Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 5, Petersburg, Pike County, 11 June 1897 — Page 1

NO. 5

June WIDE OPEJST'—■»“ Bargain Sale!

At the Peoples' Store. Where you can always and at all times find everything exactly as advertised.. Where the stock is large. Where shoddy and auction trash is not known. Where a child can buy as cheap as a man. Remember, this sale is for dune only. These prices are the lowest ever known.

Nice Patterns iu small check Ginghams, the 5c kind. Pretty Patterns in Calicos, worth 5c. 4C Nice, cool Chat lies, just right for oool dresses. 5c Checks and Stripes in White Dress Goode; very cheap. A* 100 bolts pretty Patterns in Diur|ll| ities, Leans, etc., for cool Dreads v aud Shirt Waists, worth 12jc. 5c Ladies' Summer Vests, white and cream, the 10c kind. A(l\r\ pieces Scotch Linen Lawns in J.Z >tl all the uevr colorings. Colors perfect ly fast, positively worth 39c Ladies' Summer Corsets, well made, fine fitting, thp 50c grade. 15c 500 pairs Ladies’ Silk and Berlin Mitts, worth 25c. infants* Lace Capes, all siaes. worth 23e. Lad*''Gowns, Kmpiteand Mother Hubbard shapes, good Muslin, 75c grade. 500 pairs Ladies’ Pine Shoes, bought of Striblev & Co. ju*t before they quit business, I lamb Sewed handsome, worth $3.00, $3.30 and $4.00.

500 pairs Children’s Heavy Seam* leas Y. S. F. Hose, fast colors, worth 30c pair. Ladies’ Wrapper*, nicely made, of dark Prints, rasi colors, well worth $1.00. 43c 39c 38c Ladies' Shirt Waists, light ami dark colors, perfect fitting, the 60c kind. Brussel Is Carpet, nice quality, pretty designs,, was the 65c grade. All Wool Ingrain Carpet, fast colors, worth 30c. Bright Patterns in Every Day Carpets, worth 15c. 15c Full length Window Shades, iring Fixtures, complete, worth Sprn 25c. Lace Curtains in Nottingham, Brussells and Irish Point effeet, 10$ feet long, Curtain Pole and Fixtures frws with each! pair. Regular price f2.50. Rugs of Ingrain Carpets, pretty Patterns, fast colqr*. ml Julies’ Oxblood. Chocolate and Black Slippers, Coin toes, the 11.25 grade. Remnants of Embroideries 500,000 yards of remnants. 1 to 5 yards, dirt cheap. Oxford, Chocolate ami Tan Shoe Polish, best on earth.

Thi* Sale is for June only. You are positively invited to attend. See the handsome Presents we are giving away.*W. V. Hargrove & Co THE PEOPLES' STORE, PETERSBURG. INDIANA.

Shine ’em Free.

We are talking Shoes, nice shoes, soft shoes for tired feet, dressy shoes. Stylish, swell footwear is part of our business. All the new creations in Oxblood, Chocolate, Patent Leather, Kassets, Greens.&c. Gentlemen’s Green Shoes, coin toe, extension edge, Yici Kid, McKay sewed, swell and up-to-date, $3 50. • ■ ‘ | . I ■ '■ , Our Coffee Colored Patent leather, with vesting top, hand-sewed, for swell dressers. $5.00. Our $2.50 soft easy Kangaroo for tired feet. $1.50 buys a dandy Shoe for moderate dressers. Satin calf, lace or congress, coin toe, good wearer. Don't chase out of town for your shoes. We’ll save you from $1 to $2 per pair. With every pair of shoes from $2 up we will give you Ten Free Shine Tickets. Entitling you to ten shines free. A boy is on hands at our store ell the time 'til Sunday noon to polish them for you.' Try us for your next pair ot Shoes. W. V. Hargrove &Co TEMPLE of fashion. PETERSBURG, INO.

