The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-07-21
LOCAL NEWS.
~ Queensware at sHAw's.

went to Fulton Sunday.
The Methodists of Fulton are con-
Quoting big tent meeting
IA Special attention 10 Hardware
shelf goods at SHAw's.
Indiana has sixteen counties with
mary negro" within their borders.
An anti .Goebel State Convention
is called to meet in Lexington, Aug. 2.
Gale Brownlee, well known
young man of Fulton, died, Sunday
last.
The corset trust will squeeze the
waists of women and the pocketbooks
of men.
The colored folks are making big
preparations for the Sth of August cele-
bration.
administrator sale of n. j. Geens'
estate, near Cayce, next Friday, the
2Sth. See advertisement.
Mr.. Adkins Cole and Miss Efhe
Harpole, were quietly married in Full
ton, Sunday, Rev. Peter Fields officiat.
ing.
Big towns and little ones are getting
mp schemes TO advertise themselves.
The best ads for town Is well con-
Quoted newspaper.
-Tiptonville Press Mrs. Amberg and
her most charming young daughter,
Miss Irene, of Hickman, Ky, are visit
ing ltrs. Lizzie Hines.
Dr,,o. In,,,,, -, ~ ,,.,I ..,,,, -
ly injuries tuesday by being thrown
from his wagon ON the railroad track ON
river front. Injuries not serious.
MIR. A. p. Sells will leave to-day or
tomorrow FOR Brinkley, Ark. He will
canvass that State in the interest of "a
patent broom. We wish HIM success.
The city authorities have ordered a
general repair of ravements and side
walks, and surely the enforcement of
the order is much needed in many
places.
The citizens of Pennington, Graves
county, have offered a reward of $500
for any information of Miss Maud Sto-
vail who mysteriously disappeared on
June 3.
Capt. William 4. Andrews. who
started across the Atlantic Ocean June
is IN boat l2 feet long. was picked up
exhausted about 700 miles from the Ir-
ish coast.
G. B. MORRIS, Druggist. Moscow, Ky,
says he sells Plantation Chill Cure and
finds it suit his trade because il eradi-
Gates the system of all malarial poison,
and he guarantees 1t.
In spite of the efforts of Govern
ment officials TO prevent il. the Indians
of the Territory are holding their ghost
dances, smoke dances and other similar
ceremonies.
The postoffice at Clinton was bur
glarized Saturday night. the burglars
securing s20T They used dynamite 20
blow the safe open No clue had been
obtained at last account.
-Obion Democrat: Mrs. Margaret
Nugent died Monday morning at the
boarding house of Mrs. Nichols. Mrs.
Nugent came 10 this city from near
Cayce, KY, several weeks ago, and was
under the treatment of the Christian
Her remains were carried
to Harmony church for interment.
1t is claimed by some ladies that
single blessedness is the happiest con-
dition for women, while Others CON
tend that happiness can only be found
in matrimony. Both are wrong as
neither is the ideal state of woman
hood. For woman TO be exquisitely
happy and i'll an ideal state of satisfac-
lion with herself and the world she
must be a rich widow
4" positively will repair your
watch or clock at less than the cheap.
st. | have the experience. tools and
AN execute the work. Yours truly,
X. w. BUCK.
The season for dove shooting, by
ar the best sport we now have in this
country, will soon be upon US and the
pootsmen can hardly wait until the
irst of next month. Although it was
eported that many doves were frozen
o death last winter, persons from the
ountry report that there is apparently
10 smaller crop than usual and that the |
uniting will be just as good as ever. !
Here Is the published remedy tor
sleeplessness discovered by an
inglishman who has suffered much in |
he cause: "As soon as the squaller |
wakes prop II up III sitting position |
With pillows and smear its fingers with |
hick mollosses or syrup. Then put |
alf dozen feathers into its hands, and |
ably y5ill sit and pick the feathers from
ne hand to the other until it falls
sleep.
The average boy or girl has no use
1hatever for geometry, algebra, chem.
'try, physical geography or ancient
istory as studied in the average pub
C school, says the Washington Post.
is of the utmost importance that he
hould know thoroughly the principal
nles OF arithmetic, should be able
D spell correctly, write a good hand
nd speak and read without mispro.
ouncIng words.
-Obion Democrat: Friday at about
o'clock the dead body of a white
ian, JEFF Craig, was found hanging
'om a limb Of tree in front of Cane
reek church in District No. z. Craig
las about 45 years old, and leaves two
nall children. About five years ago
e was stricken with a long siege of
aver which left his mind in an impair.
1 state. In the neighborhood In which
Q lived he was regarded as harmless
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