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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1918-06-27
M. A. Sacksteder, Dealer.


Nh-u mlady went COB the grocery
Dob l~g~ fhe prices OF au commodities
were ~til relatively high as compared
fo prices before the Civil WAR. How
ever tie houe. Keeper Who b. buying
-racerie- today and 81 wondering how
slla a. ss.is.s rasl ~. both ends meet.
VIII De- interested To learn the whole
sale prires quoted below ia the papers
~ fifty years ago.
In 1s6s corn meal sold az Sf1G q
hushel today it is quoted at s. 10
Eggs Il and u cents dozen then
as against rs and p cents per dozen
today
Fifty years ago table butter sold
for 20 and 30 cents pound today il
brings a. and - cents
Navy beans brought S47J a bushel
half century ago: now they bring
$3.50.
Immediately after the Civn War
sugar was undoubtedly a luxury. as
it sold at 13 90 - cents wholesale.
IL was "a simple matter IN those good
old days 20 have j0wl and greens
large rashers II frizzled bacon or boun-
tiful dishes Of ham and eggs. because
fancy canvassed hams were worth q
cents pound and the best canvassed
brea kfast baccon sold at lSia cents
Hams like those would today sell f0l
32ia cents "a pound. and the breakfa 81
bacon az A cents
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1918-06-27
SPECIAL NOTICE.

As / viii he out Of town several
weeks. / have arranged with Mr.. II.
Moore 10 look after my paint, wall
paper and roofing business. Phone him
No. 81. and he will show yOu every
courtesy. and both he and myself VIII
appreciate your business y. Greg
ory.
p. s Beware Of the Cheap John
agents. claiming TO sell asbetos roofing
l am the authorized resident agent
for the only genuine asbestos footing
Flip
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1918-06-27
80 BOYS LEAVE.
More Fulton County Selectmen JOIN
Camp Taylor Forces.

Another Dot OF Fulton county boys
I left Hickman Monday morning Tor
I Camp Taylor ~ there being thirty
nine in the sguad in charge Of A. NJ
I Alexander ~ Hickman. and Hugh Al
{ vcy. of Fulton Hundreds Of friends
of the boys assembled at the station
/ Co hid them God-spe-i and good luck
The usual sunday afternoon cere-
monies were held 40 the court house
after the BOYS reported at = o'clock
judge T.. T. Davis delivered very In
~tructive addr,-- Tor their iseneht on
the subject OF soldiers Insurance. al
lowances etc. This was followed by
memorial service iu honor of George
Dewey Hutehcn~. OF Hickman who
WAS our first Fulton county soldier %
inject death ou the foreign field Beau
tifui tributes were paid tp bis memory
hy Rev H. g. Douglass. of Hickman.
and Hon. o. r. smith 81 Fulton
-Americi~ and star Spanglcd Ban
ucr" were sung hy the audience and "a
MIXED punrtcfre Ali~s Mareurife
fuqua. SIR, o. o. Amherg Rev. r. J.
Miiey and HARRY Craml rendered %
h..,ufffYi ,,...,..ri..l .,n., a.. tbe trnt,.
of Asleep bon Jesus" Onr of the hre
r-r crowds we have ever seen on o.
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Harry Alvey. Fulton.
Lawrence NowI,n Frv. Hie.mar.
Tohe Herring Fulton.
Louis D. Love- Crufchaeid
JAS Robert a. Hawkins. Hickmau-
Edward e. Rice. HIesmau
thas hoy Fields Fulton.
sam Hayden ilichmau-
john T. Wiley Fulton
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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1918-06-27
COMMISSIONERS SALE

Fulton Circuit Court. Kentucky.
Hickman building < Loan Association
Plaintiff
Against
G. L. Lowery * b. 4 L0wery. Defend
ant.
EQUITY.
BY virtue Of "A Judgment and Order
of Sale OF Fulton Circuit Court, rem
dered az the May Term thereof, 1918
IN the above cause. for the sum of
fSI41.34) One Hundred Forty-one and
"a 100. with interest AT the rate of
per cent. per annum from the 22nd
day of April 1915 until paid. and their
costs herein. / shall proceed TO offer
for sale ar the Court House door i'm
Hickman. Kentucky. 10 the highest
bidder at PUBLIC AUCTION. on the
Sth day Of July. 1918. at , o'clock, y.
m or thereabOut (being County Court
day. upon a credit of six months the
following DESERVED property. to-wit:
Lots Nos 1O7 and los as same are
known and designated upon the plan
or map of Gourley's Addition 10 Hick
man. Kentucky. same being the prop
erty conveyed 10 G.. l. Lowery by IL.
r. Davis and wife. by deed dated July
18th. 1917 and recorded i'm Deed Book
No. 33. Page $50. in the office Of the
clerk Of the Fulton County Court.
Hickman, Kentucky. Or sufficient
thereof 10 produce the sums OF money
ordered 10 be made. For the purchase
price. the purchaser with approved Sc
curities. must execute bond, bearing
legal interest from the day Of sale un-
I'll paid. and having the force and ef-
feet of a Judgment. Bidders will be
prepared 10 comply promptly with
these terms w. Ii. AMBERG.
Commissioner.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1918-06-27
COMMISSIONERS SALE
Fulton Circuit Court. Kentucky
Western State Hospital. Plaintiff
Against