Remembered the Dead. Sunday was the day set apart by the Odd Fellows, Daughters of Rebecca and Knights of Pythias as their annual decoration day, and the local lodges of this city observed the day set apart by the grand lodges and inarched to Walnut if ills cemetery Sunday afternoon preceded by the City band, where the graves of deceased brothers and sisters were strewn with beautiful flowers and impressive ceremonies were bad. The attendance was very large. After a selection by the band G. J. Nichols offered prayer. After another selection of music Rev. W. S, Rader delivered an address on behalf of the Odd Fellows and Daughters of Rebecca. He spoke as follows; It is with a feeling of trepidation that I appear before you today in obedience to the request of Pacific lodge of Odd Fellows to deliver a memorial address in honor of the men who once met and mingled with us in the lodge room, but who are today quietly reposing in their graves iu this beautful city of the dead. It is little any of us can do for our friends when they are snatched from us by the hand of death. In fact the j only thing we can do is to cherish them iu our memory. We cling with fondness to]

tne thought that when we are gone our friends will think of us and that affectionate bands will keep green our graves. That we may be forgotten is a repulsive thought. We instinctively turn from it. To know that we are remembered is the source of untold satisfaction. And not ouly do we find a peculiar blessedness in being remem- i bered but an equal joy comes with our remembering. A lifetime1 is too short for us1 to fully appreciate ail that a good man is and does. We must intrude upon the years following his deat h for the enshrinement of these sacred memories. Not forgetful of the friendship and love our fallen brothers anti sisters had for us while living, we couie today with our floral offerings to decorate their graves, an undying testimonial of our gratitude and respect for them. And is it a thing amiss? Is it not a duty we owe to all the dead, and especially to those while living shared with us the burdens, trials and triumphs of life? To me such a service is a just and righteous recognit ion of our love for the cherished dead, and is not without the sanction of scripture and the approval of God. More than thirty-six centuries ago Jacob set up a pillar a memorial to his departed wife, and by this tribute of love and esteem he taught and transmitted to succeeding generations the lesson of gratitude to the dead. And as the great stream of human history has flowed down through the intervening age^ with all the thrilling and crowding events that have engaged the attention of every age, this memorial service has lost none of its sacredness, but has : beei\,ol>served by all tribes and nations and is more universally observed by the various fraternal, benevolent and patriotic orders of today than ever before. Such a custom, I’m sure, the world will never willingly let die. ; To honor the dead by the decoration of : their graves with flowers is more au Instinctive trait of humanity than a sentiment | developed by civilization and culture. The ; i earth abounds in monuments designed to i commemorate the dead. The skill and art and taste or the greatest architects—the , builders of temples and pyramids—have adorned the earth with works of unsurpassed grandeur and beauty, and poets, painters and sculptors, have contributed ! the inspiration of their souls to eurich the memorials of the dead. The simple mounds I of earth thrown up by s&v*ge tribes are but | rude expressions of that deep-toned love

I which whispered in the cave of Maclipelah, j S and cried out in agonizing bursts of passion j ! at the grave of lauarus. Our hearts will not, cannot give up our dead. There are | persons goue from us, our love for whom glows and burns in our hearts with greater ■ fervor, and is more a sacred sentimeut to- ; day than was our love for them before their ! departure. Death has indeed sanctified I them to us. And as 1 speak to you from j this hilltop, doubtless each one within the sound of my voice will take up a uew strand ! in the web of memory and feel it draw upon j your heart for a fresh pulsation of love while the harp of l.^e soul will sob a requiem over the absent face and form of some loved one gone, inteh memories as crowd our minds today are the strongest proofs that those whom we mourn as dead are indeed immortal. It is not, therefore, in splendid columns, and tombs, and churches, and abbeys and pyramids that this beautiful virtue that we calf gratitude keeps sacred records of the dead; but it is on the f warm plastic tablets of the heart where the j gentle touch of lore engraves its lines, more beautiful and more enduring than marble and granite. Today in evury city, town and hamlet throughout the state Odd Fellows will meet in a lodge of sorrow in honor of the dead, j During the year some of the best of the | herd have fallen. Here and there all over the state are newly made graves that wilt today for the first time be sought out and garlanded with flowers. Oh, how appropriate the service! Bow solemn the duty!

