Pike County Democrat, Volume 27, Number 29, Petersburg, Pike County, 27 November 1896 — Page 1

VOL. XXVII. PETERSBURG, IND.. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 27. 1896. * V

-!I |^ovei7)ber % Cloal^« Sale, i W« inteud to boom the Cloak business this month, and hare eut the prices so the smallest purse may reach them. Our line of line Capes and Cloaks is grand, consisting of everything new in fashion s fancy. With every purchase of a Lathes' Garment from $5.00 ujxlur* frig November we Will present a handsome Coque Feather Boa, full 1$ yard ! long, well worth $1.00. v This is a grand opportunity to purchase Cloaks at cut prices. Don't delay. The plums always go first. Men’s heavy Winter Shoes Men’s Undershirts....... Men’s lined Jeans Pants. Men’s Duck Coats ... -ftOMUKTOKSPcopies' dry Goods Sfore and Star Clothing House, X’3C‘r£X&«xrT7m3K Afrency Standard Patterns. Send for Fashion Sheet, » 8 ■ : THIS WEEK<? LL yard wide for Sheets...... 4$c Pure Indigo Blue Prints ... 4$e ^nod Prints, fast colors. ... 8Jc All Wool Twilled Flannel........ 15c Yard wide all Wool Ladies' Cloth.. 29c Ladies' Calf Shoes, heavy ......, 98c 8TAN OL-OTHINQ MOUSED Men’s heavy Cassimere Suits .......|4 50 Men’s pure all Wool Suits..... 7 50 J Men's Tador-MAde Suits...... . 975 Men’s fine Kersey Overcoats... 0 75 89 Men's Winter Boots, good and strong. J 29 ... 24 ......... 69 . ... .. 98 W. L. Douglass Shoes ... . ... 2 00 Buy your Winter Goals before the advance. With two stores piled full of Goods it's unreasonable to think other* can sell as'cheap. < CSr*&'o the Presents we give away. W. V. HAREROVE & CO., ■ s

" ' ■"" "" .. ffew Count) Oiffr».J Monday ami Tuesday the founty com■UkiMn approved the bonds* of 0. O. Smith. treasurer, Wm, Ridgeway. sheriff. A. G. Cato, surveyor. I>r. J. T. Kiiue, coroner ami Dr. N. Coro, recorder. Thebomls were signed by responsible men and accepted by the commissioners. Mr. Ridgeway took ohargr of the sherifTs office Tuesday and Mr. Smith will begin his duties next Tuesday. I>r. Kime and Mr. Cato have also assumed their duties, while Dr. Corn will assume the recorder’s office next j February. v Sheriff Ridgeway has appointed as his deputy John O, Miley, who is well known throughout the county, and thoroughly; com intent iu every particular. Mr, Ridgeway goes to work like an old hand at the business and will make a splendid official. Treasurer Smith will have as his deputy Frank R. Biiderback, ex-auditor, one'of the best accountants in the state, and* who is well known in the county. Mr. Smith is t horoughly posted on the duties of his office, having served in that capacity for two years. He made a splendid official, being .accommodating and very prompt in every particular. Commissioner Robinson will commence work in December, and Commissioner Rumble in December, ItblT. The county Assessor, Mr. McKinney, has assumed his duties. 4 * The new officials are men of sterling worth and integrity, and the Dcuoaur juid'the People have the utmost confidence in their ability to make splendid officials, •nd who will use their utmost endeavors to reduce the county’s debt and relieve the t*x-|*yers from burdensome taxes. They are good financiers and have judiciously managed their own private business affairs and will do the twine for the People. The DiwocaiaT wishes the incoming and the outgoing officials unbounded success. > \ -,- Kurkleu’s Andes Salve. The beet salve in the world for cuts, bruises, .wires, ulcers, salt rheum, fever soses, tetter, chapped hauds chilblains, corns, im<l all skin eruptions, and posRivdf ly cure* piles or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by 4. R~j§daras & Son. | Call.at Tmi Dk*oc*at office for your job printing. The best job printer in the cily, Uke m before leaving jour order.

