Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 10, Petersburg, Pike County, 15 July 1898 — Page 1

VOL. XXIX. t > "i PETERSBURG, IND.. FRIDAY. JULY 15, 1898. NO. 10

Grand Clearance Sale for July.

JULY U one of the hottest months of the year. You must not P worry, drink iee water or work. To avoid worry attend our grand July Clearance Sale. We have thousands of yards of Remnants in Wash Goods, Prints, Challies, Muslins. Embroideries, Ginghams, etc. Hundreds of pairs of Shoes aud Siipjiers on our bargain counter at half price. Odd sizes in Corsets, mid pairs of Kid Glovee, short

• lengths ioCMfeto; ioftet everytliing in our store goes at a cut price during § this sale. This is to tie a clean up sale, cost not considered, acd if you don’t J take advantage of it you will miss the chance of a lifetime. See the July Bargains. 50 cent Shirt Waists, for July, 25c. 75 cent Shirt Waists, for July, 63c. “ . 39 cent Summer Corsets, nice and cool, 25c Silk Mitts, all pure silk, goes at'15c per pair. White Silk Parasols, pure silk, $1.00. Boy’s Waists, made with ruflle, 50c kind. 39c. 500 yards dark ground Figured Silks, 50c kind, 25c a yard* Silk Face Veiling, in red, blue, purple and tan, 9c a yard. Ladies’ Cool Summer Vests, 5c. J ' * Ladies’ Slippers in tan and black* 50c. ► Ladies’ Kid Shoes, button or lace* 94c. This sate will Ik* for July only. Take ad vantage of these bargains, they arc for you. Make our store your headquarters. Plenty -of fans and ice water. tyAgents for Standard Patterns. Send us your itame and we will mail: you the new fashion plate.**.

W. V. Hargrove & Co., PETERSBURG’S BARGAIN STORE, ^PETERSBURG, INDIANA^ I

Shirt Talk. A Shirt Sale is what we are having. Shirts of all descriptions. Imported Minims, Cloth. Cheviots and Percales in large l*latds, small Checks and Stripes. Ju,»t the thing to keep you cool during this hot weather. Here is a few of the many bargains we offer: 1 75 Men's white band, no collar, soft Percale and Cheviot Shirts, sue* 14, 14|, 16 and 16|. Sold at 50 and 75c. Sale price.. 48 Men's Colored Percale Shirts with 2 Collars detached, all 8iaes. Sold at 75c. Sale price ...... . 59 Men's Nobby Cheek Percale Shirts no Collar. 1 pair Cuffs, all sizes. Sold at 85c. Sale price. ...... . .. 611 Men's plain and fancy figured Percale Shirts. Collars and Cuffs attached, all sizes. Sold at 60c. Sale price... 97 Men’s fancy plaid and striped woven Madras Shirts, no Collar, one pair Cuffs warranted not to fade. Cluett, Coou k Cos. leader. Sold at $1,25. Sale price....... 39c 50c 69c 47c 98c This sale will close in two weeks; take advantage of it and supply yourself in hot weather Shirts. Each one sold as advertised. «Star Clothing Houses PETERSBURG, INDIANA. CITOpen until 10 o’clock Saturday Nights.

A small child of Thomas Ferguson of this place died ywterday morning. Frank Henring and wife of Winslow, were the guests of friends here last Sunday. Will Green and wife and daughter Miss Jessie of Winslow, visited relatives here Sunday. Miss Alice Thompson of Patoka. is visit' ing her sister, Mrs. G. T. Kune, of this place. Joeiah Morton, who has been employed at the stock yards at Indianapolis,9 for several jean past, has taken employment with the stock firm of W. U. Hasbai ft Co. at the Union stock yards. The uuion services at the C. P. church last Sunday night were largely attended, fiev. Probertof the Baptist church preached an interesting Sermon. He?. Sonne will preach at the Baptist church Sunday

Joseph Gat ton of Winslow, and Miss Maude Servant, daughter of John and Mrs. Survant, Marion township, were married at the home of the bride last Sunday even tog by Ber. E. M. Bale. The Dkxockat extends congratulations. S. H. Arnold, brother of Mrs. Henry 1 Johnson of this city, who is serving in Uncle Sara's army at Santiago was wounded in the battle which took place July 3rd. II is wounds however are not serious. He formerly lived at OtwelL * * Fred E. Chappell of Otwell, was admitted to practice in the Pike cineuit court yesterday morning. He has associated himself with V. R. Greene and will open an office at Otwell, where he will attend to busipese of the firm at thaTpoint. Mr. Chappell is an energetic young man and is well known in the east part of the county where he bm taught school lor many yearn.

