Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 3, Petersburg, Pike County, 28 May 1897 — Page 1

VOL. XXVIII. PETERSBURG, IND.. FRIDAY. MAY 28. 1897. NO. 3

$5,000 Worth of SHOES t UNO t SLIPPERS

lHtl you think what a vast pile of Shoe Leatherit takes to amount to \ $5,000? Almost fills two large stores from floor to wiling, Shoes of every description, of every quality. We have too many—baekwood spring leaves us overstocked. We must sell them—they will be out of style by next season. There’s but one way “to move them. Cut the

price in half. No ihfferoiee what they cost. Tl»e first loss 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 buyiug your summer Shoes and Slippers at half cost. All our Shoes are warranted against ripping aud will be renewed free. See the Prices.

Infants* Soft Sole Shoe*, nice and easy...,.. Infants' Black Dongoia Kid, Button, sizes 1 to 5..... t % Children's Dongola Button Shoes. Spring Heel. Patent I eat tar Tip, sizes 5 to 8, worth 75e... Ladies* Button Kid er Tip. Opera fl.35. Patent laathToe, cheap ‘at \ Ladies' Button Dongula Kid, Patent leather Tip, Soft Sole, $1.50 She*... Ladies' Sample Shoes, sizes 8s and 4-,real Dongi la,Pr< ttys Ti|«s, ft?.00 quality, take your c hoice.. 500 pairs iAdksTans.Oxtdood.* anil Black Shoes. I^ace ami Button. *eud Custom made, elegant oasis, the ft?.50 grade for this sale...._ 110 pairs of Strihley’s Fine Shoes, all kinds of Toes, Hand made, Glove fitting, fully warranted, -rth from $8 to $4 pair, take your pick . 97 pairs of Ijadies* Slippers. Sandals and Chtfonls. Patent Ia-ather Tip. worth from 7tie to 90c... 48 pairs of ladies’ Fine Slippers, all kind*, all sizes, all colors, worth fl.50.... ....

I 111 pairs Fine Hand inadeSlipSrs. Tans, Ox bloods and aeks. at #2.00 atal 12.50. take vour choice......... SIT pairs of Iaidies'Kine Sample Slipper*, in every- grade, in all stvles, all size>. worth $2.75 to $3.00............ 263 fiairs Boys’ Iau* Coin Toe. nobby dress Shoes, worth up to $2.00. 319 {‘airs Men's Congress or Laee, Solid Sole, good enough for Sunday... 519 fiairs Famous Parks and tfi J Q A rtazxurd Shoes, manufac* jftl ijq turera’ pritv $1.75, sale t price.. 249 fiairs Men’s Creedrnore Plow Shoos* all Solid $1.50 quality. 211 pairs Men’s lev*. Laee, Pointed Cap Toe. sold at $2.00.. . A few pairs of the Celebrated VV. L. Douglass $3 Shoe, style not quite up to date, Biack or Tan. 75 pairs James Means One Price $2.50 Shoe, we must close them .. 129 pairs Men's Sample Shoes, all style* and kinds, sold at $0 00. Special value..

Remember the entire line of Shoes in both our Stores are included in this sale Don't wait, every day is golden. Your dollar will do double duty at our Stores now. Sale positively closes dune 15th. W. V. Hargrove & Co Ticyxletan of The Peoples' Dry Goods Store and Star Clothing Honse, ETER8BURQ, INDIANA

Gin OF PETERSBURG The New Gas City of Southern Indiana. Splendid Location for Mann* factories of all Glasses. The Richest ( onblned Gas aid Coal Fields la the World. Literal Induceaients will te Offered ta flanufaclaren. “Petersburg, the new Gas City of the South.” “Petersburg is a most fortunate little city.” These ami similar expressions one bears at every place ami on every side. Surely, Petersburg of all the fortunate , cities, is one of the most fortuuate. It is located one mile fr^rn White river, forty miles from Evansville in the northern part of Pike county, one of the richest in natural resources of any county in Indiana. It is located in the center of the renowned agricultural district of southwestern Indiana. The White river bottoms, broad and surprisingly fertile, produce with little labor and investment vast quantities of coni, wheat and other cereals. The higher land surrounding the city and extending over a good part of the county is beautifully rolling with deep and exceedingly ! fertile soil, producing abundant crops of coni, wheat, oats, rye. hay, clover and all the vegetables. The natural lay of the country and the consistency of the soil, a sandy loam, requires but iittle expense in

