Stories of Interest from the Hickman Courier from September 8, 1876 • The businessmen, farmers and tobacco growers wished that a tobacco market be established in Hickman, or immediate vicinity, to regain the market as a “chief product” of the region. • Pap White, “the old saddler,” relocated his business establishment from Hickman to Fulton. • The Hickman Methodist Choir planned a concert at city hall on September 11th for the benefit of the Methodist Sunday School Library. • The pastors in Hickman, after requesting assistance for a poor widow with several children, reported that they were able to bestow…

Stories of Interest from the Hickman Courier from September 1, 1876 Several night robberies occurred the week prior in Hickman. Tom Buck and others were the known victims of the thefts. Fulton County Sheriff B. R. Walker brought four prisoners to the Kentucky State Penitentiary earlier in the week. It was reported that a party of individuals were “distributing documents to the colored people of Hickman” threatening “terrible butchery of negroes in the Southern States” if they voted in the upcoming election. The editor of the Hickman Courier responded by declaring “if the black people desire to vote the Republican ticket, let them…