Pike County Democrat, Volume 27, Number 33, Petersburg, Pike County, 25 December 1896 — Page 1

DRILL GOES DOWN. Machinery Arrives Which Will Determine Whether or Not There is Gas or Oil in this Teritory., it b Now Time that the (iti/ens all ^ Come to the Front and Tahiti v \ . io< k or Donate l.ibernllj for IliU t'urpose. It is no w an assured fact without any j “ifs'* alxHit it that tot w,c’is will be drilled i here f»»r the purpose of determining' whether or not there s> gas or oil in this, territory. As lias KxiiireqUently announced i in tin's* columns an association has lieeu j & > / organized for this purpose, and the officers^ composing the directorate are men who j mean business. The contract for drilling I tv let sometime ago to J. P. Miller & Co., Chicago, apd last Sat unlay their represen- j tattve M# li. N hols James Stoody and] William Hughes, drillers, arrived here.; The machinery was expected here the same j day but did not arrive until;Tuesday noon, ! which were switched in bn the ooftl mine trucks., It will take a week or ten days to : get the derrick built and the machinery j placed ill piablion for operation. The directors of the association decided the fu&t of the week to drill the first well j /»n tl/e Fleming land, near the Lauder-j Woolley coal mine, and -tf-r near town. Other test wells will be drilled east and | west of town. The company will commence ; ■with a ten-inch drill andgo as long as may i be necessary until oil or gas is found. The j company seems very confident that it wrH J strike it rich. Ilence t heir reason for drill- i ipg each a large hole. The derrick and j machinery will be undercover so that the i workmen will lie protected against hadj weather. Coiuplinu ntaiv tk’v-is will 1*0 j , issunl te all stockholders and those that j gave leases, also th<»se who have donated t<-wards. this enterprise. These tickets will j admit the hohier inside the enclosure to see the work going on. Kverylxjdy that do. nates anything will receive the full amount i ot lheir donation in full paid lip arid non-| assessable stock of the assoclaiion, which * will lie very valuable if oil or gas is found. You already know what men this company is composed of. Men who have net only put their money in but their time, talent and labor fretj, t<> help to b.om,lbe town ami surrounding coon try. and are certainly ait mg very generously with everyone wii

is willing to donate to hi- tp the good cause along. This is surely the time o test the enterprising spirit of our good people of Petersburg and vicinity. Let everybody show how much tliey appreciate the effort put forth and try and boom thinfh by donating and taking stock. 1 very little helps. Also bear in iqiml that this is not the only well that will be drilled. There are three different test wells in three different localities to be drilled in order to thoroughly develop this section of otti; country. Another glaring swindle is being peipetuated all over Indiana. An agent goes about canvassing the towu with a little basket containing a healthy looking green shrub. Concealed in 4'e dirt about is a vial of very fragrant perfume and upon entering a room this pervades.evcry arner. The ageut proceeds to tell how the shrub is a rare specimeu.of the Holy Laud and that three seeds can be purchased for 50 cents. He sells the set-1 and makes his escape before his customer discovers that it is all a fake and that he paid 50 cents for three common seeds, perhaps good to feed birds. The olde foikos eono-ute ,** Uu- Presbyterian -eharch last Friday evening was largely atteuded. The program was made up of selections from ye evi-o ; lines and were wall r^ndtwv^ by the ladies and gent lemen taking part. ’George K. King at tail as y timesier, The singers all dtv>sed in old style costumes. The entertainment was very largely attended ami heartily enjoyed by the audience. ,■ Sheriff Kidgway returned with Samuel ilemmiuger from the state's prison at JeiTersou ville Wednesday. Hemruingvr was convicted in the Pike circuit court for the murder of Dr. iiorubrook at Union in 1888 and sentenced to twenty-one years. Ity gtK.nl conduct while a prisoner he reduced his sentence to ‘hirtstn years agj one month. Miss Rosa But ran, aged sixteen years, daughter of Allen Butran, IiOgan township, diet! of consumption last Thursday and was buried at the Williams cemetery in Knox county” on Friday. Rev. Riley Barrett conducted the funeral services. Do hot fail to attend the cautatta at the Presbyterian .church Ofcri* mas night. A convention at Santa's toctv will be represented. Be there promptly at 7:80 to see the delegates from all parts of the world arrive. Admissiou 10 cents. ' Remember the Dr mocrat job rooms makes a sjteoilty of wedding cards, partly and social card invitations. \Vv have the latest styles of type with which to do this class of work. Galt and see us when in need of this class of work. The six-year-old son of Samuel Cox, Logan township, died from croup last Tu css I ay aud was buried at the Willis cemetery on Friday. Kider J. W. Richardson conducted Uk funeral services. Dr. 1. II. I^aniar transacted business near Boouville the first of the week. While a use tit Lc called on Congressman He,menway at Boonvtlie, who is now at home for the holidays. Edmund Frank rwUr»s,ed from Terre Haute Wednesday 'ji.e.% he is attending school, to spend the holidays with Ins parents.

