Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 17, Petersburg, Pike County, 6 September 1895 — Page 8

YOUR TIME HAS COME. " « ■.; . , ■ ■ ■ * : ■ '• ■■ ■ ■ -"v.This is what you have been looking for.. Good Times are now waiting for you at our stores. Great Auction Sale of thousands and thousands of dollars worth of goods from the great Specker Bros., failure in Cincinnati Our Stores are packed with goods from floor to ceiling; nothing like it ever seen before in Petersburg. In the face of the recent advance of all kinds of goods it will be a pleasure to buy your winter supply £t about 50 cents on the dollar, or half the regular price. We are working night and day and will have the stock in shape Monday, Sept. 1st. Don’t delay, this golden opportunity may never happen again. This Sale will last from day to day until all the goods are sold. Extra clerks have been engaged so you won’t have to wait.

Dry Goods Store. Read the prices. Genuine American Indigo Blue prints, 3#c regular price 6# c New fall patterns, prints, fast colors, 4c “ 6#c Dress ginghams, nice dress styles, 6c 44 10c Double width Cashmere, new colors, 10c 44 15c Yard Wide Bleach Muslin, 5c 41 Syic Extra Heavy Brown Muslin, 5c ,/ 44 7}4 Nice towling, good quality, 3^c 44 6# Turkey Red Table linen, 19c 44 30c 1 pair^ blankets, 59c 44 1.00 Good heavy comfort, 79c 44 1.25 All uyooi red twilled flannel, 19c 44 25c Good quality Canton flannel, 5c 44 8}i Ladies Black hose fast color, 5c , 44 10c Ladies Heavy Undervests, 25c 44 50c Infants Undershirts, 10c 44 20c' Infants Wool hose, 8c 44 15c Pure Vaseline in bottles, 5c 44 10c Ladies’ 4 button real kid gloves, 75G 44 1.25 Baby Shoes red and black, 15c 44 35c Ladies shoes with pat tip, 98c *4 1.25

Star Clothing House. Compare the prices. Boys-fieavy winter suits, 79c - regular price $1.25 Boys knee pants, nice patterns, 19c “ 35c Boys jeans coats, good and heavy, 98c “ 1.25 Mens fine Kersey’s suits, fall styles, 4.50 “ 7.00 Mens fine casimere suits, beauties, #6.50 “ 8.50 Choice of thousand suits all the very latest styles and colors made to sell at £10, £12 and $15 now $8 and £10. Mens jeans pants, lined throughout, 75c regular price £1.00 Mens new fall overcoats, good and warm, £2.50 “ 4.00 Boys overcoats, nice styles, £ 1.15 “ 2.00 Mens good stout boots, a dandy, £1.48 “ 2.00 Mens Genuine Kip boots, will wear a year, 1.98 “ 31.75 Mens heavy seamless sox, 5c “ 10c Mens lined winter gloves, 35c “ * 50c Mens wool sox, 15c. Mens Drill Drawers, 19c. Mens heavy cut flannel drawers, 25c. Mens soft fur hats 98c. Mens solid congress shoes, £1.00. Mens Laundried white shirts, a beauty, 50c. Mens heavy sweaters, 25c.

We could .write for hours and not tell you half the good things in this grand sale. We say again don’t fail to come even if you live 50 miles away it will pay you a hundred fold. This is a chance of a lifetime. Bring this advertisement with you. W. V. HARGROVE & CO., Peoples ’ Dry Goods Store and Star Clothing House, ■P

Patoka Pointers. Farmers making ready . for an (earthly deposit of the golden grain. Neal Gray is whistling a new tune pow-whiles. It’s a twelve pound boy. George Bnrch of Winslow visited his son William near here Sunday. W. H. Bottoms and wife viBited Arthur friends Sunday. Mrs. George Pickle is visiting her parents near Augusta this week. i- Many of our people (ire attending the Pike county fair this week. A t^uiet wedding occurred atthehome pf the bride near Trinity Sunday eve. The contracting' parties were Ej. B. Copeland and Mrs. Eliza L. Minehart. Bev. George Whitman officiating. On Monday night the boys gave them a rousing serenade. They have the best wishes ot their mauy friends. ^Te extend congratulations. Spurgeon Sayings. Professor J. B. Arnold of Patoka ftas moved here and will teach in |ifonroe township. Qur town is on the boom J. A. (Shepard has his store house completed. There are several other new buildings inprogress. Shepard & Lorton delivered two pars of bone meal this week. There will be a large wheat crop sowu here this tall. Trustee Joel Traylor and wife of Jjane township, Warrick county visited the family of John McOleary, Mrs. Traylors*father last week. Elder E. D. Thomas of Danville, and Elder J. W. Bichardson preached here Tuesday of last week. There was a large crowd present to hear

