Turning Back the Clock – Hickman Courier

23 February 1900

   Messers. Charles Prather, Tom Flack and R. Davis of 
Woodland Mills attended the dance at the LaClede Hotel 
Tuesday night.

   Mr. Robert Cobb, a well known farmer and clever citizen, 
died Thursday morning of last week on his farm several 
miles from town.

   Mr. D. B. Bryant has accepted the position as night 
clerk at the Palace Hotel.

   The sad intelligence was received in Hickman yesterday
Of the death of Mrs. Mary Milner, daughter of DR. F. M.
Usher of Fulton.

   A double wedding was solemnized in the parlor of the 
Palace Hotel this afternoon, between Mr. L. H. Bacon and 
Miss Annie Jones, and Harrey W. Saunders and Miss Rosie 
Ballow.