Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 25, Petersburg, Pike County, 29 October 1897 — Page 1

VOL. XXVIII. " PETERSBURG, IND.. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 29. 1897. 99 NO. 25

v \ iThe Great October Sale Our September sale was beyond 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. With two stores chuck full of goods, it's unreasonable to think others can sell as cheap. " RUN YOUR EYES DOWN THESE PRICES.

Nice Prints for Comforts, pretty patterns, 3je per yard Nice soft Muslin. yard wide.,... .4e per yard lleary Muslin for Sheets, yard wide... ....5c per yard Good Patterns in Flannelette for Presses .. .5c per yard Heart Twilled Red or Gray Flannel_ 15e per yard Ladies' Cloth, all wool, cheap at 40c ..... ,29e per yard Nice Red Blankets, worth $1.00 ..49c per pair 1000 Rolls of Cotton for Comforts.5c per roll 111 toadies* Ckpes. Kmpire hack. trimmed in beads, worth $4.00.. <. .$2.98 each Infants'Shoes soft soles......9c per pair

Children's Shoes. .....29c pec pair Ijadies’ heavy Calf Button Shoes, nbhet seams_..98c Boy's Heavy Winter Suits, good and stout.. .9Se Bovs Pants, good ami heavy.2-4o Men's Uned Jeans Pants, the 73c kind ..59c Men's Heavy Cussimer Suits, finely made, worth $7.50. ... ...for $4.50 Men's Genuine Tailor-made Suits, cheap at $12, at $7.50 Men’s Heavy Winter Boots. $2.00 kind.at $1.48 Men’s Winter Shoes, good and heavy .....___ .at 98c Men’s Winter Undershirts, wont fade.25c each

Put this ail in your pocket, bring your wife and behold with your own eyes these great bargains. 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.

ja ijjjgmaimiixiijnmixjapyxriiim^ rfimmyj Something New—Beats Them Alla* A splendid wood heater. Keeps fire twenty-tour hours and is a fuel saver. “The Boss.’* See it at our front door. MOW’© YOUR RAT© ? We’ve got the trap that ketches them. “The Marty" never fails. SHAWHAN, BOONSHOT & CO., PETERSBURG. HARDWARE.

iiiiiniiiuiijiiiimiimujijiiijiiiijiijijjiimiiiiijiiiii Fall and Winter Suits** All the Latest Patterns and Styles to Select from. Suits, $16 and up. Pants, $4 and up. Call and See our Piece Goods and Trimmings. C. A. Burger & Bro., Merchant Tailors.

1 have some of the best pigs on hands now that 1 ever owned. I have 12 gilts ami 4 males that are tiptop, sired bvrnv great show luar, Boone, So. 2003. Among the lot are two extra December boars that are, targe enough for service. Prices reasonable. M.L.Heathman. Giezen.Ind

Kev. Uav of Warrick couuty attended the reunion here last week. Mrs. W. M. Kidgwuy visited her parents at Winslow Wednesday afternoon. Robeit llyneman and Mel Oatt of 0!»y township, were in town Tuesday ou business. George Grim and wife of Monroe township, visited Prof. Thompson and wife Wednesday. James S. McCoy last week sold fifteen calves that brought the neat sum of I Pretty good calves. The oldest son of Lemuel Cooper, living \ just over the line in Dubois couuty, died | Tuesday of diphtheria. Organ* for Sale.—A firstclass organ for sale; l>een used about a year; good as new Call at this office at once. Mrs. Horton of Algiers, and Miss Anna I Hargrave of Dubois county, visited Mrs. ! l> C. Ashby Thursday. Forty-nine members of the A. 0. 17. W. went to Terre Haute Wednesday morning to attend the State meeting of that order. --- The district mission **7 convention of the M. E. church is in <es»ion4tt Evansville, , today. Quite a number from this city are t in attendance. The Pike circuit court convenes one week from next Monday. The docket for j the terra will be quite large, consisting j mostly of civil rases. There are a number of eases of diphtheria and scarlet /ever m the county and the people should take every precaution to prevent the spread of the disease. Lillie, the eight-year-old daughter of Richard Kin man, of Patoka township, died : Monday of typhoid (ever. The funeral services were held Tuesday and interment at the White Church cemetery. The Democrat each week contains more local reading matter than any other paper j in Pike county. If you want the news at all times subscribe for the Democrat and then compare it with others. The price is j f 1.23 per year. There is some talk of an artificial ice plant being operated here next year. The gentlemen who have the matter under consideration are men of means, and if they .should conclude to go into the business will put in a first claSS plant of improved machinery and appliances. Miss Oda Hadioek, daughter of Oscar ■and Mr*, i I ml lock, living near Algiers, died Wednesday morning of consumption after a lingering illness. She was about twenty years of age and a highly respected | young lady of that neighborhood. The [ funeral services were held yesterday rooroi .g conducted by Rev. Gregory. Interi meat at the Algiers cemetery.

