Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 35, Petersburg, Pike County, 11 January 1895 — Page 1

Japaarq Sa'e iMMMMmttlVVMMMlMtM , We Invoice February 1st. ' That’s Why We Have this Sale. _ 1 It's better to sell goods below cost than carry them over. Bo they are yours at almost your own prices. p Winter has Just begun, so prepare for the drifting snow and the wintry blast. We havejjtwo stores chuck full of goods. Just the kind you need, and at prices you can’t resist them. Fall Size Bed Blankets, 75c per pair. Large Heavy Bed Comforts, 93c a piece. Pare All-Wool Twilled Flannel, 19c per yard. Good Joans; 15c per yard. 3,000 lards Good Prints, Fast Colors, 4c per yard. Ladies’ Cloaks, 75c, $1.50, $2 75 and np. 10 Pieces Dress Goods, nov 25c; was Cheap at 40c. See 0dr ^eijderfal Jci> Cet)t Center i Men’s Boots, goo*} and solid, $1.25 per pair. Men’s Solid Congress Shoes, 98c per pair. Men’s Jean Pants, well made, 75c. * Men’s Jean Pantti, full lined. 98c. t Boy’s Suits, nice patterns, 98c a salt, 1,000 Men’s Suits, all new fall patterns, perfect beauties, regular tailor made goods, at $8.1(0, $10.00 and $12 00, that ate beauties. /These can’t bo touched by city prices at $5.00 pier suit more. J 98 Men’s Overcoats, perfect, beauties, at less than regular price. When yon grant bargains we are your “huckelberrles.” So try us during this C^teap Sale. We carry a full line of Piece Goods nndwill make your Clothing to measure. , Mgr Agents lor Crescent Laundry. W- V’ Har9r0ve k Owpeioq | -PROPRIETORS OFPEOPLES’ DK! GOODS STORE ul STAR CLOTHIKG SOUSE, ■ . * j | JPETEXaSSTTSi©-. XaTPX-A.XT.A~

TINWARE! •^te®^Still Going Fast^-*®^* 35 cent Coat Hods. 10 cent Wash Basins. 25 cent Tin Pails, 10 qt, 20 cent Comb Case. 40 cent Frying Pan. 10 quart Dish Pan. 14 quart Dish Pan. 17 quart Dish Pan. 2 quart Coffee Pot. 3 quart Coffee Pot, 4 " Coffee Pot. We Gan Show the Finest Line of 000K STOVES in Petersburg. 19 4 12 8 20 17 20 25 9 11 14 Ct Sbawbat) $ (3@0t)sb©t .HARDWARE.

Go to H. H. Tislow for all kinds of watch and clock repairs. 28* Miss Auna Shandy visited friends at Washington last Monday. Frank Kime has relinquished hie clerkship in the store of G. T. Kime. H. Wood ward of this city is registered at the Spencer house Indianapolls.

hi uarieton, or tne Monroe City Globe, eras ip the city a few days last week. Franklin Skinner and wife are visiting friends and relatives in Warrick,.county. John H. and Mrs. McAtee have returned to Oak laud City from their visit to Florida. Vinson France, of Monroe, town* ship, was in the city last Friday on business matters. Two loaves of bread given with every dollars worth of groceries sold tor cash at Liibs* bakery. 3|-2 ft. Josiah Morton returned to Cincinnati last Saturday where he is employed at the stock yards. Patronize Will Braden. He will sell you furniture 15 percent cheaper than any place in the country. 34-4 James S. McCoy went to Indianapolis, Monday, to attend the meeting of the State board of agriculture. The infant daughter of Samuel and Mrs. Smith died Tuesday morning. The funeral took place Wednesday. M°ney to Loan.—On five years’ lime on real estate mortgage; low rates of intercut. W. H. II. Thomas. 1-tf. Call at The Democrat office for 4*00r job printin';. The best job printer in the city. See us. before leaving your order. John £. Ilemsburg, of Kansas, will lecture at,* the opera house, Saturday night, Sunday afternoon and night. Admission freb to all. Whoopla! the Indiana legislature is in session. The corporations and the lobbyists arc also there and want the tax law and other laws knuckled out. If yon F?nt a reliable dye that wiil color an even brown pr black, and will please and satisfy you every time, use Buckingham’s Dye tor the whiskers. The steam heating gppgratug is being placed in the new jail and .sheriff’s residence. The bqildmg will be bested by steam and will be quite a luxury for the occupants. Surprise parties during the past week have been quite numerous. The events were for the piost part birthday anniversaries. All report haring had a splendid time.

