Pike County Democrat, Volume 27, Number 6, Petersburg, Pike County, 19 June 1896 — Page 8

PIKE COUNTY ITEMS. £ews Gathered by Our Correspondents from Various Parts of Pike County for the Democrat's Headers. fear friends, Where and What they Are Doing at Present. {Brief Sew* Item Urapkifally Portraj*4~S<‘«<l ia Tear Item. >

Spurgeon Items. Church at the G. B. church Sunday, the Rev. Hart conducting the exercises. Prank Farmer a hustling stock buyer of Oakland City, was here the first of the week. P.W. Shepard and Isaac Arnold attended the funeral of Shelton .McNeely last Mon* Ally Griffith and Alda Shepard both have new buggies. They will now have many lady friends. John Lemasters was in tcrwn Tuesday for twine. He slid he was cutting wheal, breaking ground and planting corn. Corn planting and harvest are running together this year, many of our farmers uot being done planting owing to the rains. Shelton McNeelv, formerly of this community, but late of Oakland City, died last Sunday and was buried Monday at New Liberty church. Ferry Bros, have added a new cyclone stacker to their already fine threshing rig. The Boys are hustlers and now have the finest threshing outfit in this section. Dr. J. T. Lame has sold out hi* business at this plate* to C, W. But ler. Mr. Butler is a very industrious man and we hope will make a success in his new undertaking Dr. Laooe will look after his fanning interests and practice for t he present. On last Sunday when D. J. McKinney returned h"'?>e froma hurch h- was greatly surprised to see a iarge crowd of m ighbors and friends occupying his house and yard and seeming to be very busy making preparations for some uveut. Dan could not make it out till someone gently reminded him that he Wa 4*> years ofage on that day. After be had gotten over his surprise to some extent he was escort ini out to the beautiful grove near the house where he found a table something over 100 feet long groaning under the good things the good neighbors had prepared for his reception, when together vujth bis friends and relatives to the number of som*1 250 he partook of one .of the finest repasts that was ever set in this comunity. Mr. McKinney expressed himself as very thankful to all for the kindly way they had remembered him. The occasion was enjoyed very much bv ad and will be remembered mihy days both by Mr. McKinney and hi- friends. 9 Otvreli Item*. John Brazen was in ‘Jasper last Friday on busincs^. Childrens exercises at the M. E. church* last Sunday night were a success. Mis* Della Smoot of Washington, is visiting her sister. Mrs. R. M. Craig. W. E. Cox of Jasper, passed through here last Saturday oi-route from Petersburg. Charles Gm-ne of California,was in town last Saturday shaking -banos with his many friends. 8 I^avina Arnold has gone to Grand Juucfciou, Michigan, t- attend* the Saints camp meeting. Miss Clara Alford 1ms returned home from Franklin where she has teen attending school. 1 Dr. S. R Clark and Misses Ola Humphrey, Liliie and Maud Drib n left last Tuesday for Fort Branch to a’tend the Epworth league convention. We are glad to note the new departure in the arrangement of the fair in giving Wednesday to the Sunday schools. Our program for the Fourth is scute thing on that order. We will have a contest iu vo< al music by nd the

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prise will be a library of twenty volumes. Contests of this kind while being entertaining will also stimulate the Sunday school and young people generally to study and practice to improve their time. Lemuel Rogereon left last Thursday for St. Joseph, Michigan, where he will visit for a month. Mrs.W. H. Link and >frs. Blanch Morgan of Petersburg, were t he guests of Mrs. Lucy Gray last Tuesday. George Eisert and John YanNada of Petersburg were in town last Saturday representing a building and loan association. Charles Allen, wife and daughter of Aifordsville, were visiting at Otwell Saturday and Sunday the guests of F. Bart l and family. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. The best salve in the world for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns, and all skin eruptions, and pos'tivej 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 J. R. Adams & Son. Pikeville Items. James E. Stutsman is reported on the sick list at this writing. Mrs. Joseph Hendricks returned from a visit to Duff last Friday. A number of farmers have built storm ! houses under the ground. There was preaching and baptismal | services at the Cup creek church last Sunday I by the presiding elder, j Farmers are harvesting and putting out I coni. The wheat crop is regarded very j short since the recent storms. G. B. Campbell preached the funeral ! sermon of C. P. Brewster at Bcthell church I last Sunday to a very large congregation. The democrats of this section feel very J confident of success at the polls in Novem- | ber. Ever man on the county ticket is a I good citizen and should receive the hearty support of all voters who believe that a change is needed in the management of Pike county affairs. ^

