Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 9, Petersburg, Pike County, 12 July 1895 — Page 1

VOL. xxvi. PETERSBURG, IND., FRIDAY. JULY 12, 1895.

Lucky Friday Bargain Day. To avoid the rush and Jam of Saturday, and that onr customers may be properly waited upon, we have appointed

Remember, these prices can be obtained only on Friday of each week. We can’t afford to sell below cost only cne day in each week. Notice these prices and compare with “mixed stores.” Genuine indigo Blue Prints . . Choice of any Calico in house Friday. Choioe of all Staple Ginghams.. t Yard Wide Percales, best grade . . Silkaline for Drapery. .-... . One-fifth off any Parasol in house Friday, All-Wool Carpets. . Stair Carpets . .. ... Ladies’Summer Vests .. .. . Large Pearl Button Kid Gloves . Pure Silk Mitts ... . .. . One-Fifth off all £mbroiderles Friday. One-Fifth off all Laces for Friday. One-Fifth oft all Shoes and Slippers Friday, And so on through our great stock. We have the .only “straight” Dry Goods store; you cpn always And just what you want, and the prices you know are always the lowest. COOL STORE, t THE PEOPTES’ STORE

Better Save that Doctor Bill You ask how? It’s simple enough. Buy one of our Silk Lustre or Alpaccg Coats and Vests and avoid being overheat. f ell the In good lprge figures, that he who runs may read. You can talk for hours about this or that Shoe, but the most interesting part is the price. There is where the Qouglass $2.S0 Shoe leads al'.. Popular price; neatly made, and its durability is unsurpassed; every pair warranted. TO ZESP COOXis the motto of everyone. It’s an easy task when you are wearing a Soft Negligee Shirt. They are regular "summ.er coolers.” We have i.hem in all colors. We will give you one-fourth off of the price of any Light Weight Suit in the house for the next Sixty Days, as we desire to close out all Summer Goods* before placing our order for Fall Stock. Come and secure the bargain of a lifetime. Star Clothing House Qpfn Until 10:30 O’Clock Saturday Evenings*

LOCAL HAPPENINGS! Gathered on the Fly by The Democrat’s Reporters,

News Items From Here, There and Everywhere. Court, Citjr and Personal Items In an Abreyiated Form. Yon Will Find Tbem All Under This Hearting. Buy your fruit cans of G. T. Kime. Pay up your delinquent subscript tion account. Rev. MePheeters of Algiers, was in town Wednesday on business. Mrs. John Dennisqn visited friends at Oakland City over Sunday, Misses Hattie and Lillie Malone of Oakland City,visited friends here last week. Mrs. Hattie Gullick and children are visiting with friends in Kuox county. Empress baking powder stands at head of the list tor purity and leavening qualities. 41* Threshing was abandoned several days during the past week owing to the heavy rains. Miss Jessie Bergen is visiting an aunt at Pleasureville, Kentucky. She will be absent two months. We recommend Empress baking powder to those who desire a strictly pure and wholesome powder. 42* Mrs. Commack lectured at the C.P. church last Wednesday evening on temperance. She is an entertaining speaker, \ Sylvester Dillon and Miss Phoeba Craig were married jn this place last Friday by Squire White. They live in Jefferson township. Th* E. & I. will sell tlokets at one fare for the round trip to New Albany, August 6th and 7th on accouut of the Red Men’s pow-wow. Baldness is cither hereditary or caused by sickness,mental exhaustion, wearing tight-fitting hats, and by over-work and trouble. Hall’s Rc* newer will prevent it.

The Indiana conference of the seventh day adventists will be hehi at Auderson, July 30th to August 12th. Excursion rates of one and one-third fare are offered by the I. & E. road. There will be a social at the court house square Saturday evening for the benefit of the base ball club. It will be under the supervision of a number of ladies. Give the boys a big benefit. The Rumble concert company gave an entertainment at the school house at Rumble on the night of the 4lh to a very large and appreciative audience. Tfie show was pronouuced as being firstclass. J. H. McAtee has traded his stock of hardware to a Mr. Katterjohn for a large tract of land, aud the goods were shipped to Huntingburg Tuesday, where Mr. Katterjohn will engage in the hardware business.—-Oak-land City Enterprise. Mrs. Susan Smith possesses a peculiar apple tree at her home on East Main street. JLarge numbers of apples in clusters have grown on the body limbs ot the tree aud on the ends of the branches the apples hang in great clusters. The apples are beauties and the growth very novel. The business man who fools with a dirty rubber stamp instead of letting a printer do a decent job for him is Wasting time and losing money in the outcome. That is right. If he enlarges his business or adds another branch he wants the local paper to make a quarter column mention of it without charge. But business is busiuess. A good paper is a benefit aud the printer must Hye

Don’t fail to pay oor collector when he calls on you. Editor Crow, of the Press, spent the fourth at Bloomington. Frank Salyard* of Bedford, was in town on the 4th calling on friends. Wheat i» worth 65 cents, and cori^ 45 cents in the Petersburg market. The Red Men installed the recently elected officers last Friday evening. G. T.-Kime has a large stock of all kinds of shoes. Prices to suit the times. , 8-3 Dr. David DeTar of Winslow, „yas in the city last Saturday on business matters. ^ A small child of Emanuel Palmer, living in Knox county, died Sunday morning. o Sig Frank and wife of Priuceton, are visiting Gus Frank and family this week.