Head Quarters—for teal estate, farm and city property for 6ale on reasonable terms at the reliable realestat«*«gency,of W. H. H. Thomas, the leading real estate agency in the county. 38-5 James Mount, of Petersburg, called at this office Friday afternoon, while waiting tor the north bound train. He had been visiting friends at Princeton during the holidays.— Oakland City Enterprise. George W. Loveless, of Oatsviilc, Pike county, was here, Tuesday Mr, Loveless has been appointed guardian of the minor heirs t>t Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Butram and came over to draw their shares of Groner Marshes estate.—Vincennes Star. The Indian!* legislature went into Session yesterday. There ia an immense fight on hand fo redeem the pledges made to the corporations of Indiana and other states, who went down into their pockets and furnished the campaign boodle. Redeem now or go broke. f - We desire to thank our manv subscribers who have *‘come to the front” during the past few days .and renewed their subscription for The Democrat, and also to those who have been in arrears. On January 25th we will publish our roll of honor for the month. Get your name in the list. This world owes no man a living, and the young man who has it in his thin-skulled cranium thitft it does, may some day wake np to the fact that he has boarded the train for the penitentiary with the sheriff as his atten? dant. Voting men, it is time to go to work and make a living for yourselves ; the world owes you anything.

Wheat is worth 46 cents, and corn .'15 cents in the Petersburg market. F. B. Posey, of Evansville, was in the city last Fridav on legal business. H. H. Tislow jewelry and watch* maker Petersburg. All work, gnarieed. 28*

unaries Aaimt oi me Monroe uuv Globe, Suudayed with his parents in this city. Joe Patterson and George Frank were at Washington last Saturday on business. W. F. Brock, trustee of Marion township, was In the city last Saturday on business, W. A. Oliphant went to Indianapolis, Monday, to attend the opening of the legislature. Our old patron J. E Brittain who has been living at Lacy, Oklahoma, has moved to Ortley, same • afe. 4 . You can get 'wo loaves of bread with every dollars worth of groceries bought for cash at Lfibs’ bakery. '• Miss Carrie Hammond returned to her home at Oakland City lust week after several days visit here vith relatives. Matthew M. Gowen, of Pike county, spent Monday in Boonville, visiting his brother Thomas ^G. Gowen and family.—Boonville Enquirer. A tribe of the I. O. R. M. will be instituted in this city in the near future. Some, of the candiciates now hear the war hoops of the braves ringing in their ears. You can buy undertaker’s supplies 25 percent cheai>er than any place at Braden’s. Best hearse; best attention ; practical embalmer. Dont forget that he will not be undersold. 34-4 The fair grounds were sold at sheriff’s sale last Saturday by the sheriff for $2 025. They were bought in by the.plaintiffs in the suit, James Chew, L. C- Thomas and S- J. Haines. The Democrat carries in stock a line of high grade and fancy envelopes, folders, wedding and mourning goods, and cards and. envelopes suitable for fashionable parties, ('all and see them. The Washington township school teachers held their regiilar monthly institute at the school building in this city last Saturday^ A full attendance of the teachers were present and an interesting sessionjheld. Charles Schafer, of the Pike hote’, received from his son William, who is located at Portland, Oregon, a very handsome extension dining room table. It is made of antique oak and very beautifully carved. It was a Christmas present and Mr. Schafer is verv proud of it.

