Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 50, Petersburg, Pike County, 27 April 1894 — Page 1

Commencing Saturday, April 28th\ And lasting Two'Weeks. House-cleaning is now on and to make the work easier on you put down a new Carpet instead of the old dirty one. We have by far the largest line of new Carpets in town and our prices are really lower than you will pay for last year’s styles. Pretty Patterns in Hemp.........%. Extra heavy China Hemp, will wear... Cottage Carpets, better than rag carpets.. Extra Super, pretty patterns. Beautiful Ingrains ,.. Lovely high art patterns la all Wool Ingrains, perfeot beauties. . Brussels JCurpet..-... Brussels Carpet, rich patterns, beauties . Velvet Carpet, soft as silk ..... Moquette Carpets, almost too pretty to walk upon.. 75 Rugs, iyg yards long, with fringe ... China Mattings ..... ... . •• 15,20 Cartaii)s Full length Curtains,per pair ... . A beautiful Curtain, extra j»ixe .. i..'• See our Curtain Bargain .. Irish Point Curtains, Silk Curtains, Nottingham Curtains, from .fl... 0it Cortoi»)s A pretty Curtain, with Spring Fixtures A beautiful Curtain, with Shade pulls. All the New Colors and Fringes. All the new Shades with large Floral Borders and Deep Frit ges, from . •Remember this sale is tor Two Weeks Only. You will■miss the chance ot a lifetime if you fail to attend. See the■At Portfolios we ^re giving away with every $4.00 purchase* STORE THE PEOPLES INDIANA ^PETERSBURG, yelvet Qartaitjs.

Just a plain old-fashioned ten dollar bill Is all that Is required to buy one of those All Wool Stylish Suits that are now on sale at The Star Clothing House. They are far better suits than the “other fellows” are asking $12 to $15 for. They are made in both Sacks and Frocks, nicely trimmed, well pressed and equal tq any $25 tailor-made suit. If you are going to Join cozbt’S _a_:e31!s&rz" Don’t fall to take one ot these suits along with you. Qur Prince Alberts and ne^; Regent Frocks are dandles. When It comes to Hats and Shoes there is but one place in town where you are sure of thq correct styles—Star Clothing House. NOTICE CHESE PRICES** Boy’s Suits .. — .... 186 Boy’s Pants.... Men’s Jean Pants..—v— 55,0 , Men’s Working Pants .. . 48c Men’s 8uspefder§ ... 10c Men’s StifT Hats, cheap at $2.50...$1 48 Men’s Soft Fur Hats..... 148 Men’s Fine Dress Shoes... 1 48 Men’s Shirts.•.*... 150 ‘Come In and see a flrstclsss stock of Clothing and Furnishings ‘at “Way Down” Prices* StarClothing House

LOCAL HAPPENINGS! t Gathered on the Fly by The Democrat’s Reporters. News Items From Here, There and Everywhere. Court, City and Personal Items in an Abreyiated Form. You Will Find Them AH Under This Heading. _

W. A. Braden was at Evansville yesterday on business. Go to H. H. Tislow for all kinds of watch and clock repairs. 28* Miss Mary Halcomb, ot Princeton, is visiting the Misses Yau Nada. Judge Duncan, of Prine’eton, was in the city Tuesday on legal business. Wanted.—Girl for general house* work. Inquire at this office immediately. George Tucker has been ip an excellent frame of mind this week. Girl^-eight pounds. Mrs. John B. Young is confined to her home by illness. She was some better yesterday. Our new summer goods have arrived. Ladies call. 49-3 Ruth A. Stocks. A surprise was given Wednesday evening in honor of Miss Flora, daughter of James and Mrs. Brumfield.

