Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 1, Petersburg, Pike County, 14 May 1897 — Page 8

LOCAL HAPPENINGS! Gathered on the Fly by The Democrat's Reporters.

Hews Items From Here, There and Everywhere. Curt, City aid Personal Items la an ▲fcreriated Farm. Vm Will riMl Thcw All ©wrtar Thla UeailHK. The best summer corset#, 44 cents, at the New York store. Go to H. H. Tislow for ail kinds of watch and clock repairs. 26* 0. G. Wilson of Belleville, Illinois, was here last week, looking after the gas supply trade. _ G. W. Mon head of Greenfield, an expert drill contractor, was here last week looking j over the new gas field. Mrs. R. C. Hammond left Monday for Richmond and Port Wayne to visit relatives and friends for several weeks. Wool Wantko.—10.000 pounds of wool wanted; will pay the highest market price. Sol Frank. L. A. Perrauit of Marion, gas well and pipeline contractor, has been in the city this week looking after business matters. Wanted.—50,000 pounds of wool. 1 will pay the highest cash price for wool. 51-4 Moses Frank. The dirtrict conference of the Epwortfa League will meet at Oakland City May 20th and 21st. The E. & I. road will sell excursion tickets good returning on the 24th. Croup and whooping oougb are childhood's terrors; but like pneumonia, brouchitis, and other throat and lung troubles, can be quickly cured by using One Minute Cough Cure. J. R. Adams & Son. It should be made a matter of public knowledge that LV Witt's Witch Hazel Salve will speedily cure piles of the longest stand»dg. It is the household favorite for burns, scalds, cuts, bruises and sores of all kinds. J. R. Adams & Son.

A large foundry and machine works of Bt. Louis is desirous of locating here in the gas field. The foundry if located here would employ from 900 to 600 men. That has been the number of men who have been giTen employment in the past, it is a complete foundry in every department and would manufacture fifty car loads of machinery and patterns yearly. Editor Stoops of the Pike County Democrat, has been in close touch with all the workings of the great enterprise and he has given valuable aid and encouragement through his popular paper. In appreciation of his services the association allowed him to name the well, which he has termed* the *‘Jumbo gas well of Southern Indiana.' Mr. Stoops may start a daily paper in a few months.—Washington Gazette. Col. W. B. Dodds, Turner Overman. Thad Butler, A. L. VonBehren, mayor, and F. M. Baldwin, prominent citizens of Marion, have been here the past week looking beer Petersburg and bearing the Jumbo gas well of the world roar. They are ail pleasant gentlemen and hustlers from the word go. In all probability some of the gentlemen may make some investments here with the intention of making things hum. Xbey are welcome. An experienced fruit grower says that those intending to spray their apples and berries should not do so while the blossoms are in full bloom, but right away after the bloom has dropped off so that the furs on the blossom end of the small apples may receive and retain the poison of the material need. Besides spraying while in full bloom Irith the bees that are working and fertilizing the bloom, thereby destroying the bees without any gain to the fruit. One spray done at the right time is of mom benefit than repeated sprayings done at random. Absolutely Pure. Celebrated for H» great leavening strength Hid bealihfulntwt. Assure* the (bod against am and all forms of adulteration common the cheap brands, royal bakiko cowdkk jfepgVVoax.

-- Cmil on Hyatt for lap duster?. Dont fail to see those heavy wagon harness at Hyatt's. J. Q. Ashley of Kokomo, was in the city Tuesday on business. Charles Burger, the merchant tailor, was on the sick list last week. Miss Florence Pierson visited friends at Washington over Sunday. Buy a good pair of wori^ pants for 44 cents, at the New York store.

J. W. Ridge of Marion township, was in the city yesterday on business. . Remember the Blind Boone concert at the M. £. church Monday night next. Two beautiful cottage houses to sell; modern and neat. George S. Eisk&t. David Ingle of Oakland City, was here last Friday gathering pointers about natural *»*• __ Rev. Walter Burger, who is attending college at Chicago, is at home visiting his parents. _ Mrs. W. S. Rader and daughter Helen left Monday for a visit iwith friends atPaoli and Morgantown. Wasted.—50,000 pounds of wooL I will pay the highest cash price for wool. 51-4 Moses Frank. County Clerk Brumfield issued a marriage license this week to Emory Loveless and Florence Blaize. They live in Logan township. _ Circuit court will adjourn Saturday. A great deal of business has been transacted during the term. The next term will begin the third Monday in June. Joseph Reese of Marion, an expert in gas matters, is here looking over the new territory. He is a pleasant gentleman and knows all about gas, you can bet on that. Coen for Sale—8,000 bushels of firstclass corn. Apply at farm, two miles southwest of Petersburg. Will E. Lamb. There will be a call meeting of Pike Lodge 151 F. & A. M. Wednesday,May 19, work F. C. degree; Monday May 31st, work M. M. degree. P. K. Heurino, W.M. Mrs. Sarah B. Hammond bought the O.! A. Hammond property on Sycamore street for $1,250. Sale was made through R. U. Hammond, real estate and insurance agent Blank deeds, real estate and chat tie mortgages, nicely printed on first-class paper, for sale at this office. Also receipts for guardians and administrators. Call and lay in a supply. Judge Hefron of Washington, held court here last week as special judge in several cases wherein Judge Ely could not sit having some time or other acted as counsel in i the cases.