Q. M. McLaughliu, near Otwell, was in town Monday. Tate Harrison of Wiuslow, was in town Wednesday on business, William T. Mitchell is coufined to his home with typhoid fever. Joseph Stutsman of Pikeville, was in town Wednesday morning. Don’t fail to give your name to the library solicitors when they call on you. 25-1 Ii. EL Traylor, trustee of Jefferson township, was in town Tuesday on business. S. J. Haines made a business trip to Indianapolis SaturdaypTetuniing Tuesday morning. ^ Richard and John Langford of Monroe township, were in town Tuesday morning on business. Captain Sasser Sullivan, representative! of Pike eouuty, was in town Tuesday transacting legal business. Jacob Mants ami daughter Lizzie of Evansville, visited Mrs. D. C. Ashby, Thursday and Friday. There are now twelve cases for divorce filed in the circuit court, with a few townships yet to hear from. John Stilwel! and Gerhard Brone of | Stendal, were attending the Daviess circuit j court Monday as witnesses. George II.Overbeck,one of the prominent .farmers of Lockhart township, was in town last Friday paying his annual taxes. Bring your job printing to the Democrat office and get the best. All work guaranteed to be first class and the best of stock used. There is considerable sickness in Jefferson township at present. The prevailing diseases seems to be typhoid fever and diphtheria. A ten-months-old child of Jeffrey Ferguson, living east of town, died Sunday last and was buried at the Morrison cemetery Monday. Lafayette Traylor and Henry Coleman of Jefferson township, were in town Wednesday pay iri|f their annual rept into the county treasury. J. W. Parry and wife, who have been visiting their daughters Mrs. R. C. Hammond and Mrs. M. MeC. Stoops, returned to their home at Fort Wavne yesterday morning. The public schools of Window were closed last Monday on account of the prevalence of diphtheria at that place, the members of the school board and doctors thinking it best at the present time. The Central Union telephone company are put ting up their line between Washington and this city. The line rnns bv the way of Monroe City to which place it has already been completed. Ijast Tuesday Drs. Hunter and Basinger performed a surgical operation upon Edmond, the twelve-year-old son of Beverly and Mrs. Willis, who reside near Clark’s Station. The patient is doing well at this time ami will likely make a good recovery. The casing in well No. 2 of the Mining and Manufacturing association is behae pulled this week. The rig will be moved to the Shandy land about two miles northeast of town wjiere another test well for oil or gas will be made. The company expect to have the well ctunpleted by the first of January.

A cutting affray took place last Saturdav night at Augusta. Wilford Lawrence ami a negro were engaged in a fight in the saloon at tiiat place, when Abijah Heat tv undertook to stop the trouble and put Lawrence out of the saloon. Beatty re ceived several cuts in the back and on the I left arm, but not of a serious nature. Ed R. King has commenced the excavation for two brick business rooms on lower j Main street, west of the McCarty corner, j The n*oms will each be sixteen feet wide and : sixtv-two feet deep. It b understood that Pat McCarty will also erect two more business rooms on his vacant lot. which v/ill add a business boom to lower Main street. Let others put up business rooms. There b a demand for them. Jabex Wooley has made a proposition to drill a test well with a core drill to a depth of 350 feet for $50© or to a depth of 1300 feet for $750. This wonld show a thorough test of the eual measures through which the drill would pa-s. It has been demonstrated at the drilling of the gas wells that there b several veins of eoal, one of which b supposed to be a very fine vein of cannel coal. By drilling with a drill of thb kind the core could be taken out and the thickness of the veins shown, which would be of great benefit to thb locality.. It would advertise the immense mineral deposits of thb part of the state as nothing else would. The citiaens of thb city should not let the matter drop but test it to a depth of at feast 350 feet and learn how much coal there b beneath Petersburg.