Fulton Circuit Court. Kentucky
Western State Hospital. Plaintiff
Against
Louis Boyle's Admr. etc, Defendant
EQUITY.
BY virtue of Judgment and Order
Of Sale of Fulton Circuit Court, rem
dered at the May Term thereof. 1913.
in the above cause. for the sum OF
(S45f2.79) -Four Thousand Five Hun
dred Forty-two and 10 100. with inter
est at the rate OF per cent. per ennum
from the 18th day of June. 1916 until
paid. and their costs herein, 1 shall
proceed 10 offer for sale at the Court
House door in Hickman. Kentucky, to
the highest bidder. at PUBLIC AUG
TION, ON the sth day Of July. 1918. at
> O'Clock p. IN. or rhereabour (being
County Court day,) upon a credit OF
six months. the following described
property. fo-wit:
An undivided one-ffth interest in and
to the North West Quarter and the
West half Of the North East Quarter
of Section ). Township 1. Range 4
West; also the South West q OF the
South East Quarter of Section 32.
Township :. Range 4 West Or suffi-
cient thereof to produce the sums OF
money SO ordered 10 be made For the
purchase price the purchaser with up
proved securities, must execute bond
bearing legal interest from the day OF
sale until paid. and having the force
and effect of Judgment Bidders
will be prepared to comply promptly
with these terms w. Il. AMBERG.
Commissioner.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1918-06-27

Maj. s. II. Hinton tells W. that Geo
F. Ramsey has been awarded addition
al levee work on the Missouri side,
getting two miles. beginning az the Miss
issippi county line and extending down
the river. Also. that levee work In
that section is progressing nicely.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1918-06-27

Judge T. r. Nichols and wife re-
turned to their home az Bardweu
Friday. after e visit with their daueh
ter Mrs. $ H. Srembridse. Mrs
Stemhrid-e accompanied them home
for weeks visit
Further reduction 81 tie cou~um.
fiou of beef ami the substitution az
pork m public eating houses and n
homes Is asked hy thc food admins
trntion in order that the demands Tor
for heef Tor oar army and those of our
allies muy D., supplied.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1918-06-27

Farmers (rural routes only desir-
ing the Daily Commercial Appeal dai-
~ except Sunday. can get same for
one year for S495. The weekly edi-
ton can be had for 35c year This
Is clubbing arrangement and includes
readers Of the Courier only.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1918-06-27

No. this Is not land sale but IS
tle amount of money which Ed Wen
del near Birds Point. received FOR
hroom corn raised on Go acres of hand
during the season at 1917.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1918-06-27

The Redpath Chautauqua will open
in Hickman Tuesday afternoon, July
9th for five days engagement, closing
on Saturday. July 18th. Performances
will be given as usual afternoon and
night. with a morning hour for chill
dren- The big tent will be pitched on
the Carnegie Library grounds
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1918-06-27
Smoke spana vista-5c.

L. T. Sullivan and Goalder johnson
were in Mayfield Friday.
G. s. Foster and Joe Haley, OF
Charleston. Mo. each about co years
Of age. are being held in the county
jail for disIoyalty. growing out Of re
marks they are alleged 10 have made
against the government.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1918-06-27

Rour druggist viii r-fund money % PAIp
fails q cure any case 81 Fishing
Eiiud bleeding 90 FrotrutiuE Piles ia O. "a DAYS
The 1Est applieation gives Ease aud ke-t. 50.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-29
1850 LIVES WERE LOST in
THE GREAT FOREST FIRES
Property Loss Is Estimated at $780,
100000, and Nearly $4,000 Peo-
pie Are Homeless.

