Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 2, Petersburg, Pike County, 21 May 1897 — Page 1

$5,006 Worth of SHOES t UNO t SLIPPERS

) Did you think what s vast pile of Shoe Leather it takes to amountto ^ $5,000? Almost fills two large stones from floor to ceiling, Shoes of every description, of every quality. We have too many—bartkwood spring leaves us overstocked. We must sell them—they will be out of * style by next season. There'* but one way to move them. Cut the

price M half. No difference what they cos!;. The first toss is the least to us. We need money. This sale is honest—we advertise only what we can prove to you. Bring in your family and take advantage of buying your summer Shoes and Slippers at half cost. AU our .Shoes ate warranted against ripping aud will be resewed free. See the Prices. *■

Infant^ Soft Sale Shoes, nu-e and easy.... Infants' Black Dongola Kid, Button, sizes 1 to 5.... Children's Dongola Button Shoes, Spring lied. Patent (smther Tip. sizes 5 to 8, nrortli 75c... r Ladies' Patton Kid. Patent Leather Tip. Opera Toe, cheap at •1JS. ladies' Button Donpila Kill, Patent leather Tip, Sift Sole, $2.30 Shoe.. ...... Ladies' Sample Shoes, sizes J.< and4s,real Dongola,Pretty Tij»s. $3.00 quality, take ▼our choice... . . 500pairs [*dies'Tans,Oxhlood* and Black Slices, Ijace and Button, real Custom made, tdeganr goods, the $3.50 grade for this sale. 116 pairs of StriMeyV Pine Shoes, all kind* of Toe*, llami made. Glove fitting, fully warranted, worth from $0 to $4 pair, take your pick ... 5 $7 pairs of Lillies* Slippers, Sandals and Oxfords, Patent Uatbcr Tim w.»rth from 70e to 90e... 48 pairs of Ladle*' Fine Slippers, all kinds, all sties, ail color*, worth $1.50.,.... I

til pairs Fine Hand madeSlip-tM-rs. Tan*, Ox bloods mid Hacks, at *2.00 and fi.'iO. take your choice .. 31? pairs of Iasdics’Fine Stun pic Slijipers, in every gmde, in all styles, *11 size>, worth *2.75 to $8.0).. 2CB pairs Boys' Lace Coin Toe, nobby dress Show, wortii up to $2.00.. 819 pairs Men's Congress or laiee, Solid Sole, good eaough lor Sunday..... 89C 519 jwiirs Famous Parks mid d» A QA nii/./ard Shoes, niamitm- I |»M turetV (vice $1.75, sale 'r1,ww price... -_ 24tt pairs Men's Creed more Plow Slices, all Solid $1.50 quality. 211 pairs Men's Pointed *2.00 Cap Low, Lace Toe, sold at ‘ $1.23 A few pairs of the Celebrated flirt CA W. L. Douglass $8 Shoe, Hm style not finite up to date, v Black or Tan.. 75 pairs James Means One Price *2.50 Shoe, we. must close them.. 129 pairs lien's Sample Show, all style* and kinds, sold at *3.00. Sp>-cia! value..'

Remember the entire line of Shoes in both our Stores are included in this sale. Don't wait, erery day is golden. Your dollar will do double duty at our Stores now. Sale positively closes June 15th. W.V. Hargrove & Co IFsrepxletoxw of The Peoples' Drj Goods Store and Star Clothing Hoose, IURQ, INDIANA. .

THE GAS TURNED ON. An Exhibition of Jnmbo Giv eu Wednesday Night. Fully Five Thousand People Viewed the Wonderful Sight. Prominent People in the City and talk of the Great Powers of the Well.

