Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 48, Petersburg, Pike County, 13 April 1894 — Page 1

Our lamed Folks Have to refurnish occasionally. Carpets wilt wear out and Curtains grow old. Hargrove & Co. show the finest line of and Curtains To be found. Rich, new high art Patterns. No old last season's Styles. (Carpcts s^ltatye^or the humble pottage or the mansion. Did you say prices? My, but they are t^heap. Just think of a genuine Extra Super at 35c4‘per yard. Nice iJr.usseii. at 30c per yard. Bring the measure of your room and “let’s reason and figure together.” ANDH A NEW DRESS You have no'Idea how pretty the Dress Goods are this season; rich colors; new weaves. For goodness sake don’t have that old dress made over again. Let us sell you a new one, We have everything in Dress Goods; colors the fairies rave about. Trimmings to match. If you are thinking of getting marrted we can save you a world of trouble by gett ing your outfit of us., There la scarcely a lady in this part of Indiana that don’t praise Shoes and Slippers. Why will you buy irife.rior makes? Did you know that goods were $ STRIBLEY’S cheaper n;w tl:an ti,ey were^A’Jier Noah built his Ark?

Run Vour Eye Down the List. Genuine American Indigo Blue Prints ...4t£c Fancy Dress Calicos, jfast colors . ... 4%c Shirting, for work shirts ... 4c Turkey Re<l Table Linen ..:. 22c La^ct nce LL Muslin for Sheets... 5o Scrim for Curtains.. —!... 5c Lace Curtains, per pair . .. 50c Wlmimy Curtains, Spring Fixtures. . 25c Heavy Carpets, better than rag . 25c Extra Super Carpets, beauties . .... 35c China Matting ■ •••.;... 15c Ladles’Kid Gloves— . . . ... 49c Ladies’ Heavy Blapk Hose, seamless ... . 15c Ladles’Corsets, a dandy . .. 48c Infants, Button Shoes .'.. • 19c Ladies’ Button Shoes .. .-.. 98c Ladies’ Kid Slippers .. ...«. 75c As we can talk much better tha»t we can write, come in and see a First-class «HC,ek of Goods at “way down prices.” Agents for 8tand7 ar,i Pa^e^s. W. Y. HARGROYE & COMPANY, THE PEOPLES’ STORE, ^PETERSBURG, INDIANAN

u Spring has come, the flowers bloom and the green grass grows all around. “Boom de aye! Boom de aye!” These are the words he sung as he started for., the Star Clothing House this morning. He chuckled to himself, “while I'm there Ijwill get me A Nice Sunday Suit That will do to gd to meetin’ in; one of those All Wool Suits that they sell at 110.00, jest like Jim paid §12.00 for the other day at one of them other stores. And I'will want'a pair of them James Means Shoes. The last pair I got wore a whole year. A pair of them Alliance Pants at §1.00; they are stout and strong, and you can wear ’em a year and they wont rip When I heard they sold Boy’s Suits, suits well made, solid suits, at 48 cents, I said it does beat all how them folks do help the country by Keeping down prices. Well it does beat all what a big stock they carry there, and when youjdo get anything of ’em you always know it is the latest style Why. 1 never heard of them misrepresenting their goods, and I’m* going*.t© have all my boys trade^with them as long as they live.” * . Our Slock consists of everything new in fashion’s fancy. Cali and see us. You have the 9toi^| and us the Gtyads* Let’s Swap., ] StarClothing House

LOCAL HAPPENINGS! Gathered oil the Fly by The Democrat’s Reporters. News Items From Here, There and Everywhere. Coart, City and Por onal Items in an Abreyiatefl Form. Vo* Will Find Them All Under This Heading.

