Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 24, Petersburg, Pike County, 22 October 1897 — Page 1

The Great October Sale Our September sale was beyoad our expectations. People came in buggies, wagons and on foot. The prices captured- them. They bought and went away happy. We had intended to close this great sale September 30th, but owing to the vast crowds and our great success, will continue it until November 1st. Now take advantage of these cut prices and lay in your winter’s supply while the prices are so low. W’ith two stores chuck full of goods, it's unreasonable to think others can sell as cheap. RUN YOUR EYES DOWN THESE PRICES.

Xi** Prints for Comforts, pretty patterns, 8$e per yard Nice soft Muslin. yard wide..,4c per yard Heavy Muslin for Sheets, yard wide.5c per yard Good Patterns in Flannelette for Dresses .. ,5c per yard Heavy Twilled Red or Gray Flannel .... 15c |>er yard Ijadies' Cloth, all wool, cheap at 40c .59c per yard Nice Hod Itlauki ts, worth $1.00 ... 49c per pair 1000 Rolls of Cotton for Comforts.5c per roll 111 Ijulie-s* Capes. Umpire hack, trimmed in beads, worth $4.00......i........$5.9# each t Infants' Shoes, soft soles.... . .9* per j>air

Children's Shoes."....39c per pair Ladies’ heavy Calf Button Shoes, nbbet seams.98c Boy’s Heavy Winter Suits, good and stout.98c Boy’s Pants, good and heavy...24c Men’s Lined Jeans Parvfs. the Toe kind .. 59c Men’s Heavv Cassimer Suits, finely made, worth ♦7.50.!.......for *4.50 Men’s Genuine Tailor-made Suits, cheap at fl2. at $7.50 Men’s Heavy Winter Boots. $3.00 kind ..at $1^8 Men’s Winter Shoes, good and heavy ...at 98c Men’s Winter i’ndershirts, wont fade .25c each

► , ^ , ► Put this at! in your pocket, bring your wife and behold with your own eyes these great bar- ^ gains. It will pay you to travel 50 miles to trade with us. See the elegant presents given away. \ W. V. HARGROVE. & CO., ► :> ► * ' ► Peoples’ Dry Goods Store and Star Clothing House, ► . PETERSBURG, - INDIANA. ►

pimrrmmmrrrmT^rriimiifrrniTrmiiiminHfiTrf! Grates, Tile Hearths, Mantels. Three days ago our new stock arrived artd can now show you some beauties in Mantels and Hearths. We seil the best Grate Made. SHAWHAN, BOONSHOT & CO., HARDWARE. PETERSBURG.

Fall and Winter Suitss* All the Latest Patterns and Styles to Select from. % * * M Suits, $i6 and up. Pants, $4 and up. Call and See our Piece Goods and Trimmings. G. A. Barger & Bro., Merchant Tailors,

I have some of the best pigs on hands now that I ever owned, i hare 12 gilts and 4 males that are tiptop, sired bv my great show boar, Boone, No. 2085. Among the lot are two extra December boar* that are large enough for service. Prices reasonable. M.L.Heathman, Glezenjnd

Dr. .T, S. Dukate of Pond Cn&ek, was in Petersburg Monday. Phil Davis of Augusta, was in town Wednesday attending the reunion? Fred Smith went to Indianapofis Monday »1,representative of Wyoming Tribe 195 of this place. C. <i. Ward will sell from October 25th tp November 1st, half barrel best kraut for ! $2.25 ca'h. E. T. Warner, superintendert of the natural gas plant, is at Elwood this week. on business. S. Beach, .1. M. Burlingame and Robert Chandler of Augusta, attended the reunion here yesterday. Mr. Welman of Snlllvati, who has been investigating the tax duplicate left Saturday for Muneie. Florian Bart! of Otwell, was in town W ednesday renewing acquaintances -with | old comrades at the reunion. Small pill, safe pill. DeWitt’s Little F.arlv Risers cure biliousness, constipation, 'iek headache. .1. R. Adams & Son. A gang of telephone linemen are in town. Today they will commence work on the Central Cnion long distance line connecting this city with Petersburg and Mouroe City. —Washington Gazette. You can't afford to risk your life bv allow ing%a cold to develop into pneumonia or consumption. Instant relief and a certain cure are afforded by One Minute Cough Cure. J. R. Adams & Son. The reunion of old soldiersds in full blast at the fair grounds. Wednesday was the opening day and a large number of old veterans registered as present. The reunion is not nearly so largely attended as on former occasions. Co. I. 143rd Indiana regiment, held its annual reunion last Saturday at the home of White Chappell at Aigiers.^Thgre were over seventy old soldiers ami about 500 people present. A splemUa time was bad and a big dinner served p those present. The Ur W M the Petersburg girls are small, tapering and beautifully shaped; their iii arc brilliant as and-4hey are without a | in this or any other their frowns are like fH and their 1234567890 excite !•! of plea£s» and a longing to m^-^ them. Read this *J closely and do not ? its reliability. ..■■ \ Bill board and fence signs don't talk— they just stand and stare. Dodgers and hand bills give a feeble squeak and are ground in the dust. Cards in hotel desks, wall maps and device* of that ilk are voiceleas and impotent. It is the live ad in the live newspaper that goes out and yells for you. that talks to the people you want to reach, and that tells your story effectively. It talks, you furuish the live ad and we’ll provide the live paper.