Excursion Trains Will be Run In (ionictimc Next Week. The Jumbo pas well of the world whs fired again Wednesday night. It was announced in our last issue that an exhibition would be made in order to satisfy the people that the Petersburg mining and manufacturing company hid gas in great quantities. Long before dark the people came flocking into town. A special train was run from Evansville. The steamer George T. Frank run an excursion in from Hazleton, and our neighboring towns of Vincennes. Jasl»er, Princeton, Washington, Oakland City, Winslow and other places were well represented. It js estimated that there was upwards.of 5,000 visitors in the city .o see the display, and all went away satisfied and talking about, the wonderful powers of Jumbo. The visitors from neighboring cities talked about our towu, our enterprising citizens and gas, and predict for us a rapid growth in the near future. Expert Warner, who has charge of the well for the company and who will drill others, had placed a pipe up through the derrick house and extended it about twenty feet above the tower, making a “T” joint at the top. About 8 o’clock the gas was turned loose and with a mighty roar the flames shot out both ways lighting up the country for a loug distance. The roar could be heard for a several miles. As the gas was turned on and off several times the large crowd of people would sway back and forth thinking perhaps that something awful would happen, but of course it didn't. Mr. Warner thoroughly understands the work of making a display of natural gas. and the exhibition given Wednesday night was a success. Prominent railroad officials of the E. & T. II. and E. & I. roads were in the city to see the display. Next week excursions will prol>ably be run in from Terre Haute, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, St. I^iuis, Louisville, Evansville and other points. The erowd was immense and the exhibition a success. Did you ever run across an old home newspaper, say some ten years ago or more? Did it not prove extremely interesting as you read its columns of local news ami perj sonal mention? As you look over its pages j the many seeming trivial mentions carry with them a multitude of pleasure and tender associat ions and you wonder that yon prized the {taper so littte at the time it was first printed, when you find it so full of interest after so many years. It is only when one gets a hold of some old local i paper and views its panorama of the past | and reflects on wbat a perfect mirror of local events the weekly paper is, that he begins to estimate its real value as a recorder of local current history and to realize how worthy of his support and patronage in this local collector and record keeper of life and doings of the community which ; from week to week and year to year it so faithfully portrays.

All this talk of coal oil tuul other oils J ! that the at wspapers are talking about ooz- j ■ iug out of the ground is all slush. If you i have an idea that you are going to dip coal | oil up by the bucket full you are off your I chunk. That is all uonsense. Von can j find that article of oil aloug any branch or j j creek in the country. The genuine petroleum is found beneath the surface from one to two thousand feet. The newspaper that prints such stuff knows but little about gas, oil or anything else. Drill down. ---—- The Petersburg mining and man u fact urIiug association yesterday inurniug selected • the location for the second well. The well j will be drilled on the Fleming land south 1 of where J umbo wait drilled in and immedi-; | ately north of the floral hall on the°fair( grounds. Tbe machinery is here and will. be removed to the location today and by next Thursday the drillers will be at work ? spudding. Mr. Warner expects to complete the well in from twenty to thirty days.

JUMBO, 575 F»OUMDS PRESSURE.

It is now tilhie that every man interested in the future growth of Petersburg should go to work and strike while the iron is hot. Petersburg is the only town iu Southern Indiana that has gas, and now that other towns will try their luck it beliooves our people to go to work and commence to locate factories at once. Don't wait until some other town strikes gas. and then commence work. The work will then be doubly hard, and it will work to the disadvantage of this city. This locality has gas in abundance. The test well lias prowl that. Manufacturers and capitalists are now knocking for entrance. Open the doors and let them in and they will in turn put their shoulder to the wheel and work with might and main for the future of their adopted city. Let every man iu Petersburg join the Industrial association and every man that is assigned a position on any committee do his whole duty and commence work at once. Don’t delay the matter a day or a week. The golden opportunity is now at hand. Strike now. Men of capital, push and energy are now here who are ready to invest and lend a helping hand to make Petersburg the leading city of Southern Indiana if they can but receive the proper encouragement and given half a chance to do something. Everybody to work at once. The hour has arrived when something must be done. Manufacturers who desire cheap fuel and a better location where they can enlarge their plants are waiting for the opportunity to come here and locate. They can t*e secured for Petersburg if the citizens will come to the front and show the right spirit. Don’t stand back and hold your lands at prices that .are out of reach. Donate a piece of land for a factory site, or sell your lands at a reasonable price ami let factories be located. It is time to act and hustle, for the greatest opjwrtunity that has ever b^n offered to this section is now at hand. With the vast de|>osita of coal and the new find of nattual gas Petersburg is the favored spot of the world for manufacturers of all classes of goods. Petersburg has the cheapest fuel in the world—coal and gas. N‘d other section ha* both in the quantities that are to be found here. Letters of inquiry regarding the discovery of gas and the coal fields are being received every day from all parts of thejgpfl^f.' They come from rnanu. facturers and from people who are looking forward to the new gas city as their future homes. Get in line and go to work at once.

