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…

Stories of Interest from the Hickman Courier from September 11, 1874 The coming trade year was predicted to be “necessarily hard on businessmen of small capital” since many farmers would be forced to carry over their debts into the next year due to the serious drought. The Hickman Young Men’s Christian Association met on September 10th and elected Reverend J. D. Bush as President and James Wearn as Secretary. The Association was to meet again on September 11th. The Hickman Circuit Court met on September 7th where the newly elected Judge W. W. Robertson and Commonwealth Attorney Bernard Neale assumed…