Reduced Rates to White Sulphur Wells. The L. E. & St. L. C. railroad (Air Line) will sell reduced rate tickets to English Inti, during the summer to parties attending,the White Sulphur Wells, for health or, recreation. Finest in the state of Indiana, elegant bath, good orchestra, tine boating, fishing and hunting. Buy your ticket via the Air Line. For full particulars address li. A. Campbell, general passenger agent. E. & St. L. C. R. R., St. Louis, Mo. Resolution of Condolence. To the members of Pleasant Grove Sunday school, your committee to whom was referred the drafting of resolutions expressing the sense of the school for our deceased sister. Dora Beard, beg leave to report the following: Whereas, It has pleased the Allwise to break our chain of unity and call from our midst our beloved sister, Dora Beard, who was a faithful member of the M. E. church and an earnest worker in the Sunday school. Therefore be it Resolved, That we deeply mourn the loss to us, to society and to the Sunday school and church, stricken down as,she was in the midst of her usefulness and in the noonday of life, yet, with her we have an abiding faith that the omnipotent God is Father of ns all: though our sister be dead, yet shall she live again. Resolved, That as this stroke of Divine Providence, to which we must all subriiisively bow, has deprived the husband of the sunlight of his home, that if he continues to live in life as she has, she has but proceeded him to his home above, where the Fat hereof ail presides and where all is peace. ' Resolved, That we deeply symj^thize and condole with her bereaved husband and relatives in their sad bereavment, and we affectionately tender to them our heartfelt sympathies. Resolved. That a copy of the foregoing res* h.:i. ns l* given to the- family be sent to the county papers-for publication, and that they lie -pread in full upon the records of the Sunday school. Myutlk Ca*lisle, i John Chappi ll. vCorr. Mat Thomas. V

Dfnorrilir Stale Convention. The democratic state convention meets at Indianapolis next week. It will be one of the largest conventions ever held in the state. The convention will no doubt nominate astrong ticket, ami more than that will adopt a stiver platform. At the same time delegates to the national democratic convention will be named. v The delegates to the state convention from Pike county arc as follows. Marion, W. F. Brock. Ijoekhart, Frank Bilderbaek and D. D. Corn. - •Clay, J. C. Thomas. Monroe, J. A. Shepard. Jefferson, S. W. Chappell and George W. | Schell. ' Washington, E. P. Richardson ami T.K. 1 Fleming.'- ' Logan, Jnbn B. B aize. Madison. Charles J. Gladt-h. Patoka. W. H. Bottoms. During the thunder storm Wednesday afternoon, the team of John Gray, a farmer living four miles southwest of town, was struck by lightning. One of the horses was instantly killed and the others badly stunned. Mr. Grey was cutting wheat and '■ . his t an. until the storm wa< over in i h id'c .*» ed under the binder to keep c'/itiiig wet a hen the horses were! . Mr, ui.; did net receive serious injuries. i

I TO ROB THE PEOPLE. WHY THE IRON AND STEEL TRUST WANTS MORE PROTECTION. la Spit* of Enormous Profits This Greedy Monopoly Is Unsatisfied—Price* of Kalla Raised! MS Per Cent Since Inst May. Pacts About Steel Kails. Among the industries which appeal | for more protection to keep them out of i the poorhouse is the iron and steel mo- | nopoly, says the Kansas City Times. A | slight examination of the facts, howevI er, reveals a state of affairs quite inconsistent with the cry for help.

