The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-06-29
LOCAL NEWS.


ular session next Monday night
The first thing 10 do. il YOU have
not done it is to fall in love with YOU
work
Next Wednesday Is the nation
birthday" 4th. How are YOU 60
ing 10 observe it,
Its human nature TO sympathl1e
with the under dog-unless You nave
bet on the top one.
The funeral of Esq. J. J. Jones will
be preached at Davld's Chapel, LIST sun
day in July by Ed. Adams.
Every animal kept by man, except
ing the cat, is taxed in Austria, and now
there is a proposal 10 tax pussy.
John ID. Rockefeller writes that he
can get new pair Of overalls this year.
Made S2I 10000 in the first six months
OF 1900.
We'll. after all, things might be lot
worse than they are. The first water
melons of the season reached Hickman
last week.
Serious damage has been done IN
Georgia. Alabama and South Carolina
by recent rains, and a vast territory mas
been inundated.
Rain and wind have badly damaged
the wheat and corn crops In Missouri
Illinois and Oklahoma Kansas Is sui
fering from drought
The census enumerator who makes
public any information given him by an
individual is subject 10 a fine OF 500
under the census laws.
Cow for Sale.
In fine condition. Good milk COW, but
dry. Apply TO COURIER OFFICE
A German savant says dying is
perfectly easy and painless process. Con
he says ceases in nearly ev.
Fry instance before the heart stops beat
ng
The colored baseball club Of this city
vent 10 Columbus last week and scored
IN easy victory over the club at that
1lace-O TO .. Dem niggers can sure
llay ball.
Helen Goulds income is the largest
4 any unmarried woman's in the coun-
~. She does not spend much on her
elf. On churches and charities she
ponds $4,000 year.
- Bankers estimate that American
isitors to the Paris Exposition will
pend abroad this year 100000 more
han is usually spent by Americans in
Europe during the vacation season.
A kentucky convict opened the
reasurer's vault in thirty minutes. after
xperts and machinists had failed 10 do
be trick in three days trial. The com.
ination 20 the vault had been lost.
The Methodist bishops have decided
n July I'd 10 sth as the week OF prayer
q the NJ. +. Church, South, and on the
sunday following as the day 10 take col.
ection for the Twentieth Century fund.
On next Wednesday. July ith. there
viii be a barbecue and bran dance on
What - known as the "Old Centennial
near Mrs j. NJ. Reds place
n West Hickman. Everybody invited.
Only a little over wear ago the
United States gunboat Nashville was
nchored in the Mississippi river. in
ront of Hickman Now she lies of
len Tsin, China. This is a great coun-
~, but so are It's warships.
Auditor Coulter has issued a circu-
IT stating that the tax rate this year
i'll be only 471f cents-a reduction Of
ents. The Legislature Of 1897 increas-
q the rate TO 52iS cents for three years.
397 90, when il drops back 10 471Sc.
Fourteen farmers were hauled up
efore Circuit Judge Flippin at Dyers
urg Monday for cutting wheat on Sun
ay in violation Of the Sunday law. They
that il was the only way to
ave their crops The judge thereupon
ismissed them with his approval.
Corn, tomatoes, melons, everything
eeding work is Suffering and much Is
total loss. Another week of rain will
end the clover hay along with the rest
the truck. The oldest inlabitant
oes not remember a June in wlSch dis
ster was so general in this section.
The Chairman of the Republican
committee Of Fulton county has called
County Convention Of the Republicans
o meet at the court house i'm Hickman,
July l4th, 10 send delegates 10
he State Republican Convention 10
a Republican candidate for
Governor.
-Paducah Register: James Worten.
If Hickman, confined at the city hospit
Il, whose nose was in muchly disfgur-
ID shape, caused by his falling when
quite young had his nasal appendage re.
broken by City Physician Sanders. and
out, with the assistance Of
Drs. Coyle and Griffith.
Albert Robinson. a negro man. hail.
ing from Mississippi, was arrested Tues
day night by Marshal Dillon. charged
with breaking into a shanty boat on the
river, the property Of Jim and John
Ringo. col, stealing therefrom a guitar
and other things. He was tried before
Judge kearby and bound over 70 circuit
court.
When you kick stop and think what
your fate might be if you were given
like for hke-what it would be neces.
sary to do with you, should you kick
mule and in turn be kicked by a mule.
But some people are better OFF dead than
alive, and often it is better for some
people to be dead than for them 20 be
alive. Moral Don't kick.
REASON WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN
THE KNIGHTS Of KADOSH.