Briggs Kepley, editor of the Oakland City Enterprise, spent the fourth in Petersburg. Millard Coleman and Zilla Reed were married at Arthur last Friday by Squire Hayden. Empress baking powder has been thoroughly tested and pronounced superior to alt others. 42* Ladies, The Democrat office has just received a new line of visiting cards. Call and see them. H. S. Edwards made a business trip to Evansville, Tuesday, to make purchases for the Phoenix drug store. No accident occurred here on the 4th to mar the pleasures of the day. The day passed off very pleasantly. Mrs. Martha Murphy and daughter Maude of Qskaloosa, Iowa, are visiting Frank Myers aud family this week. L. E. Grim, who was located here for sometime in the practice of law, is noV holding forth at Oaklaud City. Success. Mrs. George D. Martin and Miss Gertrude Hagen went to Evansville this morning where they will visit friends for a few days. Auother girl baby was born to the president's famHv last Sunday morning, at Buzzard's Bay, the summer home of the Clevelands’. Wanted.—To exchange traction eugine, separator and clover holier for a small farm. Will pay the difference if any in cash. W, A. Oliphant The members of the C. E. and Sunday school of Needmore church will give a social at the Rradfield hill, three miles northeast of Petersburg. Friday evening, July 19th. All are invited. The wheat crop will not average up to former years in this section by long odds. Some crops reported have made but seven bushels to the acre, and running as high as twenty-six buehels per acre.

Samuel Stuckey and Leslie Lamb last week threshed over 1,200 bushels of wheat from fortv-five acres, making an average of 26>£ bushels to the acre, Thib is away above the average so far as heard/ The quality was very good. “The woman in black” has been the talk of the town for several days, and many of the boys and girls who have been in the habit of roaming about the streets at night now stay at home with their mammas. Quite a number of persons claim to have seen “the woman in black” and tell very weird stories of their meeting. The officers are now on the lookout. A good many boys of this place are evidently not aware that there is a state law which makes it a finable offense to kill almost any of the birds which fiy about the yards. Such is the case, as some of them may find to their sorrow. We will sav, however, that the little Duisance, the English sparrow, is not among the protected birds. Here, says an exchange, is something that is worth $2 to every farmer in the land to know. Sprinkle a little lime in your stock tank and not a particle of scum will form on the water. When the lime loses its strength the scum begins to form, which may be twice during the season, wash out the tank and repeat the dose. It is cheap, uot only Harmless, but wholosome, keeps the water *wpet, and sayes work.

Mrs. John Whitman is recovering from her illness. You can get 25 pounds of sugar for fl.OU at G. T. Kime’s. 8-3 John McConnell of Winslow, was in town Tuesday on business. William Braden made a business trip to Winslow Tnesday morning. The weather during the past several days has beeu sorter uncertain. H. H. Tislow jewelry and watchmaker Petersburg. Ail work guarteed. 28* Martin I.iOri, who built the county jail here, moved to Uuntingbnrg this i week. Jasper is going to have a system of water works. The plant will cost 112,OOD. Charles Patterson has opened up a pool and billiard parlor in the Trafzer building. Mrs. J. B. Young atid daughter Mabel visited relatives at Evansville this week.

Empress baking powder is made by a home company and guaranteed to be the best on the market. 42* J. O. Bellville of Evansville, representing the Nederland insurance company, is in the city this week. Will Carleton and Charles Adams ot Vincennes, were in town taking in the sights on the glorious fourth. Building lot tor sale; 95x165 on Main street on easy terms.-8-2 W. V. Hargrove. Get ready for our collector, and when he calls crack down the sponrtnlix and let him go on his way rejoicing. Frauk Bilderback and wife went to Evansville Wednesday morning to see Alex Alman, who is quite sick at the Southern hospital. ' q Sheriff Kinman and Treasurer Beach left last Saturday for Stoddard county, Missouri, where they will look after some real estate investments. Major J. G. Winfrey of Evansville, was in the city last Friday and Saturday looking after business interests and cracking jokes with the boys between times. The thir'.een-year-old son of Nate Pipes, living near Flatcreeff, died last Saturday of heart trouble. The funeral took Diace Mondav afternoon and, intermeut at Flatcreek cemetery. Thomas Smith went to Hazelton Monday morning, where he has accepted a position in a flouring mill. Mr. Smith is a flrstclass miller and no doubt will give entire satisfaction to his employers. O V. Eaton stopped off here & few days last week to visit his aunt, Mrs. J. W. Bergen, while on his way to his home at Frankliu from California, where he recently graduated from the Stanford university. Judge Ely returned from Jasper Wednesday evening, having adjourned court until next Monday in order that witnesses might be summoned and the grand and petit juries drawn for the term. The dooket for the session is very small.

