Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 11, Petersburg, Pike County, 21 July 1899 — Page 1

VOL. XXX. PETERSBURG, IND.. FRIDAY, JULY 21, 189).

BRIEF LOCAL ITEMS. Short Paragraphs Items Briefly ToldConrernlnK the People. * I*rentice Martin has been quite sick during the past week. I 1 P. H. Beatty, near Arthur, was in { town Friday last on business. Good watches and clocks for little money at Hammond & Kime’s. 10-4 Mell Go wens of (lay township, transacted business in the city Monday. Squire Williams of Madison township, was in town on business affairs Monday. Willard Morrison moved into his new residence on Upper Main street last week. Dr. Elwood Gray of Iva, returned to Indianapolis Monday to pursue Kis medical studies. $ Youcansave fifty percent on ladies’, misses’ and children’s slippers at the New York store. Miss Nannie Martin, employed as clerk at the New Yoik store, is visiting relatives at Vincennes this week.

The county teachers’institute will be held in this city commencing September 11th and lasting for one week. Harry Fleming, Eugene King, .Tames. Greene and Bernard Treanor went to Washington last Friday to see Robinson's circus. Threshermen are all busy, this being their busy time. It is predicted that threshing will not last long owing to the large number of machines. The world would be gloomy indeed were there no light in the dark pic^ire of ill health. Get rid of your kidney trouble by using Dr. Sawyer's Ukatine. Paul Bros. j W. Hursey, who recently moved here with his family from Iowa, was a caller at this office Tuesday .morning. They will remain here several months. Be is a very pleasant gentlemon. This office is in receipt of the souvenir edition of the Princeton Reader-Clarion. It is neat and shows up the interests of that city and Gibson county in a very advantageous style. ______ • Postmaster and Mrs. Charles Ratter of Stendal, are the proud parents of a little girl baby, born Monday. Grandpa Katter now has two grandaughters and eight grandsons, and is one of the happiest men in Pike county.- Hunti ngburg Independent! This office does job printing of all descriptions. When in need of anything let us hear from you by mail or call at the office. We use firstclass paper in all work and have'fhe latest designs in type faces;, See’our saprples of work before leaving your orderselsewhere. "}

The Freeport Journal has discovered a way to get rid of flies: “People in the country who are annoyed by flies should remember that clusters of the fragrant clover which grows 3 abundantly by every roadside; if hung; in the room and left to dry and shed its faint'fragrant perfume through the air, will drive away more flies than sticky saucers of molasses and other fly papers can ever collect.” ---4 Uncle Billy Bradfleld, as he was familiarly called, died at his home in? Algiers, Saturday, July 15th. He was born in Virginia, thirty miles south of Washington, D. C., eighty-four years ago. He helped construct the flrst railroad fein* the United States, the Baltimore & Ohio. He came to Ohio and subsequently to Indiana. He has been in business at Algiers for the last thirty-six years, The funeral was held Monday morning and interment at the Morrison cemetery. The i funeral sermon will be preached at some time in the future. , Many good items of news are lost to the newspapers by the modfsty of the people, who hesitate to tell the reporters of matte rseoncerning them-! selves. Not that they do not want td | appear in print, but; that they are afraid they would be pushing themselves forward. This is a wrong idea. From a reportorial standpoint, the man who will stop,.in newspaper reporter on the street and inform Iran that he has been to Louisville or some other city, that he is going to get married, or his wife entertained friends from a distance is the best man alive. May his like increase: throughout the earth. If you have jlone anything mean or disreputable it isn’t necessary to tell it, for there are always plenty of people who will do thatffor you. It is the good things al>out yourself and neighborhood that the newspaper man wants you to give him. . L'—■(?*-* .. ... I > . •> 3 y ' j ...... ...

Engraving free on all goods sold by Hammond & Kime. k 10-4 Kri Demic of Hosmer,5 transacted business in the city Monday. J. K. Patterson of Oakland City, was in the city Monday on business. All summer goods at the New York store will be closed out at reduced prices. _ S. G. Davenport transacted business at Washington Monday in the Daviess circuit court. D. E. Taylor, one of the prominent school teachers qf Marion township, was in townMpnday on business. Miss Ethel Davidson of Vincennes, is visiting W. E. Lamb and family, west of town. $ J.j O. Houkins. representing the Baldwin piano company, was in the city Monday looking up business interests. When in town stop at the Patterson House. You will find first class ac^ commodations. •

•'*0* Joe Patterson. Prop. The kissing-bug has made its appearance in this city, several persons having experienced the sting produced by the new and unpopular bug. 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 fill the bill. Paul Bros. j The street crossings Sunday and Monday after the rains were in a fearful condition. The marshal should take time to clean them off. The attention of the trustees is called to the matter. _ The revenue laws seem to be mighty hard'to interpret. A ruling is made that it shall be made so and so and in a short time thereafter it is revoked. The law should be plainly interpreted so that* the people will thoroughly understand it. The Democrat is the largest paper published in Pike county and gives the news from .every quarter of the globe and also the local happenings of the county.. There is no paper* in the county that gives a news services near so complete. Compare all publications._ The people are talking very favorable of the system of proposed macadam roads. Of course there are those who are opposed to such an enterprise, thinking that it will cost too much. To those we would say investigate the worth of good roads to any community and the advantages they will give you in the rainy seasons of the year. Potatoe growers in Pike county are marveling at the total absence of the potato bug pest, which usually has appeared long before the latter part of June in this locality. None of the bugs is to be seen and the potato plants are growing as they never grew before. Thb theory of the farmers is that the extremely cold weather of last February, which killed the wheat also destroyed the bugs.