Call and see us for fine job printing. An elegant line of stationery to select from. No shoddy stock kept at this office. Mrsi Sarah Ash will attend the W. C. T. U. meeting at Huntingburg next week as a delegate from the society of this city. The Ladies Aid Society will have their first regular meeting for the month of May at Mrs. Moses Frank’s, Wednesday. May 2dJohn J. Davis and Miss Eva M, Bilderback, of Augusta, were married last week at the bride’s home by Rev. Wesley M. Qkaudler. Horsetraders are getting very numerous on the streets. It would be a good time for the assessor to reach them and let them pay rent. Emory Butler,H who was adjudged insane sometime since, was taken to the couuty infirmary this week. At tiipes he is very dangerous. In the make-up of the various committees of thfi republican state convention Pike county was {eft out in the cold. A very cool receptiou the boys get from Pike. Head Quarters—for real estate, farm and city property for sale on reasonable terms at the reliable realestate agency of W. H. H. Thomas, the leading real estate agency in the couuty. 38-5 There are several cases of smallpox in Indiana and Secretary Metcalf of the State board of health has sent out communications to the various local boards to inforce the order heretofore issued for the vaccination of all tramps. Once more the officers are after Bill Alsop for stealing cattle, lie is now wauted in Giftso^ county. He was sent to the penitentiary from this county a little a year ago for the same offense and was hftt recently released from custody. From the first of the present month until we went to press yesterday noon The Democrat added forty new names to its subscription list. The paper is going to the front rapidly and is classed among the foremost country publications of Southern Indiana. It leads all papers in Pike county in point of news and $ts style of makeup.

Judge Ely was at Jasper this week attending the Dubois circuit court. For Sale—Second-hand binder. Will be sold eheap. Call at this of* fice. The directors of the Orphan’s Horae meet next Tuesday to transact business^_* W. V. Hargrove is making a business and pleasure trip through Illinois this week. -s Mrs. William Totten was buried at Shiloh church cemetery Tuesday. She was 69 years old. W. W. Mason, of Monroe township, was in the city Monday and made this office a pleasant call. We have just received a new line of summer hats, bonnets, flowers, &c. 49-3 Ruth A. Stocks. Sig Frank, of Princeton, was iu the city Hast Saturday on business. He reports trade good in his liue at that Diace.

Yesterday a number of miners passed through the .ctyy*op their way to Littles. What tjieir object is is not definitely known. A special from Petersburg to the Cincinnati Post says that the republican congressional convention will be held on the 4th ot July, i, H. P. Pat berg, of Stendal, was in the city Wednesday transacting business. Before leaving He left an order for a large amount of job priuting. On this page you will find the change Qf ads of the people’s Store and the Star Clothing House. New goods have arrived and lower prices are the result. Uncle John Skinner, of Monroe township, one oi the pioueers of Pike county, is lying very ill at his home. He is very aged and has been ill for sometime past. His recovery, is very doubtful. When yon are in need of coal see Clarence Parker. He delivers lump coal at 6>£ cents and put coal at 5 cents per bushel. The best coal on the market guaranteed. See him before placing your orders. 50

We have just received 50.000 first class envelopes direct from the manufacturer which wit it a pe||t card printed on the corner is just what the business man and farmer needs. Call and see the stock and make selections. Yesterday at Union occurred the assembling together of a number of Odd-fellows of Pike county to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the order. George Tucker, Rev. Anderson, Frank Posey and others were on the program for addresses. Some light fingered chop made a «sit to the residence of D. Q. Chappell, Tuesday night, and awakened him at an unreasonable hour. DeWitt got up in time to see the fellow take a sneak out the front door. He secured nothing having awakened the sleepers before getting his fiugers glued to anything of value. John W. Wilson of this city was chosen permanent chairman of the republican Congressional convention at Evansville last week. Dr. W. H. Link also ot this city placed in nomination Frank B. Posev in a very fine style. The delegation voted for Posey almost solidly until the last ballot when they voted their entire strength for Goodlet Morgan. Hugh Rodgers aud Constable Prater, of Washington, were in the city Wednesday and arrested Henry Huffman and Jesse Meyers near the bluffs on White river. They are charged with stealing a skiff belonging to the Rodgers steamboat lino. The parties were camping along the river and had two women with them whom they claimed as their wives. The men were taken to Washington the same evening. Reports from the different sections of the state agree that the outlook for the wheat crop is excellent, and that the recent freeze has had no effect upon it. But few sections had tfny of the stalks jointed and even in these the damage was not great. Farmers say that the prospect is the best in years, and that with the coutinuance of favorable conditions the crop will be an exceptionally good one. Work is greatly advanced in all other crops, and the oats which was sown in March has already come up and shows a healthy growth. Ground has been broken for corn in all sections and the crop will be planted twh weeks earlier than usual. 1

