Stories of Interest from the Hickman Courier from April 11, 1874 A snowstorm on April 9th reportedly “caused a heavy demand for coal, overcoats, and overshoes” in Hickman. The freeze of that night “finished the fruit crop of this section.” Farmers were “getting dispirited” that the wet weather halted progress with the planting season. The Mississippi River was reported rising and that with the melting snow overflow was “inevitable” at Hickman. Due to bad weather of April 9th, the “letting of the bridge across Puncheon Creek” was postponed until April 17th. The new St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Hickman was to be…

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…