Asinine Logie. One of the most amusing features of the after-eh-etion comment is the solemn conclusion of Severn] weighty republican organs that female suffrage is a menace to the country because in the western states where women are allowed to vote the majority of the women voted with a majority of the men for Bryau. This proves, say the journals in question, with the ponderous solemnity of a convocation of long-eared ruminators, that women have no quicker or truer moral precept ions than men and, therefore, to admit them to the suffrage is to admit a dangerous element that is likely to vote wrong even- tune. It should he noted that the wrong vote aud tl^ vote which demonstrates woman's moral unfitness to possess the right of suffrage was a vote against the “God-and-morality’’ party of these organs. We presume that if women hail been admitted to the polls in the eastern states and had increased the republican inaj<witv these wiseacres would have concluded with equal facility that women have fine moral perception and that their influence in.politics is benign and elevating. They wholly overlooked ihe reasonable theory that the better moral perception of the votiug womeu (enabled tbein to be superior to the campaign of bugaboo, bluff and boodle that drove the major hv of the men into the republican caiup. They proceed on the assumption that all the morality was on the side of the republicans, that all the dishonesty was on the side of the democrats, and that women are not subject to the same influences of environment and interest that men are; iu short, women are inhuman. One false assumption is sufficient to vitiate a train of reasoning, but our republican logicians are not content with less than three. It is impossible to deduce their conclusion from the fact, but it is easy to deduce from their conclusion the fact that they are fools.--St. Louis Republic. The button fad which sprung up during the campaign promises to abide with at longer. Buttons are used lavishly for dress decorations, and now the button makers are turning out a button which can be photographed upon. This is in leepoosatb a fhd tor portraits of eligible young men, to be worn by susceptible young women in | the shapnof buttons. It is the fad of the hour to have these miniatures coats aud other j

Bryan’s Colorado Reception. The following is the account of the reception tendered William Jennings Brvan at Denver, as telegraphed to the city dailies: Cheers that found their echoes in the mountains rent the air when William Jennings Bryan stepped from his train at 7:80 Tuesday morning, -told the silver leader that he was welcome in the Queen 6ity. Mr. Bryan had come to Denvef to' view thp van guard of his army, and found it ready for another contest, 350,000 strong. Such a welcome as Mr. Bryan received has never been accorded another man in the West. The crowd that cheered him filled the station extending out into Sixteenth street, and fringed the long viaduct that reaches over the railroad yards and the river ir^to North Denver, three-quarters of a mile away. The reception committee, headed by the lion. T. M. Patterson, and aided by a squad of police, worked like trogans to get him to his carriage, and the erowd swarmed around the carriage, shouting and cheering, and accompanied hiiu to the residence of the Hon. C. 8. Thouia*. where he took breakfast with the reception committee. Each mouthful they ate was punctuated with cheers from without and every few minutes a sound wave greater than the other rose, caused by 11m words of some impromptu speaker, who would ask: “What’s the matter with Bryan?’’ and the answer. “He's all right,” would be roared back in a voice of thunder. At the Brown Palace hotel at 10 o’clock the women of the city tendered him a: reception. The interior of the building for nine stories was banked in flowers, and when Mr. Bryan was introduced there was a scene of wild excitement. Mrs. Mary C. Bradford made a brief speech and presented him with a memorandum book of Colorado, chased with silver. The obverse side bears the seal of Colorado ami 16 silver miners and one gokl nick. On the reverse side is a picture of/the Holy Cross, a fee simile engraving of \he silver dollar, surrounded with columbines, the state flower. Mr. T. M, Patterson introduced the speaker, who paid a tribute to the women by speaking first of his wife, whom he said he hoped would be the first lady of the land in fact, and, though defeated, he said that to him she had always been the first lady of the land. He acknowledged the work done by the women, not only the right of suffrage, but those without, and concluded by saying that he would trust the women always, for the/ were always on the right side of every great question.

A reception followed, and Mr. Bryan en-1 deavoml to shake the hands of all who | came near him. This consumed nearly two hoars, when he was taken to lunch, and the program of the afternoon was carried out. This included a carriage ride over the city. The streets were packet and black with people, just space enough being left by the crowd for the carriage to move forward. The vehicle moved through air ocean of sounds that rolled up between the high walls of the buildings and m&te the ear drums sore with deafening dnj. Flowers were thrown at him, and people alongside the carriage screamed to attract his attention, almost wild in their enthusiasm. The corner of Sixteenth and Lawrence streets was the scene of an outburst of enthusiasm that stopped the progress of the carriage.

