Stories of Interest from the Hickman Courier from April 4, 1874 The Mississippi River was reported receding and that farmers in the lowlands could “now consider themselves pretty safe, but not altogether so.” A heavy frost on the morning of April 2nd damaged many fruit trees in the region. A man and his wife were knocked unconscious in their home on Pine Steet in Hickman, when the man used a gun that had not been fired for over eight years from his window. He and his wife were propelled into the hearth of the fireplace where he suffered a dislocated shoulder and…

Stories of Interest from the Hickman Courier from March 28, 1874 The Hickman City Council met on March 21st to discuss tax assessments within city limits. The Assessment Committee reported some “alterations” and a list of taxpayers and amounts owed to the city. The Hickman Courier published the proposed Temperance Law, titled “An Act to Prohibit the Sale of Spirituous Liquors in Fulton County,” which was scheduled for a vote on May 9th. The State Geologist of Kentucky, B. R. Walker, was expected to visit Hickman to survey the land between Hickman and Tiptonville for the possible construction of a levee. The…