The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1909-11-11
CTRA Y LOCAL NOTES
- TAKEN UP...

News is mighty scarce this week
Best Calico. sc a yard .---Barkett's.
The r. A. Craddock sale, adver-
tised for Dec, Is. has been post
poned
Barketts big Sale begins next sat
urday First come. first served DO
not miss is.
From all reports, Hickman will
have ten or fifteen more autos be-
fore this time next year.
Mrs. Hehman Roach. aged 20 years
died Saturday morning after linger
ing illness OF tuberculosis.
Miss Anna Lee Brown and Miss
Mary Tempa Burnett spent from Fri
day until Monday with Mrs. Arthur
Shaw at State Line
That reminds me-when roasting
a turkey stuff the breast with pared
sweet potatoes. They get a fine fla.
vor from the juices.
Mary E. Lewis left last night for
Denver, Colo, after a visit with her
father, Joe Noonon' Her BROTHER,
Albert, went home with her.
The Fulton Leader says that the
ontract for grading the Dyersburg
Northern Railroad from Tiptonville
to Hickman has been let to Little,
the street contractor.
a rumor that former President,
Theodore Roosevelt has been killed on
his hunting trip in Africa was afloat
here Friday but dilligent search fail.
ed to discover the slightest foundation
for it.
A dispatch from Philadelphia. Pa.
of the 9th inst. says: After Mrs
Mary SCHNEIDER, age is. had commit.
ted suicide with carbolic acid, her
baby. a healthy girl. was born in the
hospital where the woman had been
taken. The physicians performed a
caesarian operation.
Obion, Tenn, is getting a hump on
herself. Their Board OF Aldermen
passed an ordinance to vote on a
proposition Of issuing bonds, as au-
thorized by the last legislature. The
bonds are $4,000 for electric lights
and waterworks; $4,000 for streets
and sidewalks; and $4,000 TO be
used for school purposes.
J. S. Shaw, a merchant OF Samberg,
lost a pocket book Sunday while on
his way to Union City. containing
between $3.50 and $500. The pocket
book was found later, but the money
was missing. Evidently some one
had found the pocket book, took the
money and went his way. having no
further use for the pocket book.
AT o'clock Saturday morning at
his home in Hazel, Ky, occurred the
death OF J. u. Dalton. aged 50 years.
The deceased had been III for about
ten days of the infirmities of old age
and the end was no surprise. The
dead man is survived by his wife
and a number of children, among then
being I. ID. Dalton. OF Fulton, and
Mrs. r. NJ. Dennis, Of Hickman.
Cotton is a freakish production
Every planter may plan for and plant
more acres than he did the year pre-
yious and then come out with fewer
pounds and bales. 1t is strictly a
weather condition crop at the proper
seasons, and without this acres don't
count. This is especially true OF the
Fulton county crop this year. though
high prices have made up in a meas
ure for the shortEess OF the yield.
The vote on the good roads amend
ment To the constitution is a disap-
pointment to those who are interested
in the betterment of Kentucky's high
ways. A woeful lack Of interest has
been shown in many localities of
which better things might have been
expected. There seems TO be a bare
chance that the amendment has been
adopted. but If such proves to be
the case il will be by close margin.