Stories of Interest from the Hickman Courier from June 1, 1872
- The young son of William D. Taylor of Hickman drowned in the Mississippi River while playing with other boys on the evening of May 30th.
- The Hickman City Council met on May 28th where they received estimates to construct a levee in West Hickman by Fritz Helner, a motion to repeal the licensing fee to peddle fish and settle a land purchase with H. A. Tyler for the lot where the City Market House was built.
- City of Hickman authorities ordered all dogs be muzzled or they would be killed.
- Three black policemen were appointed by the Hickman City Council for “special duty” to serve among the black population. The mayor appointed John Brown, Robert Dodds, and John Wilson.
- The West Hickman levee was to be raised to an average height of four feet. It was also reported that there was strong opposition to the project by some residents.
- Construction began on the Powell & Brothers new business house.
- Hickman businessmen, Stegala & Lane, renamed their establishment the Dolly Varden Saloon & Billiard Rooms. The saloon was located on Clinton Street.
- Hickman city bonds were selling at 90 cents.
- A “gay and pleasant” dance was held at Hickman City Hall on the night of May 28th. The dance was “kept up till a late hour and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves.”
- A group of young ladies in Hickman organized a dance club that met every Thursday night.
- The African American Baptist Church in Hickman scheduled a festival on the evening of June 5th. “Friends of the denomination, white and colored, [were] respectfully invited to attend.”
- The Hickman Methodist Sabbath School planned to organize a picnic later in the month.
- “Yank” Westbrook of Lake County, Tennessee was seeking a new residence in Hickman.
- The editor of the Hickman Courier observed that the condition of city streets had changed dramatically in recent times. He noted that not long ago drunken men would “stagger against you at almost every street corner” and at “every turn with terms of profanity and vulgarity.” The temperance movement in the city had almost reversed public drunkenness and that “excessive drinking had been altogether abandoned.”
- Dan Roberts was elected Mayor of Moscow.
- A correspondent writing from Fulton called the community the “Athens” of Southern Kentucky due to its many recent improvements.
- A report from Graves County asserted that the wheat crop may be the highest yielding in almost twenty years.
- John Martin Sr., former editor of the Paducah Daily Kentuckian, announced his candidacy for Representative of the First Congressional District. Martin had recently been granted amnesty by the Federal Government for actions he committed during the Civil War. In his published announcement, he stated that he “refused to confess and ask pardon for sins which [he] never committed.”
- William T. Lineback announced that he was a candidate for Hickman City Marshal.
- The Democrats of Fulton County were called to attend a convention in Hickman on County Court Day on June 10th. The purpose for the gathering was to select delegates to the Democratic Convention in Frankfort on June 20th.
- D. C. Atkins declared himself a candidate for Congress in the Tennessee Seventh District.
- Farmers from Obion County, Tennessee expected a fine crop during the upcoming season.