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

Mrs. Geo. Cross aud 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 aud
impudence is in the size of the speaker.
- Prof Devoe, the great weather
prophet, predicts terrible blizzard be-
tween June 10 and July 4, with heavy
snow. He refers chiefly to the Eastern
States.
Ed Grassland, young attorney Of
Mayfeld, and SON of Sam Gro ISLAND.
has returned from Iloilo, Philippines,
where he received an honorable dis
charge from the LIST Tenn. regiment.
6 loaves Bread for PIC.
26 loaves Bread for ~ go
Patronize home industry aud save from
20 TO a0c on the dollar, at the New City
Bakery.
The Appellate court Of Kentucky is
sustaining the law requiring passenger
| trains tn carry separate coaches for ne.
groes, and say that roads failing To Oh.
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 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
appropriate
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
the fact that they are cut off from the
IlNtT Nv SOUlc DTtdh III INC IuDutts
When the river falls sufficiently the
City Will repair the break. In the
meantime use water sparlngiy
yM- have about 10 gross of fine
main springs for watches, al sizes, that
got from Ed. Meyer at a bargain thai
will fit them III your watch for zoe,
for 80 days. BOB BUCK.
Editor George Warren advertises
that his paper, the Hickman Courier, is
, for sale. Mr. Warren has been identi-
fed with the publication of the paper
: for more than forty years aud his news
D paper friends viii regret his retirement
, from the business -Paducah News.
, There Is a man IN one OF our neigh
boring towns, with pretty marriageable
daughters, who has arranged TO put n
clock in his parlor that will play Home
Sweet Home" at 10 O'Clock; TRAMP,
Tramp. the Boys are Marching" at 10 rs,
T. and johnnie Get Your Gun" at 10 80.
a Says the Obion Democrat: The
small pox situation in West Tennessee
> has reached a stage that calls forth Sc
,. rious alarm. At Martin there are a
number of cases. The same is true of
Fulton. Yesterday three new cases
I were discovered here in negro family.
] Henry Emerson, proprietor of the
Hickman Telephone Exchange, informs
Us that he is contemplating putting in
| a new ''switch board one much larg-
I or than the present one-which Will en-
able him to give his patrons better ser
vice, and answer the demands of his in
{ creased patronage.
q /-Indications are factoring for large
= apple crop The prospect for pears are
not so bright. Grapes will not be as
g abundant as usual. as many of the
vines were killed and others badly in
y jured. There will be but very few
q peaches in this section. Many of the
!. trees Were winter killed.
An item that was published in the
Courier last week, and which took the
. rounds of the press, stating that Il total
eclipse of the sun would occur Monday
last, evidently originated in the mind
of some amateur astronomer whose pre-
diction failed TO come true. 1t WAS not
laid down in the almanacs.
, The way we spell 'progrum" in
y this shop is pro, pro, g.r-a-m-m-e
gram-and the way we pronounce II Is
a program. Commencement announcer
please N. Is. our pronunciation Ii
r unjustitiable even if You spell it 'pro
4 gram" because you don't say sept
grum" or "diagrum," do you1
Hollis Kirk, who was injured last
week by the premature discharge of one
l. of the guns used in firing a salute to the
gunboat Nashville. Is up and about
r again, and we are glad 10 state thai
l. his injuries, though painful, are no
=. serious. Hollis says, "though slightly
u disfigured, he's still in the ring"
y AS precaution against the spread
,r of small pox, Union CITY has notiheC
r. prospective colored excursionists Il
Cairo that such will not be permitted
G to return, Other authorities have TAX
n en- like precautions. So far the diseas,
has been chiefly among the colored PEG
IL pie, and therefore scattered by them.
10 @. MORRIS, Druggist, Moscow, Ky.
says hes ellis Plantation Chill Cure AM
finds il suits his trade because II eradi
Gates the system of all malarial poison
10 and he guarantees it.
n. A Eairo man bac ipuopto1 A.. aha /;