The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-06-02
LOCAL NEW s.
" Quoensware at SHAw's,

Mrs. Geo Cross and son, Of Bar
field, Ark, were in the city Tuesday.
Parents should send their naughty
children TO the nautical training school,
No man ever gets SO poor that he
can afford to have holes IN his pockets
VM- Special attention TO Hardware
shelf goods at SHAw's.
Place your advertisement in the
Courier and watch your business grow.
The difference between repartee and
impudence is in the size of the speaker.
go Prof Devoe, the great weather
prophet. predicts a terrible blizzard be-
tween June 10 aud july (, with heavy
snow He refers chiefly to the Eastern
States.
Ed. Grassland, young attorney of
Mayfeld, and son of sam Grassland.
has returned from IloilO. Philippines,
where he received an honorable dis
charge from the LIST Tenn. regiment.
6 loaves Bread for PIC
90 loaveS Bread for - 10.
Patronize home industry and save from
20 To 3Oc on the dollar, at the New City
Bakery.
The Appellate court of Kentucky is
sustaining the law requiring passenger
trains to carry separate coaches for ne.
groes. and say that roads failing tn OBJ
serve this law are subject tn heavy
penalty.
A Tennessee editor says he dream
ed he was in Heaven the other night
He says he didn't see a single bill col
lector nor a delinquent subscriber there.
but that Paradise was filed with big
advertisers.
The new fad among the young la
dies now is the friendship heart for the
chain bracelets. Those of sterling sill
yer. engraved with the name or initial
of the friend. are the most common aud
Robert Shelby and Ida Collier,
both of Hickman, Ky. were mar
ried by Squire Cook this morning
New Madrid MiSsourian,
The above couple, (colored folk en-
JOY the kind wishes of all.
The supply of water from Water
Works is insufficient and irregular, from I
the fact that they are cut off from the /
river by some break in the tunnel I
When the river falls sufficiently the .
City will repair the break. In the .
use water sparingly.
IA have about 10 gross of fine
main springs for watches, all sizes, that
got from Ed. Meyer az a bargain that
will fir Thorn IN rnnr watch for Enp
'or 80 days. Bob BUCK.
Editor George Warren advertises
hat his paper, the Hickman Courier is \
Tor sale. Mr.. Warren has been identi- I
He'd with the publication of the paper ,
for more than forty years. and his news !
paper friends will regret his retirement
from the business. -Paducah News.
There Is a man In one OF our neigh |
boring towns. with pretty marriageable I
daughters, who has arranged TO put /
flock in his parlor that will play Home /
Sweet Home" at 10 O'Clock; TRAMP, /
Tramp. the Boys are Marching az 10 ID. /
md johnnie Get Your Gun" at 10 80. I
Says the Obion Democrat: The .
small pox situation in West Tennessee /
las reached stage that calls forth Sc /
'ious alarm. At Martin there are "A /
number Of cases The same is true of /
Fulton. Yesterday three new cases .
we're discovered here in a negro family. /
Henry Emerson, proprietor of the 4
hickman Telephone Exchange, informs I
Is that he is contemplating putting in .
/ new "switch board one much larg- I
r than the present one-which will en-
ible him to give his patrons better ser !
rice, and answer the demands of his in 1
,reased patronage.
Indications are fiatteriug for large |
apple crop. The prospect for pears are .
lot so bright. Grapes will not be rs 4
abundant as usual. as many Of the \
zines were killed and others badly in .
ured. There will be but very few .
peaches in this section. Many OF the .
rees were wlnter-killed.
An item that was published in the .
Courier last week, and which took tine .
ounds of the press, stating that a total .
eclipse OF the sun would occur Monday I
asst, evidently originated in the mind .
II some amateur astronomer whose pre- /
lection failed to come true. 1t was not I
aid down in the almanacs.
The way we spell "progrum" in
his shop is pro, pro, g-r-a-m-m-e,
the way we pronounce it is
program. Commencement announcers /
,lease N. B. Your pronunciation is
even if you spell it "pro.
gram, because you don't say "epi- 4
rum" or 'diagrum," do your
Hollis Kirk, who was injured last
week by the premature discharge of one
II the guns used in firing a salute TO the
,unboat Nashville, Is up and about
gam, and we are glad 10 state that
his injuries, though painful, are not
serious. Hollis says, Though slightly
he's still in the ring"
AS a precaution against the spread
If small pox, Union City has notified
colored excursionists to
cairo that such will not be permitted
% return, Other authorities have TAX
N like precautions. So far the disease
las been chiefly among the colored PEG
pie, and therefore scattered by them.
@. b MORRIS, Druggist, Moscow, Ky.
ays hes ellis Plantation Chill Cure and
inds il suits his trade beca use 1t eradi.
.ates the system of al malarial poison,
md he guarantees it.
A Cairo man has invented a chair