Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 10, Petersburg, Pike County, 16 July 1897 — Page 1

LOCAL HAPPENINGS! Gathered on the Fly by The Democrat’s Reporters. News Items From Here, There and Everywhere. Caart, City aad Penml Item ia aa Abre riated I'om. ¥•• m ill Plata Thra All I adrr Tkl. llea#lHf. Miss Bulah Brazzleton is visiting relatives at Princeton this week. All repairing on clocks and watches are warranted at Hammond's. Henry Hisgen of Albany, New York, visited his sister Sirs. George B. Ashby this week._

C. 0. Ward will sell from July 12th to July 10th 22 pounds of white sugar for $1.00 cash. 9 2 An infant child of Charles Bailey died Saturday morniug and was buried Sunday at the Morrison cemetery. The foundation for Dr. Link's new residence on Fourth street is completed and the carpenters hare begun work. The M. E. church at Washington was struck by lightning last Saturday during a storm and damaged to the extent of $3,000. The E. & 1. railway is offering excursion rates to many points east and west. See your nearest agent for rates and time of excursions. Thousands of bushels of uew wheat is , coming into the market. A great many farmers are selling their wheat as fast as it comes from the thresher. The Pike County Democrat comes out this week in national colon mid a picture of “Jumbo” on the first page. It is a splendid paper in every way.—Pnneetofi Democrat. Burning itching skin diseases instantly relieved by De Witt's Witch llaxel Salve, unequalled for cuts, bruises, burns. It heals without leaving a scar. J. K. Adams A Son. Rev. W. Q. Law on last Thursday had the misfortune to fall from a cherry tree while picking fruit. He was quite badly aliocked from the fall, but was able Sudday to hold the usual services at the Baptist church. The Democrat will furnish you with one hundred beet quality <4 white envelopes with your name, address and business neatly printed on the upper left hand corner for fifty cents. All kinds of other job printing at equally low prices.

The Pike County Democrat come* out, this week in red and blue and with aj picture of "Jumbo” celebrating the 4th of] JuIt Editor Stoop* is giving his people] an excellent paper and richly deserves the ! patronage of ejrery citisen of Petersburg, i Success to you Me.—Boonville Enquirer. ■ '—— —1—— ' A new application of electricity is indi- j cated in its use for the preservation of meats. The method, which is said to be successful, ri to immerse the meat in a 90 j percent solution of salt, through which aj continuous current of electricity has been ] passed. The curing is completed in from j tea to twenty hours. Rev. James Thomas, who has been in ] India for the past eight years as a mission-! ary, delivered a lecture on that country, its customs and the people Sunday night at the M. K. church. The large audience i room was filled with the people of Peters-, burg who were anxious to bear him toll of * his experience fa that far off count ry. The j lecture was very interesting and the people ] were given a brief synopsis of his Work, which was greatly enjoyed. Notwithstanding the fact that it has been j 96 rears since the commencement of the j civil war and 99 years since it dosed, the j ranks of the Indiana department of the Q.: A. R. are still in their highest poiut. .In many of the states the highest point in membership was reached five years ago, and j since that time death has been thinning the; ranks. Indiana, however, according to the J reports from the poets being received at j headquarters, the number of veterans joining each year equal the number who die. j It is estimated that about 900 are dying in] Indiana each year.

Eight day alarm solid oak clocks for $3.50 at Hammond's. Abijah Beatty of Winslow, was in the city Wednesday on business. Herman Eckert, county clerk of Dubois oounty, was here Tuesday on important business.__ Mrs. Frank Wearer returned this week from a month’s visit to her mother in Wisconsin. C. O. Ward will sell from July 13th to July 18th 33 pounds of white sugar for fl.OO cash. 0-3 W. E. Cox of Jasper, prosecuting attorney for® this circuit, was here this week attending court. Work on the new school building has been commenced and will be completed as soon as possible. John Duckworth, an old vetxran living near Stendal, has been granted a reissue of pension this week. Mrs. William Viehe and sous of Evansville, were the guests of John H. Yiebe and family over Sunday. *

