The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1909-03-18
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Judge Rrmley and brother IN Law.
Mr. Lindsay. spent the latter part
Of the week A. the lake, hunting.
Harvey HINES and wife. OF Union
City. we're here Saturday, visiting
the formers parents. II. Hines
and wife.
J X. Donnell, Of Yves, Hickman.
and one Of our good men, is report
ed to be extremely low, and bis re-
covery is doubtful.
A repor, in circulation to the ef-
feet that Ellison Bros. would start
another furniture store in this city is
denied by L P Ellison.
C.. G. Schlenker sold his l60-acre
farm in Obion county, this week. 10
Or. c. w. Curtin and Tom Booze
The purchasers will start a stock
farm,
We sell nothing at one price TO
one customer and lower prices TO
another. We make the same los
prices to everyone at the New Cash
Store.
WHITE wYANDOTTES-The
great all-purpose fowl. Eggs, 81
per setting OF iS.-Mrs. l.. ID.
Threlkeld. Hickman, r. r. ). Phone
Woodland. 1874 APP
You do not have TO wait for Gu,
Price Sales to make your purchases
at reasonable prices. The New Cash
Store is selling good goods at "Sale"
prices every day.
The Courier prints this week the
list Of property which will be sold
by Sheriff Seat on April 18th. to
satisfy taxes due. Read Il: your
property may be listed.
FOR SALE; Twelve tons fine
Timothy hay. also some nice mixed
hay. One saddle horse years old.
one mare and one horse years old.
Cash or good note.-L. c. MADDOX.
42p.
David Bright. formerly Of this
city. and editor of the East Prairie
MOI Eagle. offers his paper for
sale. The reason, We understand.
is because the citizens Of that town
voted down proposition to install
electric lights. We don't blame you.
Dave.
With probably 10000 bushels OF
coal within the city limits, the city
of Hickman had a coal famine the
first of the week. The coal wharf
OF the Hickman Ice & Coal Co. on
which the coal was piled. was sur.
rounded by water and could not be
reached with wagons an d teams.
The timely arrival Of another barge,
Tuesday, changed the situation.
When men stay away from the
house of God because women wear
hats that obstruct the view Of the
pulpit and preacher. it is time to re-
move the hats. These merry
Widow" screens have been extreme
ly prominent during the meeting now
10 progress, and those in charge will
confer favor on the male attend
ants by asking for. their removal.
Unfortunately our churches are not
built on the ampitheatre floor plan,
and two-thirds Of the congregation
are unable to see the speaker.
It's best to do the work given US
to do, no matter how distasteful It
may be just as we'll as ii can be done.
not mechanically. but with the whole
heart. II 1t is round OF house.
hold duties day after day. make Il
pleasant by scattering CLEANS of
sunshine ali along the way. Max.
ing bright spot here. and a copy
corner there. Let the arrangement
of your table be a bit Of artistic
grouping. make it a picture with a
sitting every day. II really doesn't
cost much to be happy. II we only
knew how.
T. T. Swayne. one of the level
headed, conservative men Of the
Commonwealth, called to our mind
very forcibly the fact that our jary
system Is getting in bad shape.
Ignorance is the paramount element
in qualification for the jury service.
For instance. four Of the Jurors in |
the Carmack- Cooper murder trial |
can neither read nor write two 9TH
ers are foreigners and speak only in
different English; all twelve Of them |
swore that they mad not read news
paper since before the killing and
some Of them admitted that they had
not read one for ten years. And
these men have been selected, out of |
3,0l9, to sit as jurors in the great