Pike County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 52, Petersburg, Pike County, 19 May 1893 — Page 1

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Ml UST CULL COO MANiXJflRPETSt*CHEY MUST GOP* PRICES NO OBJECTS Our Loss™Your Gain! . s Beginning Saturday morning we will commence the greatest-> Slaughter • Sale • of ■ Carpets j ' . V 1 * Petersburg has ever saw. Owing to the late spring, and wet season so many didn't" get to take advantage of our last sale. We shall furnish Carpet Paper, Cut. and ILa/37Any all-Wool or Brussels Carpet in the house. It makes no difference what you have been paying for Carpets, we ask you to see the goods and prices for this sale. WE MUST SEEL And if you fail to attend this sale the fault is yours. We have everything in the! Carpet line from the cheapest Hemp to the finest Velvet. &- Our Prices Knock Competitors Out of the ring. Remember, we make aijd put these Carpets down for you, so you are certain of a perfect fit. Come-early for best patterns. W.V. H argrove & Co v-The People's Store-'

Call at this office and examine our fine line of business stationary. Soda water, the refreshing summer drink, is now on sale ot the City drug store. * Wanted—A house of five rooms not over four squares from the court house. Read the continued story on the ' inside page ot to-day’s paper entitled “A Little Comedy of Errors.” Foe Sale.—A thoroughbred Holstein bull, one year old in June. J. B. Young. Fleming & O’Brian have a lot of firstclas8 horses and mules for sale at bargains. They will also buy good active roadsters. 49-4 The E. & I. road will sell tickets at a reduced rate to Mt. Vernon on account of theEpworth league convention, June 13th and i4th. A little ill, then a little pill. The ill is all gone, the pills have won. DeWitt’s Little Early Risers the pills that cure great ills. B. O. & Co. 34* Shiloh’s Vitalizer is what you need for dyspepsia torpid liver, yellow skin or kidney trouble. It is guaranteed to give you satisfaction. Price 75 cents, 35* Farms and town property, also western lands and Kentucky timber lands for sale at the J. B. Nada Real Estate Agency^ Petersburg, Iudiana. T' * ‘ 41*

Call on John Hammond and see his nice line of shoes and slippers. 51-4 For a nice refreshing summer drink try “Coca-cola” at Bergen, Oliphant & Co’s. * Our harness and horse coliars.are the best at lowest prices at Shawhan & Boonshot’s. 50-4 Piles of peonle have piles, but DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve will cure them. Bergen, Oliphant & Co. 34* The summer rate to Indian Springs will be $1.75 for Saturday sales; tickets sold daily at a rate of $2 25, limited to November, 1893. Shiloh’s Cure, the great cough and croup cure is for sale by all druggists. Pocfeet size contai n81 w en ty-five doses, only 25 cents. Children Love it. 35* Karl’s Clover Root, the new blood purifier, gives freshness and clearness to the complexion and cures constipation. 25 cents, 50 cents and $1.00. ' 35* Your parlor needs a new dress of paper. Harry Elmore is just the artist you are hunting for to hang the paper and finish it up in artistic shape. He guarantees his work. [When you want job printing of any kind don’t fail to call at The Democrat office and see 6tyles and learn prices. We haye on hand a splendid line of all kinds of business stationery and at prices in keeping with the times.