LOCAL HAPPENINGS! Gathered on the Fly by The Democrat’s Reporters. News Items From Here, There and Everywhere. Coart, City and Persoaal Items Hi an Abreyiated Form. Will J'liid Them All tuder.. ThU IIending. Sylvester Beach of Augusta, was here Tuesday oa business. Miss Lou Harris' is. visiting relatives at Dale, Speaker county. J. B. MeKnight of Otwell, was in town Wednesday on business. Miss Alice Harris of Oaklaml City, visited Miss Tabitha Harrison Monday. Lafayette Trawler of Jefferson township, was in town Monday ou business. Thurtow Grim made a business trip to Monroe township Tuesday afternoon. Take a little time andcut the weeds along the sidewalks and about your premises] Captain Sasser Sullivan of Marion township, was in town Monday morning on business. Joseph .Newkirk shipped two carloads of hogs to the Indianapolis market Wednesday morning. Sat unlay was a busy day with Petersburg merchants. The stores were crowded with I buyers all afternoon.

Senorets cure chronic constipation, kidney and liver complaint. Price 25 cent?:. For >ale by Paul Bros, and Bergen and Oliphant. 30-tf Albert Gray, one .of the old time democrat# of Dubois county, living near Portersville, was itrtown Monday visiting relative? and friends, Quinoria is guaranteed to cure chills, fever and all malarial disorders. No cure, no pay. For sale by Paul Bros, and Bergen and OHpbant. 36-tf Ed Atkinson of Oatsville, graduated at the Louisyille medical college last week and has returned home and will engage in the practice of his profession. The board of review adjourned lasg Saturday after being in session three weeks. Personal property was added to the amount of #33,000, the most of which was in Petersburg. _ More than half the wheat crop of ^Hke eountv has been thre>hed. The yield is g*x»d and the 'price fair bringing at the present time about 68 cents per bushel. Wheat sold early in the spring as high as 119 in the home markets. ---- Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Capehart, Mr. and Mrs. Jackson Risky. Mrs. Sylvester Morgan and Mrs. Risky of Yeipen, were the guests of William Brock and family ou the 4th, and attended installation at the Rebekah lodge.—Oakland City Enterprise. Calvin Jones, a former resident of Rock-’ port, but for several years living at Washington City, died Thursday night and his remains were taken to Old Town Friday afternoon for interment. His sons, Frank and T. L. Jones, accompanied the body. The deceased published the Rockport Democrat for forty-five years. Charley Hays, who left here and went to S|ar City to work tu a coal in me, died at that place Wednesday with congestion of i the stomach. He was sick just twenty-four [hours., The remuias were brought to [ Ayrshire Thursday. Funeral occurred 1 yesterday from the home of his parents. Interment at Williams cemetery. Deceased | was about twenty-five and single.—Winslow : Dispatch. Our baby has been continually troubled with colic and cholera infantum since his birth, ami all that we could do for him did not seem to give mere than temporary relief, until we tried Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea remedy. Since giving that remedy he has not been troubled. We want to give you this testi- [ moniai as an evidence of our gratitude, not 1 that you need it to advertise your meritori- | ous remedy.—G. M. Law. Keokuk, Iowa. | For sale by J. R. Adams A Son. j