Dr*. Holloway & R'ce, of Vincennes have opened a sanitarium in that citv. The doctors have a wide experience in medicine and surgery, and both having resided ip Petersburg it former times, our people are naturailv inclined to wish them success in the enterprise exhibited. Mrs L. M. Thomson, State evangelist of the W. C. T. U. will commence a weeks meeting here next Thursday morning at ten o’clock. After Sunday she will hold both day and evening meetings. We anticipate an e.i* joy able and profitable time. The firM meeting will be at the PresbyI terian church. Com. Petersburg needs a system of sewerage very badly the rains of Sunday proving this very conclusively. At least two large main sewers should be run through the city, with tributaries branching out in various directions. There is one thing which the city council should Ipok after and that is the cleaning of the filth from the alleys and streets. These accumulations should be carted off and save the expenses of filling up the gutters. The Supreme con rt has handed down ft decision holding that a saloon-keeper may be held responsible for damages resulting: to an intoxicated person who beccmes intoxicated from the liquor purchased In his saloon. The decision was rendered on a case that went up from Huntington county. Louis Gaus, a saloon-* keeper at Huntington, was; sued by ^Joseph Silney for the death of a son Of Silney. The court said that a person who sets in action any dangerous power or force ^s Responsible for the consequences. . - ‘.c

George Tucker tod 8am Smith went to Indianapells, Monday, to at* tend the opening of the republican legislature.

E. 8. Pershing has sold his Reeve township., farm lo a Mr. Alexander and will engage in the general merchandising business at Petersburg.— i Elnorn Tribune. The work of putting the rods in at the court house from wall to Wall in order to strengthen the building has been finished. The building is now in a safe condition. A year's subscription to The Democrat will make one of the most acceptable holiday preselits'you can befriend. It would cause him or her to remember you fifty-two times during ibe year. Try it. William E. McClellan has filed suit for divorce in the * Daviess' circuit court. He was recently a defendant in a salt in this efty for surety of the peace and bound over to the circuit court, the case having been preferred ggalnsfhim by his wile, from whom he now asks legal sepa.nion. Hon. James A. Coats Jett last Saturday tor Indianapolis, where he will make laws tor the people ot the state of Indiana for the next sixty days. Before leaving, however he was heseigrd on all sides for a position of some kind, and neither of the various candidates, was very particular what it was just so it was a position. An exchange says: The man who gets the fewest letters complains most of the postoffice; the man who complains and attends to his neighbor's business is the meanest man in the community; the man who pays the least to the preacher complains the tit os tu bout him; the man who has the most coticeit has the least sense; and the man who borrows his neighbor's paper and kicks because it is not as good a8, fie couIt. make it, is the man who leaves'the door open wbeu the mercury stands fifty degrees below zero and closes the.door when it is J20 iu tne shade. i Died, December 29th, 1894, George Kinman, aged >ear 60 years, at his residence in Patoka township, aud his son Charles, aged 18 years on January 1st 1895. He leaves a wife and four children to mourn their loss, in common all that kne\v*him. This/sad bereavement illustrates the truth of the lilies of tne poet says: Obituary.

- ui o id uub a puui w iuici a uajr, Some break fust aud—away ; Others to dinner slay and are well fed. The oldest man but sups and goes to bed.” 'I'lte writer was intimately acquainted with the deceased GeorgeKittman, from his boyhood to the time of his death, and can cheerfully bear testimony as to his excellent character. Ho faithfully fulfilled ail his duties iu lile. He was a good citizen, a kind and affectionate husband and parent aud a consistent Christian, being a member of the Regular Baptist church for more than thirty years, and who bv his daily life and conversation exhibited to the world an example well worthy to be followed by those who wish to be respected while living and honored when dead. To snch a man death has no terriors, for it is said : > There be angels that convey Us weary children of a day. Life’s tedious nothings o’er, Where neither passions come nor woes On death’s majestic shore. M. Precinct Committeemen, i. All Democratic Committeemen or other jiersons holding the democratic poll books of 1894 are respectfully requested to send them to Hon. A. H. Taylor, Washington, D. C. Mr. Taylor will send each one of you some valuable reports In return. Please send them at once sr he wants to make the distribution in the next ten days. M. L. Hbathmax. Chm. Detp. Cen. Com. Marriage Licenses. Tte following marriage licenses have been issued since our last report. F^ncis M. Selby and Ona Link hart. Lawson M. Robling and Rebecca J• Ropp. $nierv Jen^U and, Martha Smith. George W. Rose and Estelle M Hudson, ■ SU aodKV»abetl>W^tte,

ill Algiers Items* Louis Scholl is ou the sick list lagrippe. V Etnory Mi ley Is happy, twelTO pound girt