DULUTH, Minn-The great fires
that paralyzed northern Minnesota
burned $1OO,OOO,OOO worth property,
killed nearly 1880 people, injured
many thousands more and made
homeless approximately $4,000 have
burned themselves out. Total deaths,
injuries and losses will not be known
for weeks, but the fire probably al
ways will be known as "the fire that
killed a thousand"
The estimate of 1000 dead as a
result of the forest fires will probably
h exceeded, according to Major
v eaver, head of the home guards,
who has made careful investigation
of the entire area burned over. He
thinks the total deaths will be 1850
when final reports are in.
Red Cross officials say close to 49,
500 persons are homeless. Knock
down houses are being manufactured
by the hundreds at large Duluth
mill for farmers and others to get
into before winter. Live stock is be-
ing cared for with new arrivals of
feed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-29
HOW DOCTORS TREAT
COLDS and GRIPPE

Ask any physician or druggist and
he will tell you that the best and only
effective remedy for a bad cold. sore
throat, influenza or la grippe is what
he calls "a brisk -calomel purge"
which means a big dose of calomel
at bed time. But as the old style cal
omel has some very unpleasant and
dangerous qualities physicians and
druggists are now recommending the
improved nausealess calomel, called
"Calotabs," which is purified and re-
fined from the sickening and danger
Gus effects and whose medicinal vir-
tues are vastly improved.
One Calotab on the tongue at bed
time with a swallow of water-that's
all No salts, no nausea nor the
slightest interference with your diet,
pleasures or work. Next morning your
cold has vanished and your entire
system is purified and refreshed
Calotabs are sold only in original
sealed packages, price thirty-five
cents. Your druggist guarantees Cal
otabs by refunding the price if you
are not delighted.-adv.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-29
POLITE BURGLAR OFFERS
APOLOGIES FOR HIS ACT
"Sit Down." He Tells Woman, as He
Pockets Jewels, and Expresses
Regret as He Retires.

ST. LOUIS, Mo.-Mrs. Edward c.
Rowse, occupying a fourth floor
apartment, encountered a burglar
with conversational proclivities when
she returned from an afternoon shop
ping tour. She had failed to notice
the front door of her apartment had
been forced and walked in, disturb
ing the intruder at work, AS he turn
ed he drew a revolver and pointed it
at Mrs. Rowse.
"Now l don't want to harm YOU II
the least" the burglar said. Just
lust sit down and keen quiet and ev-
orything will be all right"
Mrs. Rowse sat down. The burglar
backed towards the door.
Sorry to be so much trouble, bu,
times are so hard l have to do this,
he added, as he went out with jew
elry valued at $500.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-29
SUBMITS TO "COOTIES"
TO HELP The SOLDIERS
OFFICIAL LENDS HIS BODY TO
AID RESEARCH ENTOMOLO-
GISTS. EXTENSIVE EFFORT.

There is in Washington a man in
conspicuously doing his bit. or his
all, for his country by serving as a
host" for body lice, the ''cooties"
OF the war zone. He is cooperating
in very personal and intimate de-
gree, with entomologists of the Unit
ed States department of agriculture.
under the direction of the council of
research and the council of national
defense, to find preventives and ex-
terminators for the pests that not on
ly annoy and irritate American SOL
dlers, but that spread trench fever
and other diseases among them.
Valuable data in regard to the con-
troll of the "cootie" have been obtain
ed from the parasites living on his
body, and moving pictures of them
have been taken through a micro
scope. The pictures are to be magni-
fled and shown at army camps before
scientists and army officers engaged
in delousing work.
The entomologists, in addition to
watching these particular "cooties"
and others confined in glass tubes
and other places, are testing chemi-
Gals to learn their destructive action
on lice, their effect on human bodies
and their penetration of clothing. AL
so, they are cooperating with army
officers in testing laundering and de-
lousing processes. They are trying to
add to the knowledge of how to re-.
pei, kill or drive away the tiny para
sites.
One of the scientists of the bureau
of entomology, department of agri-
culture, also is serving as a host for
the parasites, but in a more restrict
ed sense than the Chicago man. His
"cooties" are confined under the
glass top of wristlet, much like a
wrist watch, and they pass their eX-
istence, from the egg stage to the
dead adult, on the skin of his arm,
and can not move to any other spot.
Through the glass cover the entomol-
ogist can watch the "cooties" as they
from their shells and go
through all the stages of their life
cycle.
Extensive governmental efforts to
devise ways of overcoming the para
site evil are under way.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-29
BEGIN HOT WATER
DRINKING IF YOU
DON'T FEEL RIGHT
Says glass of hot water with
phosphate before breakfast
washes out poisons.