A ten-cent cigar for five—the Industry—union made. 27tf Daniel Nelson and Ida Usery were liceused to wed this week.. Milton Mitchell and family spent Sunday with friends at Washington. For the latest styles in queens ware go to the Gold Mine grocery of J. II. Yiehe & Co. 46-4 Stuckey & Lamb shipped two car loads of cattle to tna Cincinnati markefTuesday. Attorney G. B. Ashby will leave tor California next Saturday. He will take in the midwinter fair and be absent several weeks. The Baptist, young people gave a delightful entertainment at. Rev. Law’s Tuesday evenijfg. A large number of persons were present. Homes For Sale.—I have four houses and lots for sale or wdll trade for farming lands. 45-4 W. S. Mitchell. :.George Catt, one of the old residents of Clay township, and living near Oliphant, died Sunday evqining at an advanced age. The fuueral occurred Tuesday. •’.gRufus Dedman, trustee of Patoka township, is seriously sick. He had a partial stroke of paralysis a few weeks ago. The* Democrat wishes Mr. Dedman a speedy recovery. Prosecutor Cox came* home from Petersburg court Saturday night, and went back Monday. He has his hands full of criminal prosecutions at that court this term.—Jasper Courier. Judge VVelboin last Friday decided the case brought by several citizens to secure an injunction against building the new jail, fee decided against the plaintiffs. The case will be lakeu to the supreme court. We have just received 50.000 first class envelopes direct from the manufacturer and which with a neat card printed on the corner is just what the business man and farmer needs. Call and 6ee the stock and make selections. Peter Drof has just received a lot of lifne, hair, cerneut and other materials tor builders and plasterers. He handles all classes of goods and buys all old junk of every description. Call and see him when in need of anything in his line. 46-4

Ed Beasley, of Uuion, mention of whose serious illness from paralysis was made last week, died Mouday morning, lie was a .prominent, man ot Clay towuship and a veteran ot the late war. 'rtie funeral took place Tuesday and was largely attended. A medical authority says; “There is no use walkiug the floor with a felon. Wrap a cloth loosely around ihe felon, leaving the end open. Pour gunpowder in the end and shake it down until the felon iscovered. Then wet it with camphor. In two hours the pain will be rellfcrml and a perfect cure will quickly follow.” It. B. Brazelton, manager of the opera house, has a return engagement of the Schubert Symphony Club and Lady Quartette, for Tuesday night, April 1894. This company needs no recommendation to our people. They played to a good sized audience a few weeks ago and gave one of the best musical enteK tainmepts ever giveu iu the town.

Tickets on sale at Will Bradeu’s furniture store. Mrs. J. A. Crow, Priuceton, was in the city over Sunday. Goto H. H. Tislow for all kinds of watch and clock repairs. 28* Wanted.—Girl for general housework. Inquire at this office immediately. The attorneys for A if. I>. Beasley will take* the case, to the supreme court. Nothing like it. The weather is changeable and April showers are with us. [ Viehe & Co. have just received an j immense line of quee isware and glassware. 46-4 a Attorney Wilson will occupy the rooms in the rear of Bergen. Oliphant & Co’s, drug store as as a law office. If you want furniture don’t fail to see Braden’s new stock, und for .tin-( dertaking he is thp best furnished in the county. Next Monday is the last day for paying your spring installment of taxes without paying the additional assessment of ten percent. Corn for Sale.—I have 8,000 bushels ot tirstclass corn that I will sell out by the wagon load. 46-4 W. II. Fulcher.

Sheriff'Kinraan took James Spradlinand Alf Beasley to the Jeffersonville penitentiary Monday eveniug. A large crowd were at the depot to ese the boys off on their journey. Bull for Salf. —I have a thorough bred yearling Holstien Freisian bull ealf that I will sell reasonable. The mother of the calf is an imported cow. M. L. Heath max Prof. Steiner’s lecture on “Ethics” was not very well patronized Monday evening. The young than is a free tinker, and spoke from that standpoint throughout so we are informed. W. P. Townsend, traveling passenger agent of the B. & O. S. W. railroad, was in the city Wednesday confering with the U. II. K. of P. with reference to their Washington trip in August. The supreme court rendered an opinion that the law authorizing the township trustees to register dogs is unconstitutional, and that owners of canines must repprt the same to the trustee of their township, l Alexander Dillon, who was tried in the circuit court for burglary of the store of McCormick at Velpen, was released from custody by Judge Welborn on his good behavior, it. being his first offense of the laws of the state. Mrs. Elizabeth Williamson, sister or Mrs. E. Ely, of this city, died at her home in Spencer county last Wednesday. The funeral occurred on Thursday following. .Mrs. Ely and son Ilarry attended the funeral returning ou Saturday. The Fieener-Carnahan combination for the purpose of making sale of their new system of farm bookkeeping, which has been copyrighted, is growing into considerable proportions. A large number of active and reliable men will soon be in the field to take orders-—Washington Advertiser.