II. H. Tislow jewelry and watchmaker Petersburg. All work guarteed. 28* Mrs. S. R. Hornbrook of Evansville, visited the family ot J. Frank Kime last week. Ruth A. Stocks has all the latest novelties and styles in millinery goods for summer. 4&-3 A number of the miners employed in the Littles mines at Blackburn went out on a strike Saturday as per order of the Federation of Labor. Leslie Lamb, James Shawhaij^John Crow, Ed Lingo, W. H. Garrisim, W. W. Weltou and Spencer Stafford went to Indianapolis Tuesday to attend the republican state convention. Cril Adams and family, Mrs. John Hammond, W; C. and Charles Adaips, Pf Petersburg, and Dr. J. W. Bethell, of Winslow, and Dr. S. R. Clark, of Otwell, went to Indianapolis, Monday.

Mrs. S. W. Chappell, of Algiers, grand lecturer of the O. E. S- of Indiana, and Mrs. W. H. Link and G. J. Nichols and wife of this city, are at Indianapolis this week attending a meeting of the graud lodge. The Democrat’s job department is still crowded with work. Good stock, the* best work and fair prices is what counts. We guarantee the best workinauship of any office in Petersburg and employ none but experienced job printers. Call and see us. The Ella KussiaVille joint at Washington is no more. About ten of the inmates and frequenters have been arrested for breaking into freight cars on the 6. & O. S. W. and purloiniug goods to the value of $2,000. The whole gang is bound for the penitentiary. The gang is One of the worst that ever iufested Washington. $ Our friend William Liibs, the baker and confectioner, who is now iu Germany yisiting the scenes of his childhood days seuds us the following which denotes that he is having a splendid time: Oldknbcrg, April, 10. Friend Mac.—I thought I would write you a postal so that you can’t say that I was down all the time while here. 1 am thinking of going to Berlin next week and will give your regards King William. Wiuiax Liibs.

The following decision was handed down by Judge Howard of the supreme court last week in a case tried in the Pike circuit court some two years ago: 16,755. Horace Conkey vs. Joseph Condor et al. Pike C. C. Affirmed. Howard, C. J. ! flj There may be service as process against co-partners upon the agent of the co-partner-ship, under Section 310, R. 8.^1894$ where the co-partners are not residents of the county in, which the suit is brought. [2] A record in this court on appeals is not authentic unless the certificate of the clerk thereto has the seal of the trial court attached, and presents no question. A city is just what its citizens make it, is truly remarked by the Kokomo Dispatch. If the people will look well to every line of advancement there can be no mistaking the future. If a good word is always ready for the stranger when he steps within the gates of the city, a friend has been made who will sing its praise to the end of the earth. The citizen who makes his investments in his home town is the oue that helps, and not the one who sends his money away to*enrich some other place. The citizen who wants to see his own city flourish buys everything he needs from the home merchant, who if worthy of patronage, docs not send away for his stationery and use printer’s ink iu hie iuvitations to the public. Schools and churches are liberally supported and everything that points iu the direction of progress and the building up of the city has the hearty corporation of every good citizen. And theu above all the man who has the real and substantial interests ol his city at heart is sure to see “that the municipal affairs are honestly and capably administered. He sees that none hut clean men are put in position of honor and trust. He wants the officers to he far above reproach so that at no time will he b# called upon to blush at .the conduct of those who stand for the city in an official capacity. Too many times men are put in control of the affairs of a city who, by their conduct, bring disgrace to themselves and to the city they serve. No man should bo put in [office whose reputation is smirched : by immorality, and whose method ot making a livelihood are of question- ! a bio honesty.