Miss Maude H&rrel spent Sunday in Monroe City. Heury jGrubb, Clark's Station, has a bran new girl at his home. A small amount of oil has been found in the Loogootee gas well. Mrs. Brets and children of Evansville, are guests of Mrs. Henry Riekrieh. H. H. Tislow. jeweler and watchmaker Petersburg. All work guaranteed. 28f 0. B. Troutman of Oakland City spent Sunday with Peter Drof and family.. Don’t fail to attend Hargrove & Co’s, grand cloak opeuing, Thursday, November 4th. 24-2 Three persons were sent to the reformatories from the Dubois circuit court last week. "C. G. Wartl will sell from October 23th to November 1st. half barrel best kraut for $2.25 cash. The Ohio river is nearly dry in many places. It is probable that navigation will be totally abandoned. Col. Sam Marsee of Champaign, Illinois, attended the reunion here this week.— Oakland City Enteymse. W. H. Huffnoll, Madison, was a caller at this office Tuesday morning. He was here looking up a business location. -Miss Mary Anderson who has been visiting friends here for the past month returned to her home in Prairieton last Friday. Robert Lee and John Reed of Petersburg, {•assed through here Tuesday with a well drilling outfit enroute to Augusta.—Winslow Era. All the new and natty styles in up-to-date cloaks will be seen at Hargrove & Co’s, grand cloak opening, Thursday, November 4th. 24 -2 John Jones died at his home near Massey, Pike county, last Monday morning. De ceased leaves a wife and several children.— Oakland City Enterprise. Mrs. Christena Hisgen is remodeling her business room on Main street, opposite the court house. When completed it will be occupied by I. M. Johnson, the popular grocer. There is no need of little children being tortured by scald head, eczema and skin eruption's. DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve gives instant relief and cures permanently. J. R. Adams & Son. A. F. Cable, Jake Bolenbaeher. Ed Smith and G. W. Watgen are at Hartwell, Pike county, taking and invoice of the Cable & Kauffman Mercantile company’s branch store.—Washington Gazette. The Democrat office has just received a case of firstelass stock envelops, bes des a fine grade of stationery for business men. Nothing but the best of goods used which arb selected with much care. Call and leave your orders.

ueatn came auu riam cuum ounuay I night to another ol\ Pike county's old citizens, Mrs. David I Gladish, who was 70 ! years of age and raided southwest of the I city. Mrs. Gladish is the mother of Louis Sumner of this place. The hunters of quail should be sure and i remember that the law allowing the huut- | iug of them says positively that you shall : not kill them except from November 10 to : January 1. Then no one is allowed to sell them, and even a buyer of quail is subject to a fine. A “Good-bye" social will be tendered Rev. W. G. Law and family at the Baptist chutch, Thursday evening, October 21st, to which all their friends are iuvited. Adj mission free. Lunch will l>e served in the church parlor, and all who patronize the lunch will receive the “Law Group" as a souvenir. Come. Lunch 23e. Com. The new boiler for the electric light plant will arrive here in a few days having been shipped from Detroit, Michigan, several days ago. The company expect to have everything in readiness to start the plant in operation by the first of November. The incandescent plant has been greatly enlarged and an all night service will be given. # J. H. Ashley, assistant state geologist, is here this week taking observations and measurements of the coal deposits of Pike couuty. Mr. Ashley is making a complete report of the coal fields of Indiana, aud up to this time he has found that the thickest vein of coal in the state is in Pike county. The next report of the state geologist will deal especially with the coal product of the,. stabs. r Last Tuesday a large number of the relatives and friends gathered at the home of Mrs. Mary Case on Walnut street about the noon hour and gave her a pleasant surprise on her 74th birthday. A big dinner was served. She was the recipient of several presents. Among those present from a distance were A. P. DeBruier and wife, Yin- i oennes; Mike and Mame Stubblefield andj Mrs. Sarah Holton of Washington, and; Mrs. TUrnaa of Evansville.