The following are the delegates to the republican congressional convention to be held at Evansville next Thursday : Jacob McAtee, William Chambers, Newton Lorton, Lewis Loveleas, W. Hi Link, Isaac Higgins, John Preston. Embree Lamb. James Hardin. Commodore Houchins, Adam Martin, Clark Wki.mau, J. H. Armstrong and M. F. Sumner. Yesterday afternoon the stock of | goods owned by the late G. N. Jerauld was sold to Gus Frank & Sons, of Petersburg. The sons Siff and Sol will take charge of the store and conduct it, oue of them becoming a resident citizen and—if rumor is true— will soon take unto himself a briue. Messrs. Frank are hustling busiuess men and we welcome them to our city.—Princeton News. Circuit court adjoui tied last Saturday. The term has been a very busy one for the lawyers and court offleers. A great many of the cases were very ably contested on each side. The criminal cases took up the major part of the term and in which there were three convictions and terms in the penitentiary dealt out to these violators of the law. Debtee secured a sentence of ten years for attempted murder, Spradliu twenty-one years lor

murder and Beasley sis years for larceny. Smoke Industry and Tonic cigars. Best five-cent cigar on earth. 27tf Thomas B. SI imp, clerk of Dayiess county, was in the city Wednesday. The highest market prices paid in cash for eggs at the New York Store. 45-4 * Mrs. Emmet Smith arrived here Wednesday from Muncie and will visit her brothers and their families. One span match mules 5 years old, dark bays. For sale by Thomas B. Basinger. Residence 4 miles below Petersburg., 48-2 Work has been commenced in ex cavating for the cellar of,, the new jail. W. T. Pierson has the contract tor removing the dirt. S' A. Seebren, of Augusta, was in the city the forepart of the week. He has sold out his interest in the llouring mill at that place and will remove to Princeton.

The depositions of Mrs. Eva Beasley and Ait Beasley were taken Monday in the libel case Of Barrel vs. Krebs. Mrs. Beasley left for her home at Butler, Ohio, Tuesday noon. Horsemen !—If you are |n need of bills for the ‘‘ensuing season" eall at The Democrat office. We have a splendid assortment of cuts to select trom and will give you splendid work. Gustoff Frank has bought out a large drygoods store at Princeton and opened it up to the trade last Monday. His son Sigmund will have charge of the store. It is one of the old established stores of that city and enjoys a good trade.Joseph Martin was fined $10 and costs for assaul* and battery bv Squire Chappell last Friday. Joe assaulted Al Eaton January l;3th last, and in the scrimmage Eaton had his right leg broken near the ankle, and the trial was"* postponed until last week that Eaton.might be able to attend and testify in the case. Bicycles.—Patterson & Alexander have just put in a big stock of the celebrated Triangle, Clipper and Redding road racer bicycles. They are the best in the market. The Clipper is especially built for ladies’ use. The Triangle is built in any weight from 17 to 30 pounds. All grades, all prices. See our 'stock before buying. 40-2 Moses Skinner, of Patoka township, and living near Arthur, has had the sad misfortune of losing four children during the past ten days with diptheria, the last death occurring Tuesday. Twp more children are seriously ill and are not expected to recover. His entire family has been' ill for several wee\s. lie has the* sympathy of all in his sad bereavement. - During the week Dr. D. E. Barnes, of Indianapolis, lectured in the opera house his rooms at the Pike Hotel were always crowded with people anxious to consult with him. During his short stay here he made many friends and received a great many patients who are all improving under his skillful treatment. The Dr. will visit our,city once each month; during the coming year, beginning his second regular visit on Mouday, April 23rd at the Pike Hotel. John ,H. Armstrong, of Jeflerson township, is the latest candidate before the coming republican primary election. He wants the nomination for auditor. The deal may be broken to give the nomination to Woolsey, and Armstrong may take it after all. It has been the prevailing opinion that wJ^lsey was to have the nomination without opposition and he may hold the politicians to their promise. The tug of war has commenced and will not end until the 3rd of May. -

