Stories of Interest from the Hickman Courier from September 16, 1871 • The Fulton County Fair was set to run from September 26th to September 30th. • The Steamer Illinois was making semi-weekly voyages between Cairo and Hickman with “considerable freight” and was expected to make daily trips to Hickman during the Fulton County Fair. • Frank Miller declared that his beer garden near Hickman would have music and dancing each night during the County Fair. • Downpours occurred on September 13th and 14th at Hickman. Those being the first significant rains in many weeks. • The Hickman City Council…

Stories of Interest from the Hickman Courier from September 9, 1871 • Page one of the Hickman Courier offered a vivid account of the Grand Tournament held at the Fulton County fairgrounds on September 2nd. “By 9 o’clock in the morning many strangely dressed young men, mounted on fiery steeds, with lance in hand were careering up and down the streets of the city,” the paper reported. The parade to the fairgrounds was led by a “wagon arranged with seats drawn by four gay mules in which sat the Hickman Band” that played the “sweetest strains that brass horns are…