mrs. Henry Miller had met with a painful injury -- a sprained ankle -- the previous Friday when she jumped from her buggy to re-do the harness on her mare. On the same day, Miss Estelle Willis and her little nephew, Mays Durham, were victims of a runaway buggy. "The buggy was upset and torn to pieces, but fortunately the occupants were not seriously hurt."

On Saturday, the Louisville Colonels had defeated the Columbia batsmen on the latter's home field by a score of 9 to 4. The paid attendance was 946 with an estimated crowd of 1,100 to watch the action. Stults & Barger "twirled"(pitched) for Columbia; the catcher was Cox; and "the Judd boys [Romie & Tom], Mike Winfrey, and Holladay did good fielding."

On Sunday, Mr. Jo S. Sandusky and Miss Lula Conner were united in holy matrimony at Glenville.

R.W. Shirley, Z.L. Samuels, J.E. Burton, J.J. Gabbert, Duke Grider, Hudson Conover, Calvin Acree, G.W. Staples, W.G. Roy, J.K.P. Conover, W.S. Bault, and J.R. Sanders had been selected to serve on the grand jury for Judge H.C. Baker's just-opened term of Adair Circuit Court.

"The drought throughout Kentucky has become alarming... In the eastern portion of this county water is very scarce..."

Mrs. Minnie Johnson of Adair County "took the premium" on her battenburg cover at the State Fair.

The Misses Eubank announced the fall opening of their millinery shop, with "the latest New York styles" to be on exhibition. Mrs. L.C Hurt & Mrs. L.L. Eubank also announced the opening of their millinery shop, with "the handsomest and most attractive hats ever on exhibition in Columbia," and, in an classified ad, Kate Squires promised she could "supply the ladies of the Cane Valley country with the nicest hats, etc." she had ever offered.

The Misses Sallie and Mamie Baker had on the previous Friday entertained several of their lady friends.

"Columbia will be in darkness for about a week. The armature of the dinamore [dynamo] burned out last Thursday night, and the necessary repairing will have to be done in Louisville."

Leonard McClure had been tried on Monday and given two years in the pen for breaking into Mary Winfrey's smoke house and stealing two hams.

"Colorado Grant's ten and twenty cents show struck Columbia last Friday and at night an exhibition was given on the back lot of Mr. Scott Montgomery's residence... The most interesting features were his educated ponies and an educated horse." (Another brief item noted that two men, "the name we could not learn," while on their return home to Russell Springs after the show, "got into a difficulty" and one was badly stabbed.

Mr. J.E. Naylor had sold to Mr. W.G. McKinley his farm of some 200 acres for $4,250.

Mr. and Mrs. P.V. Grissom's little daughter was reported to have a slight case of diphtheria.

Born, the wife of Geo. Hammond September 27th, a daughter.

Born, to the wife of J.B. Barbee, September 28, 1908, a daughter.