The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-04-21
LOCAL NEWS.
Tho roads are improving.
.whitewashing time is at hand.

Mr.. p. J. Frena has bought the Dr.
Phelps property, East Hickman
A rrotracted meeting will begin at
the Methodist church next Sunday.
wen Tho Ladies have a cordial invl-
tation to visit The New City Bakery
Miss Matte Oman. of Tiptonyille.
Tenn. is visiting Mrs. " }. Harper,
Mrs Jennie Wilson has returned
home after visiting at Dyersburg Tenn.
Elmo Reeves and Miss Ida May
Moore visited friends nc Fulton Sunday.
Mr.. CLAY Lewis. the hustling agent
for the Lee Line, was IN the city Mon
day.
The weather for April thus far has
not been such rs to inspire the spring
poets.
Mr.. Yves Alexander, prominent
farmer near Jordan, was IN the city
Friday.
gesy- Try a barrel Of Erin Lime and
Star Cement from LEDFoRD u ROGERS.
None better.
Mr.. H.. }. Burnett, of Nashville,
Tenn. visited his brother, kule Bur.
nett, last week.
The prospect is good for bountiful
crop of apples, pears, cherries and plums,
but peaches and berries will be short
The goth semi annual meeting OF
the First District Educational Associa-
ton is TO be held at Princeton, May 9Th
and 9Th
Mrs. f. NJ. Trevathan, of Union
City, returned homo Sunday night, ac-
by her neices, Misses May
and Dolly Greene.
The Fourth Tennessee Regiment is
To be mustered out May llth, aud the
boys Will come marching home about
the 18th or 18th.
es5r- \ nice lot Of Floor Mattings, the
latest patterns from l2c 10 Doc per yard.
32i-6t II. q. AMBERG.
The farmers have taken advantage
If the few pretty days this week and, rs
/ consequence, but few OF them are TO
Ne seen on our streets.
-Caruthersville Democrat: Don Go.
am, Will Bobo and Miss Flora Corum
eft for Hickman, Ky, last week,
where they viii make their future
home. y
Mr.. Tom Dillon, jr,, of Hickman,
was elected Grand Assistant Dictator,
It the session of the Grand Lodge of
he X. of H in Louisville, last week.
a deserved promotion.
An Iowa man declares that there
will be no summer this year, but that
water Will freeze in every month, as IL
did in the year 1916. This familiar pre-
diction comes from away up northwest.
Prof johnson, an aeronaut, made n
$500 foot ascension at SikeStOu, Mo,
one day last week. When he tried TO
cut loose his parachute, IT would not
work, and he fell with the balloon, mar
rowly escaping death.
"A newly married editor gets Off the
following: What Is the difference be-
tween hOneycomb, a honeymoon, and
pretty girl: \ honeycomb is Il small
cell, honeymoon is big sell, and n
pretty girl is dam-sel.
Union City will do the proper thing
in entertaining the members OF the 18th
Tenn, when they return home i'm few
days. a number of Fulton County
boys belong to this regiment, among
them Warner Brevard and Win Hol-
combe,
Rs. Call aud get a free sample OF
Chase q Sanborn 5 famous Roasted COT
fee, sold only by II. BUCHANAN.
-Benjamin Franklin once said a good
newspaper and bible in every house
school house in every district; q
church in every neighborhood-all ap
preciated as they deserve-are the sup
porters of virtue, morality, civil liberty
and religion.
The handle factory referred to in
last weeks Courier has decided to estab
lish plant in Hickman. 1t will be un
der the general management of Mr.. J
T. CassettySand will, it is said. employ
about 10 hands. 1t is TO be moved from
LewisbUrg, Tenn.
"A man by the name of Gilbert, 8
stranger, died in this county, last week
and was buried as a pauper by the COun
ty. Communications since received
show that his home was at Alton, H..
and that his relatives want his remain,
sent there for burial.
A Patronize home industries and
buy your Bread and Pastry of the New
City Bakery.
The County Surveyor will visit all
the road overseers in the county, look
ing to laying off the county into road
districts, and mapping the roads and
lands on eacn section. The OycrseCr,
need TO get move on them aud pre-.
pare to aid in the improvement of the
roads.
There are some men who trade in a
town until pay day comes and their
credit is exhausted, when they sudden
ly transfer their trade to a neighboring
town. The business men of Union City,
Fulton and Hickman have established
an interchange of their customers rat.
ing taken from their own books, that
size mp such people, and thus protect
themselves. It's good idea the hon
est customers do not suffer by 1t, and
the dead beat" should.
The achievements of the southern
cotton mill industry. conducted upon
strict business principles and with the
advantages of location as to the supply
Of labor and raw material. were eXem.
al, oil 1T hn