The secretary of the Jackson Purchase Historical Society, Chris Adams, has resigned due to health issues. Chris has also served the society as videographer and in video production. In all of these activities he has served JPHS well. We wish him the best as he recuperates. The Constitution and Bylaws authorize the President of the Society to fill vacancies. President Bill Mulligan has appointed Bruce Dobyns to serve as secretary. A position he has held before. To fill Bruce’s place as an at-large officer Mulligan has appointed Erik Nordberg, who has been a member of the editorial board. Both will…
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Stories of Interest from the Hickman Courier from March 7, 1874 The Mississippi River was reported as breaching its banks and flooding lowlands and nearby risings. Farmers in the region feared heavy and prolonged rains would “retard spring farming operations considerably.” Seven-month Fulton County pigs were reported to weigh 265 pounds. A Temperance law was likely to be voted upon in Fulton County in May. It would prohibit the manufacture and sale of any quantity of “spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors, etc.” Nathaniel Southgate Shaler, the Kentucky State Geologist, was expected to visit Hickman to examine the “overflow district” below the city…