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W,> find w>* have hundreds of trorn-ont- '« ft li$the warm season that we will sell you now for almost half their usual value. Capes itt Plush. Cloth Bouvie, etc. Jacket*- tu ad the new styles of fashions fancy. Lucky you artin watting Lf Tour wrap. A Feather Boa - • GIVEN AWAY 5 1 with every cloak from $5 up. ‘i his Boa is fuli If yards long aiii is well worth $1.00 What do y u think of 45 cents for Misses Cloaks an<P$123 for ■La<ilies Jacket*? It dont seem reasonable, but our .loss is your gain. H tot Sm Them lot’ll to)

«W. V. Hargrove & Co» The Hustlers, Petersburg, Ind.

1 LOCAL HAPPENINGS! Gathered on the Fly by The Democrat's Reporters, News Items From Here, There and j Everywhere. , Court, City jud .Personal Item* In an Abreyiat^d Form, You Ulll Find Them All 1'ndev TliU llewdiug. See Max Blitzer for Xmas goods. 3, Ashby was at Winslow last Sunday. Hon. A. II. Taylor transacted business at BoonviHe last week. Go to H. 11. Tislow for all kinds of watch ami clock repairs. 28* Silk embroidered handkerchiefs for five coats at the Xew York store. Warm and cold luncli, oysters by the quart or dish at Kime's bakery. 80-4 Dr. J. W. Bergen and John O. Davis were at Washington last Suiiidav. Call at Kime's bakery for fine candies, nuts, fruits, etc. Be>t line in town. 30-4 Frank Kune and Haftnigan Reedy of Clay township, ntJtxp in town Monday on business. Mrs. A. W. Condiff of Noxid, is visiting her parents, .Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Condiff. —Oakland City Enterprise. Mrs. Cordelia Price of Providence, Kentucky, is .visiting her father, Harrison Smith, ami other relatives in Madison township.

Airs. .Martha McCain aiwl at her home m Winslow Sunday morning, aired 43 years. The funeral .services took place Monday. Mrs. McCain was a sister of John II. McConnell of Winslow. The Democrat job rooms have been stacked,up with 40me fine new faces of job type that art? just elegant. Ladies, if you want fine printed visiting cards, just like engraved work, call and see us. The two-months-old son of Sherman and Anna Dering died Tuesday morning at their home on lower Matu street. The funeral services took place at the family residence Wednesday afternoon. Interment at Walnut Ilills cemetery. Mh.iv important articles and striking stories have been secured by Frank Leslie’s popular monthly for publication during the coining year, among them an illustrated [>aper on ‘‘The King’s Daughters and Sous,” by Louise Seymour Houghton, one ! of the haling spirits of that order. i An exchange tells of a man who claimed he was too poor to take his home paper, but all the same he read a notice in a down east paper, telling how to prevent horses from slobbering, and sent #1.50 for the receipt. When the #1.50 worth of in formaj tion came, it said: “Teach your horse how j to spit.” * The man-iu-the-moon knows of a little affair which got a man uptown pretty early not lomr ago. The aforesaid man hail maiL' a night out and got home at 4 o'clock. He uudres ed, donned his night robe and was just getting in bed when his wife woke 1 up and iuquiml why he was. getting up so {early. To make his bluff work he hail to dress and go down town. j . M. J. Brady. J. C. Niceley, Orion Rose, A. W. Selby. Moses Frank. J. D. Colvin, S. K. Smith, Elijah Miiej, Nelson Stone, Calvin Adkins, Peter Drof, J. J. Kinraan, William Limp, W. J. Thurman and David 1 Duster, members of the Petersburg 1. O.O. F. lodge, passed through Oakland City, Thunxlay en route for Priucetou to be * present at the dedication of the new hall at | the Utter place.—^Oakland City Enterprise. What in the world society writers will do now without the time honored “corsage boquets of so-and-so” is an important item. The corsage bouquet is decidedly improper ; if you choose to be in tune. A single rase or chrysanthemum may be worn immediately under the chin, with long stem hanging |down; the flower may be as large as the taste desires. The “sweilest thing” is a bunch of violets on the sleeve at the upper part of the cuff whpre they may he fastened

