Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 10, Petersburg, Pike County, 14 July 1899 — Page 1

BRIEF LOCAL ITEMS. Short Pnrngrnplis Items Briefly Told— t'oneernlnjr the People, Get our prices on fruit cans and wax at McAtee’s. 10-2 All summer clothing at reduced prices at the New York store. Miss Berenice Frank has returned from her visit toCincinnati relatives. __£__ Abe* t’ole, the Oakland t ’ity attorney, was in the city Monday attending court. George \W Loveless of Logan township. was in town Tuesday transacting business.* No marriage licenses have been issued by the county clerk during the past week. , The weather this week has been extremely warm, and the nights comparatively cool. Marshall Kime and Miss Grace Stuckey visited friends at Oakland I’ity last Sunday. John H. O’Neal and .T. W. Ogden, Washington attorneys, were in the city Wednesday attending court.

t'vclists will find Banner Salve the ’ most healing remedy for cuts, bumps and bruises. 2“> cents. J. R. Adams & Son. j 'The trial of James Nicely, charged with rape, has been continued until the November term of the circuit court. He Will remain in jail. Peter Drof has just received a large supply of barrel and bulk lime. Portland and Liouisville cement. Acme plaster, hair, etc. He buys old junk of every description. Will and Mrs. Lamb, living three , juiles west of town, entertained a number of young people from this city last Tuesday evening. <A pleasant time was had by all present. J. Ernst of Waterville. Washington, is visiting relatives near Winslow. He w’as a former resident of the r county and this is his first visit here in IT years. t He finds many changes1 in that time. Head & Lee completed the well at the county farm last Friday. At a depth of !M> feet a splendid flow of water was secured which stands in the well to a depth of T.*> feet. The well is sufficient to supply water for all purposes at the asylum. Dr. Stork of Stendal, was in town Tuesday on business. The doctor is just completing one of the finest offices it* the county on his residence, lot. The building has two rooms, the front will be used as an office and the rear as an operating room. The doctor enjoys a large practice in that section $of the county.

Cio to H. H. Tislow for all kinds of watch and clock repairs. . 28* (i. J. Nichols and wife were at Evans- ! ville yesterday ^hopping. flood watches and clocks for little money at Hammond & Rime's. 10-4 Hon. II. J. Wiggg, near Arthur, was in the city yesterday on business. A large number of young people visited Sulphur Springs lsst Sunday. Mrs. Flora Ridgway and daughters visited relatives at Winslow last Sunday. _* Miss Ola Woolsey, near Arthur, is the guest of her brother. L. E. Woolsey, this week. Rev. T. i\ Probert and family will j leave today for a two weeks* visit with relatives in Ohio. The sixteen-months-old son of Edvfard Preston, living at Alford, died yesterday morning. William (1. Beadles, an old veteran living near Noxid has had his pension increased to $12 per month.

Iiyron Brenton and wife and Keller ; Heuring and wife were the guests of 'Winslow friends last^ Sunday. , The Pike county medical society met in this city this afternoon. Several physicians were present. If you are look in g for nice, cool i negligee shirts, call at the New York store. That is the place to look for" them. William Limp has commenced the erection of a fine residence on Depot street, where he has been liviug for sometime past. A tired, sleepy, bilious ill is cured by Dr. Sawyer's Little Wide Awake Pills. Little Wide Awake Pills regulate the stomach and liver and till the bill. Paul Bros. j Judge Marsh of Jeffersonville, is holding court this week owing to the illness of Judge Ely. The trial list I forgthe term is very small. A number of state and civil cases have been coni tinued. | U-,-Hon. J. D. Williams will sell his personal property consisting of live stock and farming implements at public ; .sale, Tuesday, -August 1st. preparatory to moving to Vincennes, where : he will take charge of the auditor's office in November. The new U. B. church near the Williams cemetery in Madison town- ■ ship, will be dedicated Sunday. July -Jrd. Dr. Matthews of Dayton, Ohio, ^editor of the Telescope, will preach the dedicatory sermon. Presiding , Elder Hobson of Washington, and Miss f'happell, evangelist of Corydon, ; will also be present and attend the | dedication and basket dinner.