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them. They are both well knowu aud have many friends here. Sugar Creek Items. J. H. Gray is on the 6ick list again. A large delegation went from Hosmer, to Traylor’s chapel Wednesday to the Sabbath school picnic. James Bottoms was in our midst Wednesday. Clarence Shrodes and Willie Harris passed through this place Wednesday morning. Mrs. Elizabeth Howard of near Clarks station, is dangerously ill with typhoid lever. Henry Hawkins and Normau Selby left for Illinois last week. The Sabbath school at the Grange Hall has closed for this year. Mrs. Jesse Poe, who has been suffering with consumption for sometime died Weduesday August 21st. The bereaved husband and children have the sympathy of the neighborhood. Four Big Successes. Having the needed merit to more than make good all the advertising claimed for them, the following four remedies have reached a phenomenal sale. Dr. King’s New Discovery, for consumption, coughs and colds, each bottle guaranteed—Electrio Bitters, the great, remedy for liver, stomaoh and kidneys. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve, the best in the world, and Dr. King’s New Life Pills, which are a perfect pill. _Ak.ll these remedies remedies are guaranteed to do just what is claimed lor them and the dealer whoes name is attached herewith will be glad to tell you more of them. Sold at J. B. Adams & Son’s drug store.

Harper’s Weekly of September 7th will have an eight-page yachting supplement devoted to-two full-page pictures of Valkyrie III. and Defender under sail,, drawn by Carlton T. Chapman, and a striking double-page illustration entitled “First Over the Line,” drawn by T. de Thulstrup. Being printed on extra heavy paper and not accompanied by readingmatter these pictures are well suited for fraimiqg. Princeton, Petersburg, Poseyville and other country towns around here are base ball crazy. It would take a bigger book than Spalding’s Base Ball Guide to tell what they don’t know about the game.—Mt. Vernon Democrat. And when you think your club can play ball send them over and the locals will teach them the rudiments of the game. The county board of education met1 at the court house Monday afternoou and transacted business fof the com»'*sr school year. The trustees were ,D1 present.

Next week the national encampment of ex-soldiers takes place at Louisville. A large delegation of the old veterans and citizens from here will attend. The Mechanics’ band will also attend and take part in the monster parade. The post of this city has chartered special cars for the trip and also engaged hotel accommodations in that city. The old vets never do anything by halves. Just as a man was writing his name on the register of a hotel not a thousand miles from Cannelton, a huge bed-bug appeared on the page. The mau paused and remarked. MI have been bled by Troy fleas and bitten by Hawesville graybacks, but I’ll be cussed if I was ever in a place before where the bed-bugs looked over the register to And where your room was.”—Rockport Journal. The trustee of Logan township has contracted with the following teachers for the coming year who will teach in the dsitricts named: No. 1. H. B. Blaine. No. 2. Lida Hightower. No. 3. Edward Atkinson. No. 4. A. J. Loveless. No. 5. ». M. Krelg. No. 6. Q. W. Deffendoll. No. 7. George B. Grim. The county commissioners are in session this week. But little business has beeu done so for outside of allowing claims. John Watson & Co, were allowed $105.75 for tearing down the old jail. Yesterday was diquor j license day and today the road business will come up for action.

Dr. G. W. Clongh of Cbillicothe, Ohio, was viewing our progressive city with Alex. Leslie last week. Mr. Leslie sold him an $18,000 farm is Pike county, west Ot Petersburg.^Washington Gazette. * Frank Taylor, who has umpired all the ball games here, this summer, left Wednesday, for Petersburg. The brickyards having shot down for the season.—Jasper Herald. Arthur Cook was acquitted by the jury last Saturday of assault and battery with intent to kill Johu ! Smiser. The jury was out but a short time. General Cole, who wa£> tried last week for assault and battery with intent to kill Albert Duvall, secured a two years sentence by the jury. Adam Snyder and George Adams, i who were sentenced to three years in the pen for burglary, were taken to the penitentiary last week. Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder ; World’s Fair Hlgtait Medal fad Diptuna. i

There was a tolal eclipse of the moon Tuesday night and was visible throughout the Uuited States. It was the first total eclipse so generally seen since 1888. The moon entered the prenumbra about nine o’clock and at eleven oclock the eclipse was total. The moon come in full view again about two o'clock. The Daviess county fair will be held at Washington, September 9 to 14 The attractions in all classes will be above the average and the speed ring promises to furnish the most interesting races ever had on the track. Premiums all paid in full. No scaling. One Cent Per Mile. Annual National Q. A. R. Encampment meets in Louisville, Ky., September 11th to 14th. B. & O. S-W. R’y will sell round trip tickets from all points on its line at one cent per mite, September 8th to 11th, good returning until October 5th. On September 18th and 14th, round trip tickets will be sold via this line from Louisville to all points in Indiana, Illinois and Ohio within ~a distance of 300 miles of Louisville at one fare for the round trip, good returning until October 3d. In addition to these rates, round trip tickets from Louisville to Chickamauga and other battlefields in the vicinity of Louisville will be sold at very low rates. Ticket agents will give additional particulars.

Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. The be6t salve in the world for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns, and all skin eruptions, and positive* ly cures piles, or no pay required, it is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by <1 B. Adams A Son. Rhenatatism Cured in A Day. “Mystic Cure” for rheumatism and Neuralgia radically cures in 1 to 3 days. Its action upon the system is remarkable and mysterious. It removes at once the cause and the disease immediately disappears. The first does greatly benefits, 75 cents Sold by J. R. Adams & Son. Or. Price’s Cream Baking Powder World’s Fair Highest Award. Notice of Final Settlement of Estate. In tbe matter of the estate of Catharine Rogers, deceased. in the Pike Circuit Court August term, 1895. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned as executor of the estate of Catherine Rogers, deceased, has presented and filed his accounts and vouchers tn final settiemeut of said estate, and the same will come np for the examination and action of said Circuit Court on the 18th day of September 1895, at which time all persons interested In said estate are required to appear 1q said Court, and show cause, if any there be, why said accounts and vouchers should not oe approved. And the heirs of said estate, and all others interested therein are also required. at the time and place aforesaid, to appear and make proof of their heirship or claim to any part of said estate. JOSEPH LORY, Executor. S, G. Davenport, attorney, lfr-3

Notice of Assignee’s Sale of Real Estate. Notice is hereby Riven that the undersigned assignee of the firm of J. B. Young <fc Co. aud J. B. and Florence Y’oung individually, will offer for sale at public auction to the highest bidder at the doot of the court house in the town of Petersburg, Indiana, on Saturday, September 14, 1895, At one o’clock p m. the following described real estate in Pike county, in the state of In- I diana, to-wlt: > Lots two and nine (2 and 9>dn Harrell’s addition to the town of Petersburg, Indiana. Forty-six feet off of the northwest side of lot ninety-one (91) in the original plat of the town of Petersburg, Indiana, being 46 feet front on Sixth street and running Lack 105 feet, being on the side adjoining the alley. The southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section twenty-four. The north half of the southwest quarter of section twenty-four, except that part thereof west of the Petersburg and Washington road deeded to Frank Bilderback The southeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section twenty-four, and all in town one north of range eight west. Lot three (8) in fractional section 14, town 1 north of range * west; 54 acres. Part of lot one (1) in fractional section 14, HALT! Just Loot 13.15 Mil OF OF

town 1 north of range 8 west, and described as follows. Beginning at the southwest corner of said lot one and running thence north ten chains to the bank of White river,thence up the river north fifty-five and one-half degrees, east eleven and seventy-flve-one-hnn-dreth chains tc a Black Locust tree 16 inches in diameter at the mouth of the ditch.thence south forty-five degrees east with the course of the ditch ten and fifty-hundredth chains to a stake and stone on the right of way of the Evansville & Indianapolis railroad, thence south forty-one degrees west with said railroad right of way twelve and twenty-five-hundredth chains to the sooth boundary line of said lot one, thence west eight and ninety-five-hundredth chains tb the place of beginning, containing 18 84-100 acres more or less. • All of that part of lot two (2) in fraction si section fourteen, town one north of range eight west, lying west of the Evansville 4k Indianapolis railroad, containing 7 16-100 acres. .Said real estate is sold subject to any and all ileus thereon, and on the following terms: One-third cash on day of sale, one-third in one year and one-third in two years, the purchaser executing his promissory note for the deferred payments, waiving relief from valuation or appraisement laws of the state of Indiana, and.bearing six percent interest from date and providing for attorney’s fees with good and sufficient surety to be approved by the assignee. Geokgk J. Nichols, Assignee. J. W. Wilson, attorney. 18-4 HALT! ( at This! Hi i m

i Read this and take advantage of the following Big Bargain. In order to get the benefit of these low prices all the articles mentioned must be bought at one time for the price stated, $2,00 cash 10 pounds Best Granulated Sugar at lc per pound .... 1 pound Good Coffee, green or roasted at sc per pound 4 boxes Golden Rule Bluing at lc per box. 3 dozen Clothes Pins at lc per dozen.... . 1 pound Best Tea at... % pound Cloves :..... % pound Cinnamon. K pound Allspice... 1 pound Best PurrShot Pepper. 1 set Table Spoons ..1... . 10o..._worth 60c ... 2e.worth 25c _4c....worth 15o _ 3c-.... worth 10c ...,70c ... ....worth 75c „..22c..worth 25o . . . 22c.worth 25c .Mo.worth 25o ... 35c.worth 40c ...,10c .......worth 15c Total 12.00 $3.15

$i.i5 Saved is $1.15 Made! Just think of best Granulated Sugar only lc per pound and good Coffee at 2c. Did you ever bear of the like. TheLeadingGrocery Old Eisert Stand, Corner Sixth and Main, C.C3-.'^vrgird., IFtcop «We Always Give Sixteen Ounces to tits Vw>vA**