drainage, and because of the depth, strength and composition of soil but comparatively little cultivation, while the acreage is as great or greater than in any other part of the state. These advantages makes Pike county one of the best and most desirable agricultural counties in the state. Pike county has been and is noted for I her live stoc k interests. Thousands of head of csttle. horses, sheep, and hogs are yearly shipped from Petersburg to Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Louisville and other cities. _ X Southwestern Indiana is the greatest fruit-producing country in the world. All the fruits of the cold and warm temperate regions and many of the colder torrid regions are produced in abundance here. Pike county has hundreds of acres of virgiu forests, consisting of oak. ash. walnut. poplar, beech, hickory, gum and elm. These forests have barely felt the ravages of the woodmaus ax. Hundreds of natural permanent flowing springs are found in and around Petersburg and over the county, together with the many winding streams, furnish pure and cold water to man and beast. Good, pure soft water is found anywhere at a depth of 2o to 200 feet and never fading French Lick mineral water is found at a depth of 900 to 950 feet., Beueath the coal veins are found thick stratas of a flue quality of fire clay. This clay is used iu making fire brick, sewer tde, etc. The common clay for brick and tile is unsurpassed. Pure white sand, suitable for glass manufacture is found in abundance near the city. Sandstone rock is found plentifully and easily quarried.

>outhwestern Indiana is one of the greatest coal regions in the United States and Pike county lies m the center of this belt. The entire county is underlaid with veius of coal, varying m thickness from 4 to 12 feet. This coal is of the best bituminous quality and is found from 30 to 80 feet below the surface. The mines with few exceptions have been worked for local use only, so that the vast coal interests are practically awaiting development. Coal can and is mined and delivered to customers for $1.25 per ton. The coal interests alone are sufficient to support manufacturers for a hundred years to come, and no cheaper fuel outside of gas can be found anywhere. This alone makes factory locations with us perfectly secure. The people of the city and count r deserve more than a passing notice. They are in most part descendants from the old Maryland and Virginia stock and a more friendly and hospitable people are nowhere to be found. As a general thing they are financially well-to-do, while many are wealthy. Petersburg is noted for her men of capital and ther are anxious to help develop the city and county. Petersburg, the county seat of Pike county, is a pretty little city of 2,500 in

habitants, beautifully and fortunately located for a large city. No large city is located near it. Evansville is 40 miles, Terre Haute 90 miles and LonisTiile 100 miles distant. The natural resources, exclusive of gas and coal, is abundantly sufficient to support a city. The city is located on the E. & I. railroad, a direct route to Indianapolis, Terre Haute. Chicago and the Ohio river. A new route from Vincennes to New Albany with connections to the Atlantic coast is proposed and is now well under way. This, together with our present facilities, will giTe us a direct route to Chicago and all the large cities of the south and west. ' Petersburg has broad streets and shady avenues. Her public buildings are equal to any city of her size. She is noted for her public schools, having a large commodious brick building and employing ten teachers. The moral and religious sentiment of the people is good. The M. EL, C. P., Presbyterian. Baptist, Catholic aud A. M. E. churches have commodious buildings, mostly bric^. The business blocks, composed in most part of brick, are unsurpassed by any city of its size. Petersburg is noted as a commercial center and for her hustling young business men. Upon the principal thoroughfares are found large and commodious dwellings with modem improvements. The hotels are modern aud | are sufficiently capacious for present needs. The citizens are fraternal all the modern lodges beiug represented by a good membership. The professional ineijyare wide awake : and many of them experienced. The city | is well lighted by an electric and incandesi cent system. Telephone and water work ! systems are being projected. The city is : well located for factories, Wing near White river, and is the fiuest agricultural and ■ raining region in the United States ami having a direct outlet to Chicago. Ciucin- | liati, Louisville, St. Louis and all the large 'cities of the South ami West, and being | located in the greatest combined gas and | cojjjrtfpigon known._j | “Jumbo" the greatest gas well of Petersburg is the second greatest well in the ' United States, having a rock pressure of ! 375 pounds to square inch and a volume of 4.000.000 cubic feet per day. When turned on to its full capacity the roar of escaping gas and the illumination can be heard and seen for miles. It is the wonder and

admiration of ail who see it. The public spirit and interest of the citizens is manifest from the fact that two companies have been organized to develop the field. Experienced gas men here have no hesitancy in saying that we have a great gas field. Men of capital from Chicago, ! the cities of the central gas belt and other i cities are interested and are buying real ! estate and - making leases. No better ! opportunity for investment can be found anfwhete. A People's industrial association has been organized to promote the interests of the city and county. This association is prepared to interest capital in our resources and facilities and to furnish any information desired. Special inducements are offered to manufacturers in the wav of free factory sites, cheap fuel, reasonable prices for real estate and homes. For further information call on or address W. H. Foreman. president Industrial association, M. McC. Stoops, secretary. Real estate sales and options have been rather lively during the past week. An option was taken last week on a piece of land for #6,400. The following are a few 1 of the sales made during the past few days of town property: S. G. Barrett and J.W. Brumfield bought the Shawhau & Boonshot store room on tower Main street for #3,500; Louisa McFarland sold four lots to William Liibs for #800. W. A. Uliphant sold to John O. Davis residence on Tenth street for #1.900 and one to Dr. T. R. Rice for $1,000. George Good rid sold bis farm ad- ; joining the city on the west to Dodds, ; Butler & Co.. Marion, for #10.000.

