The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-06-01
LOCAL NEWS.
School is out

Service at the Christian Church,
Sunday morning. Everybody invited.
We will have all kinds Of fruits in
great abundance IN this county tins
year.
Listen girlss A Long Island maid
en- was fatally poisoned by an ice cream
soda.
A number of Hickman sports went
10 No. . lake, Wednesday, on q fishing
expedition.
Old nature is out again in her full
dress of green and now presents her
prettiest appearance.
1t is base TO speak one thing and
think another; how much baser 10 write
one thing and think another.
When a woman wants 10 feel per
fectly sure that postal card will be de
livered she puts 2cent stamp on II.
POTATO SLIPS
For sale by
Mas. NJ. V. wALKER.
Within the past four years William
Jennings Bryan has travelled over lOO,-
600 miles for the purpose of speech max
ing.
The person who is always most rea-
DIV 10 say don't care" is the one who
cares more when the threatened event
happens.
-Dyersburg boys arrested for break
inc the glass in the high school building
claimed they were initiating Dewey at
Manila.
-Cayce. this county, shipped. last
wear. III ,s96 hogs, 30 head Of cattle, and
DO sheep-a total OF 100 car loaos, says
our correspondent
From present prospects there will
be plenty of watermelons on the local
market this summer. A big acreage has
been planted in the river bottoms.
Labor strikes are aggravating. but
Just at this time the most trying strike
IS when the pillow point strikes a root,
the pillow handles strike you and you
strike the ground.
The Shaw Base Ball team. Of Hick
man defeated the Fulton Blues, at Kinks
Park. Saturday last, by a score OF IA TO
] in favor of Hickman. This was the
second defeat.
The eclipse Of the sun was observed
by the bulk Of Hickman's population
through smoked glass. Monday morning,
but clouds thickened about the nearest
approach to totality and We thus lost the
most desired view.
The Rev. j. II. Evans preached the
Hickman College commencement ser
mon Sunday night at the Methodist
The house was crowded 70 its
utmost capacity. All We heard express
ion from pronounced the sermon a grand
logical and beautiful in
words, and sentiments.
An Indiana woman instituted a suit
for divorce from her husband and the
officer, who went TO serve the papers
was Just in time 10 see the man killed
by railroad train. The woman dis
missed the divorce sait and hrorght
suit against the railroad company for
BIO GOO sor killing her "man."
The Supreme Court Of Massachu-
sets has decided that tobacco cannot be
sold on Sunday in that State unless Il IL
TO be used as medicine. But what man
in Massachusetts,, OF elsewhere. ever uses
tobacco except as a medicine! IL IL sim
ply impossible to classify il as food, cloth
ing OF fuel. II is medicine or nothing.
AT a gathering near Fulton a slight
Of hand performer was performing the
old trick Of producing eggs from a hat,
when he remarked 20 little boy: Your
mother can't get eggs without hens. can
shel" "Of course she CAM! replied the
lad. why. how is THAR asked the con
jurer. She keeps ducks" replied the
boy, amid roars Of laughter. - Fulton
Leader.
Our live congressman, II. A. Pierce,
has succeeded by his perseverance In
working into the emergency appropria-
ton bill the levee running from Hick.
man to TiptOnville and the survey has
been ordered so that the report ON same
will be made much sooner than expect.
ed. No measure is so important as 70
the counties OF Lake and Obion. Sc
much for an efficient Representative
Troy News-Banner.
The Charleston Mo- Enterprise say
that several Of the largest farmers oi
Mississippi county are in correspondence
with Chinese companies in st. Louis and
San Francisco in regard to furnishing
Chinese laborers 10 save this years wheat
crop. They agree 10 work for Sl.00 pei
day; whereas, the white and colored la
borers are demanding $50 and 500, a,
the harvest approaches. The farmer
say they cannot comply with the demand
at the present prices for wheat.
"A pessimistic exchange takes occas
ion TO remark: "A few short days viii
come and go--days full of soaring hope.
and then fate's cruel, knockout blow
will send against the ropes full many |
candidate whose smile has lighted vi
the gloom that erst was promote rshrouC
the while his pale and sickly BOOM" Th'
low, sobbing notes OF the bass drum will
soon be Abroad in the land; the torch
light procession is getting ready TO pro
cess, and the sweet-voiced gentleman
whose business on earth is TO say II tolG
you So" proceeds to put his pipes il
order.
The rule Of the United States in
spection service forbidding masters anC
pilots of steam vessels TO allow passen
gers to enter the pilot house Of thei
craft, under penalty of $500, is not
new rule. as has been widely printed b,
various exchanges up the river, but al
old one which has been in force a mum
Der Of years. Until recently however
the question Of how many passenger
could be allowed in the pilot house Of
vessel was left TO the discretion Of tn
captain or master, but at the last meet
ing OF the board Of supervising inspect
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