Joseph Newkirk left for Brazil, Tuesday, ou business. Buckeye mowers are in the lead at Shawhan & Boonshot's. 50-4 Subscribe for The Democrat and secure all the news of the county. Rev. and Mrs. Law returned last Saturday from their visit to Missouri friends. Ollie and Mrs. Kolb, of Princeton, visited H. S. Edwards and family over Sabbath. Dr. Bergen made ahusiness trip to Cincinnati this week in the interest of the Asthma cure. Remember, no goods misrepresented at John Hammond’s. All goods sold at reasonable prices. 51-4 Nelson Stone left on Monday for Indianapolis where he is a delegate to the grand lodge I.vO. O. F. Mrs. J. W. Bain is at Bloomingtot^ this week attending a meeting of the Woman’s foreign missionary society. Soda and all its popular flavors at Bergen, Oliphant & Co’s. The only place in the city for a cool, refreshing drink. ' * Robert Lee went to Indianapolis, Monday, to represent the I. O. O. F. of Winslow at the meeting of the grand lodge. County Clerk Morgan went to Indianapolis, Tuesday, to see his grandson, who is undergoing treatment in one of the hospitals for hip disease. Pennsylvania and Ohio are experiencing the worst floods knotr in years. The loss of . property has been enormous, and a number of lives have been lost. Captain Sweeney, U. S. A., San Diego, California, says: “Shiloh’s Catarrh remedy is the first medicine I Have ever found that would do me ahy good,” Price 50 cents. 35* The annua! commencement exercises will take place at the M. E. church next Monday evening. An interesting program has been prepared for the occasion by the school officers. Headquarters—for real estate, farm and city property for sale on reasonable terms at the reliable realestate agency of W. H. H. Thomas, the leading realestate agency in the county. 38-5 Ed Hollon, of Jefferson township, is minus a new set of harness. Some sneak thief was of the opinion that he was in need of just such a 6et of harness and appropriated them to his use last Friday night.

“There is a salve for every wound.” We refer to DeWitt’s Witeh Hazel Salve, cures burns, bruises, cuts, indolent sores, as a local application in the nostrils it cures catarrh, and always cures piles. B. O. & Co. 34* The following marriage licenses have been issued during the past week: * Elihu Keith and Carrie J. Thomas. William l)ean and Cynthia A. Woodry. William H. Kelp and Hattie Smith. Charles Miley and Dolly Bogar. The special carpet sale at the store ofW. V. Hargrove & Co. will conitnue another week. They have several hundred yards of the latest styles that are being sold at remarkably low figures. If you are in need ot a carpet you should call at once. The fourth anniversary of the Epworth League was celebrated at the M. E. church last Sunday evening. Aa-excellent program consisting of songs, select readings and declamations were well rendered. The audience was one of the largest assembled in the church for a long time. Wonn Alexander, fourteen years old, shot himself in the right hand last Friday with a rifle, the ball entering at a point in the third finger and ploughing its way through to the fleshy part of the thumb, making a very bad flesh wound. Dr. Lamar was called and dressed the (wound. Nothing serious will follow ^ is hoped. The citizens of Princeton are endeavoring to raise $2,000 for the purpose of extending the Groves treatment to those who are unable to take the treatment. Dr. Groves, the proprietor of the institute agrees to cure every person who applies for treatment within sixty days from the 5th of June for the sum of $2,000. The citizens -are hustling to secure the amount necessary to bind thp contract, /

Grumbler Comes t£. Life Again and Says a Few Things. The Old and the New and Many Other Questions. Interested In Manj Things and Beady for Action at Once. The Future of the Town Depends on What the Citizens Make it. It has been a long time since I wrote my last article for The

t democrat, me oniy paper in Petersburg that has the sand to stick ud for the citizens’ best interests, and more than that the editor speaks his piece right out in meetin’. I have been looking into the affairs of the city and county for a long

