Stories of Interest from the Hickman Courier from November 4, 1871 • Hickman City leaders issued new bonds to address the city’s debt. • Every business house in Hickman was believed to be occupied. • M. S. Dowden, Grand Master of the Order of Odd Fellows of the State of Kentucky, delivered an address at the Methodist Church in Hickman on November 4th. • The Hickman Free School reported 128 students and the “school is pronounced successful in every respect.” • The Liberty Seminary at Jordan Station and the Fulton Female Seminary at Fulton Station placed advertisements for students. •…

Stories of Interest from the Hickman Courier from October 28, 1871 • A number of citizens spoke of petitioning the State Legislature for the authority to submit a road tax to the voters of Fulton County. They argue that the existing system was “unequal and inefficient.” • Several “pleasure parties” from Hickman and St. Louis encamped on Reelfoot Lake to hunt and fish. The Hickman party consisted of a number of the city’s most estimable ladies and gentlemen. • Susan M. Atwood, a very respectable Christian lady of Hickman, died at the residence of her son-in-law N. P. Harness on…