Stories of Interest from the Hickman Courier from June 13, 1874 The long-continued drought in the region had caused “great injury to our farming interest and great despondency with our whole people.” Tobacco was expected to be half the average crop, hay was “literally burnt up,” oats “greatly damaged,” corn was “suffering,” cotton “greatly injured,” but the wheat crop was believed to be above average. Hickman City Council met on June 8th to compensate contractors for street repairs and formed a committee to investigate the death of a horse owned by R. E. Finch claimed to have been killed by…

Stories of Interest from the Hickman Courier from June 6, 1874 Concerned citizens of West Hickman asked what was to be done with the levee since another overflow would likely “destroy the work that has already been done.” The drought has ruined the strawberry crop in the region, but the wheat crop was expected to be “splendid” and the “average yield will be very large.” Reverend E. H. Pearce, former State Commissioner to the International Exposition at Vienna, was scheduled to give a lecture at the Hickman Methodist Church on June 9th. The subject of his lecture was to be…