Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 1, Petersburg, Pike County, 12 May 1899 — Page 1

NO 12, 1899. S'../ ■ PETERSBURG, IND.. FRIDAY, MAY ——

i When we rem] of the special Carpet Sales we see advertised ever3^ week. 5 Why, kipd reader, is it that some people can sell C*.rj»ets so iimch cheaper 5 one week than another? Ain’t it funny? We haven't overbought. in fact i if the rush continues we fear we haven’t bought enough, neither is this our \ first season in the Carpet business, so bring the measure of your room and { we will cut and match your Carpet perfectly, you don’t take the risk of \ misfits and inexperience. Run your eye down this list of prices and 5 compare with “Carpet Sales” and judge for yourself. ! Good solid every-day Carpets, cheapr than scrubb ng bare floor, per yard w......... . I The old-fashioned Cottage Carpets, stout and strong, per yard......... | The world-famous Sea Island Carpets, the great Carpet for wear; We have the agency for Petersburg, per yard...,. * Dickies’heavy Ingrain Carpets, beautiful patterns, heavy grade, per yard...... . . J All-Wool Ingrain Carpets, full yard wide; note the price, per yard...... ...... | Brussels Carjtets, full standard goods, I per Yard. ..... | ( Smyrna Rug-, large size, worth $3.25, j etch. .. ..... | 100 Drhminers’. Samples Luo* Curtains. worth up 10 $1.00 4 piece, choice.., ....]. j Window Curtains. Spring Rollers, all complete . . .....,. 10 15 38 39 25 39 12 | 50 pairs Lace Curtains, full ten feet long, cheap at $3 JO per i .•... 99 \ We have an immense line of Axminsters, Moqi ettes, Velvets and ' t Roxburry’s Carpets. Everything necessary to Carpet and furnish your ) home complete. J3T Every day is bargain day in carets with ns A | present wit ly very $5.00 purchase.

PETERSBURG’S CARPET HOUSE, ^PETERSBURG, IND<r

Real Estate Transfers. The following transfers of real es- ; tate have been recorded in the county recorder's office during the past week: • Silas S. Spillman et al to Clara K. j Spillman et al. lots 13 and 14,Snyder’s add, Petergsburg. Sarilda A. Demsey to Elijah J. Patton lots 3 and 4 Demsey’s add, Otwell. John W. Wilson to. Samuel G. Wilson, pt e hf nw qr sec 8, town 2 south, range 7 west. Nancy V. Barker to Caroline Richardson, pt se qr sec 31, town 1 north, range 8 west, 10 acres. Elizabeth Tyre to Martha Mosby, lot 135, Velpen. Isaac Loveless to Harriett E.Givens, pt ne qr se qr sec 6, town 1 south, range 8 west, 3 acres. James W. Hillman to George P. Robling. sw qr se qr sec 4, 10 acres. Arthur W. Thompson, adm, to Moses Skinner, lots 09 and 100, Arthur, j

John E. Heacock to Jacob O. Smith, pt sw qr sec 18. town 1 north, range 8 west, 30 acres. Jacob Bowers to H. S. Edwards, e pt lot 12, OtwelL Thohaas J. Parker to Thomas Able, pt s side n€' qr se qr sec 24, town 1 south, range 8 west. Lizzie Russell to James Taylor et al se qr se qr sec &>, town 2 south, range 8 west, 40 acres. John B. Ambrose to W. B. Osborne, pt south side lot 1, Pleasantville. Our Six Ysar Old Daughter. Our little six-year-old daughter had a very sore throat, badly ulcerated, and coughed almost incessantly., Ga\% the White Wine of Tar Syrup according to directions and she began to improve immediately and soon got well. Mrs. Groves and I have recommended it to others, and we consider it the very best medicine in use. Rev. D.H. Groves, pastor M. E. church, Clarksville, Mo. Soi l by Paul Bros. m

Frank & Son. Wanted 50,000 Pounds • of Wool. Highest Cash Price Paid. M. Frank & on.