A miserable imposter is working his game : on some of the neighboring cities selling from house to house a sake which he guarantees to cure warts. All sensible people know that the only way to remove a wart is i to ntb it with a half raw potato, which is afterwards to be buried by a cross-eyed negro in the northwest corner of a graveyard at midnight in the dark of the moon. As the potato decays the wart will disappear. This wart salve put up in tin boxes is a delusion and a snare. — Monday, June 7th, the trustees of the several townships will meet in this city to elect a county superintendent of schools for the coming two years. The democratic candidates for this position are Will Corn, John Bilderback. Fred Chappell, John Scales and John B. Blaise, present incumbent. Miss Helen King gave a very pleasant tea party to several of her young friends on last Monday evening, the occasion being her fourteenth birth anniversary. Miss Helen is a charming hostess and every one present enjoyed the evening to the utmost. H. H. Tislow, jeweler and watchmaker Petersburg. All work guaranteed. 3b*

Jim at the Ceart House. Items of news of a general nature gathered from the various offices at the court house: ■••I Estate Traasters. Gibson Cross to Turner Cross, sw qr nw qr sec 19, town 1 south, range ? west, 40 acres. Gibson Cross to Lillie B. Cross, ne qr nw qr sec 19, town 1 south, range ? west, 40 acres. Dora Anderson to Herman Briant and Sherman Dedman, lot 31, Winslow. E. P. Richardson to Erastus Dillon, lots 16 and 21, OtwelL L. W. Walkardo George W. Walker, pt ne qr sw qr jet 30, town 3 south, range 7 west, 15 acres. Heirs of Newton Brenton to Mary A. Spraggins, pt se qr sw qr sec 82, town 1 south, range 7 west. Elisabeth Hornbrook to J. W. Grubb, pt se qr nw qr sec 9, town 1 south, range 9. James Shawhan et al to $. G. Barrett et al, pt lot 68, Petersburg. George Schell to Jessie Lindsey, pt ne qr sec 16, town 3 south, range 6 west. William Walter to Carl Noss, w hf ne qr and pt se qr uw qr sec 81, town 2 south, range 6 west, 100 acres. Louisa McFarland to William Liibe, lots 22, 28, 24 and 25. Petersburg. Isaac Hammond to Thomas W. Basinger, pt nw qr sec 27, town 1 north, range 8 west. Heirs of Newton Brenton to Charles W. Abram, pt se qr sw qr sec 32, town 1 south, range 7 west. William A. Oliphaut to John 0. Davis, pt lot 55, Petersburg. George W. Couch to Thomas J. Fleeuer, pt ne qr sw qr sec 36, town 2 south, range 8 west. 15 acres. Thomas J. Fleener to Thomas W. Shoul- | tiers, pt ne qr sw qr sec 86, town 2 south, i range 8 west, 30 acres. : _, Uarriafe Lirrann. The following marriage licenses have been issued since our last report: Thomas Benedict and Maggie. Nor rick. Elmer E. English and Artelia F. Walker. George A. Hurst and Eva Beach. ElijaJi Bell and Mattie Johnson. W, J. Zimmerman and Grace G. Baker.

The City Markets Eggs—8 cents. Butter—10 cents. Onions—50c |>er bu. Potatoes— 50c per bu. Lemons—30 cents j>er do*. Oranges—50 cents per do*. Bananuas—20 cents per doz. Chickens—Chicks 5c, hens 5c. . Turkeys—Hen turks 8c, young 7. Cider—20 cent' per gallon. Nary B.ans—$1.25 per bu. Prunes-rl0(a 15 cents. Shoulders—7 cents. Sides—6c. Lard—6 cents per lb. Pork—Hams, smoked, 10 tents. Wheat—82 cents per bushel. Com—35 cents per bqshel. Oats—12 tents per bushel. Rye—33 cents per bushel. Clover Seed—$4.00 per bushel. Salt—75c per bbl. Flaxseed—90 cents. Hogs—$3.00 to 3.10 per 100. Cattle—$3 to $4 per 100. Sheep—3c to 3c per lb. Wool—16 tents per lb. Clarinuti Markets. Wednesday, May 26, 1897. Wheat, 87 to 90c; corn. 25 to 37c: oats, 16 to 21pc; rye, 27 to 37e: bav, $8.50 to $9.50: cattle, heavy, $2.75 to $4.75.; hogs, | good shippers, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep. $2.50 I to $4.50.