This combine includes practical^ all the iron and steel works in the country, and it fixes prices absolutely. Just now it is being severely denounced for raising prices outrageously in the face of • the fact that the cost of raw material, pig iron, has decreased 25 per cent since last September. The greed of the monopoly seems to have alarmed the other protectionists, ; for The Iron Age urges it to be reasonable tecaose “there are considerations ! involved of a much higher order than jj the more temporary advantages secured by adhering to prices that can only I cause irritation. ” An idea of what these * prices that can only cause irritation” are can be formed! by comparing them with those of England. Over there the cost of the ! steel billet is f 20.65 a ton and the manufactured steel rails are sold at $23.08. In America the east of the billets is I $17 and the rails are sold at $28—that is, while the American monopoly gets its material $8.65 a ton cheaper than | the Englishmen, it sells its product ! nearly $8 higher. It is generally calculated t^t the finished rails can be produced at a cost i Of $2 a ton over the cost of the billets. The English manufacturers sell rails | at $2.43 over the cost of the billets, but | the poor American has to sell at $11 more than the cost of billets. The Eng- | lish manufacturer is content to realist' a 1 profit of 48 cents a tun—while the American must have more protection while he is making $9 a ton! The hypocrisy of the protected iron and steel monopoly is mote patent when it is considered that the combine demands $28 a ton for rails in America and yet recently sent 10,000 tons to Japan at $21.25. They actually undersold the Englishmen, who had to charge $23 to make 48 cents. And it is from these Englishmen that the monopoly wants protection! Steel rails are only one of the commodities on which the monopoly is putl ting monopolistic prices. The prices of nails have been raised 200 per cent since last May. And in spite of the indignant protests of the hardware merchants the monopoly has ordered new prices for this month that will make the raise 200 per cent to 228 per cent. The merchants may well protest, for nails have constantly been exported from this country in large quantities. Last month, for instance, the exports were at the rate of 86,000,000 pounds a year. The truth is that the steel rail industry and the nail manufacture are not “infant industries.” They are full grown and can hold their own against all qprners. They can even go abroad and take the trade of Japan away from the English in spite of the distance. They can even, as Andrew Carnegie himself boasts, compete with the English manufactures in the English market. These industries are not content with the immense profit of their natural advantages. Even the immense profits under the -liberal duties of the Wilson act do not satisfy them. They want high protection. Yet even while crying for help they control prices at wilL The truth is they want protection for their trust. They want protection that would enable them to rob the people even more outrageously. But just now it seems likely that the people want a little protection for themselves.

A Good Manager. The fact that McKinley badges of the same flamboyant hue and the same golden words—“‘patriotism, protection, prosperity”—apjieaml Simultaneously at the conventions in Connecticut and Maryland shows the guiding of one masterful mind. Mr. Hanna deserves credit for the perfection of his preliminaries. —Springfield Republican. Votoed a “Patriot’*" Peadoa. 4 President Cleveland has vetoed a pension bill passed in favor of a man who followed the Union army for the purpose of taking photographs for his own profit. Mr. Cleveland will be compelled to stand endless abase for thus depriving a brave and patriotic man of the reward to which his glorious services entitled him.—Exchange. The Major la Lock. Major McKinley is one of the luckiest politicians in the United States. Just at the time when his boom seemed to have reached a halting place along comes the A. P. A. and gives him a boost by making a show' of opposing him.—Philadelphia Record. B* Would Accept. Benny Harrison does not want to be president, but is heartily in favor Of Mri. Harrison's candidacy for mistress of the White House. He would accept the presidency so as to have employment while staying in the city.—Cedar Rapids Gazette. Tte* l or a XcgsUi*. When it comes to pensioning unenlistfd photographers, the president thinks a negative comes in appropriately.—Boston Herald. Ms ShilcyUiB at ft* But , ' - McKinleyfem Is at its best and stroB gest when it can persecute somebody and take away his living.-—Albany Argos

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/Hbonba?, 3 une 225 ?i , - '■ -Is the day we call your particular attention to. Not a red letter day, but a -Black Day, for there is no black goods such as the Her^nsdorl. The name - ' ' s -on any Glove or Hose is a positive guarantee of that never-fading cdlor. —Buy Blacks; but always insist on Hermsdorf Dye. . , ' >’ < < i i i i i i i < i i Ouf 35c Black Hose, this day • •». 25c Our 50c Black Hose, this day — .. 39c Our 50c Bia^k Mitts, this day. . 35q Our 40c Black Mitts, this day. .,...? 25c Our 25cBlack Mitts, this day .. .. . i§c •©"Every Lady coining to our store Monday, June 22d will receive a Hermsdorf Souvenir, free.