Personal.—The gentleman who annoyed the congregation last Sunday by continually coughing will find instant relief by using One Minute Cough Cure, a speedy and harmless remedy for throat and luug troubles. J. R. Adams & Son. All the neighboring towns are now talking of drilling since Petersburg has been | successful in striking a monster gas well. Well, it may be some of them may secure gas and it may be that some will fail and blow in lots of the good stuff, but here is hoping that all may be successful. The new C. P. church at Olive Branch, j one and a half miles west of Rumble, will bs dedicated Sunday, Ma? 30th. Rev. J. W. Elder, i^jll preach the dedicatorial I sermon. A basket dinner. You are cor dially invited. G. C. Cooper, pastor; S. D. Johnson, J. S. Wilson and T. L. Beach, building committee. The Democrat job rooms has been crowded with work for the past three week* necessitating the employment of extra help. We will hare a firstclass job printer in a fea-s weeks and who is an artist in his profession, and the high standard of work for « hieh this office is noted will be continued on a ranch larger scale. Bring on your contracts for all classes of work. H. P. Wagner of Ingalls, representing the Wagner glass works of that place, was here last Friday looking after business interests. He made an examination of the Jumbo gas well and pronounced it a jim dandy and one of the greatest he has ever seen. The company which he represents hi Reeking a location for the purpose of extending their plant. It is to be hoped that he may meet with the proper encouragement and cast his lot in the uew gas field. Here is good news for the farmers. It has been discovered that at least a dosen valuable articles of commerce, including cellulose, celluloid, smokeless gunpowder, lacquer, roofing material, glucose and papier rnache, can be manufactured from cornstalks. It is predicted that the time is near at hand when cornstalks will be worth $3$ per acre. The very best that farmers can do at present price a to raise f 10 worth of corn on an acre. Surely farming will be a paying industry if an additional $23 can be realised from an acre of ground. Bon. Si Sheerin of Lonansport, was here Tuesday and Wednesday investigating the new gas territory. Mr. Sheerin has been interested in natural gas for a number of pears, having operated several gas plants. He was shown the wonderful powers of Jumbo, the flow having been turned on at full force Wednesday morning. He pronounces it a great pressure of gas and a splendid well. Mr. Sheerin is a mn of national reputation ami was for twelve secretary of the democratic national xmroittee. He met a number of Petersburg's citizens and was greatly impressed wiith our little city.

V. R. Greene eras re-elected to wn attorney hist Thursday night. If yon an looking for a nice, neat drees suit, call at the New York store. H. H. Tislow, jeweler and watchmaker Petersburg. AH work guaranteed. 88* Her. W. S. Rader made a badness trip to Elnora Monday, returning Tuesday. Mrs. Daisy Sadler and daughter of Oak* land City, were the guests of Mrs. S. Beach this week. V

John W. Spencer and J. J. Nolan ot Evansville, were here Wednesday night on business matters. Mr. John Helfenbein of Waverly,Ohk>,'is visiting the fiunily of Herman Fulcher in Madison township. The Petersburg ball club went to Princeton where they played Wednesday. Princeton won by a score of 8 to 2. Samuel Stuckey and Charles Minehart went to Richmond Tuesday to atteud the annual encampment ot the 6. A. R. Wanted.—50,000 pounds of wool. I will pay the highest cash price for wool. 51-4 Moass Frank. For Sale.—A thoroughbred male Jersey calf; fine stock, good size and registered stock. Address R. C. Hammoud, Petersburg, Iud. The Red Men of Princeton will run an excursion to Rockport over the Air Line next Tuesday. The fare for the round trip from Winslow will be 80 cents. Autler A West have opened up a furniture store in Vue Patterson building on Depot street. They have a complete stock of all grades of goods in that line. Unconditional surrender, is the only terms those famous little pills known as DeWitt’s Little Early Risers wiil make with constipation, sick headache and stomach troubles. J. R. Adams & Son. Natural Gas Men.—The Democrat office keeps in stock leases and option blanks and all other printing matter necessary in that line of business. Call and see us for anything m the job printing line. When a cold is contracted, cure it at once. One Minute Cough Cure will set you on the road to recovery iu a minute. It will cure pneumonia, bronchitis, croup, and all forms of lung and throat troubles. J. R. Adams & Son. The Democrat will furnish you with one hundred best quality 6} white envelopes with your name, address and business neatly printed on the upper left ham! corner for fifty cents. All kinds of other job printing at equally low prices. When the spring time comes, “gentle Annie,” like all other sensible persons, will cleanse the liver and renovate the system with DeWitt’s Little Early Risers, famous little pills for the liver and stomach all the year round. J. R. Adams & Son.

