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pi Old Favorite For the old-timer Choc olate Soda of course. We knew it. That's why we are trying to make it better all the time. Have you tried one this season yet? HELM & ELLISON ALL i SORTSm PIKE SEEMS WITHOUT FEAR Veracious FUh Ready to 8nap at Any thing, and Will Put Up Hard Fight The boldness of a piko is very ex traordinary. I have seen one follow a bait witliin a foot of the spot where I have been standing and the head Iceeper of Richmond park assured me that he was once washing his hand alt the side of a boat in the great pond in that park when a pike made a dart at it and he had but just time to withdraw it. A gentleman now residing at Wey bridge in Surrey informed me that walking one day by the side of the Eiver Wey near that town he saw a large pike in a shallow creek. lie immediately pulled off his coat, tucked up his shirt sleeves and went into the water to intercept the return of the fish to the river and to en deavor to throw it upon the bank by getting his hands under it. During this attempt the pike, find ing he could not make his escape, seized one of the arms of the gentle man and lacerated it so much that th wound is still very visible. TiaMug Gazette. The Farmers Hdw. Co. has a fine lines of guns and rifles to close out at cost. Local sportsmen will do well to avail themselves of this opportunity. IFlorsKeim Y limps y Che Coona K "'LHidsssm Pumps are popular. Florsheim Pumps are made over "Natural Shape" lasts on special pump patterns that fit the whole foot like a glove. No gaping nor chafing from heel to toe And Florsheim Pumps stay oh Let us show you how dressy your foot caa look. Mori styles S5.00 other makes 3.50and 4.00 ,Im , n.i. )n..Mi I 1 M"l"" Thirsty? REO Is what you need. Entire stock at cost. Farmers Udw. Co. Everything In groceries Belters wbrth & Prather. Mrs. Stella Hall, of Dorena, was here Saturday, shopping. Miss Emma Lunsford.of Moscow, Ky., was here Saturday, shopping. While you are telling a hard-luck storv good luck Is trying to whisper in your ear. Some men never will learn any thing, and other men never will for get anything. Former United States Senator David Tuipledied Wednesday morn ing at Indianapolis. Most sympathy for our misfor tunes has an undercurrent of "you might have known better'' in It. Hotels that advertise homelike surroundings too often put the pres sure on the expense and make it too homelike. Eli Timms says that when he sees a young man acting silly he says : "We are only young once, ana then thanks heaven for that. A bald-headed man will swear at all hair restorers, but a man wi h false teeth can be induced to give a testimonial for dental powder any time. Mrs. Maggie Randle has returned home from Fulton, where she has been visiting since her return from Florida and Cuba, where she spent most of the inter. The tallest building in the world is the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's building in New York City which is 657 feet and 6 inches high and contins 46 stories. The country around Dennison, Texas, is suffering from drought. There has been no rain for 150 days. The recent frosts have also caused much damage, and at best only half crops can be raised. The dance given Friday evening at the home of Miss Irene Faris was enjoyed by a number of young folks. An East Hickman string band furnish ed the music, and the dances were enjoyed until midnight. An Indian woman in Canada, who with her children was starving and having no means of procuring food, seized a knife and cut a piece of flesh from her body. Tnis she used for bait to catch fish to sustain life until help came. E. R. Gibbs, wife and son, of East Prairie, Mo , have been visiting R. H. Kirk and family. E. R. was formerly editor of the Dixie Star, in this city, but is now engaged in the real estate business, and is doing well. They returned home Tues day. A conference will be called in a few days to discuss financing a freight boat line between St. Louis and New Orleans and co-operating with Kansas City in the equipment of a line between St. Louis and that city. It is desired to obtain perhaps 52,ouu,uou tor this pursos:, Fulton is delighted in view nf the prospects of an electric belt line service connecting that city with Paducah and Hickman. Fulton also is to issue $40,000 in bonds, the monsy raised to be spent building streets and sewers for the thorough lares. Hope there will be no fall down in getting up the utilities. Mayfield Mirror. Jesse Pomeroy, the "human fiend," who was sent to the peniten tiary in 1876, Massachusetts, tor butchering little children, has spent 33 years in solitary confinement. He is now 80 years old. He has read every one of the 80,000 books in tile prison library, and half a thousand more belonging to Chap lain Barnes. He reads in the original the works of Latin, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Arabic authors, having learned all those languages in prison. Suppose some very important busi ness enterprise was contemplated, one that would be of much interest to Hickman, and one that the promotor would like very much to have the people of this county know about, would it be expected to get this information to the people of this county through a St. Louis job prin log offce? In the medal contests and graduating exercises, would it be possible to have a St. Louis print ing office to inform your friends that you won in the medal contest, or that you received a great big boquet? We just mentioned this (earing some persons might be dis appointed should the St. Louis job printing office fail to furnish the two or three column write-up that usual accompanies occasions of this character, FUNNY CHURCH 18 IN MILL.