TOWN TRUSTEES* MEETING. The New Hoard and Other Officers sword In. The town trustees met in regular session last Thursday evening at the sheriff's office in the court house with all members present and Harris pre- ! siding. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. The committee on streets reported that some very nice work had been completed, but that nothing had been done for several days past. The committee stated, however, that some steps must be taken to have the proper grades made and grade posts

set. 2. T. Woods appeared before the board and asked that White River avenue be opened up for public use. Referred to future meeting's. The sidewalk committee reported nothing done since last meeting. William Liibs. the outgoing treasurer, submitted his report, which was. referred to F. J. Patterson and G. tk Martin, auditing committee. Adam A. Lory, the outgoing marshalj submitted his report, which showed over $900 collected as license, etc., by him during the-year. Marion Jones presented a petition to the board asking that his property be annexed to the corporation. Referred to future meetings for consideration. The following bills were read and ; allowed: Electric tight Co., lighting .f 1ST iO V. R. Greene, attorney 8 33 V. U. Greene,attorney in Kitumtn case 25 fo s. Thompson, printing ... 12 00 W. V. Hargrove <Jt Co., merchandise. 45 Read & Limp, hardware., 11 S5 Joseph Lory, tinware .15 Charles Week,blacksmithing . 175 A. A. Lory,marshal's salary. hi 07 J. R. Chew, time check . ... .. ...... l as M. McC. Stoops, printing 2 25 W. G. Finney,water works committee H 87 E. R. Kiag, water works committee to 72 s. J. Haines, water works committee.. 17 02 Wm.-Llibs. salary asIreasurer . . .. 150 00 Court House Precinct, election expense 31 00 Read Precinct, election exoense 31 00 Hickson Precinct, election expense . 30-50 A. W. Selby, services as clerk 8 33 A. W. Selhy, tally slieeis and poll books 5 00 T. It. Rice, services trus'ee . 22 00 ,W. G. Finney, services trustee. 22 00 l*. 0. Smith, services trustee 8 00 (Mint Malott, services trestee. ft 00 Wm. Liibs, time checks . }99 83 Harry Fleming, street work 2 «0 Total .|8tH 40 The subject of establishing grades was again sprung with a little more vigor and also the question of water works. A motion prevailed that a committee, be appointed to consult with engineers regarding the probable cost of making the grades and drawing plans and specifications. Dr. T. R. Rice and A. W. Selby were appointed as a committee. A motion prevailed that the garbage ordinance be enforced and that bids be received for removing all garbage from the city at least twice a week. The official bonds of Isaac Higgins as marshal, P. K. Heuring as treasurer, and A. W. Selby as clerk, were read and approved. As this concluded the work of the board the new officers were sworn in and they proceeded to business by

electing E. J. Harris president. The president then appointed the following committees: On sidewalks, George D. Martin and W. G. Finney. ! On streets, P. O. Smith and F. J. Patterson. I The new trustees and officers all gave their views as to the working of the streets and the sidewalk business, and finally left the matter in the hands of the committee. The marshal was instructed to work all men full time on the streets. Before winding up the business it was necessary to elect an attorney for the coming year. Some wanted to postpone the matter to the next meeting. Finally the name of V. R. Greene was presented. There being no other name presented Mr. Greene was elected. The salaries of the officers were were fixed as follows: Attorney, $100: clerk, $120: treasurer, $150: marshal, $40 per month. There being no other business thetrustees adjourned to meet next Thursday night. Asthma in Worst Form Relieved. Miss Maud Dickens, Parsons, Kansas, writes: I suffered eight years with asthma in its worst form. I had several attacks during the last year and was not expected to live through j them. I began using Foley's Honey j and Tar and it has never failed to | give immediate relief. I recommend it tq all those suffering with asthma. 25 and 50c. J.* R. Adams & Son. m Mui.es for Sale.—I have a span of young mules for sale that are good workers and are in good condition. ( '.all at flouring mill.

"PIKE COUNTY BILL. Some of Ills Eccentricities Noted by a St. Louis Lady. "Yell for Hancock and I’ll give you a stick of candy.” That is my first recollection of Pike County Bill Hayes, said Mrs. H. R. Henderson of 1825 Kennett place, St. Louis, to a Post Dispatch reporter. . "He was buried last week at White Oak, Pike county, Indiana, by the merriest crowd that ever followed a man to his last resting place. * “He was the oldest man I ever knew. No one knows how old he was, nor how much land he owned. My mother, Mrs. R. Schuetter, says he was an old man when she was a little girl. He owned so much land that when anyone asked him for a price on a piece of it he would say: ‘I’ll go

over to tne county cienc ana see u it is mine.’ ‘•He was in Indiana when the Indians owned the land. He had three passions—decoration of himself and all that belonged to him, his violin and the democratic party. He would cover himself and his horse with ribbons. If given a photograph or any picture he would pin it on his coat and wear it. He was always ready to play the only tune he knew and imagined that he played divinely. He loved anyone that yelled for Hancock or Tilden, or Cleveland or Bryan, and he hated anyone who yelled for Garfield, Hayes, Blaine, Harrison or McKinley. Any child who would hurrah for the democratic candidate was sure of a big stick of barber-pole candy, and he'd buy a dress for any woman he could induce to hurrah his way.” Over the newly made grave of this peculiar old Indiana pioneer is a handsome marble tombstone bearing the legend: WILLIAM WARNER HAYES. BORN A DEMOCRAT AND DIED A DEMOCRAT.