Recently on a million soldier graves were laid wreathes of violets and roses the choicest that could be obtained. This was done in memory of their deeds of valor and the success of the cause for which they sacrificed their lives. It was indeed a worthy tribute sanctioned and approved by every loyal patriotic citizen of the nation. Today we have met to perform a like service in honor of our brother Odd Fellows and their wives who fell, not in the heat of battle, but as the victim of some relentless and incurable disease. Bravely and courageously they struggled with the inevitable current uutil the wave came at last that broke their last grasp of life and swept; them from the shore of time into the eternity beyond. And today the sweetness of their lives, the recollection of all that was in them good and noble lingers with us like the perfume of a brokeu and empty vase. Brothers, as we gather about these graves today let us be charitable, let us emulate the virtues of our dead, and recalling their faithfulness and devotion to us while living, let us go over their graves with the flowers we have gathered, the highest and most beautiful expression ofi our gratitude and love. Remembering, as we do:

“That in all p'.aces and in all seasons. Flowers expand tlieir light and soul-like wings. Reaching us, by most persuasive reasons, How akin they are ta human things. And with childlike, credulous affectlou We behold their tender buds expand; Emblems of our own great lesurreetion. Emblems of the bright and better land.” At the conclusion of Rev. Rader’s address the band played another selection and Prof. W. H. Foreman on behalf of the Knights of Pythias delivered the following address: We have come today to decorate the graves of our brothers. To*lay life and death are brought face to face. Life with its heart throbs, its fears, its desires, its hopes and aspirations, its busy cares, its hates and its loves, its sorrows and its joys; death—dismal and desolate, with its seclusion, its quietness, its solitude, its rest and repose. Sleep on, thou ray brother! Thou hast ease and tranquility—thou hast cessation from labor, from strife and from busy cares. We have eome today to decorate the graves of those who but a short time ago greeted us in the lodge room and in the daily vocations of life with a smile, a good morning and a good cheer; those whose heart blood surged and flowed through their every capillary and vein, with its lifebearing current; those -whose thoughts, fears, sorrows, joys, hopes and aspirations were similar to ours; whose faces and forms we once greeted and cherished and loved. We see them no more. Their faces, their 'forms and their lives are with us only in memories, in the blessings they have bestowed upon your life aud mine and m their children’s heritage and the common heritage of us all. We ate most forcible remiuded today of the certainty of death. “All that tread the globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom—Take the wings Of morning pierce the Bureau wilderness. Or loose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound. Slavehlsown dashlngs— yet IhedeaJare there; And millions in those solitudes, siure first The flight of years begun.have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone.” Today we scatter roses over the graves of our brothers as a token of memory, of gratitude and of love. TheiPs is not the glory of the soldier who in time of danger fought to save his country from peril at the point of the bayonet, but rather the glory

of a -knight--true, upright, noble, brave. True iu friendship, forbearing in charity, practiced in benevolence. We do it not for show, for honor or for gain, but rather in the 'spirit of the world renowned friendshipof Damon and Pythias; in the spirit of Pythian charity which is as boundless as the shores of time; in the spirit of true benevolence which ministers to the dying, cares for the needy and supports the widow and the orphan. We do it iu the spirit of our fraternity which seeks to do no man wrong but with.friendslup for all, with charity for the weak and erring, with beneficence towards the needy, seeks to better uiankiud, and when sickness and death shall overtake a brother, to solace his dying moments, to comfort his widow and his children, and to lay him peacefully into the tomb. Nor do we forget their last resting place, but every year we commemorate their deeds of friendship, benevolence and charity by scattering over their graves these beautiful flowers and these tokens of love. What more can man do for man! But, there is a spirit of sadness in an occasion of this kind. To lay away the form of a brother to muider back to dost is ‘aid; to recall the memory of a departed one brings a feeling of gloom. Tet human instinct, nature and revelation all point as j to a future. The night is only the promise of a new day. The decaying seed prophesies the new plant. The winter foretells the summer, j As the sunset, veiled in dariuuK, fore

tells the coming of a new day, so life’s sunset, veiled as it is in mystery and obscurity, we believe to be the omen of a new life. We do not weep today for our brothers as those who have no hope. “Alas! for him who never aees The sun shine through his cypress trees.'' May you sleep on, my brothers, in the promise of a dawn of a never ending day! “And may we so live, that when our summons comes to join The Innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysteiious realm, where each shall take ’ i His chamber in the silent halls of death. May we not go. like the quarry slave at night. Scourged to his diyigeon, but sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, may we approach our graves Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him,and lies down to pleasant dreams.” The command was then given and the members of the orders inarched throughout the cemetery strewing flowers on the graves of the deceased members who lie buried in the beautiful Walnut Hills cemetery. The following is a list of deceased members of Pacific lodge I. 0. 0. F. aud their place of burial:

1 nomas Knight, w ainut Wilis. Reddick Harrell, Walunt Hills. Simon P. Prank, Walnut Hills. John J. Ei^ert, Walnut Hills. Natnauiel Benedict, town. Alexander Le>lie, Walnut Hills. Richard D. Tislow. Ash farm. William Keplev, Walnut Hills. Gustoff Hisgen, Walnut Hills. Henry Rice, Waluut Hills. James A. Uliphant, not known. Henry C. Breuton, Walnuj Hills. Thomas Martin, not known.. Abraham Reinsha, not knrfwn. William H. Posey. Walnut Hills. Oliver A. Hammond, Walnut Hills. Jacob Ropp, Walnut Hills. Matthew McMnrrav, Walnut Hills. William H. Siple, Walnut Hills. Abner K. Selby, Walnut Hills. W. D. McSwane, Walnut Hills. John W. Gullick, Walnut Hills. Daniel A. Sherwood, not known. Charles E. Preston. Walnut Hills. E. G. Carlisle. Walnut Hills. J. W. Gladish, Walnut Hills. George W. Gullick, Walnut Hills. George W. Pinney, Walnut Ihlls. Henry Fields, Walnut Hills. Beverly Calahan. Anderson. Perry B. Miley. Walnut Hills. J. W. Asbury. Walnut Hills. William II. Conley, town. The following is a list of deceased members of the Daughters of Rebecca and place of burial: Mrs. Harriett Posey. Walnut Hills. Mrs. C. Barrett. Walnut Hills. Mrs. E. S. Knight. Walnut Hills. Mrs. S. 11. Eisert, Walnut Hills. Cora Selby, Walnut Hillr. Carrie Parker, Walnut Hills. Mrs. H&gen, Walnut H 11s. Mrs. Harrell, Walnut Hills. The foiiowing is a \m of the deceased members of Spartan^uge No. 90, K. of P. and their plaei>-ef’,burial: 0. A. Hammond, Walnut Hills. J. W. Gullick, Walnut Hills. J. E. Anderson, Princeton. Howard Adams. Walnut Hilts. B. B. Barker, Walnut Hills. S. B. Carletou, Walnut Hills. J. W. Gladish, Waluut Hills. Charles Hammond, Walnut Hills. J. h. Mount, Walnut Hills. Edwin E. Smith. Indianapolis. O. R. $nyder, Walnut Hills. Franklin Skinner, Walnut Hills. About Leasing Lands. The following letter is self-explanatory and shows what has been done in the northern Indiana gas fields and might possibly result the same way here: Tipton. Ind.. May 7,1897, Let me give the eitizens of your county some advice. It wont cost them anything when you lease your lands for gas. Have a clause in the lease that reads, gas is uot to be piped out of the county. By that means you can build up your county by manufacturers locating with you. If the

pit* had been leased that way here we could have been in much better *ha;te than we are. Gas is piped from here to Indianapolis, Chicago, Lafayette, Frankfort, Peru and other places, and as it don’t flow fast enough they have put in pumping stations that cost $50,000 each and more, and are , puntping the gas away. If we had done as we should outside towns ootid not have hail a smell of gas and we would have had double the amount of factories. As it is we have had millions of dollars invested in the gaa belt all of which builds up our towns and makes a better market for our farm products. Have your couuty papers to publish it and your people to talk it, keep your gas at home if you have a good gas territory manufacturers will come to you ami add thousands of dollars to* your taxable property, besides employing your idle labor. Cliff Mokuax. Electric Bitters. Electric Bitters are a medicine suited for any season, but perhaps more generally needed, when the languid exausted reeling prevails, when the liver is torpid and sluggish and the need oi a tonic and alterative is felt. A prompt use of this medicine has often averted long and perhaps fatal bilious fevers. No medicine will act more surety in counteracting and freeing the be system from the malaria! poison, attache, indigestion, constipation, dizziness yield to Electric Bitters. 50c. anti *1.06 per bottle at J. tt. Adams * .Son’s drug store.