time, ana especially since tne last elections. I never had the least idea that things were as they were until a few days ago. I was surprised very much that our beautiful little city was running in debt right along, and with nothing to show for it, but the debt. A gentleman on lower Main street said to me the other day that the town trustees had a good hold on the town and were running it to suit themselve and no one else in particular. Aud then he ventured the remark that they had only piled up a debt amounting to over $2,200 during the past year. That with the other debt hanging over the town will reach in the neighborhood of $16,000. and I would like to know what there is to show for it. It is an old saying “you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours.” I was over on the hill the other day visiting some relatives, and I was surprised to see the great industry going on at the top of the hill. It is a perfect bee-hive of workmen. They are all at work right in the middle of the street. This street extends from Sixth street south a few squares and is traveled at least semi-annually. The street is to be cut down at least several feet in order to get a little dirt aud spend money. It is not a contract job from the way all the men work, but then that’s all right, the principal streets of the town don’t need any work this year as they were graded two or threo years ago. ^ Once in awhile here of late I have heard someone say that the town was getting some kind of an industry. Well, talk has been a mighty cheap article during the last six months, and it was this, and it was that, and here it is the latter part of May, and not a single factory of any kind- has been secured, much less the hint of one locating. AVhy it is thusly I am unable to say, unless it is that some of our citizens are holding on to their money for fear of auother stave factory job. I would like to see the citizens come together and, talk the matter over pertaining to securing a few factories of some kiud or other. Get together and get a few thousand dollars together,’’and put things in a humming condition. The electric light plant will soon be in operation, and then our beautiful little city will be shown to great advantage. Then again, there Is the opera house question. It has gone where the woodbine twineth. But it is liable to be talkedup again after the next show. If the Reverend Hicks or any other weather prognosticator should happen in Petersburg about this time he would, in all probability, have to have some of his friends order him, an overcoat. These weather prophots.

hare had the people in a hot stew all spring, and just now when eyery thing was in readiness, along came the blizzard, and there you are. Tho farmers have a growl coming to them on account of the weather these prophets hare been dealing out to them. This sort of weather kinder comes on the installment plan. As I have lots of time this summer and the days are long I will write a few more articles for your valuable paper. Just before the towu election I sent yon an article for public print, but I suppose you thought I was cuttin’ a little too deep and put it in the waste basket never to rise again. Well, that was all right, seeln’ as things are as they are. I’m coming again soon. Grumbles The Jail Situation. Pike county has a taxable valuation of 16,000,000.00, and an indebtedness of only $30,000.00 being only onehalf of one percent of her valuation. In a financial point it is among the first counties of the state for its excellency. Its bonds are due as follows : Jo,000.(0 due in 1898. J7,000.(0 due in 18SI. $5,000.(0 due iu 1885. $4,000.(0 due in 1890. Jl.OOO.OO due iu !897. $5,000.00 due in 189(8. The present rate of taxation for fbe purpose of meetiug this indebtedness is 15 cents on the $100 which includes the sinking fund. This rate brings into the hands of the county treasurer $10,'100 annually, which gives ample means to pay each year’s maturing debt, the interest on . the entire debt, and leaves quite a nice sum to be placed to the account of the sinking fund to meet future obligations. * Now when the new jail is built and bonds issued to pay for it, the indebtness will onlyjbe one per cent of present taxable valuation, so should there be no increase in the taxable valuation for the next ten years, the present rate of 15 cents per $100 will be amply suflicient to pay the entire indebtedness, but taking the increase of the past ten years, and judging the increase in the next teii years to be in the same proportion, the 15 cents levied on the increase alone will more than pay the interest on j;the entire debt. Still another point, should there be a necessity of an increase, it would need to be only five cents on the $100, to meet the increased indebtedness, and not 50 cents as someone opposed to the new jail has reported. •You can prove all, these assertions by going to the county auditor's and county treasurer’s booksjjgetting the valuation and rales, then make a calculation.

iu view ui me ^aci luai every grauu jury for the past five years has condemned the old jail (as shown by the record in the county clerk’s office) and the county liable for a damage suit every day the condemned jail is used, aud by reason of there being no, or very little, increase in the rate of taxation, is strong argument in favor of building a jail now. Besides, the commissioners have gone to the expense of employing an architect, who is to superintend the work, and of advertising for bids. Of course they reserve the right to reject any or all bids, which is the correct thing for them to do, yet the architect and the advertising must be paid. Should they in the future decide to build, instead of now, this expense would have to be paid over again. x A few words why the jail should be built at Petersburg: First,—It is the county seat. Second,—Washington township including the corporation of Petersburg pays over one-third of all the county tax. This you canyeee by examining the tax duplicate^aud the county papers of last week. Tax Payee. The gentlemanly house breaker, the kind that generally lets his victims take their naps out, visited the residence of Dr. Lamar last Thursday evening. The gcutleman thief had great respect tor the doctor and quietly lifted the cloUhea which the doctor had worn the day previous out of the window. They were found in the morning near the C. P. church, but a gold watch anh chain and $30 in cash were missing. The gentle-, man. visited other houses in the city but failed of admittance.