! Bluegrass and personal peculiarities seem to flourish in the same localities. The Kentucky colonel and Tennessee judge types are familiar, but few know that Indiana is nearly as nuch of a blue grass state as either Kentucky or Tennessee. It is a fact, however, that old. Tippecanoe Harrison and his men pastured their horses on natural bluegTass meadows in the Wabash valley. Southwestern Indiana, when they were fighting Indians, years and years before Kentucky came to be known as the Bluegrass state. Whether the color of the grass had anything to do with it or net the fact remains that in Pike county— the heart of the bluegrass country of Indians—there lived and died or e of the most eccentric persons any locality has ever known. When he was born, and where and how long he lived in the locality where he came to be known as an institution rather than individual, no living person can say with certainty, but Pike County Bill Hayes was an old man when elderly people, now living, were children.” An Old Timer, The Democrat's old frier d, J. R. Criswell of Buckskin, in remitting to the Democrat, writes as follows: Buckskin, Ind., May ft, ’99. Editor Democrat:—I am yet alive through the blessed kindness of an Alhvise and merciful God, yet my health is very bad; my hear ag is so much impaired by head catarrh that I cannot hear public speaking to do any good at all. Yet I am blessed with eyesight to read almost anything, especially Bryan's speeches. He is one of the best speakers in this nation. He surely is the poor man's friend. I can’t see how the poor men in the republican party can vote j against him. There are as many poor j men in the republican party i ad some ; of them are like Job's turkey, as the old saying is, so very poor that they have to lean up against the: ence to gobble. But there is com ing a time when the kings, the rich, tie mighty men, the bulls and the bears anl the oppressors of the poor, v/1 o have robbed the laborer out of :iis just rights, who will hide in the c en and caves and call for the rooks and mountains to fall on them and hide them from the presence cf Sod, for the great day of his wrath ins come, and who shall be able to stsun.. ~ Yours truly, J. R. Crieovtili,, A »4-year-old Democrat. When Weak, Weary and W sted From kidney diseases, why not try Uranteed L! A lama

MAY WEATHER. „ - Itev. lllt'ks Prognosticates Weather for the Month of May. Parson Hicks has issued his weather proclamation for May and predicts numerous storms of rain, wind and thunder. Of the final spring month he says: “May brings from the 1st to the 3rd a regular yulcan storm period. Very warm weather,falling barometer and rain storms will prevail, passing from western to eastern parts during the 1st to 4th. Two or three days of cooler weather will lead up to a change and vulcanary storms on and touching the 8th and 9th. followed by cool nights with frost north. From the 12th to the 15th falls another storm period, calling for-change to warmer, fallinir barometer and numcr.

our storms of rain, wind andthunder. At this time of year all angry storm clouds should be carefully watched.' Look for cool nights and frost about 14 to 16th. The 17th and 18th are central days of reactionary disturbances, to be followed by change to cooler from 19th to 22nd. A regular storm period intensified by mercury, full moon and approaching Venus Equine^c, covers the 23rd to 27th. Many heavy storms, some of them tornadic, will occur at this time.’5 His Life Was Saved. Mr. J. E, Lilly, a prominent citizen of Hannibal. Missouri, lately had a wonderfut deliverance front a frightful death. In telling of it he says: ‘T was taken with typhoid fever, that ran into pneumonia. My lungs became hardened I was so weak I couldn’t even sit up in bed. Nothing helped me. I expected to soon die of consumption when I heard of Dr. King’s New Discovery. One bottle gave great relief. I continued to use it, and now am well and strong. I can’t say too much in its praise.” * This marvelous medicine is the surest and quickest cure in the world for all throat and lung trouble. Regular sizes 30 cents and $1.00. Trial bottles free at J. R. Adams & Son’s drug store; every bottle guaranteed. Men's blue camlet pants, 39 cents; men's heavy plow shoes, 98 cents: men’s goat slcin work gloves, 19 cents; men's plaid work waists, 13 cents: men's heavy cotton sox. 3 cents: boys’ tow linen knee pants, 24 cents. Bargain day every day. * Star Clothing House.