Floriau Bartl, Otweil, trausai ed business here Wednesday. Go to H. H. Tislow for ail kinds of watch and clock repairs. 28* H. N. Cox, the Rumble merchant, was in town Monday on business. * Hon. John R. O’Neal of Washington, was in town Wednesday on business. Dr. W. II. Link and H. S. Edwards were at Otweil Tuesday on business. John B. Blnize of Logan township, transacted business in town last Saturday. Mrs. Charles Jones and daughter are visiting relatives at Union this week. George B. Ashby made a business trip to Huutingburg Monday and Tuesday. Norman Cumick of Evansville, visited his friend Charles E. Skinner over Sundav. -X~- .. George Grim and tfife of Monroe township, were the guests of relatives here over Sunday. , William MeCoriftick of Otweil, passed ^lirpugh the city Tuesday on his way to Evansville. ^ William Liibs, city treasurer, is at Martiueville receiving treatment^for rheumatism at the sanitarium. Bromoline will cure a cold while you sleep. No cure, no pay. 25 cents. For sale by Paul Bros, aud Bergen and Oliphant.__ 36-tf During the month of June there were recorded in the recorder’s office 39 deeds, 21 chattel mortgages and 23 real estate mortgages. Senorets purify the blood and beautify the complexion. Cure constipation. 25 cents. For sale by Paul Bros, and Bergen and Oliphant. 36-tf Tomorrow (Saturday) County Superintendent Corn will hold an examination of teachers at Winslow. The examination will consist of teachers’ reading circle work. ('apt. W. E. Chappell of Algiers, was in | town Monday morning. The captain is ready at any time a call is made for his services to muster in his company and go to the front.

jHitrneu, ihh ouiium* hi lue uuiut* ui me brides’ parents, James and Mrs. Campbell. Clay township, Miss Flora Campbell and James W. Pancake, Elder J. W. Richardson officiating. o If you have chills and every other chill tonic has failed, Grim’s Improved Chill Tonic will cure you. Every bottle guaranteed to cure or money refunded. For sale by J. R. Adams & Son. 10-4 Mrs. Sarah Robling, living near Union, was suddenly stricken last Saturday morning with partial paralysis. She is aged 77 years and well known throughout the west part of the county. Her condition is quite critical. Miss Ida Basinger returned home last Saturda^ fronr Valparaiso, where she had been attending the Northern Indiana normal school. Miss Ida has been employed as a teacher in the city schools for the coming year. The state geologist has tiled an injunction against the U. S. express company, to compel them to accept express packages, without the revenue stamps. It is alleged that the law contemplates the payment of the revenue by the company. Baseball excursion to Evansville. July 17th; round trip tickets will be sold, good date of sale only, at one dollar each.' Excursion on river to Henderson, Kentucky, on steamer Jewell; round trip at 25 cents. Train leaves Petersburg at 8:45 a. m. , returning' leaves Evansville at 7 p. m. John W. McCarty of Washington formerly a resident of this city, was nominated Tuesday by the democrats of Daviess county as their candidate for auditor. John has the qualifications to make a splendjd official and being a genial and affable gentleman will make a strong race. His many friends here wish him success in November. Cams Richardson, the ten year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Richardson, fell from a peach tree Thursday and lit on a picket fence the pickets of which were sharpened. She struck on her side but the fence being old the picket came off and broke the skin and fractured a rib. Dr. Ireland was called in aud dressed the wound. At last account she was doing as well as could be expected.—Winslow Dispatch. Of the 500.000,000 people speaking the ten or twelre modern languages, 125,000,000, or one-fourth,speak the English. Then comes Russian, 90,000,000; Germany, 75,000,000; French, 70,000.000; Spanish, 45.000,000; Italian, 35,000,000; Portugese, 12,000,000. Of letters sent through the postoffices ot the world, the English speaking people furnish nearly as many, if not more, than all other nations put together. In regard to the books and papers published those printed in English are far in jexcess of all other languages in proportion | to the number of people.