Ray King ami Frank Schaefer Spent Sunday in Cincinnati. Mrs. W. V. Hargrove and children visited in Princeton over Sunday. Twenty thousand pounds of good baled timothy hay for sale at Moses Frank’s. 24-3 Ai Mauck and wife of Princeton, visited the family of Will Hargrove the first of the week. C. G. Ward will sell from October 25, to November 1st, half barrel best kraut for J2.35 cash._ , _ George M. Pullman, the millionaire Pullman palace car builder, died at his home in Chicago. Tuesday. For Salk Cheap.—Hot air pumping engine; cau be run by one gas jet or lamp. J. L. Ingleheart, Evansville, Ind. Stf S. W. Jones of. Survant, is in the city this week attending the reunion, being a member of Co. F. 3rd Kentucky cavalry. Miss Ida Basinger and Miss Jessie Bergen entertained a number of their friends at their respective homes last Saturday evening. * Three small boys who escaped from-Hw Pike county orphan’s home were arrested in this city by the marshal Monday, and returned to the institution.—Oakland City Journal, 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 and lay in a supply. The Alaska gold mining company of Indiana was organized at Indianapolis last week with a capital stock of $1,000,000 divided into Aiares of $100 each. The company is composed of Indianapolis and Petersburg capitalists. J. M. Thirswend of Grosbeck, Texas says that when he has a spell of indigestiort and feels l>ad and sluggish, he takes two of DeWitt’s Little Early Risers at night, and he is all right the next morning. Mant thousands of otherg do the same thing. Do you? J. R. Adams & Son. . The drilling on the Omelvena land has reached a depth of 1,725 feet and still working in hard rock. Wednesday evening the engine shaft broke which will necessitate a shut down for a few days. Mr. Gordon, the manager, thinks the well will be completed to 2,000 feet deep next week. This well is uow the deepest ever drilled in Southern Indiana. " Preliminary sui^vgys have been run to a distance of 71 miles, and the final location has been established to a distance of 21 miles from the city. They not only locate the route but prepare plans and specifications and make estimates of the road as they proceed. The work of locating the lino will require several mcjjiths. It is l»etng pushed with all j>ossible speed while the weather is fine.—Vincennes Commercial.

i Judge Ely was home from Jasper over j Sunday. Go to H. H. Tislow for all kinds of j watch ami clock repairs. 38* i Hon. J. W. Thurman spent Sunday in Evansville with his family. Cable & Kauffman have put in forty colored men at their mines at Hartwell. Sam Marsee of Champaign, Illinois, is renewing acquaintances in Petersburg this week. Miss Bessie Ellis and Flora Bethel of Winslow, were shopping with Petersburg merchants Saturday. M. J. Brady of Petersburg, was the guest of the Enterprise family during the reunion. j —Oakland Citv Enterprise. * —- Mrs. Henry Ashby of August^ was j granted a pension last week. D. C. Ashby i of this city, was her attorney. You can’t cure consumption but yon can | avoid it and cure every other form of throat ; or lung trouble by the use of One Minute j Cough Cure. J. R. Adams & Son. For Sabe—One hard coal base burner, j The best stove made. Good as new. Only j been in use one year. The owner will burn gas and lienee this offer. For information call at this office. Henry Breuton, roadmaster on the Midland railroad, left for his home in Colorado last Sunday after a week’s visit with his' father, Peter I. Brenton, who is very ill at his home east of the city. The Air Liue railroad will run a special excursion to St. Louis on account of the horse show, October 26th, at $2.30 for the round trip, good returning October 28th. This will be the last cheap excursion to St. Louis this season. William Agee of West Indianapolis, is visiting friends in the county. He has been Asent for nearly twenty-four years and formerly resided near Augusta. He is a solid silverite at 16 to 1 and believes that the conutry will vote for silver in 1900 and carry the day. The Petersburg mining and manufacturing association will drill their No. 3 well at a point some two miles east of town near the Washington road. The work of pulling the casing in No. 2 and removing the rig will commence Monday. It is to l>e hoped No. 3 will be a gusher and equal old Jumbo in pressure which is now furnishing natural gas fuel for over 200 stoves. Talking about confidence aud prosperity and the pitigley tariff law which was to revolutionize the country, give employment to the millions and set the government up in business so that it could pay its running expenses, is about exploded. The following is the report of the treasury on Tuesday which shows the condition: Treasury receipts today were $977,145.05. Expenditures $1,'349,000. Deficit for the day $871,- ; 854.95, for the month $6,392,796.10, and I for the fiscal year to date $85,408,750.89.

r' t Did You See IVhat Crowds Were at Moses © Frank’s Daring His Three Days’ Sale. • * Well, they are still Selling Goods Cheap as<ever. Never before were the people so welt pleased. They all said that Moses Frank’s v Was the Cheapest House in the County. PETERSBURG, INDIANA.