The late legislature passe*l a law in regard to the thistle-, briers, bunloek and other noxious weeds that generally line roadways, go to seed in the fall and sprout out again in manifold quantities in the spring. Beginning next July from the first day until Aug. 20, every farmer is required to remove all these weeds along the highway cnntigkms to his property. For this work he is allowed $ 1.25 per day, and the amount will be credited upon bis mad j I taxes. If the work is not done by August, 29 the supervisor is empowered to get the j work done, and have the same charged to j the property owners. The Winslow gas and oil company has ■ been organised with a capital stock of $10.- \ 000. The directors and officers are as fol- j lows: C. W.Young president, W. S. Brown j vice-president. Logan Robhng treasurer,' A. Martin secretary. David PeTar, Q. L.| Ireland, E. L. Ashby, and George B. Ashby . directors. The company will operate in Pike, Dubois, Warrick and Yanderburg counties. Drilling will commence in the next sixty days.

News at the Court House. Item? of news of a general nature gathered from the various offices at the court house: Heal Ektate Transfers. Sarah P. Meyers toheirsof James Mount, pt se qr sec 22, range 8 west. William B. Abbott to Mattie A. Briant, pt se qr nw qr see 28, town 1 south, range 7 west, 30 acres. Philip Lynch et al to John Taylor, lots 46, 47 and 48 Velpen. Lucy Hoehmeister to R. M. Craig, lot 63, Velpen. Columbus E. Demmitt to C. E. Skinner, pt w side ne qr nw qr sec 17, town 3 south, range 7 west. C. H. Kash to Fannie J. Chun»bly,lot61. Arthur. A. C. Hawkins to George B. DeTar, w hf sw qr se qr sec 32, town 1 south, range 7 west. Margaret DeTar to John E. Hollon, pt lot 64 ami 60, Winslow. A. C. Hawkins to John E. Hollon lot 51 and pt 66 Winslow, David DeTar to George B. DeTar, nw qr sw qr sec 9, town 2 south, range 7 west. 40 acres. John F. Ash to Sarah J. Russell, pt lot 137. Petersburg. Janies F. Belcher to William F. Rumble, lots 53, 43 and 44 Uosuier; Sarah J. Russell et al to William White, pt lot 137, Petersburg. Mary A. Barker to William W’hite pt lot | 137, Petersburg. j Peter Drof to Guy Frank, lot 28, Petersburg. Martha J. Geddes io J. F. Gedtles, lots 56 and 57, Velpen. narriafr l.lceMar*. The following marriage licenses have: been issued since our last report: Martz Keisenbtek and Nora Smith, laiwrence O’Neil ami Otlie Phillips. John G. Helfeubem and Matilda Fulcher. Frank Gideon and Emma Schwartz. Charles Brentou and Saliie Hollon. Cha rles B. Wi Ider and Hi ary I J olt zgraber. Washington Strickland and Margaret M. I Arnold.

The Cilj Markets Eggs—10 cents. Butter—12J cents. Onions—aOe j*er bu. Potatoes—30c jht l»u. IjOtuonsr—30 cents |>er dnz. Oranges—.10 cents per do?.. 1 Banannas—20 cents per do?.. i Chickens—Chicks 5c-. hens 5c. A . Turkeys—Hen turks 8e. young 7. Cider—20cents per gallon. ; Nary B. aits— $ 1.25 i**r bu. Prunes—10(*t 15 cents. Sides—8c. laird—8 cents per lb. ' Pork—Ham', smoked, 12 cents, Wheat—75 cents {>er bushel. Corn—17 cents per bushel. Oats—12 cents |>er bushel. Rye- -88 cents per bushel. Clover Seed—$4 00 per bushel. Salt—75c per bM. Flaxseed—90 cents. Hogs—$3.10 per 100. Cattle—$2 to $4 jwr 100 Sheep—2e to 3e per lb. Ctaelaaati Market*. Wkdkesday, May 12,1897. Wheat, 87 to Ole; corn. 25 to 27e: oats, 16 to 21c; rye, 37 to 36c; hay, $8.50 to $9.50; cattle, h avy, $2.75 to $475.; hogs, good shippers, $3.00 to $3.85; sheep, $2.75 to $4.50.