II YOU wake ub with a bad taste, bad
breath and tongue is coated if your
head is dull or aching; if what you eat
sours and forms gas and acid in stom-
ach, or YOU are bilious, constipated,
nervous, sallow and can't get feeling
Just right, begin inside bathing. Drink
before breakfast, a glass of real hot
water with teaspoonful of limestone
phosphate in it. This will flush the
poisons and toxins from stomach, liver,
Kidneys and bowels and cleanse,
sweeten and purify the entire alimen-
tary tract. Do your inside bathing i'm
mediately upon arising in the morning
to wash out of the system all the pre-
vious days poisonous waste, gases and
sour bile before putting more food into
the stomach.
To feel like young folks feel; like
| you felt before your blood, nerves and
muscles became loaded with body i'm.
| purities, get from your pharmacist a
quarter pound Of limestone phosphate
which is inexpensive and almost taste.
| less, except for a sourish twinge which
is not unpleasant.
| Just as soap and hot water act on
| the skin, cleansing, sweetening and
freshening, so hot water and limestone
phosphate act on the stomach, liver
| kidneys and bowels. Men and womer
who are usually constipated, bilious
headachy or have any stomach dis
order should begin this inside bathing
before breakfast They are assured
they will become real cranks on thu
subject shortly.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-29
100000 Set FREE
BY FLANDERS DRIVE
BELGIAN TERRITORY OCCUPIED
RECENTLY BY ALLIES HAS
100000. FOOD A PROBLEM.

WASHINGTON, D. German
retirement from northern France and
Belgium is expected to reveal no ap-
preclable decrease in the population
OF the territories, according to re-
ports received here.
The food ration the commission
has managed to get through the Ger
man lines has been sufficient to sup
port life and as a result starvation,
which has reduced the population of
Poland 70 per cent. and Serbia so
per cent, has not been the fate of
northern France and Belgium.
These reports do not indicate the
allied armies will find normal popula-
lions IN the reoccupied cities, but
they do indicate that the bulk of the
Belgian people and the inhabitants
Of northern France will be account
ed for in their homes, impressed in
to German service or refugees intern
ed in Holland. Recent advices said
more than 100000 of the inhabi-
tants of the Lille-Roubaix section in
France and adjoining towns in Bel
GUM were making their way to the
Dutch frontier before the retreating
German armies.
French and Belgian territory re-
Gently occupied by the allies contains
a population of more than 100000,
divided into approximately 100000
Belgians and 100000 French. The
population of the great industrial sec
ton, of which Lille is the center, is
estimated at $4,000.
Although the immediate feeding of
this released population is being I'M
dertaken by the allied troops the re-
lief committee will be called upon to
supply the people with much larger
amounts of food.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-29
SIX WIVES LOVED HIM:
NONE WILL PROSECUTE
JESSE OTLEY GIBBS EXERCISES
STRANGE POWER OVER FAIR
SEX. SAY HE'S LOVELY"

CHICAGO.-In spite of the fact
that Jesse Otley Gibbs, held in Chi
cago charged with bigamy, has six
acknowledged wives, not one of them
viii assist in prosecuting him.
Not only this, but half a dozen
other women, living in and near Chi
cago, are urging clemency or pardon
for Gibbs, some of them admitting
they think him Gust lovely"
Dashing and Bold.
Jesse is dashing and bold. When
the police asked him if he desired
protection in courtroom his wives,
he said if they-the police-would
watch they would learn about wo-
men from him. They did.
Wives No. 8, and were there,
and Jesse gave a round of pleasant
mods to the assembled Mrs. Gibbses.
Mrs. Emma May Early Gibbs, elocu-
ZIONIST and poet, f1uttered her dark
eyes and sighed.
Hilma Swanberg Gibbs, who is
blonde and a nurse, blushed rosily
and her blue eyes sought the floor.
Rose Lynn Gibbs seemed i'll at ease
and hid her face in her hand.
ITS shame to treat him like
this" said Mrs. Emma May Early
Gibbs.
Sergt. Carroll, whose present Job
is keeping books on the wives of
Gibbs, mopped his honest brow and
said, as they filed out:
"Ain't women peculiar?"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-29
RUSSIA STARVING;
THOUSANDS DYING
MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN
DROP IN STREETS FAMISHED.
BREAD UNOBTAINABLE.