While Ira Wallace was plowing' corn in the bottom near London last Tuesday about five o'clock, a paper balloon alighted*-in the field near the horses. The horses became frightened and would have ran away but the lines became entangled around the wheels of the cultivator so that the horses could not run. Upon examination it was found that the balloon bqre a card with a company's name at Petersburg, where they were engaged in a hardware store. They were advertising ranges.—Possum Hollow item in Washington Gazette. Township officials in Wabash county claim to have made a discovery which practically emasculates the new township reform law, in so far as it applies to the affairs of the district schools under their jurisdiction. The township reform act was passed by the legislature February 27th, and the special act which makes the trustee an autocrat in the control of the schools, was passed March fith. One of the clauses of the last named statute repeals all acts in conflict therewith, and, as the reform act was passed a week prior, it is said by the trustees’ legal advisprs that all provisions of the reform law relating to the schools are invalidated and that the trustees will manage the schools in compliance with the last law. Some of the trustees in that county have been advised to act under the latter law in awarding all school contracts, and it is probably a test case will be | made as soon as the advisory boards are organized.

| Groceries at Me A tee’s. Cheapest place in the city. 10*2 All summer clothing at reduced prices at the New York store. Itobert Brown of near Winslow, was in town Saturday last on business. H. H. Tislow, jeweler and watchj maker, Petersburg. All work guaranteed. ___ * 28* Dan C. Ashby has returned from his business visit to the south part of the county. _ _ W. V. Hargrove was at Cincinnati the past week buying summer and fall goods for his stores. The bloomer girls base ball clubs will be here nest Tuesday. They will no doubt draw a * big crowd to the game. Dev. Francis Wood, justice of the peace of Patoka township, has been suffering from rheumatism for sometime past at his home near Arthur. i Peter Drof has just received a large j supply of barrel and bulk lime. Fort- : land and Louisville cement. Acme | plaster, hair, etc. He buys old junk j of every description. 10-4

W. R. Snyder, who has been visiting j relatives at C’herryvale, Kansas, for ! several weeks, returned home last Friday. Since returning he has been coniined to his home by illness. The town Authorities should replace the street crossings taken out this spring and also repair the many that are now in a dilapidated condition. The president and marshal should look after the matter. There are new nearly 100 guests at the Sweet Sulphur Springs in Marion township. This summer resort is becoming noted far and near. The water has many medicinal qualities which are curing many people who visit that place. Notice.—All persons knowing themselves iudebted to me will please call and make settlement by the first of August, 1809, as all notes and accounts not settled by the above date will be placed in the hands qf an attorney for collection with coilts of collection added thereto. 9-4 W. H. Smith, M. D. Petersburg should have a park by all means. The town should buy a suitable site near the city and spend a few thousands of its surplus. Such an enterprise on the- part of our worthy council would "be of great" benefit to the citizens. There should be some place where the people could spend a pleasant evening during the hot summer months. All have seen the big awkward bugs that fly about the arc lights at night and are called electric light bugs. The fact ha# been discovered that they have a half-inch stinger located somewhere about them and that a scorpion's bite is scarcely more deadly than is the sting of one of these bugs which lie at the bottom of ponds and old cisterns during the day. Barefooted children are in danger from these poisonous insects.

The proof that advertising does pay is found in the fact that no man who has during the past ten years, made himself famous and wealthy by advertising, has failed. Those who were big advertisers ten years ago are big advertisers today—unless they are dead, and in such cases the business they brought into being are going right forward without a hitch: automatic enterprise; making money because the founders gave them a personality through advertising which will outlast several generations, if indeed it does not endure \yhile time lasts. i — — j Dispatches from Seattle, Washington, to the daily papers published last j Friday announces the arrival of Frank j Lory, a Petersburg boy, at that place direct from Dawson City, Alaska,with 1 $75,000 in gold dust. Frank went to I the Klondike country two years ago last March, and being a pusher soon put himself to the front. He took up several claims, bought a number of others and is now a man of wealth. He owns several buildings and is engaged in different business enterprises. His buildings escaped the regent fire in Dawson City. He will buy a lot of machinery and supplies at Seattle which he will ship back to the Klondike country in . charge of Jonas Brewis, another Petersburg boy, who has been at Juneau, Alaska, lor sev- [ eral months. Frank will probably ! reach this city sometime during the week to visit his parents and brothers j His brother, Will, will remain at Dawson and look after his interests during his absence.

f LOCAL BREVITIES. The News leathered From Vi.rlous Parts of the County. Get our prices on fruit cans aril wax at Me A tee’s. 10-2 Belt buckles and chains only 2» cents at Hammond & Kime’s. KM Dr. R. W. Harris of Algiers, vas in the city Saturday evening on business. Joseph Cassidy and wife of Clay township, were in town Monday shopping. __ Charles Ferguson of Monroe township was in town Monday visiting friends. M. Amos of near Winslow, transacted business in the city Saturday morning last. Peyton Burkhart, a successful farmer of Madison township, was in town Monday on business affairs.