—- '..X £ .-.. C.E. Mllev of Glezen, was in town Saturday, on business. Harrison Smith is quite sick at his home on lower Main street. Robert prown of near Winslow was in town Tuesday on business. M. L. Heathman of Glexen, was in town Monday morning on business. William E. Hayes, near Otwell, was in town Wednesday attending court. Hon. James S. AJLtCoy made a business trip to Vincennes first of the week. Uncle James Barker, Madison township, has been quite sick during the past week. Miss Cynthia Mitchell left last week for Priueetou, where she will make her future home. * Mrs. W. M. Hunter returned Monday evening from Jasper where she was visitiDg friends. For Sale Cheap.—Hot air pumping engine: can be run by one gas jet or lamp. J. L. Ingleheart, Evansville, Ind. 8tf James Stoody. who is driUhig a gas well at Chandler, Warrick county, for the Woolley coal company, was in thecity over Sunday. Bromoline will positively cure a cold in 24 hours. No cure, no pay. 25 ?ents. For sale by Paul Bros, and Bergen and Oliphant. 36—tf Try Grim’s Improved ChiR Tonic for chills. Guaranteed to be the best on the market. For sale by J. R. Adams & Son, Petersburg, Indiana. 10-4 William C. Allen and Miss Edna L. Arnold of Monroe township, were married in this city at the clerk's office last Monday, Squire Brady officiating. William J. Ridge of Noxid, was indown Monday morning. He has been api>oin!ed administrator of the estate of W. H. H. Morton, recently deceased. Account Wallace’s circus at Evansville, July 29t.h; round trip tickets will be sold at $1.25, good date of sale only, train 34 will be held at Evansville on this date until 6:30 p. m.

Miss Cat ha Carleton entertained a number of her friends at her home on Walnut street last Tuesday evening. The hours were delightfully spent in games and social amusements. Hon. A. H„ Taylor and wife leave next week for Juneau, Alaska, where they will visit for several weeks. Mr. Taylor is the vice-president of the Jualin mining company and goes to look after his interests in that country. “I have used Chamberlain's Cough remedy in my family for years and always with good results,” says Mr. W. B. Cobper of El Kio, Cal. “For small children we find it especially effective.” For sale by J. R. Adams & Son. j The county clerk has issued marriage licenses to the followiug persons during the past week: Elmer Skinner and Mary C. Perry. James W. Pancake and Flora Campbell. Everett Huffman and Maude McCain. Joseph F. Gatton and Maude Survant. William C. Allen and Edna L. Arnold. W. C. Adams has disposed of an interest in his furniture store to his son Charles and the firm will hereafter be known as W. C. Adams & Son. They carry a full line of furniture of all kinds, and especially in bedroom suits and fancy rockers. They have secured the services of a first class funeral director and keep on^handsafine line of caskets and funeral supplies. Owing to the large sale I had on Grim’s New Discovery I have decided to place Grim’s Improved Chill Tonic on the market. 1 do so with the full assurance that it is the best chill tonic manufactured, having been tested and never failing. One trial will ! convince any one of its merits. Every : bottle is positively guaranteed to cure the j chills or money refunded. Sold by J. R. ; Adams ft Son._R. L. Grim. The members and friends of the Baptist i church made a very pleasant call on their 1 pastor and his family on Thursday evening of last week. They took them completely ! by surprise. The evening was very pleasj antly spent in a social way. Mrs. Dobbs of j Washington, Indiana, who was visiting her sister, Mrs. Rev. T. C. Probert, furnished ' music for the occasion. All left at an early | hour, leaving the pastor and family richer and happier for their visit. In compliance with President McKinley’s ! proclamation calling the Christian people ; of the nation to thanksgiving and prmver, a special service will be held in the M. E, church next Sunday at 10:30 a. m. The church will be appropriately decorated. The proclamation of the president will be : read by the pastor. A special program of : music will be rendered, and the persons named below will speak on the following subjects: Lesson from tbe Bible.Jabex Woolley Cause* of the War .J. II. Risley Our Army and Navy . I). D. Coro ! Result*ofUie War....W. D Crow Oiir Flag and our God .... . Judge Ely All the members and friends of the church are cordially invited to attend. *

