The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-04-13
LOCAL NEWS.
-Easter EGG hunt. next Sunday.

Read the Marshals sale Tor taxes
in this issue.
When a woman sees mouse she
gets ratified.
Graduation essays and orations are
beginning TO sprout.
John ID. Rockefeller has given s2OOO,-
600 TO the Chicago University.
Spring flowers and prospective can
didates are smiling on the people.
When the weather is fine 1t is com
tortng to have the days grow longer
The Southern Baptist Convention
will meet at Hot Springs, Ark. May lOl0,
The bicycle Is now described as the
missing link between wings and shoes.
House cleaning and poultry raising
are in the order Of things with the house
wives.
The little child of Mr. Ely Powell,
living near Reelfoot Lake, died this
week.
Perhaps il is the tired feeling in
spring which causes men TO so ont on
strikes.
Its spring time when a man sits ON
a tack, and fan when he steps ON a
banana peel.
Forty two persons are known TO
have lost their lives in the Texas floods
and many more are missing.
EA- The way TO keep your watch IN
good order always is to get Buck TO re-
pair il as he gives all repair work his
special attention.
One thousand Cuban school teach
ers will spend six weeks in the United
States this summer visiting number OF
cities.
Easter services al the Methodist
Church next Sunday. Special sermon
and music for the occasion. Everybody |
invited.
1t is the "concensus of opinion -
you have probably heard thar expires
sion before that the fruit crop Is safe /
up TO date.
Bad roads constitute the greatest /
drawback 10 country life. and for the /
lack Of good roads the farmers suffer l
more than any other class.
For Sale.
Fine Brown LeghOrn eggs. 20 cents 1
per setting Of IL NJ. l.. ELLISON.
The next regular meeting OF the
Hickman Building x Loan Association
will be held az the court house next
Thursday night, 18th inst.
The days are now getting longer
and the nights shorter, which gives the
younger generation more time 20 work
and less time for counting.
Preparations on an extensive scale
are being made for the reception and en-
Of Admiral and Nm. Dewey
who viii visit Memphis on May 7.
The man who employs his influence
aud his means In the interest Of public !
enterprise is the force that makes the !
community prosperous and cOntented.
New Wall Paper
We have Just received our Spring
Stock OF Wall Paper, beautiful patterns
nc very low price Call and make SCI
lection Wilson's Book Store
1t will be only short while now
until the now naked trees will be put
ing on their spring fnery of green
foliage and nature viii look her pref
nest
Congressman Rice A. Pierce has in
reduced bill appropriating $500 for
he Christian Church al Upion City
or its occupancy and damage by Union
roops during the war
In the Federal court az Paducah.
Monday, Smith Hogan was sentenced
e ten months confinement in the pen
tenua-y for oounterfeiting The crime
was committed near Hickman
IN YOU INTEND to paint your house
w w wv IIsU this Spring. II so,
zee SWAYNE, The Druggist. He hand.
les mixed Paint, Oil, Turpentine, Var
lishes, STAINS, Hard Oil Finish. Etc.
Prices right.
The Democrats of Fulton are arrang.
ing a royal entertainment in honor Of
the First District Congressional Com
mittee and other State Democrats who !
will gather there on next Tuesday, 18th /
INST
This is the season for the spring
poet, the spring bonnet, the spring poll
.lcian, the spring flowers and the spring
Hood. They're all here except the food
and the river is falling at the rate Of
over a foot day.
The Lee Line has withdrawn ITS
two boats from the Tennessee river
trade, leaving the st. Louis a. Tenn.
River Packet Co. without opposition.
The lines had competing steamers in
the Mississippi river trade, and il is re-
ported that compromise has been
SENSATION AND SENTIMENT.