with dainty but elegant pins of any description. Sylvester Beach is at Chicago this week on business. Tate Harrison, living near Winslow, was in town last Sunday. The latest styles in hats and neckties at the New York store. Mrs. S. Beach is visiting relatives at Princetou this week. Charles Haary of Oakland City, was here Saturday on business. William Pollock of Arthur, was in town Tuesday on business. James Kant£ of near Arthur, was in town Wednesday on business. Hon. Mike Sweeney of Jasper, was here yesterday attending court. Mel Uowen of Clay township, was in town Sat unlay on business. J. L. Thomas, living near Union, was in town last Sat unlay oh business. • Thomas C. Nelson of Marion township, was in town Saturday on business. Take a look at the fine handkerchiefs in the windows at the New York store. H. H. Tislow, jeweler and watchmaker Petersburg. All work guaranteed. . 88* Hon. James S. McCoy returned Monday fn»m a business t rip to Indianapolis. Elmer Davulsou and wife of Monroe City, were in town Wednesday shoppiug. Ex-prosecutor Wadsworth of Washington, was in town Wednesday on business. W. A. Oliphant transacted business at Danville, Illinois, last wee-k. He owns a large flouring mill at that place. --.-L-.» Prentice M. Hninblb and Venla Streat were married at the Congregational church, Hosmer, last Sunday by Rev. R. M. Barrett. Mrs. James S. McCoy anil Mrs. Will Doty and children left yesterday for Union City to visit with relatives during the holidays. A local dramatic company has ■ Wen organized in this place and m the near future thesfi'will present “Ten Nights in a Bar-Room.” -a —----f. The three-year-old daughter of Samuel Cox, Logan township, died from diphtheria last Sunday. Burial at the Willis cemetery on Monday.

J. D. Armstrong, “Reunion Joe.,” of Oakland' City, was granted an additional pension last week. The old veteran is deserving and his many friends will be glad to learn of his good luck. The local freight on the E. & I. railroad, bound north, was wrecked at Eiliston, last Saturday morning. Several ears were derailed. The passenger dye here at 1:8? did not arrive until 5:90 that evening. Judge Ely last week overruled the motion for a new trial for Hugh McCain who was sentenced to six years in the state's prison for the killing of Frank Fieklin. McCain will be taken to prison to-morrow by ^leritl Ridgeway. The following marriage liueenses have beeu issued since our last report: Prentice $1. Rumble and Verdi-. Streat. Charles A. Sturgeon and liosa M. King. Maurice Jones ami Mary Powers. Joseph C. Pass and Mary L. Thompson. A good deal of fun is poked at the weather bureau for the frequent failure of its forecasts; but the record for the past year shows that the average percentage of verificatii -n was 82.4. which ^certainly to be regarded as’prettv good guessing, to say the least. Graudma Miley, aged 90 years, one of the oldest ladies in Pike county died yesteri day morning. Grandma Miley was one of the best known ladies in Petersburg, hav- ! irig resided here nearly ail her life. She was the oldest member of the C. P. church, having united with that church, more than seventy-five years ago. The funeral will ! probably take place Saturday. An obituj ary notice of this good old lady will appear 1 next week. There are not inanv now living who can I remember seventy-eight years sigo. If they I did they would recall a year that had no ! summer. Frosts occurred each month in ! the year 181s. It is a matter of record j tiiat during the mouth of May ice formed ’ an inch thick over nearly the entire country, i Throughout New England snow fell to the > depth of six inches during June and iuly. 1 No corn was raised that year and farmers ! supplied themselves with seed for the ensu* | ing year from the crop of the year 1816. At the recent session of the Dubois county ! farmers.’ institute the following resolution i was adopted. The law, if it could be enacted, would be a good thing, and members of the next assembly would do well to give this matter careful consideration: Resolved. By the farmers' institute of Dubois county’ assembled at Buntingburg on December 7, 1896, that we demand of our coming legislature a more stringent dog tax—increasing the tax from $1 to $2, end on female dogs to $5, with a tax of $4 for the second male dog, and $19 for the second female dbg. - sitek . lift. M .J