Mr. Bryan spoke, briefly remarking that though defeated, the people here were equally as happy as those in the Blast, “our enemies,*’ he termed them, were m their victory. This was the sentiment of the crowd And for five minutes the crowd yelled until it seemed that the noise would shatter the window panes. Then the carriage moved on. The next stopping place was at the state capital grounds, where 5,UOU school children were waiting to welcome him. The streets that face the grounds were packed with people and the grass was ! covered with children tarrying flags and flowers. The wild crowd that surrounded ;the grounds taxed the powers of the police to hold it back. The little ones screamed in delight at the sight of Mr. Bryan. Their elders roared in deeper tones. The noise was frightful, and constantly growing iu volume as the carriage ascended the hill to the entrance of the buildings, the carriage reaching its height as Mr. Bryan arose in the carriage to make an address. Mr. Bryan’s voice could scarcely be heard as ha accepted from Mrs. Dora Phelps Buell a flag, the present of the East Denver high school. The words they expressed could j scarcely be heard. Then the whole crowd that overran the grounds gave way to its feelings and cheered until it was hoarse. Aftet this Mr. [ Bryan made a brief address and guarded by | a juvenile military troop bis carriage was | about to proceed onward when the Newsj hojnf union, with banners and flags, crowded forward and gave him a reception as only the sturdy urchins know how to give. The carriage than moved along the avenue. At Seventeenth and Broadway another Mg I crowd was wafting and for tht want of anything better to do, was cheering because IbT words *1* ^ * ... .

was driven back to the Thomas home, where dinner was set red. It was the original intention to have Mr. Bryan speak for a lecture course and tickets were sold. When he was upheared into such prominence by the political campaign the management waived ,its rights, if the ticket holders should be guaranteed. and the church was opened to all. It was filled to the doors, while others clamored outside for admission. Mf. Brypn spoke for three-quarters of an hour. This is the anniversary of the admission of Colorado into the sisterhood of states and his theme Was on Colorado. The Word was entwined in flowers on the altar, and the significant figures, “18761896,'* on either side. The building was decorated with flowers. His remarks were appropriate to the ocearion. as dealing with the progress of the state in twenty years. It was nine o’clock when Mr. Biyau reached the Brown Palace hotel. The banquet room was crowded with people awaiting the appearance of the guest of honor. When he appeared he was greeted with gem tous applause. The Rev. Myron Reed, toast master, made a few remarks and the Hon. Henry P. Steele, president of the chamber of commeice, Mayor McMurray for the city and Governor McIntyre for the State, delivered addresses of welcome. Governor-elect Adams made a short speech on the resources of the new west, and was followed by Senator Teller on “The Business Outlook.” Congressman Towne, of Minnesota, de- j livered an address on the caui{>aign of 1900 I as an opening wedge to the remarks of Mr. Bryan, who arose at the conclusion of Mr. Towne’s speech. He was greeted with ■ applause, aftet which he spbke at great length. The Setting of Milk. (Newspaper Bulletin No.88. Nov.20.18J#.) A very large share of the milk skimmed for private butter makiug in Indiana. i$ set! in caus or crocks and the cream skimmed ! from the surface. i Milk may be set for cream in various kinds of vessels and under different conditions. The poorest method is to set in shallow tin pans or crocks on pat^ry shelves or in a cellar. Milk thas set is expo^d to a greater air contact than when set otherwise, and is more liable to be affected by injurious odors, by disease transmitted through the atmosphere, and by heat and cold. Milk so ! set will oftentimes rapidly sour, or in very cold weather may freeze. If it sours badly l

m summer, when skimmed, eutds will be; likehrlo get in the cream ami remain more \ or less in the butter, after churning, forming white spots, thereby seriously injuring the quulity of the butter. Or, if the milk or cream freezes, an inferior grade of butter will l>e made from it. If cream is to be made by setting milk, the best plan will be to set the milk in round tin cans, about 18 inches deep and 8 inches in diameter. If the can is placed in ice water or cold spring water, to the height of the milk in the can, the conditions for cream separation will be g&atly improved, especially if inside a refrigerator or creamer. This method helps keep the milk at a uniform temperature and enables the cream to rise to best advantage. Suck cans as these, open at 1 he top, arc commonly known as “shot gun” cans, and may be bought of dairy supply houses or can be made by any irood tinner.

