The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1909-04-01
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Been April Fooled1
Very little sickness.

"white Sale" April i4th.
Toilet Soaps-Helm & Ellison.
Change Of Program every night
at the Lyric.
Prompt service, low prices and
good groceries at c. II. Moore's.
J. E. Fuqua is making repairs on
his residence and otherwise beau,i.
flying his property.
Engraved cards and embossed
tationery and cards Of every de-
scription at this Office.
List your real estate property with
the Courier. II we don't sell IL, il
doesn't cost you a cent.
Miss Pauline Caldwell returned
from Paducah. Sunday. and is spend
ing few days with her parents.
The ladies of the Episcopal Guild
will hold a "White Sale" at the
home of Mrs. ]. H. Millet. April 4th.
Mrs Virginia Beale. Mrs. Oma
Shaw and II. T. Beale returned from
Nashville. Thursday, where they
spent few days.
Our business has nearly doubled
in the past twelve months. That's
one good sign that our groceries are
the best in town.-C. H.Moore.
Our subscribers are invited to call
at this Office and get a supply OF
garden seed FREE. II you wan,
them, get busy. First come first
served.
The Hickman Realty Co. has I'M
der construction seven residences in
West Hickman, which will be com
pleted in a short fine. There're
doing the right thing.
Robt. Carpenter, administrator for
the estate of J. R. Donnell, deceas-
ed. will sell at public auction, Satur-
day. April 10th, in Hickman, sever
al head OF stock. wagons, farming
implements, etc.
For the first time since the present
administration took charge Of affairs
of the state government. in Decem.
Der, 1907. there are no troops on
duty for the purpose of suppressing
might rider" troubles.
| Fully fifty residences have been
built in Hickman during the past
year, and today there is not a vacant
house to be found. Houses are
even rented before they are
built. Who says Hickman is not
growing. or that she is not the best
town in the U. S. to the square
inch1
Deputy u. S. Marshal Neale, OF
Paducah, and Deputy Sheriff Goalder
Johnson arrested three negroes
Luke Clark, Gene Dalton and Ben
Wilhelm Hickman Sunday charg-
ed with bootlegging. and took them
to Paducah, Monday. These negroes
have been convicted for this offense
in the county court. and the Federal
court is not likly to have any
trouble in giving them a sentence in
the Federal prison.
The lifetime of a coed watch is
fifty years. In its daily duties the
balance virbrates IL, 900 times every
hour. $4,000 times day, or ls7,-
6So. 900 times a year. The hair.
spring makes a similar number of
vibrations and an equal number
ticks from the escapement. II il is a
really good watch multiply ls7 $780,
200 by fifty which gives 1884 900
pulsations for fifty years The
chancesare that the watch may even
then be in serviceable condition.
Prof. Goode, of the State Univer-
sity, advances new theory as to
turkey buzzards. II is an old ira
dition that the buzzard was simply
an innocent and useful scavenger and
should be protected from all harm.
Prof. Goode, whose lecture was on
the subject of hog cholera, declared
that the buzzards were among the
most active agents in spreading this
destructive disease and that instead
of the State having Law to protect
them the Legislature should pass an
act requiring the destruction Of every
buzzard in the Commonwealth.
There is. we believe. a Law now
against killing buzzards.
OF all things Hickman needs for
municipal good, a Commercial Club
would be the most beneficial. Some
say we have such an organization,
but well have TO be shown. We
might have had one In dave mona b.,