Fishing parties are numerous, but the fish—well they remain iu White river. Misses* hats, cheap and pretty. Come and be convinced. ;V 49^-3 Ruth A. Stocks, The following marriage licenses ' have been issued by the county clerk during the past week : John J. Davis and Eva M. Rilderhnek. Martin Ccudor and Fanny Williams. Louis Christopher and Dina Sot bum p. D. E. Davidson, of Clay township f Was in the city .Wednesday and made I The Democrat office a call. Mr. ; Davidson is one ot the substantial I farmers of the township and a number oue citizen and a staunch democrat. v

Local items _and other news is' rather scarce this week. For the past several mouths the average reporter could dish up a real lively paper, but tor the present there is nothing going on save what the republican candidate tor office creates and thdt is kept quiet, lu a few weeks the tide will turn. The republican state convention v. nominated the following officers so far as learned yesterday noon : For secretary of state* VV. D. Owens, of Loganspovt; for auditor of state, A. C. Dailey, of Lebanon ; for treasurer, F. J. Scbolte, of Evansville; for at-torney-general, . W. A. Ketchara, of Indianapolis. ' Alexander and Georgo Willis, -four miles west of Petersburg, were in the city yesterday, and; while here with their brother A. J. Willis, of this city, purchased a due monument of R. C. Burba, to be erected at Poplar Grove .Cemetery, Pike county, in memory of their father and mother who died a few months siuce.—Oakland City Record, This would be a splendid time of the year to put the street scraper to work. Tho main streets of the towns^ are in a very bad condition and >, should bo attended to at once. Be-> sides aU that there should be abont eleven miles of sidewalk built this summer. The council will look after this matter at their earliest pleasure aud have the thauks of the people. The Christian Endeavor societies of this place will give a ‘’Violet May Social" next Tuesday evening, May 1st, at the home of Mrs. Mart. Fleener on Sycamore street.

FROG RAX, V ocal Solo. Instrumental Duet. Our Quartette. Literary. Essay on “Blues.” Trio.

MKNC. Vintage be. / s Indispensible 2c, Occidental fruit Sc. Lady fingers 2c. Faster relish 1C. Flatter le.

After the program the, gentlemen will elect the “Queen of the May” who will receive a souvenir of the event. Everybody come. Music. A duet Y. P. S. C. E. chorus. On next Thursday the republican primary election takes places for the purpose of nominating county candidates for the various offices to be filled at the November election. The contest is waxing very warm and during the next few days it will be give and take with a vengeance. The main fight is for clerk and auditor, while there is a little fight lor commissioner, but Gladish and Carlisle will be renominated. As it stand* now the following candidates names will appear on the tickets to be voted for: . *' . / FOB REPRESENTATIVE. James A. Coates and LeKoy BroadwelA For clerk. James W. Brumfield, Jonathan B. Young, and Francis £. Hearing. , FOR AUDITOR. Marcus L. Woolsey, Wesley M. Chandlgr. and John H, Armstrong. FOR TREASURER. Sylvester Beach. FOR SHERIFFJasper N. Klninan. COMMISSIONER—THIRD. DISTRICT. W ashlngton Carlisle, Calvin R. Stone and Thomas Whitman, - COMMISSIONER—SECOND DISTRICT. William H. Gladish, William W. Wei ton and Lewis Loveless. FOR CORONER. Council B. Wilder and James A.. Chandler. FOR SURVEYOR. David W. Horton. Of the above gentlemen the follow- | ing stand for renominations: Jasper N. Kinman for sheriff; Sylvester Beach for treasurer; William H. Gladish and Washington Carlisle for commissioner and Council B. Wilder for coroner. Th^ old officers will, in all probability he renominated, while the race for clerk and auditor is hard to guess where the nomination will land. The republicans now havt^ their choice.