Lou Hisgen of Petersburg, went to St. Louis Sunday and engaged and brought home with him J. J. McCarty, an accomplished catcher for the Petersburg ball team, which, we ,understand will soon be in condition to successfully corubat all comers.—Washington Advertiser. Clinton, Ky., Oct. 12th, 1896. Dr. J. C. Mendenhall, Evansville, Ind: Dear Sir:—You may ship me f Gross Chill and Fever Cure on same terms as last. I have sold two or three times as much of your chill cure this season as any other, and it has given splendid satisfaction. Yours truly, T, J. Taylor. Sold at Acme Pharmacy. m Steamboat excursions are now in order. Cap’t W. A. Spain has fitted the George T. Frank up in fine shape for the excursion business. He has purchased a regular excursion barge, which is nicely fitted up, and is the nicest barge ever bought by the steamer George T. Frank managers, and we hope Capt. Sj>aiu will make a success of the excursion business.—Hazeltou Herald. The Pike county Sunday school association will bold its annual session at Algiers, May 19th and 20th. A splendid program has been arranged for this occasion and a large attendance is desired of the Sunday school workers throughout the county. A number from this place will attend the sessious. The committee on entertainment is composed of Rev. Peyton. Rev. Medcalf, Frank Cox and Oscar Hadlock. Rev. W. J. Ridge is president and J. W. Wiggs, secretary of the association. Gentlemen have been in the city during the past week who have been desirous of securing lands upon which to locate factories. One of these factories manufactures leatbekmoard which is used for counters in shoes, shoe soles and insoles, paper boxes and bookbinders’ goods: another manufactures glass, while the others would be straw board and paper mills and a big handle factory. These combined factories would give employment to over 1.200 hands. The gentlemen were not asking for money but suitable lands upon which these factories could be located. How many women in their zeal to clean house, work until every nerve and muscle is overwroth and no refreshing sleep visits their eyelids; but after the spring work is finished they are just ready to go to bed from utter exhaustion, and after all cannot enjoy their dean house. Better make haste slowly, plan wisely, make your brain save your bodies, and take time to enjoy the < s wakening of spring, the soft sweet air, the birds and flowers. There is so modi that is so inspiring and ennobling. Mother nature opens the book for us ; if we should J read and enjoy, we must not bury ourselves > in house cleaning from morning till night. \

Buy your plow harness of Hyatt. Mrs. Hannah Laswell of Augusta, has been granted a pension. Attend the Blind Boone concert at the M. E. church Monday night. Col. George Darrow and W. S. Morton of Montpelier, were here Wednesday night. The New Fork store is making a special sale on straw hats; prices way down below all competitors.

0. R. Holcomb of Rich ville, Washington, was here last Saturday visiting his brother, Attorney Holcomb. Mrs. Elisabeth Green returned home Wednesday after visiting relatives in Gibson oounty for several days. The normal and subscription school closes a six weeks' term today. The term has been a very successful one and was very largely attended. If you are a lover of music attend the concert at the M. E. church Monday night. Blind Boone is a wonderful performer on the piano and is also a fine singer., Not only acute lung troubles, which may prove fatal in a few days, but old chronic coughs and throat troubles may receive immediate relief and be permanently cured by One Minute Cough Cure. J. R. Adams &Son. _ The citisens of Evansville and Vanderburg county are stirred up over a horrible crime which was committed Wednesdav. Lizzie Buente, nine years old,was assault* d from the injuries of which she died. The Seymour bloodhounds have taken up the trail. -_ Thirty years is a long time to fight so painful a trouble as piles, but Jacob, Mitch* ell of Uuionville, Pa., struggled that long before he tried DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve, which quickly and permanently cured him. It is equally effective in Eczema and all skin affections. J. R. Adams & Son. William Smith died at his home near Oatsville Monday night of spinal meningitis aged about S3 years. He was one of the leading workers in the church, beiug at the time of his death Sunday school superin tendent at Mt. Pleasant church. He leaves a wife and four children.—Oakland City Enterprise. J. P. Miller of Chicago, senior member of the company that drilled in the Jumio gas well for the Petersburg mining ar.d manufacturing association, was here last week and the association accepted the gas well and paid for it and now control the same. The gentlemen win, T rilled the well have been very accommodating to the public and have made many friends during their stay in this city. The Westfield (Indiana) News prints the following in regard to an old resident of that place: “Frank McAvoy, for many years iu the employ of the L., N. A. & C. Ry. here, says: ‘I have used Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea remedy for ten years or longer—am uever without it in my family. I consider it the best remedy of the kind manufactured. I take pleasure in recommending it.’” It is a specific for all bowel disorders. For sale by J. R. Adams A Son. ’ in

