This Week 150 Years Ago in Hickman – June 22, 1872

Stories of Interest from the Hickman Courier from June 22, 1872

• The Hickman Courier declared “the present has been the dullest week in Hickman for twelve months.”
• The weather in Hickman was reported to have been the “hottest of the season.” Temperatures averaged 92 degrees in the shade during the past week.
• Powell & Brother stated the company was determined to erect a Farming Implement Warehouse in Hickman.
• Black employees of the railroad transfer agency at Hickman went on strike against the “hour system” on June 19^th. They demanded full time employment and not to be docked time for want of work.
• Joseph Miller, the head commander of Hickman Battery No. 1, announced the artillery unit would celebrate the Fourth of July.
• Little wheat was reported to have brought to the Hickman markets.
• Operations at the Paducah Furniture Factory was temporarily suspended to “make some necessary arrangements in the conduct of the labor department.” Work was to be resumed in a week or two.
• Reverend Beard of the St. Louis Methodist Conference was scheduled to preach at the Hickman Methodist Church on June 23^rd.
• The school Roulhac and Cowgill supervised in Hickman invited patrons and friends to attend student examinations on June 26^th.
• The Hickman Cornet Band planned to play at Fulton Station on June 28^th, Troy, Tennessee on June 29th, Cairo, Illinois on the Fourth of July, and Moscow on July 5^th.
• The Hickman Minstrel troupe was scheduled to play at Fulton Station on June 28^th.
• Frank Bondurant of Jordan Station represented Fulton County at the Kentucky Democratic Convention.
• The Odd Fellows of Hickman County organized a “grand reunion and barbeque” to be held in Moscow on July 5^th.
• Hick Hess, mayor of Columbus, contemplated whether to declare himself as a candidate for the State Legislature.
• Paducah was proposed to construct a rolling mill in the city.
• Charles Sears, political editor of the Paducah Kentuckian, resigned from the newspaper.
• The Paducah District Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South met in Paducah on June 14^th and 15^th.
• Horace Greeley Rommel was born in Paducah. He was named for presidential candidate Horace Greeley.
• The first train crossed the Elizabethtown & Paducah Railroad bridge over the Cumberland River on June 17^th.
• McCracken County levied a fee of ten cents for one every hundred dollars to pay the tax due on the New Orleans & Ohio Railroad bonds.
• The extension of the Mobile & Ohio Railroad from Columbus to Cairo was to begin construction later in the month of June or early July.
• The Court of Common Pleas was in session during the third week of June in Clinton.
• Alex Arnold of Clinton declined to be a candidate for Congress.
• Clinton was considered as an added stop on the Mississippi Central Railroad. The city planned to offer inducements to encourage a rail station to be built.
• The report of smallpox in Mayfield was found to be erroneous.
• The Graves County Democrats held their county convention on June 17^th and passed resolutions endorsing Greeley and Brown for President and Vice President and Crossland as a member of Congress.
• Ed Crossland during a speech in Mayfield declared he supported Horace Greeley for President and severely criticized the radical Republicans.
• The construction of the Murray Male and Female Institute was to be completed on September 1^st.
• John Martin and Lucian Anderson debated in Blandville on June 17^th. The editor of Hickman Courier trusted “Col. Martin demolished St. Lucian.”
• The Benton Circuit Court was scheduled to commence on June 24^th.
• The Fulton Female Seminary at Fulton Station planned to end classes on June 28^th with a picnic and procession.
• The game of croquet was the rage at Garden Station.
• K. Jones, president of Melrose Institute in Trenton, Tennessee, toured the counties of Western Kentucky in the interest of the college.
• R. Robinson, the District Deputy of Kentucky counties West of the Tennessee River, planned to visit Fulton County in July or August.
• The Troy Times advocated R. P. Caldwell for U. S. Congress.
• The Paducah & Memphis Railroad chose not to run tracks through Troy, Tennessee. The citizens of the city planned to construct a ‘horse railroad’ to tap into the railroad line three and half miles away.
• The hog cholera in Dyer County, Tennessee was reported to be the worst ever recorded.
• The Methodist District Conference for West Kentucky and Western Tennessee planned to meet in Union City.
• Locusts were reported as being very thick in Obion, Tennessee.