Stories of Interest from the Hickman Courier from September 25, 1874 The Congressional district’s Farmer’s Council met the week prior in Mayfield to discuss the nominees for Congress but the “meeting developed considerable differences of opinion” on which candidate to back. The meeting adjourned without a declaration of support for a nominee and agreed to gather in Benton on October 13th. The Paducah Kentuckian declared in its September 21st issue that it supported Caswell Bennett as its candidate for Congress. The Mayfield Democrat supported A. R. Boon; the Paducah Tobacco Plant supported Oscar Turner; the Fulton Gazette was reported to…

Stories of Interest from the Hickman Courier from September 18, 1874 The Beulah Baptist Association planned to hold its next annual meeting in Hickman. The German Seminary in Hickman announced classes in drawing, music, French, Italian, German, Latin, Greek, Natural Philosophy, English Literature, Mathematics, Bookkeeping and Civil Engineering. The school headmaster was A. W. Swanitz, an American educated in “one of the best European schools,” an engineer, and former United States Surveyor. The Hickman City Council met on September 14th to pay the hardware store of Baltzer & Knoerr $25.90 for “repairing tools” and passed a motion that “all parties…