Russia will not count in the war
this winter, one way or another, ex-
cept to be an enormous liability to
the world.
Russia is starving to death. Thous-
ands of men, women and children are
dropping in the streets, faimshed.
Bread is unobtainable. There is no
flour. This condition prevails in ev-
cry city.
In the remote country districts the
peasant families have food but no
clothing There is no way to bring
wheat from the great steppes to the
starving cities.
In Petrograd the infant mortality
has increased to so per cent; one out
of every two babies dies soon after
birth. In what schools there are.
from 81 to 81 per cent. of the chill
dren are reported absent. They are
too weak or too i'll to attend.
The internal situation spells ruin
for the bolsheviki, despair for the
soviet government, failure for the
feeble attempts of each party to
bring some semblance of order out
of chaos.
$4,000 Children Homeless.
Seventy-fve thousand children in
Petrograd alone are homeless. This
enormous army Of pitifully underfed
young ones is on the hands of Mad
anne Lelena, Petrograd's commission
er of social welfare.
Many of these children are or
phans, while others were turned over
to the commune by their parents, who
were unable to feed them. None is
over is years of age, while the ma
jority are under 10. 1t is estimated
that the number of children who will
be public charges in Petrograd before
the end of the winter will be 1000.
The cholera epidemic is der con-
troll in PetrOgrad, but there are nu-
merous deaths from starvation at
tributed to cholera, and these cause
alarming rumors that there is a con-
tinuation of the epidemic.
Greatest Need Is Food.
The situation is growing worse
daily and the juvenile population of
Petrograd will practically be wiped
out this winter unless food is pro-
vided from foreign countries. Fig
ures on adult mortality are not avail
able, but according to Capt William
B. Webster, of the American Red
Cross, who has arrived in Petro-
grad, starvation is claiming
thousands, especially aged and in
firm persons without resources, who
are unable to get food at the govern
ment restaurants or return to their
native villages.
In Moscow the situation is slightly
better than in Petrograd, but there
it also is critical In peace times the
infant mortality in Petrograd was 25
per cent, but now there is an abb
solute Lack Of milk and grain and the
proper mothers food.
Red Cross to Rescue.
Last winter the American Red
Cross provided timed milk for So
900 children in Petrograd, and Capt.
Webster is now endeavoring to ar
range to feed the Petrograd children
next winter in cooperation with Dan
ish Minister Shavpius at Petrograd,
who proposes that shipments of milk
and other food from Denmark be
forwarded on Danish ships under the
protection of the Danish Red Cross.
Relief through this plan must come
within one month, as the Finnish bay
will then freeze, and shipments will
be impossible by other means unless
TIE political and military conditions
change.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-29
The Strong Withstand the Heat Of
Summer Better Than the Weak

Old people who are feeble and younger people
who are weak. will be strengthened and enabled e
60 through the depressing heat of summer by TAX
and enriches the blood and builds up the whole sys
tenn You can soon feel its Strengthening, lnvigor-
ating Effect. 60c.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-29
UNITED STATES HAS LOANED
$7,52O,476,666 TO THE ALLIES

|, New credits of $2OO,OOO,OOO for
iValy and $100,OO0,0O0 for France
nave been established by the treas
uIry department. American loans to
F76,G66.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-29
PRICES OF FOOD ARE
EVER MOVING UP AND Up
AL Traced Over Pc~iods. Shown,
Leaps of a to II Per Cent.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-RetaiI
prices of food increased per cent.
from August Is to September Is;
ID per cent. from September, 1917,
to September, 1918, and 72 per cent
from September, 1918, to September
1918, the bureau of labor announces
The increases were determined from
reports by retail dealers on % arti
cles Of food.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-29
Talk of Fixing the Price of
Cotton Has Been RenetUed

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Members
OF the war industries board express
ed the belief today that use of lower
grades of cotton in government and
commercial products as directed by
the cotton distribution committee
may solve the cotton problem with
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-29

out resorting to price fixing.
1t was stated, however, that in the
event price fixing should become nee
essary, through failure of the presi-
dents stabilizing plans, the commit
tee would not hesitate to take this
action.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-29

For Indigestion, Constipation or
BiIiousness O
Just try one 5O-cent bottle of LAX-FOS
WITH PEPSIN. A Liquid Digestive
Laxative pleasant to take. Made and
recommended to the public by Paris Medi-
cine Co., manufacturers ofLaxative Bromo
Quinine and Groves Tasteless chill Tonic.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-29
WAR HAS SUSPENDED $50
NEWSPAPERS IN THE u. S

Was conditions have forced the
consolidation Of $50 daily papers in
the United States and the suspension
of $50 papers since 1914.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-29
$3.50 PER POUND FOR BEANS.

After jumping in price to $3.50 a
pound it now develops that castor
oil beans are also producers of pot
ash, which will perhaps send the price
still higher.