These deep cans are skimtued iu one of two ways—either by a conical skimmer from the surface or by means of a faucet or valve at the bottom of the e«n, where the skim-milk is drawn off. In experiments at the Indiana station, in comparing these two methods of skimming, where the milk was skimmed from above, there was an average loss about twice as great as in that skimmed I by drawing off from below. Duriug 15 j days iu February the average loss from ! surface skimming was 0.34 per cent, while | that skimmed from below showed a loss of I but 0.1? percent. It is important that milk should be set only in tin vessels of good quality. The I cheap tin sold on five and ten cent counters is so thin a wash, that it is readily corroded to the under metal, which gives a ruinous flavor to the milk if it sours in the vessel at all. Where used for holding milk, the tin should be of XXX grade. This is more durable, stiller aud less affected by the acid in sour milk. In genera), persons striving to make a fine quality of butter, shonld have a.cabinet creamer. In this the milk may be kept to best advantage and properly protected from objec table odors and d'rt. C. L. Plumb. Director. A Valuable Prescription. > Editor Morrison of Worthington lad., ••Sun.” writes: “You have a valuable prescription in Electric Bitters, and 1 can cheerfully recommend U for constipation and tick headache, and as a general system tonic it tins no equal*” Mrs. Annie Stebie, 0KB Cottage drove Ave*. Chicago, was all run down, eoiiki not eat nor dige»i food, had a backache which never left her and teit j tired and weary, but six bottle# of Electric j Bitters restored her beaite and renewed her ] Prices ho cents and SUM.

, Wilt Drill for Oil or Gat*. Some three or four years ago the Democrat published a series ol articles why the people of Petersburg should drill, for gas or oil and on several occasions since has this paper urged the citizens of this city to do something not only to help increase the population by drilling for gas, oil or other minerals, but to look up manufacturers who were desirous of seeking new location. The J gas and oil question has come to a foe«s. A company has been organized, notice of which was made at the time, and work will' Jbe commenced within a few days to find out whether or not there is either gas or oil in this locality. The Democrat is glad to know that these gentlemen have the nerve and faith enough to invest their money and give their time in the venture and hope their efforts may be crowned wit h success. It is such men that make things move when they undertake any enterprise. There are any number of men who should help this move along who will ueither take stock or donate a cent. This should not be. If the company is successful it will help every individual in this city in more ways than one. It will advance real estate and bring au increased business to the merchants, in fact it will help all branches of bustness. Come to the front and help do your share in paying the expense. ' It is now an assured fact that we are going to have a well drilled. The contract for drilliug a hole to the depth of 1,700 feet was let to J. P. Miller & Co., a responsible well drilling firm of Chicago, some time ago. Owing to the delay in getting oil leases the work was postponed, but the machinery has now been ordered shipped and.will be here in a few days, and work will be commenced at once. Where the first well will be drilled is not yet known. We expected and still hope it would be drilled close to town, but from what we can learn the people owning lands are so slow in leasiug that the well will have to be drilled some distance from town where the association has been able to secure leases. The people should come to the front and grant the association leases that the f rst test well may be drilled within a mile of town or nearer if possible. They should see the importance of having the first well put down as close to town as p*»ssible so that if oil or gas is discovered it will enhance the value of their lands as well as boom the town. We see no good reason why any one should hesitate in ghiug the association oil or gas leases.

Let s go to work and have gas or oil and boom Pike county and Petersburg for all it is worth. If yon don’t push your town and county to the front it will never be‘ don#! You now have the oppori unity at this time and without it costing you any great sum of money. If you desire to lease your lands see any member of the association who will give you any information you may need on the subject. Or. if you desire to take stock or donate a hundred dollars or a less amount see them. But in any event lend your assistance in helping to boom the town and county.

Let U* Wet Together. The Spencer Democrat, in summing up the situation, tritely says: All this talk by gold bug democrats about organising the party on what they term “old lines'’ is rot. The old lines ol democracy are those laid down by Jeffersoh, “a government for the people, of the people and by the people," and further strengthened by Jackson in his successful fight against national banks. People who do not approve of the tenents of faith laid down in the Chicago platform might as well pack their plunder and move over into the yard. That party has a monopoly on the idea of centralization and finances governed by national banks, white the democratic party has always fought these giant evils. We extend a cordial welcome to all who believe in democracy, as enunciated at Chicago, and they should ; lose no time in camping under our flag, j There is no use m dividing forces. The j democratic party, as it stands to-day * is the | party of the people, the foe of syndicates, I banks and monopolies. If tub are fighting these join with us fur victory. There is no | use for more than two parties. The oppoI sit ion is the republican party, let us have but one party to oppose it. The Hills, the i Cocranes, the Clevelands, the Bynums, et. [ al.. are «*» longer democrats and will have I no. voice in the councils or management of | the party hereafter. We must recruit from the silver republicans, the populists and broad guage prohibitionists, and the sooner the untou is made the sooner we will be in shape to fight. The grand old democratic party, freed from the oki man of the sea, whom we were carrying for years and who nearly stifled our life, has been shaken off and it arises in iu strength to do battle for the people as in the days of Jefferson and Jackson. Cotue and help us. Wards af Just Praise. Nothing is more commendable than the conrage'nf one’s convictions, and In the late political campaign no class of our fellow citisens exhibited greater earnestness and devotion to the restoration of silver as standard money than the squalled silver upon tor the rare