- Here It Wat That tht Thumb to a Knothole Get Bitten. Dryvllle, ! On nearer oreek, at tho end of this town, l Rerk eM ty's historic mill the only mHl Ifl'the country that was ever turned ever to a minister of the gospel fettow within It doors church work. It li over a century old and Is only a stone's throw away from Chrlat Lutheran, or Merit' church. In 17J3 the aeeend Merts church was torn down te make room for a new edifice, and, there be ing; no schoolhouss handy, the mints tora of that tlmo came to the old mill, then owned by the Into Abraham Ileltlcr, and conducted the catecheti cal classes until the third ehureh wns completed. Those meetings ot a century ago were of rather solemn character and wore conducted in a very careful and sacred way, hut Derks county lads wore then, aa now,, daring fellows, al ways full ot mlachtef, and where a trick could be played It surely waa, re gardless of the minister's solemn face. Thus It happened In this very mill that the late Rev. Mr. Knoike a cen tury ago conducted such a cateehetloal class. On one sldo of the room there was a board partition and one ot the boards contained numerous knotholes. One of the members of tho class bad a habit of pushing his thumb through the knothole at every lecture, and bis thumbnail raising a curious sottad upon the outside ot the board. Another male member on tals oeefc slon sneaked out of the room while Pastor Knoako was explaining new' to avoid revenge, whan tho fellow oa the outside bit Into the thumb ot the fel low on tho Inside ot the knothole. The harder the boy pulled to release hit thumb tho harder the other fellow hit It; and by this time tho Imlde fellow was so vindictive and resentful that he began to howl for pain, and Pastor Knoske had to stop his lecture aad In vestigate. When ha found out the cauie he changed his argument at once and told the fellow with the In jured thumb to take speedy rereage, and the outalde fellow got a good lick ing then and there. TOT OF THREE HOLDS 8TAQE. Baby Wanders Into Theater and Slngt Until Found. Los Angeles, Cal. For 15 minute Llxzle Caralehael, thre years of age, occupied the atage of Hamburger's Majestic theater aad sang to her heart's content. With the great cur tain rolled np and the long row of chairs empty, the little tot, with Ete th ing to frighten her, marched up aad down the stage, Imitating the em seers ot actresses and singing to her dell?. She was finally taken in charge by Miss Bly Drown, a chorus girl, who was In her dressing room when the youngster entered upoa her unherald ed performance. Tho baby was taken down town by her parents. While In a department store she noted a doll which would Just about suit ber, and her mother purchased 1L Hugging the treasure closely, the little girl wandered through tht crowd. going down Broadway, and finally Bad' lng her way Into the stage entrance of the theater. She was singing at the top ot her shrill little vclco wheat Miss Brown attracted by the unusual sound, emerged from her dressing room. The police were notified and the chorus girl and Juvenile actress went to the Central station, where the little girl's parents were waiting for her. THOUGHT COIN8 WERE SPURIOUS Ignorance of Thlt Farmer Seta Twe Nations Agog. New Westminster, D. C Because Hans von Bloraanthal, a German far mer of Dldtbury, refuted to believe that the first three American silver dollars which came Into hit poitenlon some time ago could possibly be genu ine, never having seen such coins bo fore, he wrote to the secretary ot the treasury at Washington, advlelng him that spurious coins bearing the Im print of the American eagle were la circulation In Canada, offering to sub mit three specimens of the "bogus1 coins which had corns into his posses sion. Forthwith the wheels ot Justice be gan to move, and In duo time sufficient red tape had boen unwound to permit of tho Dominion authorities bolng not! fled. After an Impressive Interval, the IL N. W. M. police were notified and given the addreis of the Dldsbury far mer. A thorough Investigation was made before Ulomantbal was asked to pro duce the allver dollars, the manner In which tboy came Into his possession being detailed at great length. As soon as he saw tho coins tho police officer pronounced them genuine, but no amount of argument could Induce the old farmer to believe In the value of the big pieces of money. Whole Clan Over Six Feet. Pretoria. An assembly ot Transvaal giants were brought together here at the funeral ot Daniel Erasmus, known as "Blink Daniel." The Krasmusea are one of the most notable families of big people In the Traasvsal, where big men are the rule. Some thirty men of extraordinary proportions attended tht burial aad bout the same number of equally near relatives of similar large build were absent. These mea range In height fresa six feet two laoae up te ale feet MVM,aad they are broad aad heavy la proportion. Kvea the women ot Ufcta Menjel Buys Tufs, The Mengel Box Co,, has pur chased the tug 'Oscar F.Keeler" of Lee Campbell and Will Price, pay ing, we understand,$l,500 for it and her barge. This tue will be used for local work, and will still be In charge of Campbell, her termer pilot. Case Set For May 13. Attorneys Fry and Whipple were In Jackron this week attending Su preme Court, and report that the Obion County Nightrider case will be called for hearing May 13. It was the purpose of the court to call this cue at an earlier date, but the attor neys for