m m HOOK AND LINE. ''T&B Klshlntt is Xot Prohibited La and Ponds. After nearly every authority in the state has had a try at juggling with the crazy fish law enacted by the recent legislature. Z. T. Sweeney, the fish commissioner, has discovered that there was an error in the synopsis which he sent out recently and he now sends the following corrections whichc places a^new light on the law altogether. All lake denizens can fish to their heart's delight the year around with hook and line. The corrections are as follows: Section 4 makes an absolute closed season during May and June in all streams of the state, and a closed season in all wate|jggg. the state from the first of January to the first of April, and from the first of May to the first of July, except with hook acd VS

m line;. According to Mr. Sweeney's cotstruetion, which & .sustained by the attorney-general, It is unlawful to fish with a hook and line in any stream in the state during the month of May and June. The law, however, does not prohibit fishing in the lakes at any time during theyear. County Board Of Education. The Pike county board of educaticn met at Winslow May 1,1£W, Trustees’ reports of enumeration were received, kfter which adjournment was made to meet May 2nd. The board of education passed the following resolutiors: That trustees uniform manuscript for bi-monthly examinations. That each corporation bear the expense of holding graduating exerciser. That the county superintendent arrange a course of study for graded schools and a list of books suitable for ‘ their use. and present the ^ame to^ the board of education at its September meeting. That tuition on transfer of pupils be the same as the per capita allowance made by the< state. Adjournment. W. S. <&>RN, Chairman. S. D. Johnson. Secy. Ben Ehrlich of St. Louis, will open a cigar manufactory In this city in a few weeks. He has for sometime been a traveling salesman for the W. A. Stickler cigar company. He will employ several men and manufacture a firstclass grade of cigars. -

1 SVvoc awd SVvppeT SaVe . . " ; . ■ ■ . , ■ -\W^ -.i -A.X t:sxe •- - • •/ V ■ Xe\» - - S\ove\ We Kill place ou sale 5,000 pairs La lies’, Me »>, Misses’ and Children’s S».o» and Slippers at prices never before quote! in Petersburg. This sale will continue during the months of May and June. Call in and get prices and be convinced. \

Ladies' Shoes. 10t pairs Ladies’ Shoes, patent £ .leather tip, worth fi 00, for .... * 80 pairs lace, patent leather tip, solid leather and counter sole, -i worth $1.50, for_ . _ ,t_ \ 2S> pairs lace or button, ail styles, patent leather stock tip. tan or -i hlaek leather or cloth top; a A shoe that retails everywhere at * tS-Wefor ._ 01 pairs Custom Made Shoes, tan or black, either vesting or <.) leather top; retails everywhere “ else at J3.0U. will go for. Ladies' SUppers. 50 pairs off Ladies' Slippers,worth 75c, will go at.. 150 pairs of Pearl Slippers iu tan, from 3 to 5. worth 86c. for. 150 pairs Slippers, from 3 to 5. in biack, chocolate and cloth top, worth from $1.25 to#2 00, will be closed out at .. ... SO pairs Slippers, custom made, latest style, vesting top, tan or 1 black, worth $1 75, for. A Boys' Shoes. 100 pairs Boys’ Top Notch Shoes. Satin Calf, from 3 to 5, worth i *1 58, for.. -*• 84 pairs Boys’ Satin Calf, from 13 to 2, worth fl^i, for. 75 00 25 00 45 65 95 25 00 90

Misses' Slippers. 150 pairs Slippers, from IS to 2, worth 73e, for 8» pairs Children's Slippers, from 2 to a, worth 75c, tor /S?;' .... ■ Misses' Shoes. 129 pairs of onr Lulu Shoe*, from 12 to 2. worth (1225, for....... ..;. 90 pairs of our Lulu Shoes, from 8 to 11 worth (1.00. for .. ... ... $ 40 19) pairs Slippers, ox-blood or chocolate, lace or sandal, worth 51.25, for . .. 101 pairs of Lulu patent leather tip spring heel.fromS toS, worth 75e, for ..... ........ 150 pairs Children's Shoes, from 2 too. worth 25c, for . Men's Shoes. 150 pairs Sal in Calf, Lace or Congress, worth 1 50, for . .■*.{&/ - 100 pairs stood Working Shoes, worth (125, lor 300 pairs Men's black or tat>. vesting top. retad.s everywhere else, for #2 00 - .... uC .. 95 50 90 75 60 15 95 95 1 35 led pairs of Men’s Custom Made Shoes, eongress or lace, tan or O r»A black Vlei Kid, worth (3. for w el Our (4.00 Men’s Princeton Shoes g QQjg 1

Remember, this will be a big saving sale on your Shn-s. Come early while von have a larger stock to select from, as we always carry ore of the largest Stocks of Shoes in town. If you are hard to fit it will pay yon to visit our store. Remember the place, next door to Adams & Sou’s drug store, in Smith Osborn’building. , New York Store. Petersburg, Ind. !»SSa«HB9S<