The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-02-02
LOCAL NEWS
81 valentines day comes next.


or day O'CLOCK Sl.5O at Bucks.
FOUND-A urge store Aey. Call at
the ourier offi;e.
The CITY Council will meet in reg.
MAR session next Monday night.
The mcrch tnt VITO ichicv succe :
adv r,Is.s y .l,lVrlf ,oI.ii. .1Asly ta.
with h,cu latipI
"a Eyes esied tree al Backs
A Yves ern clergyman denounces
Sunday funerals Most people are In
favor OF posIpouing them iuLehuliely.
. The ladies of the EpiscopI church
will give an oyster supper on the eve.
ming OF III gth inst Everybody invit-
ed.
THAT Chicago woman who spanked
her husband every twenty four hours
didn' waste any time on the ''eonsent of
the governed idea.
Secretary of the Navy. Long, has
presented To the city of Nashville, the
one pound HOtchkiss gun which fred
the first shot IN the Spanish war It
Was on board tho gunDOdt Nashville
VM- Get you watch before they
are aII gone. from the Kerr Il Randle
stock, y price at Bucks, next 70 the
Big HOtel.
From press reports, Farmers In
stituies" have been organized IN many
OF the best and most progressive cOun-
ties IN the State and they are prOnOunc.
ed very helpful to the great farming IN
terests
--Old river men say the present win
ter Is exactly like that of 1883 aud 1884,
when the Ohio Valley was cursed with
great floods, destroying millions OF dol
lars worth OF property and causing
many deaths.
s1s Take your Hides. Furs aud Game
to SHAW * SHAW.
Western Kentucky Is in the front
rank as "a straw berry raising district
Ii contains the largest tract of Land de.
voted TO berry culture north OF Tenn
essee. The tract contains about 100
acres and Is located near the town of
Bardwell.
DIR. ID. J. Bazzell. Weltmer mag I
netic healer, set himself I'D as a cure-all /
in Fulton recently, but the State Board I
of Health notified him that he would
not be permitted TO practice IN Ken.
lucky. and he has gone To Missouri
Clinton Democrat.
A Georgia judge warned his PEG.
pie with regard TO coming into court in.
toxicated, aud used these words: Il
wish to put everybody on notice that II
they come into this courtroom while |
am setting on the bench drunk. they
had better look out.
The ladies Of the Episcopal church
Will give AN oyster supper on the eve.
ming of the 9Th inst. Everybody invit-
ed
The lighthouse tender steamer yo-
seph Henry has been condemned by the
Naval Board of Survey The sum and
substance OF the condemnation i that
the steamer Is pronounced unseaworihy,
to use technical language, and must be
replaced by another boat.
"A bin has been introduced IN the
Kentucky Legislature providing for "A
tax of 81 on all dogs. 20 be paid into a
fund To reimburse sheep owners losing
sheep through depredations of dogs
The money is 10 be collected by the
sheriff. and the surplus Ovec and above
TOO at the end OF each yeaf Is 20 20 into
the school fund. The law Is similar to
one now IL effect in Indiana
To-day Is ground hog day. It's
said that II on that day the woodchuck
sees his shadow, he will return to his
quarters and remain six weeks. which
means that there will be forty DAYS
more winter weather II, however, ne
fails TO Sc his shadow, winter is pracu-
cally over and he can go out OF his den
at will, without taking chances on en-.
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