Will Kelp, living east of town, has a fine girl baby'at his home. Logan Robling <Sf Winslow, transacted business here Tuesday. Dr. Harris of Algiers^ was in town Monday morning bn business. J. V. Chaille of Otwell, transacted business here Wednesday. here Monday on business. — H. H. Tislow. jeweler and watchmaker Petersburg. All work guaranteed. 28* Kerr Trayler and Frank Betz, attorneys of Jasper,were here Wednesday on business. Owen Smith, county treasurer, visited relatives at Mt. Vernon a few days last week. In the battle at Santiago July 1st and 2nd 230 men killed. 1384 wounded and 79 missing; total 1593. Allen Rumble of Logan township, the next coroner of Pike county, was in town Tuesday morning on business. Use Grim’s Improved Chill Tonic for chills. Every bottle guaranteed to cure. For sale by J .R. Adams & Son, Petersburg, Indiana. 10-4 Quinoria positively cures chills and fever when other remedies fail. No cure, no pay. For sale by Paul Bros, and Bergen and Olipbant. 36-tf Mrs. Elizabeth McClary of Pike county, is here for a few weeks’ visit with her niece, Mrs. Joseph M. White, and other relatives. —Boonville Enquirer. .....- Rev. W. S. Rader, pastor of the M. EL church of this city, conducted services at the Trinity church at Evansville last Sunday morning and at the Howell church ia the evening. Washington will have a street fair thu fall. Fairs of this kind have taken the place of the old county fair and are much more satisfactory. Petersburg citizens should not be behind the times. Dr. Ed Buriiugame, who has been practicing medicine here for the past two years, went to Indianapolis last week snd enlisted as a surgeon in the army and is now doing service at Camp Alger^near Washington City. J. K. Patterson of Oakland

Thomas Hudson, employed in the harness shop of John-O, Miley, was taken suddenly ill Monday afternoon and hfd to be removed to his home. He is resting easier at this time. John Braden of Otweli, has taken his place as salesman for a few days. The McAtee block on lower Main street will be completed this week. Two rooms and the upstairs over two buildings have been rented and will b© occupied shortly. The rooms are well lighted and handsomely decorated and will make good business rooms as fhey are well located on Main street. William H. Wyatt, aged 77 years, one of the pioneer residents of Pike county, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. C. J. Hoggatt, last Thursday morning. The funeral services were conducted at the residence Friday afternoon by Rev. Sonne, pastor of the Presbyterian church, and interment at Walnut Hills cemetery. Letters have been received from Alex Chappell, a Petersburg boy who enlisted in the regular army, 4th regiment of volunteers, General Lawton commanding, about eighteen months ago. His company was one among the first to land at Santiago and in the skirmishes and battle there he was right up in the front ranks. As a memento of the battle be sent home a button which was shot off his clothes while 011 the line doing service for his country. The statistical report as made by the auditor of Pike county to the state hoard of charities for the past nine months for the amounts paid out Lr the support of the poor of the county is as follows from the various townships arid county asylum; Jefferson township. —;.$ 174 70 Washington township . 7*4 29 Madison township — 2* :» Clay township...... —. 204 *» Logan township . 28 70 Patoka township. . 378 51 Monroe towns'up. 153 40 lock hart township —. 101 52 Marion township . 108 9i ^ Poor asylum .. 1.W1 8* Orphans’ home . 1,104 05 Poor practice . *10 ft Soldiers’ I atrial . 308 SS Total . .....r. *»,W7i Ed Chappell, living a tail© east of Algiers, . was quite seriously injured list Saturday night bv a kick ^Atoil a horse. About eleven o’clock that nigh ; while driving east . I of Otweli he touched u;i the horse he waa I driving with a whip, am in doing so leaned c ; forward when the aniim ■■ kicked, one hoof striking him in the face breaking the nose ! and crushed in the foreh ?ad above the nose, j He fell from the buggy backward. Alex 1 Dillon, who was with h m, went at once to Otweli to secure medi-al assistance and Drs. Clark and Abbot; went at once to where Chappell lay in lie roail. He waa brought hack to Otweli where the wound* were dressed and in the ifternoon was taken to his hmue. His couJition js imiom&k < this lime.