Iwios Hadlock of Jefferson township, ex-commissioner, was in town Monday morning on business. Pat McCarty of Washington, was here Wednesday on business anu ^baking hands with ould acquaintances. Mrs. Maggie Stevens and children returned home to Salem "Wednesday after a months' visit with lieury Head aud family. Lost—Pocketbook, containing $21 in cash and two tax receipts paid by the Green B. Read heirs. Return to {his office and receive reward, Blank deeds, real estate and chattle mortgages, nicely printed on first-class paper, for sale at this office Also receipts for guardians and administrators. Call aud lay in a supply. The new residence of Charles A. Coffey on Thirteenth street is about completed and ready for oecupaucy. It is a very neat and cozy cottage and will add much to the appearance of that part of the city. I have for sale, for cash, 4000 bushels of corn, in lots of 500 bushels and upwards, at bin on inv farm near Winslow, Indiana. Enquire of Clarence C. Welton. 10-3 Harry Kurtz. “They don’t make much fuss about it.” We are speaking of DeWitt’s Little Early Risers, the famous little pills for constipation, biliousness, and all stomach and liver troubles. They never gripe. J. R. Adams & Son. _ __ “Last summer one, of our grandchildren was sick with a severe bowel trouble,” says Mrs. K.%G. Gregory of Frederickstowu, Mo. “Our doctor’s remedy had failed, then we tried Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, which gave very speedy relief.” For sale by J. R. Adams 4 Son. _ j The gas well at Oakland City is going down very slowly. An accident occurred Monday evening shortly after starting Up which caused a delay of several hours. The citizens of that burg are almost wild and crowd around the derrick house in such numbers that the drillers are almost unable to dress their tools.

In the absence of the pastor W. S. Rader there will be no preaching at the M. E. church Sunday. The other services of the day will be held as usual. Sunday school at 9:15 a. ra. Class at 9:80 p. m. Junior League at 3:30 p. m. and Senior League at 6:45 p. m. Miss Anna Raad will bare charge of the league service in the evening. All are invited. * Ed Stratton, assistant passenger agent of the Air Line, was in the city Monday night arranging to run excursions here to accommodate the people who have a desire to see the famous Jumbo gas well and the wells that will be drilled in. The trains will ruu from Rockport, Cannelton, Troy, Marengo, English, Cory don, Mk Carmel, Louisville and other points. The date b not yet fixed bat will be in the next three weeks. The great American eagle was not given an opportunity to scream in this city on the glorious third but our citixens swelled the crowds at Montgomery and Petersburg in a manner that was truly surprising. Pour hundred and eighty-eight tickets for Petersburg were sold at the E. k I. depot and in the neighborhood of 300 Washingtonians helped celebrate at Montgomery. The weather was entirely too torrid for comfort but those who attended the celebrations report a good time just the same. There was a splendid crowd at Montgomery but Petersburg entertained the greatest number of people that ever assembled in Pike county, and it was almost an impossibility for one to worm himself through the vast throng ou the sidewalks. The celebration was a mild affair so far as amusements were concerned but several thousand cubic feet of natural gas was turned and the crowd had a good time.—Washington Democrat, i

Look at those Seth Thornes docks at 13.75 At Hammond's. C. G. Wan! will sell from July 13th to July 96th good syrup for 15c a gallon cash. Emanuel George, living near the city, was granted an additional pension by Uncle Sam this week. Mrs. J. A. Scudder and Miss Ruth Stamper of Washington, are visiting John 0. Davis and family. Foa Sans Cheap.—Hot air pumping engine; can be run by one gas get or lamp. J. L. In^ebeart, Evansville, Ind. 8tf There will be services at St. Peters’ Catholic church Sunday morning and afternoon. A new priest will be here to hold the services. The grain dealers are rushed this week with the new crop of wheat. They say that it is the best quality of wheat that has been harvested here for several years. J. D. Colrin, the feed store man, can; now be found at his place of business on j the corner of Sixth and Cherry streets, with a big stock of hay, corn, oats and mill j feed. 7-4

Rodim el & Miley have bought the harness shop of Frank Hyatt cut Depot street and hare taken charge. John Braden of Otwell, will have charge of the manufacturing department. Rev. W. S Rader and wife, G. J. Nichols and wife, Mrs. Henry Read, and Mrs. J. W. Gladish and son Foster went to French Lick Springs Wednesday for a week's sojourn at that health resort. The Ladies' aid society will meet at Mrs. W. C. Adams', Wednesday, August 4th. A full attendance of the members is desired at this meeting. Mas. J. F. Patteesox, Secy. It heals everything except a broken heart, may be said of DeWitt’s Witch Haxel Salve. Piles and rectal diseases, cuts, burns, bruises, tetter, ecaema and all skin troubles may be cured by it quickly and permanently. J. R. Adams & Son. When you get ready to lease your lands just add the clause “that no gas is. to be piped out of Pike county.” By doing that you will add value to your lands and build up the county. If gas is piped to other counties it will be a detriment to your towns and county. John Griffin of Zanesville, Ohio, says: “I never lived a day for thirty years without suffering agony, uutil a box of DeWitt’s Witch Ha2el Salve cured my piles.” *For piles and rectal troubles, cuts, bruises, sprains, eczema and all skin troubles DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve is unequalled. J. R. Adams & Son. “Why don't you trade with me?” saida tradesman to a farmer the other day. “Because," was the sarcastic reply, “you have never asked me, sir. I have looked all through the Democrat time and again for an invitation in the shape of an advertisement, but in vain. I never go where I am not invited.”

