The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1909-04-29
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Everything in groceries Betters-
worth & Prather.
Mrs. Stella Hall, Of Dorena, was
here Saturday, shopping.
Miss Emma Lunsford. OF Moscow,
KY, was here Saturday, shopping.
While you are telling hard-luck
story good luck is trying to whisper
in your ear.
Some men never will learn any
thing, and other men never will for
get anything.
Former United States Senator
David Turpie died Wednesday morn
ing at Indianapolis.
Most sympathy for our misfor-
tunes has an undercurrent of "you
might have known better" in il.
Hotels that advertise homelike
surroundings too often put the pres
sure on the expense and make II too
homelike.
Eli Timms says that when he sees
a young man acting silly he says;
"We are only young once" and
then thanks heaven for that.
A bald-headed man will swear at
all hair restorers, but man wi h
false teeth can be induced to give
a testimonial for dental powder any
time.
Mrs. Maggie Randle has returned
home from Fulton, where she has
been visiting since her return from
Florida and Cuba, where she spent
most of the winter.
The tallest building in the world
is the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company's building in New York
City. which is 6S7 feet and 6 inches
high and contins 20 stories.
The country around Dennison.
Texas, is suffering from drought.
There has been no rain for $50 days.
The recent frosts have also caused
much damage, and at best only half
crops can be raised.
The dance given Friday evening
at the home of Miss Irene Fsris was
enjoyed by number of young folks.
An East Hickman string band furnish
ed the music. and the dances we're
enjoyed until midnight.
An Indian woman in Canada, who
with her children was starving and
having no means of procuring food,
seized a knife and cut a piece OF
flesh from her body. This she used
for bait to catch fish to sustain life
until help came.
E. R. Gibbs, wife and son. of East
Prairie, Mo, have been visiting R.
H. Kirk and family. E. R. was
formerly editor of the Dixie Star. in
this city, but is now engaged in the
real estate business, and is doing
we'll. They returned home Tues
day.
A conference will be called in a
few days to discuss financing a
freight boat line between St. Louis
and New Orleans and cooperating
with Kansas City in the equipment
of a line between St. Louis and that
city. II is desired to obtain perhaps
81, 900, 900 for this pursos..
Fulton is delighted in view Of the
prospects of an electric belt line
service connecting that city with
Paducah and Hickman. Fulton also
is to issue $4,000 in bonds. the
money raised to be spent building
streets and sewers for the thorough
iares. Hope there will be no fall
down in getting up the utilities
Mayheld Mirror.
Jesse Pomeroy, the "h u m a q
hend," who was sent to the peniten-
tiary in 1876, Massachusetts,, tor
butchering little children. has spent
SO years in solitary confinement.
He is now 80 years old. He has
read every one Of the 80. 900 books
in the prison library, and half
thousand more belonging to Chap
lain Barnes. He reads in the original
the works of Latin, French, German,
Spanish, Italian and Arabic authors,
having learned all those languages
in prison.
Suppose some very important bust
ness enterprise was contemplated,
one that would be of much interest
to Hickman, and one that the
promoter would like very much to
have the people of this county know
about. would il be expected to get
this information to the people Of this
county through St. Louis job prin-
ing Officer In the medal contests
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