PIKE COUNTY ITEMS. Xews Gathered by Onr Correspondents from t Various Parts of Pike Countj for the Democrat's Readers. Your Friends, Where aud What they Are Doing at Present. Brief Sews Items Ur«phir*Uy Portrajed— Send in lour Items. Arthur Items. Boom the Democrat. Game is abundant in this vicinity. Wheat is looking better at the present time. 1 Com husking is about completed in our neighborhood. Arthur is on the boom. It now has two stores and a grist mill. Some of the Arthur boys are spending Christmas at Evansville. Thomas McKinney has just recovered from an attack of illness. Melvin Scales of near Arthur, has moved to Dale. Warrick county. A protracted meeting is being carried on at Wilder by the Rev, Harlow. Farmers in onr vicinity are breaking ground to sow oats in the spring. Theodore McKinney is happy over the arrival of a big Bryan boy at^his house. Rev. Francis W.»od of Arthur, went to Evansville to hold a protracted meetiug. Joseph Little and wife of ueai*1 Algiers, visited John and Nancy Bowrnau Sunday last. Mrs. Ellen Beatty of near Arthur, has just recovered from a severe spell of sickness. Miss Delta Beeler of Boonville, is visiting her grandfather, Mr. D. C. Barjfett, near Arthur. T. W. Shoulders, and J. 3. Fleener, our merchants, have brought on a new stock of Xmas goods. A pie supper was given at the Black school Wednesday night. A good time was had by all present. C. E. Dayton, C. E. Farmer and Prentiss Deffendall of Arthur, visited friends in Oakland City Sunday last. Thomas Spencer and wife and Granville Coleman and wife visited Mr. and Mrs. Pat Beatty on lust .Sunday. Charles Fanner, one of the Arthur boys, has come back from II liuois, where he has been for the past nine months. The pie and oyster supper given at Art hur ' last Saturday night was a grand success, and fo.20 was the net proceeds. Elmer, the son of Lou Davis, died last i Monday night of membraneous cronp. The interment Jook place at the Williams | cemetery. William Dayton and Thomas Spencer j and wife have returned from Daviess counI ty, where They have been visiting B. C. j Dayton and sons. Miss Su lla Pipes and her grandfather, ! Jann-s Pipes, of near Arthur, started for ' Linton, Sullivan couiitv, last luesday to j visit her father during the holidays, t The young men of ^Ljd near Arthur are having lots of fun 'by going around at night with a string and some rosin, attaching the string to the house with a nail, then rubbing the string with the rosin, making a very scarry noise.

Mttles items, Oscar Nance visited at Oakland City Sunday. The school has Xmas exercises Thursday evening. The Hosmer meeting has discontinued for the present. Adam Martin and wile were at Petersburg yesterday. Alonzo Davis’child near Jackson, died of diphtheria last week. Hunting is the go among the miners when there is no work. These are gold standard times—nearly three million tramps. ‘ T. A. Johnsou, trustee of Patoka town? ship was here last week. A pie supper was given last Saturday njght at Sugar lliilgfe school house under ___.l-A:-M:.ju£& _ *xi.-.tJ&aii