A very unique way of punishing a boy j who played in a branch near his home and j came in quite often with his trousers wet! and covered with mud was tried by a woman in Washington recently says the Democrat: The boy came in one day after having played in the ditch an hour or so with his clothes ready for the laundry. His mother immediately made him get a tub of water and washboard and put him to washing, not only that pair, but three others which he had played in the branch with. Now the boy plays in the yard. Jerome Borer of this .city who operates the coal mine at Union, met with an accident last Thursday morning. While looking dgwu the shaft the cage was 9ent down which caught Borer's head between the cage ] and the timbers, but with presence of mind he turned his head in such a manner as to let the cage slip, pash when the cage fell eight feet. Borer was considerably bruised du the left side of the head and sustained i slight frustums of the jaw bone and of the) breast bone. It was a very narrow escape. Be is up and around but feels a little bit the worse for his experience. The excursion train that pulled out of Petersburg at 10 o'clock Saturday night was crowded, in fact the people were so eloeely packed upon the tram that women,j is well as men, were compelled to stand on j the platform and steps. As the train polled) through Blackburn, a little station just this j side of Petersburg, a drunken ruffian ran j alongside one of the coaches as the train | started to leave the depot, and grabbing I one of the women, attempted to pull her j off the platform steps. The woman screamed bat the ruffian would not release bis hold. Men on the platform held the woman on the car and, realising the danger the woman was in, someone broke the bell rope in signaling the engineer to stop the nut. After running alongside the train for a distance of sixty feet the man let go >1 the woman and by the time the train . was slopped had mads his escape in the larkneas^—Washington Democrat.

Frank Arnold of Otwell, was in town Wednesday on business. Miss Bessie Lavelle of Washington, visited friends here last week. H. H. Tislow. jeweler and watchmaker Petersburg. All work guaranteed. 28* C. 6. Ward will sell from July 19th to July 96th good syrup for 15c a gallon cash. Col. George G. Darrow of Montpelier, is here on business. He will remain here for several weeks. A number of horses and mules have been overcome by the hot weather during the past two or three weeks. One dozen left of good second hand weight clocks for $1.50 each at Hammond's, all warranted and worth more money. The new addition to the Read hotel is about completed which will give that hoeteiery a large number of rooms to accommodate the traveling puhlic. The company organised to bore for gas or oil at the salt well will begin work Wednesday. Parties from Petersburg will sink the well for the company.—Vincennes Sun. _ “1 crave but One Minute,” said the public speaker in a husky voice; and then he took a dose of One Minute Cough Cure, is unequalled for throat and lung troubles. J. R. Adams & Son.

Sunday afternoon we did not hear the old ! stereotyped expression, “Is it hot enough?” i but it was changed to, ‘‘Sav, getting cooler, isn’t it?" The thermometer showed a change of exactly 27 degrees. You may hunt the world orer and you will not find another medicine equal to Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for bowel complaints. It is pleasant, safe and reliable. For sale by J. R. Adams & Sou. j Read the changes of advertisements in this issue of the Democrat. The business meu of Petersburg recognize that to get trade they must let the buyers know that they have bargains to offer them at this season of the year. We have a little space left for those merchants who desire an increased trade. Leave your orders at once. The Pike County Democrat came to us Friday with her Sunday clothes on. Mr. Stoops surley deserves credit for the arrangement and matte* 'hat it contained. The first and last pages were crimson, while the inside were blue, a good representation for our national emblem, the Stars and Stripes. It might be called a 4th of July gas edition.—Vincennes Star. A reunion will be held at ,he home of Lieutenant Jacob McAtee near Union, Pike county, by Co. G. 65lh Indiana Volunteers on Wednesday, September 22d. This being the date of the battle at Bluntsville, Teunessee, September 22d, 1863. All are invited to attend and bring your friends with you. Bring your baskets well filled with at least one days rations. J. M. Smith, President. I. C. Higgins, Secretary.