County School Superintendent. Monday last the various township trustees met at the auditor’s office in this city to elect a school superintendent for the next two years. There were a number of candidates in the field. The democratic . trustees selected William SL Corn as their caucus nominee and the republican trustee* selected J. D. Grimes as their caucus nominee. At seven o’clock the trustees met and organised by selecting T. C. Nelson as president and the county auditor a* secretary by virtue of his office and at once proceeded to ballot for the election of a superintendent. But two ballots were taken which resulted in the election of W. S.Corn. The vote of two ballots was as 'follows: First ballot—W.S. Corn 4, J. D. Grimes 3, Fred Chappell 1, Sylvester Thompson I. Second ballot—W. S. Corn 5, Grimes 4. Corn being elected by a straight party vote. The election of Mr. Corn will give general satisfaction throughout the county, as the best of feeling prevailed among the democratic candidates,who were working hard for the place, but at the same time with the spirit that they would be content uo matter who was successful.

William S. Com, the newly elected superintendent, was born in Marion township ia 1866, and has always lived in Pike county, being now a resident of Augusta. He has Wen a successful teaeher in the commou schools for the past thirteen years, eight of which he has had charge of the Augusta graded liool. He has always been an industrious worker in the schools ami a close student* When but nine years of age his father dieel. From that time on he would work for his board in the winter and attended school until he was fitted to teach in the district schools. Step by step he advanced in the liue of education until he was able to attend the normal schools. He attended the Oakland City normal for three years, after that put in four terms at the National normal university at Lebanon, Ohio. He is well qualified in every way for the position to which he was elected and knows the. needs of the schools of the county. Mr. Corn will take charge of the office Saturday and for the present will keep his office at Augusta. The Democrat wishes the outgoing and incoming officers success in all their work. Connell Proceedings. The town council met in regular session fast Thursday night and transacted the following business: Mr. Davenport made a proposition to put in vitrified hrick crossings at 35 cents per square foot. The marshals salary was fixed at $40for the month of June. The street committee reported the streets ami alleys in fair condition. The sidewalk committee reported that the present sidewalk ordinances wen defective. It was ordered by the board that all street labor be paid at the rate of $1.00 per day; that time checks be made oat by street committee and paid by the treasurer every Saturday night. The petition of the Petersburg mining and manufacturing association for a water works franchise was granted. The petition of the Petersburg mining and manufacturing association asking for a natural gas and oil franchise was granted. It was ordered that the E. & I. railroad raise their track to tin? street grade through the corporation. Leslie Lamb was elected school trustee for a terin of three years. It was ordered that a car load of tile be purchased. The following bills were allowed as read: H. H. Snyder, school trustee.. $ 25 OO Bergen A Oliphant, supplies. . 1 # Shawhuufe Rnuiisbul, supplies.. . 2 15 Mci'riUa* Attains, school trustee. 25 1)0 Lory A Son, stove pipe. . Joseph Kinnian. marshal.. 40 06 Richard »'bew. town clerk . ... . 0 3* Joseph Vincent, uighlwalch: —. 12 tt) J H. Vlehe. time checks .. SO# David Dustin, rent ».. i. 12 SB W.A>.Crow printing .... ... 12 50 Henry Read, school trustee .. - 75 00 Electric Light t’e.. lighting,. —, ... 107 SO V. R. Greene, attorney. .. 0 34 E. H. Harrell, printing " . 20 00 W. A. Oliphant, lime checks .. ..... 80 d Total 4513 30

Resolutions of Condolence. Resolved, that in tbe death of our comrade, Henry Cox, of H., 25th Ind. Vol., the Poet has tost a good and faithful member and a gtx*l soldier; Resolve*!, further, that in the death of oar comrade the country has lost as loyal a subject as ever marched under the stars and stripes; ihnt he was a true patriot, and that we mourn his loss to us is his gain, for we have evidence that he is at rest in the Lord; Resolved, further, that then.* resolutions be printed and a copy sent to his relatives, and a record of the same be placed in the > minutes of tbe Post; respectfully submitted. Tratb Tr reefy Teld. Foley's kidney core is a safe, sure remedy for all kinds of kidney and bladder diseases. I. C. Higgins, Frkd Smith, Ton Owens, | Com. t Lergei. & Oliphant. i