The members of the state live stock commission are making a careful inquiry into i the disease which is carrying off thousands | of sheep in this part of Indiana, although I this county has so far been exempt fmm its ! ravages. Prom many examinations they found the diseases to be parasites in the ! stomach, and think that it was introduced into the state from imported sheep. Oue of the members of the commission says that northern Indiana has more sheep than any ! other section of the country he has seen, and that if the disease is not checked and wiped out farmers will be heavy losers* He thiuks ; that the stock in the centred and southern parts of the state is iu exceptionally good ; condition. Several days ago the commission ordered a number of horses killed in Benton uountv that were sick of glanders. A northern Indiana editor has discovered in Indiana a town or city for every letter in the alphabet except X. The Lafayette Call supplies the missing town which is Xenia. Miami county. Every town or city in the list,has a thousand or more inhabitants. Here is the list; Anderson, Bloomington, Columbus, I)eoatur, Elkhart, Port Wayne, Goshen, Haminond, Indianapolis, Jeffersonville, Kokomo, Lafayette, Muncie, N'oWesville, Owenaville, Petersburg. (Quincy, Richmond, Seymour, Terre Haute, Union City, Valparaiso, Wabash, Xenia, Yorktown and Zionsville. Autler & West have a fine tine of furniture at lowest prices. Call and see them. 3-3

DRILLS TO GO DOVN Work Commenced on Two More Wells. One on the Fleming Land and One on the Omelvena Land. t ' '■ ' . - fimit Intemt IsBeing Manifested in the Onteeme of the Drilling. Tie New Ga« Items wilt b« I'Mtljr DeTel*pe4.

Two more wells will be drilled and the new territory will be developed as fast as possible. Tuesday work was commenced erecting the derricks on the sites for gas v^ells, and the contractors for the wells will have the derricks erected and spudding will commence Monday next unless some accident should occur. The Petersburg mining and manufacturing association will drill their No. 9 on the Fleming land just north of the fair ground, and near the floral hall. The contractor for the well is W. T. Warner of El wood, the gentleman who superintended the anchoring of Jumbo. The well will be about 9.000 feet from the first well drilled in. Oils from the first well will be used to furnish fuel under the boiler, and it will give the people an idea of how gas is burned as a fuel. ' - Th& Pike county gas, oil and mineral company will drill their first well on the Ouielvena land, and near the depot at Rogers station about five miles northeast of town. G. WT. Moorehead of Greenfield, is the contractor. He is a man of vast experience in drilling gas and will put the work to completion as fast as possible. It is safe to say that, barring accidents, the two wells will be drilled in within the next twenty-five days, when it will be fully known just how far the gas territory extends. If these wells should proveto be dry holes other wells will be drilled and this section fully developed. The combines intend to develop the fields as fast as possible, and if gas b found in paying quantities, then this section of Indiana will be headquarters for manufacturers of all classes and will be the means of making a prosperous city out of Petersburg. Letters are being received every day from all parts of the country inquiring about the natural gas supply and for suitable sites for manufacturing purposes. A philosopher says that in every house there is one member who awakens earlier than the rest, and whose duty is to get all the others out on time. It is usually the mother, and she has to see that her husband is up on time for his work, that her sons, and daughters who work down town get started in season, and get the little ones off to school. If by chance she lets any one oversleep, she b asked in a whining tone ! why she didn't call him earlier. She probably called a half dozen times and he turned *>ver and went to sleep again. Though she often has extra work of her own to do, she has to rely upon her own efforts to get up j earlier. No oue has to call the mother of the bouse out of bed, but she has to serve | as train dbpatcher for the balance of the familv, on scant pay and no thanks. i * ' -:

The supreme court has decided that poultry running at large is wild game, and the property owner upon whom they trespass has a perfect right to kilt them. No man has a right to let his chickens run at large aud bother his neighbors. The supreme court some day will decide that the air over in the other fellow’s lot is bis exj elusive property and cannot be used by any Jollier person without his consent. Bat come to think about it, the biggest nuisance there is, is to have sotnelwdy’s old speckled hen s&atch out your garden and wallow in your flower beds. The Westfield (Indiana) News prints the { following in regard to an old resident of that place: “Frank MeAvoy, for many years in the employ of the I.., N. A. & C. Rj. here, says: *1 have used Chamberlain’s Colic. Cholera and Diarrhoea remedy for ten years or longer—am never without it in my family, t 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 & Son. m The E. & i. will sell tickets to Nashville and return for $ *.93, good returning ten days, to attend the Tennessee exposition.