It 15 »IU 111 It l U It Tv lc imilUCHIttlllMJb MY becoming a recognized nervous disorder. Some are unable to ride on a street where cars pass. They have a wild desire to fall against them'. Others when on wheels imagine that scorchers are always behind them. One mau consulted a physician for trouble with his eyes—the whole landscape seemed to roll up in front of him as he rode. He was told not to watch his front wheel; to sit up straighter. He was soou cured. Many and strange are the symptoms that develop in some nervous riders. Last season there was a great scarcity of quail. So far this year the prospects of a good crop of birds neat November is good. There was very little snow last winter of long duration, and the early spring floods drove the birds to higher ground, where they have built their nests. Every morning and evening now the merry “Bob White” of the male can be heard from the old rail fence corners and one can safely wager that not far from where the merry whistler is heard a nest will be found presided over by Mrs. Bob. Sportsmen will hail with delight the news that all the brow beauties are not dead yet. Postmaster Fleming received a letter Monday from Mrs. Charles Dolan of Bassett, Iowa, asking about relatives of James F. Cape hart, who was killed by a train of cars June 88th. Through a letter which be carried which was written in 1885 j by his niece Miss Beulah Braaleton, he was' identified as having relatives here. Cape- j hart was a brother of Mrs. B. B. Brazzleton j of this place. Capehart was well known j here, having worked in the printing offices j here some years ago and who was born in Jefferson township. For a number of years | he has been working in the West, and at the time of bis death was a member of the Bismark, North Dakota, typographical union, which organization was telegraphed to at the time at his death and seen that be had proper burial. No particulars other than the above can be learned as yet. but it is expe&ted that papers will arrive from j there in a few days.

E. T. Allen is visiting his family at Indianapolis this week. Miss Lillie Armstrong is visiting friends at Washington this week. For $1.50 you can buy of Hammond a watch that is warranted for one year. J. J. Hackney returned to Chicago, Tuesday after a week’s business visit here. C. 6. Ward will sell from July 12th to July 19th 22 pounds of white sugar for $1.00 cash. 9-8 Clint Malott left Tuesday for Indianapolis in charge of two carloads of stock for the market. Don’t nauseate your stomach with teas and bitter herbs, but regulate your liver and sick headache by using those famous little pills known as DeWitt’s Little Early Risers. J. R. Adams & Son. Hardly a week now passes in Petersburg but what there are three or four itinerant umbrella menders strike the town, prepared to do business on the streets and to take on an occasional jag of the o-be-joyful. Lafe McCoy, living near Gray's church, Jefferson township, was, overcome by the heat last Thursday. He was found in the corn field where he was at work and taken to his home, but succumbed before reaching the house. The funeral took place Friday.

Whenever an individual gets the idea in his head that the world and all the business in it would stop were it not for his great genius and ability, it Is time to call the party down and show him that there are so many pebbles on the seashore that he woulden't be missed. J. C. Leach of Kokomo, state gas inspector, was in the city Wednesday and Thursday looking over the new gas territory and made an examination of the Jumbo gas well. He is satisfied that it is a wonderful well and that the field will be a good one owing to the great roek pressure shown bj Jumbo. Last Saturday night a large number oj the friends and relatives met at the home ol Uncle Lowery Qladish of Madison towuship, and gave him a surprise, it being his 74tk | anniversary. An ice cream supper was had and a good time generally. He was made | the recipient of a fine suit of clothes and a walking sticking. Uncle Lowery is well kuown iu the township of which he has been a resident for many years. This is the time of year when the editor with ice about bis ears wonders what to say next and how to say it, A midsummer madness falls upon him when he writes of other men, women ami children going off to the lakes, and he curses his lot with long words, but all the same he saws wood all the time and grins at the men who tells him that he is only an editor and doesn’t need a vacation. Verily life has its heat along with its ice cream soda. The girl who gives way to a desire to gad about the street, to cultivate the acquaintance of young men, and to act simperingly, is laying a foundation for a useless afterlife, and when married will develop into a slatternly gossip, if no greater misfortune befalls her. It is the girl who loves home and helps her mother, who wins the tfiodel man and becomes an ornament to womanhood. The girl who does this and devotes some of her time to reading, ami strives for the grade of mental culture, commands the esteem and respect of everybody.