There are people in almost every community who are habitual tattlers. They are always wideawake for go* sip and frightfully distorted they regale it at every opportunity and on every occasion where it mav produce a coldness among neighbors. When one of these trouble breeders unloads his venomous tongue to you pay his stories no attention until you have carefully inquired in regard to the matter of someone you know to he truthful.^O£ou can pot afford to discard an old friend on the word of a tattler. Despise a tattler and mis

chief maker as you would a rattle* snake. II. H. Tislow jewelry and watchmaker Petersburg. All work guarteed. 28* =• The IIhosier Nightingales gave a series of delightful entertainments at - the opera house last week. . The republican stale oonvention meets at Indianapolis Anri 124th. Excursion, tickets will be sold by the E. & I. ou the 23rd. See the show window of the Gold Mine grocery. The latest styles in queensware is shown there. You can buy a whole set or any part of a set. 46-4 Misses Flora, Julia and Bertha Beitman and Messrs. Jacob Beit man and Nathan Kauffman, of Washington, were the guests of Gustoff Frauk and family last Sunday. * ■ ■ At theldtizons’ convention at Winslow last Monday to nominate candidates for town offices ('baries Wes* ley was nominated for marshal over T. J. Scales, the vote staudiug 53 to 51.

Head Quarters-—for real estate, farm and city property for sale on reasonable tsftrips at the reliable realestate agency of W. II. II. Thomas, the leading real estate agency in the county. 38-5 The assessors of the various townships are at work seeing just how much each person of their respective townships should be worth for taxable purposes. The total assessment will run considerably above that of last year. Bill Newbv, alias Dan Benton, who was twice an inmate of the.county asylum,andconvicted sometime since as a pension fraud, has given himself up and will serve his term of two yearsdn the penitentiary. His attorneys have made an application for a new trial under a writ of error. The Jasper Courier of last week was a “corker.” It was a boom edition of the town and representative men of the Town and their business was shown by excellent cuts. The edition was very creditable to the town and reflects enterprise on the part of the management of the paper. The latest swindle being worked on the farmer is this: A smart, business like feflovv learns of one who contemplates using paiut, and represents himself as an agent for an eastern paint factory and agrees to send ten gallons of paint to be paid for in tour years and the farmer signs the order and—pays the note when it comes due at the bauk. The Popular Review term of the Southern Indiana Normal College, Mitchell, Indiana, opens April 3rd. Low cost; healthy location ; instruction the best. The college now has in its faculty instructors who are graduates of the leading universities, colleges and normal schools in the country. Send for Normal Quarterly, or write for full information. All in- * quiries answered immediately by personal letter. 47-3 Several new books will be placed in the public schools df Indiana at the opening of the term next fall. The state school commissioners have ordered a revision of the geographies and arithmetics. The writing books and first, second and third readers - will also he modified. These changes will be made without additional expense to school patrons, as the scholars will take them up only as they are promoted from one grade to another. The changes will be made at

the expense ot thecon tractors. Mrs. M. McC. Stoops received a telegram Monday morning bringing the sad news of the death of her grandfather William Parry at Richmond. Mr. Parry was one ofHhe most prominent men in Northeastern Indiana, and for the past thirty years has been president of the Cincinnati, Richmond $ Fort Wayne railroad. The funeral took place from the Twelfth'Street Friends’ church in that city Wednesday. The Evansville Journal has this to say of Mr. Parry's death : Richmond, Indiana, has lost some valuable citizens within ttyear or so. The last one to die is William Parry, a prominent member of “ the Hicksite quake,rs or ‘friends.” He was the prom >ter and real builder el the Cincin- - uati, Richmond & Fort Wayne Railroad, now the Grand Rapids division ot the great Penn- ' sylvania system. Mr. Parry, or “Uncle Billy,” as h? was fondly called, was one of those rare and sterling men whose “heart was in his hand” and whose word wasas good his bond.