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Of 137 Handsomely Tailored, absolutely AH Wool thoroughly reliable Many of these Suits are rightfully worth $10 and $12. We have just finished going through our stock of Clothing, matching up and sorting out Odd Suits. We found too many Broken Lots, which means we must suffer a loss on every suit, as we are compelled to sacrifice them at low prices

in order to keep our stock clear. If «you should not find a fit in the Odd Suits just mentioned, we will give you choice of our Black and Blue Serge Suits at SZ.48 The Fabric in these Suits we Guarantee to be absolutely All Wool and Fast Color. We are confident that no other store can produce as good a value for less money $10. We have marked them at $7.48, knowing that a price so low on such dependable suits will reduce our stock considerably. Remember, we have a good selection of Summer Clothing, such as Crash and tLinen Suits, Black Luster and Alpacca Coats and Vests, Boys’ Linen Suits and Knee Pants. * flSTA Prize with every $5.00 purchase’*1©® PETERSBURG, INDIANA.

Groceries at McAtee*. Cheapest place in the city. 10-2 Fine repairing given prompt attention at Hammond & Kime’s. 10-4 Miss Della Lee is visiting friends and relatives at Winslow this week. W.H. Scales.county auditor, visited his parents at Augusta last Sunday. William ('. Richardson, near Winslow. was in town Wednesday on business. , , ' T. C. Nelson, trustee of Marion township, was in the city yesterday on business. Mrs. Isaac Lane and Mrs. Erastus Johnson visited with friends at Winslow last Sunday. The kissing -jbug has made its appearance in several cities, taking the place of “Jack?, the Kisser.’* J. S. Ridge, George Dearing and James Bolling of Marion township, were in town Monday on business. The Indianapolis News was sold Wednesday at receiver’s sale to Delaven Smith of Chicago for ■ttKiii.OOO. Nelson Stone of Huntingburg, visited his parents near town this week. He is still engaged in the hotel business. S. B. Roach and wife of Mason City, Illinois, are the guests of Rev. J. W. and Mrs. Elder this week. Mr. Roach is postmaster of his city. The gas well is down over J(K) feet. Work has been suspended owing to the insufficient supply of water to be had for steam purj>oses.1 Hon. W. E. Cox of Jasper, was in the city ov£r Sunday visiting friends. He is being talked of as a candidate for congress in his district. When in town stop at the Patterson House. You w ill find first class ac commodations. -*>0* ^ Joe Patterson, Prop. A mass meeting of coal miners was held at Winslow Thursday afternoon. The attendance was very large. National Committeeman Fred Dilcher addressed the audience.

Judge Ely's health continues to improve from the operation which he underwent for appendicitis, and he will be able to Be out again and attend to his duties in a few weeks. The popularity of Dr. ? Sawyers Ukatine as a kidney cure is far-reach-ing, as it permanently cures all kidney disorders and brings you back to the realm of perfect health that insures true happiness. Paul Bros, j E. E. Watts, engineer of the proposed macadam roads in Washington township, will finish the preliminary work Saturday. The Winslow road ‘will be last surveyed. It will take | some time to make the profiles and specifications. Notice.—‘The town trustees have passed a general health ordinance, which imposes on me the duty of enforcing. In obedience therewith residents feeding hogs within the corporate limits must remove them at once and abate all nuisances. The ordinance will be enforced. 10-2 I. Higgins, Marshal. George McAtee of near Oatsville, was arrested yesterday by Marshal Hopkins on a paternity charge sworn by a girl near Patoka. The gentleman was held for the county officers, and Deputy Sheriff Dick Tingle came up yesterday afternoon and escorted him to the county bastile, where-he is now awaiting trial.—Oakland City Journal.

