Stories of Interest from the Hickman Courier from November 23, 1872
- It was reported that businessmen in Hickman were frustrated that no bank existed in the city and that one should be organized.
- The Star House Hotel, owned by John W. Mayes & Son, planned to reopen in March of 1873 after a “refitting.” The hotel was previously known as the Walker House.
- Charlie Margraff set up a barber shop on the Commercial Block in old Hickman.
- Clem Nolte, a clerk on the steamship City of Chester, was attacked and severely knifed by Robert E. Petty of Ballard County the week prior in Hickman. Nolte was cut in three places but survived. The attack was supposedly unprovoked.
- The stockholders of the Fulton County Agricultural and Mechanical Society met on November 23rd at the Hickman City Hall. A new board of directors were to be elected.
- Hick Hess, the mayor of Columbus, declared himself a candidate for the next election of the State Legislature.
- The Paducah News reports that trade in the city had fallen off by one-third since the completion of the Paducah & Elizabethtown Railroad. It was believed that the railroad was “facilitating trade to Louisville.”
- The West Tennessee Medical Society planned to meet in Union City on December 3rd.
- James M. Crockett was elected the mayor of Troy, Tennessee.
- A black man was reported to have been a candidate for mayor in Humboldt, Tennessee. Another black man was a candidate for Court Recorder.
- The Humboldt Journal stated that Benjamin Phillips, a resident of Dyer Station, was “frightfully mangled” after a mill rock shattered while pouring grain and fell upon him. He was expected to have one or both legs amputated.
- Albert O. Allen, editor of the New Madrid Record, was elected a Missouri State Representative by a majority vote of 129 over both his opponents.
- The Cairo Gazette reported that the Planters’ Tobacco Warehouse would soon be under the management of Straughan & Hinkle of Ballard County.
- Hugh B. French of Hickman County and Sue J. Mayes of Fulton were married on November 26th and M. Shaw and Mollie French were married on November 13th in Hickman County.
- Mary B. Puckett of Pleasant View, Tennessee died of pneumonia of November 6th at age 14. On November 14th, Sallie Leora Gardner, the infant child of John C. and Jennie Gardner, died after a “protracted sickness” in Hickman. Linwood Nelson, infant son of N. L. and Mattie W. Nelson, died on November 19th in Hickman.