Hosiery or Gloves bearing above trademark are absolutely fast black, clean,stainless, pure.bright and durable. Ask for Hcrmsdorfdyed Hosiery at hosiery counter.

SOL FRANK, (Successor to Gus Frank,) PETERSBURG. IND. The Mammoth Store.

The City Markets. „ i Egg—< cent' Butter—15 cents. Onions—New. 50c per bu. Potatoes—New. 35c per l»u. Lemons—30 cents per doe. Oranges—30 cents per doe. Banaijnas—20 cents per doz. Chickens—Chicks 51c. hens 6c. Turkeys—lien turks 6e. foung 7. Cider—15 cents per gallon. Navy Beans—$1 to $1.3(1 per bu, Prunes—10(a 15 cents. Sides—9c. . 1 ] , Lard—9 cents per lb. Pork—Hants, smoked, 13'cents. Wheat—55 cents per bushel. Corn—30 cents per bushel. Oats—30 cents per bushel. Rye—38 cents per btishe^ Clover Seed—13.35 per bushel. Salt—fthOO per bbl.j Flaxseed—90 cents. Dr. Price’s Cream Baling Powder World’s Fair Highest Medal and Diploma Public Sale of Real Estate. Public notice is hereby given that on W E I) X ESDA Y. J l* LY 39. At the hour of lv» o’clock a. no., the underMgned executors of the la.** will and te*tameut of John l>. Gillett, deceased, in pursuance of the powers contained in said will, ■ will sell at public auction on the premises ; her* iuafier described, for cash in hand, to the i highest and best bidder, the following des ribed real e-:«te situated in Pike county, iixiiaufl. to-uit: t’he southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section eleven jl*;; the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter, tiie southeast quarter of the northeast quarter, the southwest quarter of the udrthea.-i quarter the northwest quarter of the southeast quarter, the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter, and part of the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter. In section twelve {12;, and all beina in town two [2 north, range seven west of the second .principal Hieridi ian. Also the undivided one-hair ;$*} of the i the southeast quarter of the northwest quar- ; ter and »he undivided one-half of the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter ot section seven {7* vbetug M 3O-10U acres more or lees', the north side >f the southeast quarter. 90 acres more or leas}, and the undived onehalf of the south sideot the southeast quarter t3a acres more or le*s} in section eight the undivided ope-half ot the north half of the northeast quarter of section seventeen {17}, 40 acres more or less’, and the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section nine f&T. all in town two ’2 north, range six ,61 west of the 2d p. m., ail Of said aoove described land lying and being iu the county of Pike and state of Indiana. The above described land is situated chiefly between Winslow and Veipen and the railroad runs through a portion of the land and all of It fa contiguous to the railroad. These land* ateali supposed to *e underlaid with valuable coai depneits There are some valuable timber on the land and that portion which is In cultivation is fairly good laud jor agricultural purpose*. The land will be fettered in forty acre tracts and bids taken ^nd retained for same, and will then be ofi fered ih a body, and in case it shall cell for . mor^ in a body ihan is offered for it in separate tracts, it wtil be sold ih one body to the highest and best bidder. Those desiring to purchase are requested to, make such investigation and ex air I nation i as they may desire, amt for that purpose they shall have the right to go upon Mid land. i Signed, JOHN P. GILLETT, RICHARD J. OGLEWBY, DAVID T.LITTLER. Executors of the last will aqd testament Of John D. Gillett. deceaaed. Paced June 6, A. D. IS*.

.I.'-—' «• ^ " ■ The greatest of all games this season will take pl^ce at the Sportsmans' Park. \

Don't miss this game as many of the old-time ball-.jtf avers will participate. Hear the coachers. Admission, Fifteen Gents Ladies, Free. Subscribe for the Demon erat; $1.25 per year.. k