Ross Robling, the young coal miner who was accused of being an accomplice to William Lockhart, the shoplifter, was given a package of a different nature immediately after he cleared himself of being in with Lockhart. Marshal Haley found a pair of brass knucks on Robling's person and arrested him ou a charge of carrying concealed weapons. He was fined $1 and costs.—Princeton Clarion. v - Petersburg proposes to join the good roads procession. On Friday, June 23d, the commissioners acted on a petition filed by more that 50 freeholders, asking for the appointment of a civil engineer and two viewers, to prepare plans for about twenty-five miles of macadam roads. The board appointed E. E. Watts of Princeton, civil engineer, and Messrs. James Shepard and Albert Johnson viewers, and ordered them to complete their work as soon as possible and then an election will be called. The Enquirer wishes the people of Petersburg and Washington township success.—Boonville Enquirer.

LOCAL BREVITIES. | The News fathered From Various Farts of the County. Engraving free on all goods sold by Hammond & Kime. 10*4 Alex Whaley of Jefferson township. was in town Wednesday on business. ? . -— ---- ’ George B. Ashby transacted business at Washington Tuesday and Wednesday. ' Miss Ada Steel is visiting her sister Mrs. James Dejournett at Littles this week. When in town call and see us and inspect our printing outfit. All are welcome. The contract for building the water works will be let one week from next Wednesday. • Miss Mamie Ernst of Brownstown, is the guest of S A. Goss and wife on East Main street. D. (£. Chappell of Evansville, was in the city this week attending court and visiting old friends. A. L. Edwards, the photographer, is one among the happiest fathers in the city. It's a boy of the usual weight. C. M. Eaton of California, visited his sister. Mrsl Viola Bergen, in this city last week, returning home Monday. Genoia C. Potter of Sophia, was in town Tuesday on business. He is one of the operators of the Jackson mines at that place. Cooling and- soothing in its effects, you will find Dr. Sawyer's Arnica and Witch Hazel Salve for eczema, piles, hives, burns and cuts. Paul Bros, j There is considerable talk about Alger, of army beef reputation, resigning from the cabinet. Up to the time of going to press Alger still holds on with a good grip.

The Robson theater company will open for a week's engagement in this city next Monday evening. The large tent will be located -on the Dodds addition. See ad in another column., The whiskey trust of America has organized with $125,000,000 capital in New Jersey, the state that sends a solid republican delegation to Congress and gave McKinley £“,6i>2 majority. New Jersey is the home of trusts. Elder A. J. Willis of Madison township, will move to Oakland City next Monday, where he will reside in the future. It will be more convenient to his pastoral work., He is a splendid ; citizen and will be missed by the people of his township. Our best wishes go with him to his new home and field of labor. John Ayers, one of the old residents of Algiers, died Wednesday morning of paralysis after an illness of several months. Last fall sometime he was stricken with paralysis and never fully recovered. He was aged T3 years. The funeral services were held yesterday afternoon conducted by Rev. Kerr, and interment at the McClure ! cemetery. Manager Peyton of the Cumberland telephone exchange, has just issued a new list to subscribers. There are 205 names on the list. There are a large number of farmers using phones which is a great convenience to them. It will be but a short time until there will be a telephone in every neighborhood in the county and every hamlet will be connected with the Petersburg exchange.

There are in this county a great variety of beets and beats—there is the pulse beat, the heart beat, the policeman's beat, the sugar beet, the red beet, and the dead beat. The last is a species of biped very .numerous and takes the paper for several years, and then when requested to pay up, throws the paper back into the postoffice marked “refused.” This is the genuine dead beat and it grows in'all parts of the country. The school trustees of this city fiaye employed the teachers for the .coming year. The corps remains practically the same with the exception of Prof. J. M. Hinkle of Pond ('reek Mills, who has been employed as assistant principal. He has been a student of the state and DePauw universities and coines highly recommended. The following are the teachers: W. H. Foreman, superintendent: J. H. Risley, principal; J. M. Hinkle, assistant; Miss Frank R. Taylor, grammar department; and Misses Sallie Catt, Kate Coats, Sarepta Dean, Daisy Anderson, Dee McGowen,Ida Basinger and Nellie Lingo. W. K. Davidson has been employed as janitor. The schools will begin in September.