the auspices of the teacher, Prof. Burchfield. The proceeds to be used .iu .buying Y. P. R. 0. books for the school.* A question: llow do the people like living on “confidence’’ just,now? The Littles church has three regular Sunday services, Sunday school, Christian Endeavor and preaching service. There will be an entertainment at the church here Christmas eve mghf. A nice program will be rendered. A Christmas tree is.one of the attractions. Clark Whitman has just completed the erection of ten new houses at the Jackson taint s. Jackson is now quite a town haviug something like 150 inhabitants giving work to nearly fifty men. The operator has just taken the contract to coal all L. E. &i>t. 1* trains the coming ye&r. Elders J. F. Ross and W. C. Arnold held services at Newburg last Sunday. Mrs. J. A. Shepard has been sick for several days, but is now better. The ehildreu of P. W. Shepanl, Henry Fleeuer and F. M. Cato are sick with the measles. - k Jackson L. Roy of Weiscr, I t^aho, arrived here last Saturday to spend the holidays with his mother. He has been in Idaho for eight years. s. Most of our schools were closet! on last Moudav until after t^e holidays on account of the measles.' Most all the pupils of Mrs. John L. Davis have measles. While Samuel Raney and Humphrey Me Grew were felling a tree on the farm of Elijah Roy’s farm McGrow seriously cut Raney's arm. Dr.Osboru dresseti the wound, Chi last Wednesday Uncle John W. McKinney, father of.county assessor John B. McKinney, was in town and in interviewing him I found he hail a history, probably not excelled by any man in the State. He said he was bora'’in Pulaka county, Kentucky, November 7,1810; that he had lived to see his fourth generation. He is the father of eleven children, seven boys and four giriSj all lived to grow and married and all living now except two sons. There are now "’living , children, grandchildren and great grandchildren, legal voters fifty-fonr, and himself making fiftydive, all democrats except one grandson, and on the 3rd day of jast November himself and family east.fifty- ■ four votes for free silver and W. J. Bryan. The old gentleman has been a minister in the United Baptist church for over fifty years. He is now living here with his son Jlesi^h McKinfToy, his wife Wing dead. j The Democrat would like a correspondent at Velpen; Winslow, Survant, Augusta, Steuda!, Pikevitle, Coe, Noxid, Otweil, Iva, Cato, Algiers. Littles, Glezeu, Rumble, Bowman, Union, OLiphant, and other points in the county, who will seud in such items that are of general interest to the people. Don't wait for some other person to send in the items but write them out and mail to -tts-by Tuesday of each week. If you only have, two or three items write ’em on a pbstaTcard. Every locality in the county should lie represented in our news columns. A correspondent from Winslow writes the Princeton Democrat as follows: “Capt. Evans, formerly of the bloody 58th lud. Vol., Infantry has organized a company of old veterans to go to Cuba. The captain says that Pike county shall be represented and that Cuba must be free. The assassination of Gen. Maceo ha> aroused the citizens of this place to the fighting point. Free Cuba is the slogan.” After hearing. some friends continually 'praising Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, Curtis Fleck, of Anahelm. California, purchased a bottle of it for his own use and is now as enthusiastic over its wonderful work as anyone can be. The 25 and.50 cent sizes for sale by J. ft Adams & ijon. ' d Spurgeon Items.

When you want job printing remember that The Democrat office is the .poly place in town whenyi full line of paper is kept in stock. Werdo all kinds of job printing from-Tfiefact that our artists are up-to-date printers and every job turned out is guaranteed to give satisfaction. For the best, call at this office. Mrs. Martha Willis, aged 26 years, wife of Georg© Willis, Matlia^ township, died snddenly Wednesday fronTheakt trouble. The funeral was conductedy^terday by -Elder J. W. Jtiehaplsop^and jutehnent at the Willis cemeterpr Mrs. Sarah Clendening was granted a divorce in the circuit court last week from ' her husband, Joseph Clendening, Clendening is insane and an inmate of the Evansville asylujn. ___- Married at the residence of Elder J. W, Richardson last Sunday, Charles A. Sturgeon and Rosa M. Ring, Elder Richardson officiating. ’ Cornelius Abbott of Jefferson township, and Everett Com pf Lockhart township, were placed in jail last week, having be* come insa&e. r'D. Q. Chappell of Evansville, was ip • the city yesterday attending iireuj^ court,