The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1909-04-08
HICKMAN FULTON KENTUCKY THURSDAY APRIL g. 1909

49,
The county unit bill failed to pass
In the Missouri house.
Cypress Shingles, 81 a thousand.
Yates & Kirk Single Co., HEX
man.
FOR SALE-Good team Of horses
and Wagon-cheap-cash or note
W. S. Ellison.
"What shall ! play2" Asked
the church organist OF the absent
minded clergyman, who had been a
sport In his day. "What sort Of a
hand have you gotf" was the un-
expected reply.
The following local is credited TO
an Irish advertiser in a weekly pa
per Don't fail TO read the ad Of Pat
O'Brien in another column. II you
have mislaid this paper you can find
the ad in last weeks issue.
There is a great difference be.
tween Journalism and literature.
Journalism is what one gets up early
In the morning 10 read. Literature
is taken along on vacation. 10 read
when Il rains and you cannot 90 FISH
ing.
Sunday afternoon. March 81, at
his home, Squire Bruer performed
the marriage ceremony for Dave
Edwards and Miss Willie Wade.
The bride is one Of Dukedom's fair
est young ladies. Mr.. Edwards is
a resident Of Hickman. and a popu-
la. young man.
The four Sikeston youths who re-
Gently borrowed" horse and bug
gy and we're captured at Birds Point
en- route to Illinois, plead guilty and
are in Benton jail on a IS days SEN
ience. When they get out they will
be taken 10 New Madrid on a charge
Of house breaking.
Prof. Chas. NJ. Jones. late prinei-
pal Of the Arlington graded school,
who resigned the position because Of
trouble with the board Of trustees,
has filed a suit in the Carlisle circuit
court against DR.. J. M. Peck for
Slo, 900 damages for defamation of
character. S. II. Grassland and r.
B. Flat are Jones' attorneys.
IF. Mcfarland, a we'll known
citizen. died Of pneumonia at his
home in Union City, Wednesday
aged 90 years and 9 months. Mr..
Mcfarland was reared principally
in Obion County, Early in life he
resided in the vicinity Of Woodland
Mills, and then located north Of
Union City in the Bethlehem coun-
try, resuming TO the vocation Of
farming.
There is a bill pending in the
Legislature TO divide our Judicial
Circuit. making New Madrid and
Pemiscot counties one circuit, and
Cape Girardeau. Scott and Missis-
sippi counties. another. These FIVE
counties composed Judge Hawkins
circuit in 1870, since which time the
population and business has doubled.
Two good Judges are required to
keep the dockets cleared up, and
the bill should pass.-New Madrid
Record.
Here is an extract from Ollie
James speech in the House Of Re-
representatives.. on the tariff question,
last week: 81 am in favor of free
lumber. The millions of people in our
country who are without homes
have no sparkling vine for you to
sip, no hot birds for you to eat they
have ballot. though, and they can
reward you, at the polls with their
love, their vote and their confidence
and | appeal from the banquet of
the land, and ask you to choose
which side you will serve"
Saturday was a crackerjack for
the Hickman merchant. W. A.
Johnston and others say it was a re-
cord-bi eaker for selling goods.
And this should not be startling. in
view Of the fact that our merchants
carry large, well selected lines of
merchandise, advertise them so that
folks may know what they can buy
when they come here. 1t is notic-
aple that hundreds OF people are
shopping in Hickman now that never
came here two years ago. The
wide.awake, pushing, progressive
merchant is the man who has brought
this about. True there are dead
heads who reap some Of the benefits
Of the efforts OF the progressive ele-
ment, but this misery little cuss will
be found everywhere. Let's keep