These are gold standard times. How do you like ’em? 4 Belt buckles and chains only 2*» cents at Hammond & Rime's. 10-4 All summer goods at the New York store will be closed out at reduced prices. Several K. of P's. attended the installation of officers at Winslow last Friday night. Pike county received #4.171.<39 pf school funds more than she paid into the state treasury. The best cabinet photos 7.‘> c„ents per dozen. Gallery next door to Lory’s tinshop. J. H. Nazor. The hay crop this year in Pike county is splendid and thousands of tons is being put up. The price is low however. Misses Berenice Frank and Estella Frank will leave next week for Battle Greek. Michigan, where they will remain several weeks.

•Tames Shepard, one of the viewers of the proposed macadam roads of Washington township, has been quite ilLthis week at his home in Spurgeon. ^loq-is Frank, who had his right thumb cut off last week while doing some work at the Goslin planing mill, is getting along very well. Dr. T. It. ltice is attending him. Uncle Frank Bilderback of Gabel, ex-auditor of the county, was in the city Monday last on business. He is in good health and says the cause of silver in his locality is on the boom. Lost.—Itoad receipt book of Lockhart township, somewhere on the public highway between Stendal and Winslow, last Tuesday. Finder will please return to J. L. Bass, trustee, or to this oi$ce. This office is headquarters for all classes of job printing. New styles of type and fine stationery to select from. Give us your next order and we will please you with the neatness of our work. Good work at reasonable prices. .!« The editors of the Petersburg News and Press, each for himself, wants the other sent to the penitentiary. The News does not believe that either deserves quite so se vere punishment, but it would certainly be in the interest of decent journalism at Petersburg should they both succeed in their desires.—Huntingburg News.

There will be an old-fashioned basket meeting held at Union chapel, Tuesday, July 25th. in connection with the fourth quarterly meeting of the Union charge. M. B. church. Services morning, afternoon and night. Dr. Talbott, the presiding elder, will be present, assisted by other able ministers. t'ome with baskets well filled. At Shelbvyille, the mayor has instructed the marshal to arrest women who appear on the street-|n a “Mother Hubbard.** A woman appeared on the streets in a “Mother Hubbard?* and in a state of intoxication she was arrested for intoxication, and indecent dress, she was fined in both cases and the above order given. In Petersburg they can do as they please and are never molested.

1 he damage case of Joseph W . Vincent against Thomas W. Traylor, vyas to be commenced this afternoon. Vincent asks $.*>00l\damages. He alleges that Traylor alienated the affections of his (Vincent's) wife. When the case was called the defense moved to continue the case on account of the absence of an important witness. The court sustained the motion and the case was continued until next term. Judge Dillon. Virgil Greene and F. B. Posey are the attorneys for the plaintiff. W. E. L'ox, A. H. Taylor and A. J. Padgett represent the defendant.—Washington Gazette. About six weeks ago Jabex Woolley of Petersburg, submitted a draft’ of an ordinance to the council of this city granting him a franchise to pipe natural gas or oil for the purpose of fuel or lights through the streets aud alleys. After mature deliberation the council on last Monday night passed the ordinance in its entirety, and in , accordance with its provisions we ! haye reason to expect that within ninety days Mr. Woolley wifi be engaged in sinking a well in the immediate vicinity of this city. The fact that gas has been found in paying quantities at Petersburg and Loogootee; and in lesser quantities at Princeton and other points in Southern Indiana justifies the hope that it may l»e found here, antf-jn the opinion of the News the council did a wise thing in granting Mr. Woolley permission to seek for it.—Huntingburg News.