Ciuciuiiati Markets. Wednesday, May 1?, 1897. Wheat, 87 to 91e; corn, 25 to 27c; oats, 16 to 21c; rye, 27 to 36c; hay, $8.50 to $9.50; cattle, heavy, $2.75 to $475.; hogs, good shippers, $3.00 to $3.85; sheep, $175 to $4.50. Notice of Administrator’s Sale of Real Estate. Noth'© is hereby given that the undersigned Administrator of the estate of George Whitman, deceased, by virtue of an order of the Pike circuit court of Pike countv. Indiana.1 made at the February term, le»7, of said coart, directing him to sell the real estate ol the decedent therein described, will sell at private sale on aud after Saturday, June 12th, 1897, until Saturday, July 10th, 1897, The following described real estate of said decedent In Pike county, Iudiatia, to wit: The southeast quarter of section sixteen, town two south, range eight west. Said land will be sold in forty aere tracts to suit purchaser, where the same can be done without injury to the value of the residue. Bids will be received at any time between said dates by the undersigned aud sales will be made on said lands. Jin bid for private sal© at less than the appraised value or the land bid tor will be received by said administrator, as no private sale can be made for less than the appraised value of tit© land so sold. Th© appraisement of said lands can be seen by calling on said administrator. And by the further direction of aaid order so made by said court, said administrator ou Saturday, July 10th, 1897, At ten o’clock a. m., will sell at public auction on said lands, ail of said lands remaining up to that time unsold, for not less than twothirds of the nop raised value thereof. All said aales will be In discharge of all liens against said real estate. I'EBMsor sal*:—Ail said sales, both public and private, will be made upon the following terms, to- wit; The purchaser to pay onethird of the purchase price In cash on day of sale, and execute bis two notes in equal amounts for the residue thereof, due and payable in nine and eighteen months from date of sale, respectively, both bearing six per cent Interest per annum from date of sale, and attorney’s fees, ami waiving relief from valuation or appraisement laws, with good and sufficient personal security thereon to the approval of the undersigned administrator, DARIUS C. BARRETT. Si-5 Administrator. 8. G. Davenport, atty. Notice. Notice to hereby given that at tbe last session of tbe legislature of Indiana that body passed a law requiring all parties having claims against the county to file them five iay* before tbe beginning of the session. Notice to that effect is hereby given all anch persons. Tbe section of law reads as follows: “Section 4. No claim shad be allowed by tbe board of commissioners of any county In ibis state unless such claims, duly itemised »nd verified by the claimant or some one in Ills behalf, shall have been filed in the auditor's office ol tbe proper county, and by him pinged on tbe claim docket at least five <5) lays before tbe first day of the regular or medal session of such board. Provided that nothing herein shall prevent the board from "suing warrants at tbe done of any term for be payment of money doe officers of tbe ■ommtosiooers court for services rendered at >uch terra; provided claims for sendees as ■nail or highway viewers or reviewers a ay be d to wed at tbe tednn at which they are lied.** If U WOO USE Y, Auditor.

Bargains We Had on Sale this Last Week. NOTE BELOW A FEW /TEMS YET ON HAND. 50 pieces of 5c Ginghams, 3c. 9-4 Unbleached Sheeting, 12|c, New Lawns, at 5c. Two grades fancy Plaid Crash, No. 1, ioc; No. 2, 15c a yard. Linens for Dresses, at 15c, 20c and 25c, Ladies’ Hose, at 5c. Cresco $1.00 Corsets, 70c. Good Black Parasols, neat handles, $1.00 grade for 63c. Our 98c Shoes for Men or Women are world beaters. For bargains see us. SOL FRANK, THE BIG STORE WITH LITTLE PRICES.

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