W. B. Crawford of Princeton, was here Monday on business. Jay l>eBruler, prosecuting attorney, was at Ireland last Sunday. County Commissioner Robinson was in town Wednesday on business. Mrs.C.M. Eaton of Trafalgar, is the guest of Mrs. J. W. Bergen this week. Rev. W. J. Ridge, Noxid, was in town Tuesday, looking after business affairs. Alex Galbreath, lj«ng near Otwell, transacted business at the court house Monday. Attorney S. G. Davenport was at Washington Monday and Tuesday attending circuit court. James W. Ridge, one of Marion township’s old time democrats, was in town Tuesday morning. H. R. Snyder and W. A. Oliphant were at Oaklaud City Wednesday afternoon transacting business. County Treasurer Smith is quite busy waiting on the tax-payers this week who are paying their fall installment of taxes. Herbert Hoggatt of Boonville, was in town Wednesday ou business. He is connected with the Jualin mining company of Alaska. Jack West is one among the happiest men in Petersburg this week, all because of the arrival of a fine new girl at his home Tuesday uoon. For the sum of 12 j cents per month our citizens can secure a one thousaud volume library. Other towns of like size have secured libraries by this plan, why uot Petersburg? 25-1 The ten-year-old daughter of W.C, and Mrs. Dillon, Winslow, died Monday morning after a short illness, of diphtheria. The funeral services were held Tuesday and burial at the Otwell cemetery. Mrs. Annetta llorubrook diet! at Iier home in Union Tuesday morning. She was about 60 years of age and well known in the west part of the county. The funeral services were conducted Wednesday at Little Zion church by Elder J.W. Richardson. The electric light company instead of getting a single 200-horse power upright boiler purchased two large boilers of 100horse power each. In case now that one gets out Of order the other can be used and there will be no stoppage to make repairs or clean up. The plant will be one of the most complete in the state. The following young people, chaperoned by Mrs. W. H. Stewart, compose a jolly fi-hiiig party that are camping at Hitt’s pond north of Petersburg this week: Misses Margaret Stewart, Ida Kilmartin, Minnie Jenkins and Flora Brumfield of Petersburg, and Messrs. Alvin Wilson. E. E. Kelsey, Rufus Barnett, Perry Sullivan and Norman Bugg.—Oakland City Journal.

A. II. Taylor made a business trip to Evansville Wednesday. Dr. W. J. Bethell of Winslow, was in town Monday on business. , Jonathan Bowman of Monroe town^hijv was in town Wednesday on business. D. C. Barrett and daughter of near Arthur, were in town Monday shopping. ‘ -- John R. King of Marion, was in town a f . few days this week looking after business I interests. Perry Abbott of Jefferson township, was in town Tuesday. Mr. Abbot t is the truant officer of this district. This town has no library of any kind. Now let our citizens secure a good one free, while we have the opportunity. 25-1 Many farmers are now hauling water from the rivers to supply their live stock. In town the sprinkler is doing good service. The Ladies' aid society meets at the home of Mrs. McCrillus Adams Wednesday, November 3rd. A full attendance of the members is desired. A son of F. T. Woodford, Winslow, aged two years, died Monday morning of croup. The funeral services were held Tuesday and burial at Oak Hill cemetery. The gas well is caving in again and causing no end of trouble to the drillers. Contractor .Jaynes is in St. Louis today buying casing and tools to proceed downward.— Oakland City Journal. Judge H. W. Mellen, who for the part four years served as district judge of Alaska, was in the city Wednesday. He recently returned to his home at Bbonville. He is now largely interested in gold mining en- | terprises in Alaska. The following shows the business done j under the Dingley tariff law: , j Treasury receipts to-day were $678,067.j 30; expenditures, $969,000. Deficit for the ' day, $290,912.70. For the month, $9,061,913.18, and for the fiscal year to date $38,[077,867.97. Mrs. Hezekiah Cox, aged 46 years, died t very suddenly hist Thursday evening from a stroke of paralysis. She had had several severe attacks during the past five years. ; The funeral services were conducted by Elder J. W. Richardson last Friday and interment at the Willis cemetery. She leaves a husband and daughter to mourn j their loss. The Pike county soldiers’ organization : held a three days’ reunion in this city last j week. There were nearly 200 old veterans ! present, and speeches were made by a nuraj ber of the old comrades present. The | attendance was very small compared to [ reunions formerly held in Pike county. ‘ Thursday was probably the biggest day when there were over 1,500 present, the eity schools having dismissed for the afternoon. A good time was had by the old veteran#.

Grand * Cloak t Ooenine! ■SOON NEXT <sr Tuesday, Nov. Qd. A representative of one of the largest and best Cloak houses in the country will be at our store on the above date, (Tuesday, November 2d), with a very large line of all the latest styles and colors in #*> Ladies’ Capes, Jackets AND CHILDRENS’ GARMENTS. Call and see the new styles whether wishing to purchase or not. MOSES FRANK’S The Cheapest House in the County.