Frank Kimo made a business t .ip to Evansville, Tuesday- f You get gen line Oliver repairs at Shawhan & Boonsliot’s. 50—-1 Highest prices on wool. J. B. Young & Co. Mrs. Bullen. of Evansville, is visiting her mother, Mrs. Emma Stocks. Hon. E. 'P. and Mrs. Richards on are visiting friends at Evansville this week. It Will be of some interest to farmers to price binder twine at Shawhau & Boonshot's. 50-; Mrs. Anna Hillman, of Union, lias removed to Princeton, where she v ill reside in the future. The festival at. the court house Tuesday eveniug was very well attended considering the cool weath?r. The E. & I. wilj^sell excursion tickets to Evansville at one 'are for tlm round trip on May 27th, on accou nt of the butchers barbecue. Do you lack faith and love health? Let us establish your faith and restore your health with DeWitt’s Sarsaparilla. Bergen, Oliphant & Co, 14* Fleming & O’Brian have several good teams of mules and horses lor sale. If you want a team for your summer’s wort: you should not fail ;o see them, 4114 Mrs. Samuel Smith returned from Indianapolis, Wednesday, where she had been attending the grand lodge, Daughters of Rebecca, being a*delegate from the lodge of tHffc city. Attention F’Eople—All who wt.ut to buy or sell farms or town property, should place it in the, hands of the J. B. Van Naia real estate agency. Office in the M. H. Frank building.M * James Taylor, the young man ayho was seriously hurt by a horse falling on him last Wednesday, died cn Thursday afternoon following. 3he funeral took p ace on Friday aftjrnoou. It is a truth in medicwie that he smallest dose that performs a cure is the best. DeWitt's Little Early Risers are the smallest pills, will perform the cures, and are the best. Bergen, Oliphant & Co. 34* The infant son of Perry and Mrs. Crow died on Thursday last and was buried on Friday. The family have the sympathy of the common ty. The family desire to return their sincere thanks to, those who ministered during their bereavement.

~W. V. Hargrove and wife we-o called by telegram to Princeton Saturday. Mri. Hargrove’s mother, Mrs. Albert Mauck was stricken byparalysis on Thursday and has bien unconscious since that time; Later—Mrs. Mauck died Tuesday night, the funeral services being conducted yesterday. Training Stables.—TVe have , ust opened up a iirstclass traiuiug stable, have employed firstclass handlers uid conditioners for trotters, pacers, runners find road sters; have put the track in good shape; haye good,stalls and the very best of feed, &c. Vre guarantee satisfaction to those laving animals te be handled and on easonable terms. Cali and see us. 52-4 Fleming $ O’Brian'. Dr. W. H. Link returned the forepart of the week from, a three months trip to the east. The doctor wiile absent has been in New York uid Philadelphia making a special stuciy of diseases of women and siirgery it seme of the large private hospital! of those cities, where all kinds of difiicolt operations and diseases are cs red for. He has hitd many years experience in this line of work, but with a view ot further knowledge in his chosen line o f work, made this trio to the east. The Petersburg Democrat is dealin g in misrepresentation to bolster up the wankt# fortunes of its in aster, Congressman Taylor.— Princeton Leader. The Leader is mistaken in that it says that this paper is trying to bolder up Congressman Taylor by misiep^ reseutation. We do not misrepri!-. sent the facts when we say that lie has been woi k.ng faithfully for his, friends since the incoming administration. He has secured more appointments to. his district thus far than any other congressman in Irdiana. Itsecmito hurt our republican friends wien they hear the thump of the old p. iniu heads dropping in, the basket from the postmaster-gin*, cral’s patcut guillotine.