Rev. William Ridge of Nox in town Monday on business. Bolen Frsery of Augusta, town Wednesday on business. Rev. Chesser and James W. fudge of Xoxid, wejte in town Monday on business. You can sfcve fifty percent on la misses’ andjchildren's slippers New York store. The national convention Epworth League will be Indianapolis next week. A Philadelphia girl has brought suit for 125,000 damages against a young druggist who squeezed her hand awful hard. V--: . .v£|f Miss Ella McGowan lef t Wedoesday _ noon fur Murphy. California, w^gre she will visit an uncle. She will le absent for several months. ;ill The world would be gloomy were there no light in the dark; picture of ill health. Get rid p your kidney trouble by using Dr. Sa wyer’s Ukatine. Paul Bros. \;ll§y.' Eight out of the seventeen coal operators in this district have signed the wage scale and the ^niimts have returned to work. Only one*cone in this county is running at the vresent time. ■ " The Democrat office has beeo^jry busy the past week in its job lephrtment. a part of the time three printers being necessarv. Call ant see us when in need of' printing of any kind. Firstclass work at reasonable prices. New type and good stock. "Man’s Apprehension of Truth” is the subject of the morning sermon at the Presbyterian church next Sunday morning.' In the evening the pastor will deliver, his lecture on "TkeFri*|t*» of Christianity.” It will be followed in two weeks by one on "The Fruits of Infidelity.’’ -=-'■ —,-- ' Notice.—All persons knowirgtJheia* selves indebted to me will pleasec&U and make settlement by the first of August. 18l>9, as all notes and; ceounts not settled by the above date will be placed in the hands of an attorney for collection with costs of collection added the’reto. i> 4 W. H. Smith. M. D.

Isaac Rosenberg was arrest .‘d Wednesday afternoon on a warrai tsworn out by Harvard Stearnesy charging him with false pretense. le was taken before Judge Marsh, w iere he plead not guilty to the charge and b is case continued until next Wednesday. He is a cigar maker and was id the ■-.V employ of Stearnes about a year ago. S. G. Davenport will defend hit The Ladies' aid society will gife a mid-summer garden fete, grasstramping and southern evening's entertainment at the home of Mesoames Snyder andGullick.Thursday evening, July 20. "Among the many an casements provided for the evening will be a "Childrens* Cake Walk,** in which about ten well trained couples will participate. Good music will be furnished. All kinds of refreshdi^pa^ will be served. Everybody is invifed. Admission free. When you are convinced thgtt a paper is dishonest, deceitful, sto^lt When convinced that it is unclean stop it. When it lacks enter;* and fails to give you the news.stop it. But don't stop a paper you believe to be honest, courageous, enterprising and clean simply because the editor has written his own sincere views and not yours or somebody else's for if you are putting a premium on cere journalism. and servingipotice on an editor that the way to success is to write what he thinks will please his readers, instead of what he honestly believes to be the trut Mrs. Clevie Bates Smith, wife of J. O. Smith, one of the prominent young farmers of Madison townshijyJftied last Thursday evening of consumption, after an illness of nearly twocyears. She was born March 8, She Was an accomplished woman an<l some years ago attended school in this city making her home with her uncle,Hon. E. P. Pic herd son. She was the daughter of Mrs. J. J. Bowman of Madison township. She was a favorite with all whom She became acquainted and had many friends in this city. Her funeral was conducted by Rev. jfciW. Elder, pastor of the C. P. church, at the residence of J. J. Bowman Sunday morning. The funeral was one of the larges; ever held in that to? attesting the friendship whtel made in her lifetime. Interment in Waim t Hills cemetery this city^fl|he leaves a husband to mourn the loss of a loving and nolle wife, and ^pge circle of friends and relatives,