To points in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Kentucky the E. & I. will sell tickets at one fare for the round trip on August 7th, September 4th and October 2nd, limited to return twehty days from date of sale. Harper’s Weekly will soon begin the publication of a uumber of articles j by Julian Ralph, who during his ; recent tour in the West investigated | with his characteristic aeal and. discretion such subjects as civilization in the Indian Territory, coeducation in the West, and the peculiarities of municipal government in western eities. The young man who is found on the streets all day and then late at night is on dangerous ground and should have a guardian if he has no pareuts, for he is on the sure road to become a worthless man. Far better for him if ho is at home reading some good book or newspaper whereby he will gain some useful knowledge, that may be of some use to him in his old days, or if not then it may be he can turn it to some good advantage before he becomes old, but if he pursues the course of the lounger h? is sure to become a worthless man.

William Liibs transacted business at Princeton, Monday. Go to H. H. Tislow for all kinds of watch and clock repairs. 28* Mrs. Will Hargrove and children visited at Princeton this week. Vincennes will probably locate a bicycle factory in the near future. See what a uice piece of silverware G. T. Rime is giving as a premium for cash. 8*3 Harrison Ashby, living near Augusta, was in towu Wednesday on busiuess.

The Democrat force is under obligations to I, P. Crow for s splendid lot ot plums. > Gladish & Jones shipped a car load , of stock to the Cincinnati market last Monday tr.orniug. Miss Fannie Ashby returned to Princeton Friday morniog to resume her studies at the normal school. Every can of Empress baking powder warranted. If not satisfactory the price will be refunded. 42* J. R. Chew left for Pinckneyville, Illinois. Tuesday, where he will take charge of the Hargrove & Co. store, I have 5,000 bushels of coal mined for threshing purposes at 4}4 cents per bushel at the miue. J. B. Borer. George Grable left Monday to join Uncle .Sam’s army having beeu re- , ceived at the Evansville recruiting station. Colored camp meetings will soon be all the rage in this part of the 6tate. It is a splendid scheme to rake in the pickles. The Pullmau palace car company has increased the wages of 4,000 employes ten percent; This is the same company over which the big riots oc-i-curred at Chicago last year. Col. W. A. Oliphant of Petersburg, was in town yesterday with his hay seed uniform on. He is engaged in looking after his big farm now and Is not giving much attention to style of dress.—Princetpn Clarion. Dissolve alum in boilinarwaterjnot too strong) let the water cool then sprinkle the cabbage well and the worms will disappear. This.is a sim* pie remedy and is said by those who have tried it to be effective. Try it. A numberof old veterans pleasantly surprised William Shaw, who lives east of town, last Monday noon. A splendid dinner was served to those present. It was his 66th birthday. Eleven regiments had representatives present. Daniel Grubb of Clay township who carried the mail from Bovine to Petersburg last Friday, had his right hand caught in a binder and badly lacerated. He stopped to help a when the team backed and his hand was caught^with the results as above Stated. Pure water, an exchange says, is an essential food; impure water is a most direct poison. The danger in water from country wells and springs is the organic matter coutained. It can be purified by intermittent boiling. In the eitythe danger is from lead pipes. So small an amount as one-hundred,th of a grain of lead in a gallon of water, habitually used, has produced palsy.

On the 4th Sunday in July, Rev. George Whitman, preaeher In charge of Patoka Grove church, <#ill administer the ordinance of water baptism to quite a number of converts. Those desiring ta receive the ordinance by sprinkling or pouring will be served at the church, while all that prefer baptism by immersion will be taken to a point in Patoka river just above the well-known Massey bridge.Oakland City Enterprise. Mrs. Mary Langford, wife of Richard Langford, died at their home two miles south of town lasfBaturday and was buried Sunday in the Lynnville cemetery. Elder James Crain conducted the service. She was born in England in 1811, came to this, country a few years later, and waa married to Richard Lahgford in 1832 at the residence of Thomas Hooker i#t Knight township, Yanderbnrg county Iud. She has been a faithful member of the Regular Baptist church for sixty-two years. She leaves her husband, a son, Richard, of Spurgeon, and a daughter, Mrs. Green McMurtery besides a large number of friends to mourn her demise. — LyunvvUq ' Chronicle.