The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-08-17
LOCAL NEWS.

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According to the usual date, school
will commence at the College the 9th.
Fulton Circuit Court convenes the
LIST Monday IN September weeks
term.
Esy Some one has borrowed my new
ground plow. Please return to
H. II. HARDING.
--Breathes there man with soul so
dead, that hath not unto his nelghbor
said-this is hot.
Dick Lewis, the absconding post
master at Ragland McCracken county,
Is in Jail at Paducah.
Read the Semi Annual Statement OF
the Hickman Building a Loan Associa
ton, published in this issue.
What man is going to be brave
enough TO appear ON the streets with the
latest fad, masculine shirt waistf
A petrified frog was brought TO the
Courier office this week by Mr.. Fonnie
Cravens, and Is now on exhibition.
Prices show boat sunk in the Ohio
River near Cairo last week. Forty per.
sons were on the boat, and all escaped
drowning.
The Nash. Chat. a ST. Louis Rail
road receives $4,000 for carrying the
u. s. mail on all It's lines, and the Hi
nois Central SGSO,3jO.
Wants. For Sale, For Rent Lost
Found, To Loan, etc, inserted in the
Courier rate one cent word each inser
ton. Personal mentions free.
WANTED To buy one first class mule,
not over four years old, full fifteen
hands high, neat and trim in every par
ticular. ID. II. TooNBs.
To morrow. the 18th, Is the Demo
cratic primary in Tennessee 10 decide
between Rice Pierce and J. +. Jones for
Congress. Interest in the result extends
over into Kentucky.
The State Prohibition Convention
will meet at Louisville, August 2sth, 10
nominate a candidate for Governor. All
who are interested in the cause Of Pro
hibltion in this county, are requested 10
attend.
The Lake County Press reports the
crops this year an equal ON an average
10 almost any previous year. lncessant
rains turned some corn yellow but II
expects about 100 bushels 20 the acre,
and the cotton Is from 20 5 feet tall.
The Lake County Press Is happy in
the expectation of railroad from Dyers
burg to Tiptonville, from Obion TO Tip
tonville and one from Hickman 10 Upton
vile, one Of which is possible. another
probable, and the one from Hickman.
certain.
The soothing and healing properties Of
Chamberlains Cough Remedy, it, plea
SAINT taste, its prompt and permanent
cures, have made il great favorite with
the people everywhere. For sale by
Cowgirl and Cowgirl Hickman. and A..
NJ. Shaw, State Line, Druggists.
If any Of our readers have an opin-
ion upon the subject Of the shirt waist"
now and wish 10 express il, the Courier
would be pleased 10 publish them. All
communications should be accompanied
by the writer's name, at least 10 insure
good faith upon the part Of the writer.
-Irl Hicks has struck II again. and up
goes his stock as a successful weather
prognosticator: a heated term from
2nd TO 18th. From 18th 20 l4th is a re
dictionary storm period and the chances
will be good for heavy thunder gusts
and some local rain storms amounting to
waterspOuts.'
E@ All kinds of Fresh Fish, Oysters
and Wild Fowls In season, for sale at
the Hickman Packing Co. TELEPHONE 50.
The shipments Of fruit TO the North
by way of the Nashville, Chattanooga 4
st. Louis Railway have been extremely
heavy this year. During one day recent
ly fifty two carloads Of melons alone
we're sent 10 the Northern market, while
during the month Of July 81 car loads
of peaches, SO carloads Of melons and
thirty seven carloads Of pears we're car
ried by this company.
Attorney General Breckenridge has
rendered an opinion TO Secretary of
State Hill, holding that notary public
commissions issued by former Gov
TAYLOR, after January 81 are null and
void, and that the secretary of State
has no authority to draw from the treas
ury money collected and pald into the
state treasury in payment for such com
missions, or TO issue new commissions
in their stead.
The work ON the new double track
Of the Illinois Central Railroad from Full
ton TO Cairo is being rapidly pushed and
will be fully completed before winter
weather sets in. As an instance Of the
enormous amount Of food consumed by
the working gangs, one firm in Fulton
recently sold one man over 500 of heavy
groceries. This amount only lasts a
week. Fulton merchants are getting
much benefit out of the work.
Due Notice.