County Recorder Corn last week made his annual statistical report to the state bureau of statistics from which the follow* ing is gleaned: There were 504 warranty and quit claims, consideration, #215,402; 16 executors’, administrations’ and guardians' deeds, consideration, #9,172; 17 sheriff's deeds, consideration #14,602; 5 auditor’s deeds, consideration #2.891; 4 tax title deeds, consideration #286; total deeds 546; total consideration, #342.303. 177 real estate mortgages on farm; 71 on lots; 28 school fund mortgages, 219 chattel mortgages and 27 mechanics liens: total 532 consideration #126,685, there were 203 mortgages satisfied during the year with a total amount of #86,337. Indiana contains 7,000 square miles of workable coal fields. This area occupies a part of all of nineteen counties in the southwestern portion of the state, extending from Warren county 150 miles south to the Ohio river. There are seven distinct vetne of workable thickness in the state. From area in ten years—from 1886 to 1896 —38,355,960 tons of coal, valued at #36,673,059, were mined. Last year 4,068,134 tons were mined, or 348,900 less than in 1895. The decrease was due to the strike of the bituminous miners which began in May, 1896. and was continued in some localities until December. Seven thousand one hundred and twelve men were employed in the mtnae of the state last year. Of this number 3,396 ware employed in Clay county. The next largest number employed in Parke county, and Greene is third with the number employed. At this time 131 mines are open or would be if the miners were not on a strike.

John Thomas of Winslow, was in town Monday on business. Go to H. H. Tislow for all kinds of watch and clock repairs. 88* Additional local nows will bo found on the 90Teral pages of this week’s issue. The county board of review has adjourned. The business before the board was very light this year. Miss Kate Coats left last week for a visit with friends at Prairieton, Greencastle, Chicago and other pohyjs. The Ladies of the Baptist church will serve ice cream in the court house yard on Friday evening, July 16. All are invited. The crop of blackberries is the largest ever known in this county. They are selling at ten cents per gallon, and find but few sales at that price. The farmers are doiug the right thing in not leasing their lands to parties who intend to pipe gas from Pike county. Kfep your gas at home and in the end yon will profit by it. __ Vim, vigor and victory :-these are the characteristics of DeWitt's Little Early Risers, the famous little pills for constipation, biliousness and all stomach and liver troubles. J. R, Adams and Son. The runners for the hotels are getting somewhat belligerant of late. Upon the arrival of every train it is just next to a fight over some travelers grip sack and sometimes the air takes on a blueish tint.

Bring along your job printing. The Dkmoceat is better prepared than ever to accommodate the public with firstelase printing. A large stock to select from and the best printers in the city. Headquarters for gas and oil printing of all kinds. There is a time for everything; and the time to attend to a cold is when it starts. Don't wait till you have consumption but prevent it by using One Minute Cough Cure, the great remedy for eonghs, colds, croup, bronchitis aud all throat and lung troubles. J. R. Adams & Son. Commodore Perry, aged twenty years, son of John A. Perry, who lives near Reels chapel, Knox county, was drowned just below McCoy’s ferry in White river last Monday noon. The body of the unfortunate young man was found about eleven o'clock that night. The funeral services were conducted Tuesday by Rev. Coachman and burial at the Reel cemetery. Samuel Thompson, aged 16 years, son of Mark Thompson of Buckskin, Gibson county, died at the home of his uncle, Lloyd Thompson, near Dutchtown, last Saturday morning from sunstroke. Friday evening he was found unconscious in a field where he had been working, having been overcome by the sun’s rays. He was taken to the house and medioal aid summoned. He never rallied and died the next morning. The funeral was held Sunday morning and burial at the White church cemetery. The board of control of the Indiana reformatory at Jeffersonville has issued its rules which have just made their appearance from the printers’hands. There is a common school system of instruction, manual traimug department, increase of salaries of guards, the institution of the grade system, self maintenance plan, a wage scale for each prisoner, arrangements for allowing the men in the higher grades to write letters and all the modern ideas of reformation that have been incorporated in the Elmira and other eastern institutions. No prisoner will be paroled until employment has been secured for him ou the outside, t hat he may have some place to go and some definite plans for the fntnre.

Although the Industrial association is supposed to act as a commercial club it hardly fills the bill. We need a regularly organized commercial club with club rooms where traveling men and visitors can be entertained. The Industrial association fills all business requirements but does not have the means nor facilities to entertain visitors in the right way.—Petersburg Press. The editor hits the nail on the head when he says the Industrial association has not the means to properly entertain strangers who come to the city. But no association can do business and boom the town on wind. There is not a business mlui in tho city bnt what should become a tjrember and help along in the work of entertaining visitors and advertising the town. The matter of a few dollars should not keep any j person from joining this association. It will take time and money to accomplish the purposes for which the association was organised. The editor seems to hold to the opinion that the present association does not fill the bill. Well, that may be, I bnt 4if the men who hare business and property interests at stake will lend their akl and assistance it will fill every ! requirement. As long as people stand back and do nothing then no association, be it a commercial "club or under any other name, will do any good. Join the association and help along in the -work of booming Petersburg. It takes harmony and work on the part of every citizen to accomplish the results which are expected for Petersburg and Pike county.