time befog at least to oppose former political associates, but this counted as little to them in battling for a cause which they deemed just. Every man who voted for the restoration of the double standard, whether democrat, republican, populist or prohibitionist, was led to it by the teachings of his own party leaders and platforms. He was certainly consistent, and while the cause he main tamed went down in temporary defeat before the hordes of selfish interests, vet he sees in his magnificent struggle against great odds the eomiug of a day when bitter experience and suffering, if nothing elsev will teach the masses of this country that limitations upon the privileges of plutocracy, the greatest of which is controlling the financial system of the nation, are essential to a “government of the people, by the people, and for the people.” Farmers’ Institute Program. 5 The following is the program of the farmers* institute to be held at Winslow, December 3d and 3d: * WEDNESDAY MORNING. Invocation... Hale Address of Welcome ... .Brown Response.. Chairman Improvement of Wheat_l.Riley WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. Conditions of Suocsss in Corn Culture .,. Stevens Improvement of Corn....Riley Social Life on the Farm .... .............. Mrs. Eugenia Chappell Management of Swine ... Riley Evening session, 1:80. Short talks, essays and declamations. THURSDAY MORNING. Enthusiasm and Energy as a Means to Success,... .Stevens How to Improve Swine . ..Riley Farm Life and its Attractions.... ... ... Rev. G. C. Cooper Feeding Value of Shredded Corn Fodder ..... .._...Stevens How to Hold a County Fair ........ .Riley Miscellaneous. THURSDAY AFTERNOON. How to Keep the Boys and Girls on the Farm i.. .... Stevens Farm Dairyiug for Profit.... .Riley Report of committees. Awarding of premiums. All those having papers or declamations will come prepared to attend the 7^meeting Wednesday. Come with your families, bring your dinners and let us have a nuptial and social feast. M, L. Heathman, Pres.

Want* k Factory Location. M. J. Gottschalk of Logansport. wrote here this week for information regarding a locationffor a hoop works. He has been engage! in the business for some time and is seeking a location where timber is more plentiful. The works, if located here, will employ 35 to 30 hands and work from ’ 8,000 to 10,000 feet of elm timber per day. This class of goods finds a ready market and a factory of this kind located here would give a market to our farmers who have immense quantities of elm timber going to waste e*ch year. M r. Gottschalks letter has been answered and in all probability he will come here and look over the field. There is no better location in Indiana for factories that work in this class of timber. There is plenty of it, and in f«ct there is timber here for all classes of factories. All it needs to secure factories to locate in Petersburg is to let men of enterprise know that this locality has what they are looking after. 5 ...

, Farmers Institute, The Pike couuty farmers institute will be hekl at Winslow, on Wednesday and Thursday December 3d and 3rd 1896. James Riley and J. C. Stevens, two of the most prominent institute workers in Indiana will be with ns both days.1 Pajsers will also be read by citizens of the county. This promises to be the best institute ever held in the county. For the best papers written on any of the following subjects; “The True Home,” "Butter making on the Farm,” “The Bert Farm Fence*,** “Care of Farm Tools and implement*,’* “Beauties of Farm Life,** “Care ami Management ot Hogs.** “Poultry for Profit." A premium of five dollars wUl be given to the one having the best, and three dollars to the one having the second best. The citizens of Winslow offer the fallow, ing premiums: 1st prem. Rest30ears corn... _$3 (Mi Best half bu wheat.. 2 00 Best half bu Irish potatoes 3 00 Best 3 pounds butter.... 3 00 Best half bu green apples. 3 00 Best declamation by school, boy or girl....!,. AU exhibitors and writers will be re* strifted to Pike county farmers, their wives, sons and daughters. AU entries most be made on first day of institute. AH articles must he turned over to the institute after awards have been made, to He sold for benefit of institute. Everybody come out and lets have a good time. Mas. W. S. Chaps ell. Secy. M. !«. Heath* an, Chairman. 3d prem. *1 00 1 00 * 100 1 00 *" 1 00 3 00 Saloon ros Sals.—The Cambridge saloon on Main street; good location; must be soldi by January 31, 1807, in order to giv to apply for license. #K