Mil MiJIis rejoices over (the advoni of a,boy at bis home. Nathan Griffith i« happy. Ten pound boy at hie home., Evening Light preachers are hold* ing a revival at the Gray church. Algiers bee tour secret societies. They are flourishing atid h&ve plenty of work. Elijah Bell of near Ot well,:, baa moved onto the farm of Dr. Harris, neai^this place. William Kelso killed four eight* months-old pigs that weighed iJjOO pounds. Next. , i . . *r ■ . Luther Capohart, assessor-elect of Jefferson township, says its a girl of the usuaf weight. • Rey. John Jeffery commenced a series of revival meetings at Algiers last Sunday night: A fine monument was erected in Flat Creek cemetery last week at the grave of George Sorgius by his sons. Thomas Anderson, while cutting wood last Tuesday, had the misfortune to cut off the great toe of one of hit feet. -y‘ .y .'./v.;- ' Miss Ethel Lett returned . from Evansville last Friday, where she had been visiting her brother during the holidays. Rev. John Jeflery will preach the funeral sermon of the late John Davjs, Sunday, January 20th, at the U. E. church. The M. E. church had an oyster supper at the Red Men’s hall New Years night. The'Cato string baud and the Otwell brass band furnished ruunie for the occasion. A general' good time was had. Algiers lodge No. 563, I. Q. O. F, have elected the following officers: Noble Grand—W, F. Myers. Vice Grand—P. F. Tisdale. Secretary—Alien Barr. Treasurer—8. W. Chappell. Permanent Secretary—C. W. H. McClure, Trustees—S. W. Chappell, C. W. H. McClure and & B. Stephenson, i Wahoo Tribe No. 45, I. O. R. M. have elected the following officers for the cominsr six moons. Sachem—K. W. Horton. Senior Sagmore—Isaac Sorgius. Juplor Sagmore—Wilson M. Johnson. Prophet—E S Imel. Chief of Record*- Mike Sorgius. - Chief of Wampum—W. E. Chappell. Keeper of Wampum—C. W. H McClure. Trustees—s. W. Chappell, A. A. Adams and John Myers. , : Dr. R. W. Harris is making some extensive improvements on bis farm. He will soon erect a large and com* modi us stock barn. Success to the doctor.. Ononga. -V

Window Items. Dr. L. E. Woodward “is on the sick list this week. Theodore Evans was at Francisco last week, visiting friends and on other special business. The Winslow* repertory club will play “Hickory firm” in the near future. It is a new play. , . «;. Win. White was at Iron Bridge this week visiting friends and relatives. ■ - \ Joseph Colvin, of Oakland Cityr was a visitor to our town this week. We were all glad to see Mr. Colvin in our town once more. Charles Freeland was here last week visiting relatives and friends. Born to Bfr. and Mrs. Frank Simon, and eight pound boy, on Monday, j 4 Curtis Esken has gone home to stay two or three weeks. Mr. Echerty has taken his place during his absence* G. B. Ashby, was in town Tuesday] Rev. E. R. Wright came down from Birdseye to visit friends at this place. Miss Fannie Lucas went to Birdseve to visit E. R. Wight's family. Winslow will have a new drug store. William Lawrence will be the druggist, . J. H. McConnell is smiling over being called grandpa. Dr. J. C. Holloway was called to Petersburg on apeonnt of the seriona illness of his mother.—Vincennes San, -? —-:—7— | Dr Price’s C/feam Baking Powder t- r snost Perfect Made.