the defense have asked for more time and the date was therefore fixed for May 13, at which time the eight men convicted of the murder of Quenlln Rankin will be heard on appeal by counsel. Another Reelfoot Lake Suit Another chapter has been added to the Reelfoot Lake lawsuits by the filing in chancery here by J. L Mosier of a suit against Judge Har ris and the other Harris heirs, joint ly with the West Tennessee Land Company, for 2,000 acres of land adjoining Reelfoot Lake. It is said the trial of this suit will largely affect the claims of the West Tennessee Land Company In their present ownership of the entire lake and the territory surrounding the same. Money to Loan. 1 loan money at the rate of 5 per cent per annum on farm lands in Obion and Weakly Counties, Tcnn , and in Fulton County, Ky. About one-half the cash value of a farm will be loaned. Loans made in suras of SI, 000 or more for five years with privilege to borrower of paying same after one year in lull or male ing any size partial payment desired at intervals of six months after the expiration of one year, interest be ing stopped on partial payments made. Call on or write O. Spradlin, Union City, Tenn. Census Supervisors. Under the new census law, super visors are to be appointed from the best men without regard to politics. In Kentucky at least half of the su pervisors should be Democrats. The provisions of the law as to supervisors are that they shall be appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate; that the boundaries of their districts shall conform so far as practicable, to those of the Congressional dis tricts ; that each supervisor shall be paid 51,500, and in addition SI for each 1,000 or majority fraction of 1,000 of population enumerated in his district ; and in emergencies aris ing in his work, which require travel, he shall be paid traveling expenses and an allowance of $4 a day for subsistence. A Secluded Spot For Him. ' I suppose," says the city friend lo the visitor from the hills of Hick man, "that it is a good deal different here than it is where you live." "The clanging of the gongs, the rattle of the wheels, the thousand and one noises of the street, with the attendant necessity of stepping lively to avoid an accident, must make the city seem a very strenuous place to one from as quiet a spot as you " "Bless you sun," interrupts the gentleman from Kentucky, "I'm get ting a glorious rest, This winter I've bten visited ten times by night riders, been accidentally mixed up in fo' co'thouse riots and all the time have had to carry on mah feud with the seventeen Jilkuses an' yo' can see how much good the change of aih, scene and occupation must do my nuhveus system." The Mayfield Messenger says four of the ten quarts of red-eye captured last week were "stolen." Only four? Why Fulton had 20S bottles locked up in the city vaults last year and "some unknown par ties" stole 176 of them. Only the City Clerk and Chief of Police had keys. Now that's sorter goln' some. Next 1 Arlington Courier. The Methodist Advocate, the suc cessor of the Methodist, at Fulton, and recently published at Frankfort, has sold its subscription list and good name to the Midland Methodist at Nashville. These papers have not been on a paying basis for some time, and hence the necessity of all going into the hands of one. What are you going to get this Spring a butter-tub, a bee-hive, an old-fashioned peck measure, a berry pail, a water bucket or a bushel bas ket? What? For your hat of course. It is a momentous question. Order the Courier today, I 2aUI sl . w ue Well It k Impossible to be well, simply impossible if it bowels are constipated. You must pay attention to r laws of nature, or suffer the consequences. UndiriSJ material, waste products, poisonous substances must S removed from the body at least once each dav nr mJ will be trouble. A. sluggish liver is rponsibMor?n Immense amount of suffering and serious disease. At your doctor about Ayer's Pills. He knows why tiWva directly on the liver. Trust him. mxutr?n t JStfS. .J- J. m . . KODAKER Y spells outdoor enjoyment. Now is the time you want to take some good pictures. We are exclusive agents for Eastman Ko daks and have in stock Kodaks and Cameras ranging in price from $1 to 920. Our films and plates are fresh, first quality and and first hand. No old or undesirable goods among ? .them. Kept in a cool place, away from steam pipes and heat. Wc guarantee our films and plates to take the best pictures, because they are the belt 4 Great the relief to be sure of a thing. S HELM Sr ELLISON ..Oakwood Stock Farm., 'Place of Quality in the Horse Line" Sires In Service: San Mateo, 2:13. TERMS: $30 to insure a living colt. Alfred G., 2:19?4. TERMS: $30 to insure a living colt. , Dr. Roan, (tr 2:36) (3). TERMS: $25 to insure a living colt Irascible Squirrel (saddler)- TERMS: $20 to insure a living colt. A. TYLER, Proprietor Hickman, Kentucky The Prestige This Bank Enjoys was gained by years of hard work, hon orable dealings, prudent management, slrict attention to the care and absolute safe-guard of the funds entrusted to us, the real and helpful interest the officials and directors have always taken in the material welfare of our customers and the upbuilding of our town and vicinity. No matter how small or'how large your finft deposit we shall be glad to hnvc you identify yourself with this bank and make use of the conveniences and advantages af forded our customers for the safe-guarding of their money and the transacting of their ' business affairs. 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