THE NEW RAILROAD. The Black Diamond Proposed by Col. Boone. Will Bun from Savannah, Georgia, to Chicago, Illinois. IV141 Operate Through the Coal and Gaa Fields of Southern Indiana. X Petersburg Citizen* are Greatly ■ ate reeled an a Will Aid. f

For years ami years h proposed east and west line of railroad lias been talked of running from Vincennes east to New Albany or Owensboro, but nothing had ever eonfe of the enterprise, aiul “it died a borninV’ But the question comes up again, and it is now thought that the road will be buiit. The proposed road will start from Vincennes and pass through Petersburg, Jasper, English, Corydon and New Albany aud with a terminus at Savaunah, Georgia. ’ The editor of the Dkmocrat last Saturday received a personal letter from Hou. S. A. Day, New Albany, in which he states that a meeting will be held/at Corydon or New Albany in a short time, aud that Col, Albert E. Boone, the promoter of the Black Diamond railroad system, will be present. Steps have been taken to organize the railroad company, and it is reasonable to suppose that the company will be organized iu the near future. This proposed line would run through the richest coal fields of Indiana, and now that natural gas has been discovered, the question of another railroad will soon be settled. The territory through which the road would pass is excellent and would draw a large patronage from the coal fields of Southern Indiana. The citizens of Petersburg will no doubt be glad to learn of this movement and will heartily aid in the work of building the road. The follow- v- y mg special from Barboursville. Kentucky, appeared iu the Louisville Dispatch last week: “Col . Boone, who has undertaken to build a north and south trunk line of railroad with the aid of foreign capitalists, has sent his plans to the mayor of this place for consideration. The line was projected in 1836 by Calhoun, of South Carolina. His plans are as follows: Chicago to Carrollton, Kentlicky, 297 miles;t?arrolton, Kentucky, to Jelico, Tennessee, via Manchester, Kentucky, ami Barboursville, Kentucky, 215 miles. Thence from Jelico, Tennessee, to North Carolina state line, via Knoxville, Tennessee, 130 miles,. Tennessee state line, via Franklin, North Carolina, to Georgia state line, and North Carolina state line, via Ruben Gap, Georgia, aud Augusta to Savannah, 296 making a total of 1,015 miles. From Chicago, via Norfork, Virginia, to Savannah, by the Baltimore & Ohio is 1,5*8 miles; N. & W., 1,507 miles; C. & O., 1,497; Black Diamond, 1,015, which will be a distance of 417 miles shorter by the Black Diamond route.** The following from the Palestine, Illinois, Reporter will also be of much, interest in this connection as it will be extended west through Illinois;

‘•Committee on general arrangements in regard to the W. V. Ii. It. iuet Inst Monday and transacted business in reference to the new railroad. The eomuiittee which recently canvassed the line from ‘Palestine to Vincennes rrorted that the people between here and — Tincerms are cut busiest ic in regard to the road and are willing to lend all the aid possible U' 'he enterprise. A meeting of all parties interested was called for May 8th to meet at Russellville. A special effort should be made to get a . number [the m< re the better] to go from ttiis place aud'vicinity to atteud and take part in this meeting. The committee will nmt here again May fit!# at 7 p. m. and would like to have our citizens to attend ami make prompt preparations to go to Russellville May 8th.” lion. S. A. liav of New Albany, was in the city Wednesday night to witness the exhibition of natural gas from the famous well Jumbo. While here be met a number of gentlemen who talked very encouraging of the proposrd railroad system. He lwlieves that the road will be built within the next few years if tlie proper encouragement is met with along the route. The I>txo> cut will announce the date of the meeting in the next week or so its soon as can be arranged for, and the first meeting will ha all probability be held in this city sometime in Jun$?. Either Col. Boone, the pr» motif of the system, or William Kirkby, pret*» dent, will atteud this meeting.