Cyclists will find Banner Salve the *nost healing remedy for cuts, bumps a»d bruises. 2a cents. J. It. Adams & Son. _ .. _ ■ ' j Trustee Johnson of Wash ngton township, will let a contract for a new school building at Alford, Xh£rsday, August 3rd. See notice in* another column. The popularity of Dr. Sawyer's 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 ‘•The New Jerusalem," second sermon in the series, at the Presbyterian church next Sunday morning. Lecture in the evening, “Puritan and Pilgrim.” The subject of this ecture is close to the birth of our nation. You are cordially invited to attend. A deputy revenue collector was in the city last Saturday looking after deeds, bonds and other instruments that have not been properly stamped. The collector has ordered the recorder to notify all persons who have deeds that have been made since July, 1898, to bring them to his ollice by August to be examined. Next Wednesday the trustees will open the bids for the construction of the proposed system of water works in this city. There will no doubt be several bidders for the work. Where the station is to be or where the wells will be located is unknown at this time. Had the plant been built two years ago it could have been built for half the money.

To get into the service under the recent call for volunteers to go to the Philippine Islands the recruit must pay his own way to the government recruiting station, and must then pass a rigid physical examination. No married men will be accepted, and the minimum limit age is 18 years and the maximum is 3-'>. Men who saw service in Cuba, Porto Rico or the Philippines will be given the preference over raw recruits. The lawn party given by Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Litherland at their picturesque country home, in honor of their cousin, Miss Jessie Litherland, (^Friday evening, proved to be a decided success. The evening was spent in social amusements and other enjoyable games and was highly appreciated by Misses Jennie Stocks, Nellie Bowman, Addie Oliphant, Anna Read, Ida Basinger, Ardie Posey, Bertha Barker, Nellie Bowman, Jessie Litherland, Mrs. E. O. Litherland and Messrs. W. Alexander C. Thomas, C. Colvin, O. K. Carter, Charles Smith. Ed Litherland, B. Johnson, G. Link and E. O. Litherland.

Revv C. D. Darling preached at the Presbyterian church on Sunday morning on “Man’s Progressive Apprehension of Truth.’’ The sermon was a masterly and comprehensive setting forth of some of the phases of the development of Jewish and Christian religious thought, from the time of Abraham to the present. God does not change: Christ does not change; the scriptures do not change. But man's apprehension of the truth as it is in them has gradually clarified, widened and deepened as the centuries have rollen. And as man apprehends and realizes this truth his moral nature rises to meet his convictions, vices are rolled backward, and the moral, social and religious ideals rise in the spale. The past is the cradle in which the present is born. Its memories are sacred; its life pure and true. But ever opening manhood must leave the cradle of childhood and be true to its own trusts. So each age must grapple with its own problems and with honest manhood meet its own responsibilities.

Go to H. H. Tislow for all kinds of watch and clock repairs. 28* Clint Thomas of Madison town ship, was a caller at this office last Fr day. Rev. Reuben Capeharf of V« pen, transacted business in the city last Friday. / Thomas and Martin Shoulders, living near Arthur, were in the city Saturday on business. J. A. Dedman, the coal opera ; >r at Cato, was in town last Friday and gave us a substantial call. —- Saturday was a busy day in 1\ tersburg and the streets were crowded with people the most of the day. If you are looking for nice, cool negligee shirts, call at the New York store. That is the place to 'loot for them. _ Charles and Nathan Rumble of Logan township, were in the city Monday afternoon on business. They are engaged in wheat threshing and have been kept quite busy. Dr. C# P. Barrett and wife of Augusta, were in the city Monday, the guests of A. J. Scales and wife. The doctor is a successful young practitioner of that place and is securing a large practice;

Joseph Whitelock. aged about TO years, died at his home in Madison township Sunday evening. The funeral took place Monday afternoon and burial at the Williams cemetery. He was one of the old residents of | this section of the county. There will be an old-fashioned basket meeting held at Union chapel, Tuesday, July 23th. in connection with the fourth quarterly meeting of the Union charge, M. K. church. Services morning, afternoon and night. Dr. Talbott, the presiding elder, will be present, assisted by other able ministers. Come with baskets well filled. S. M. Kreig, editor of the Journal at Greenville, Missouri, has been visiting his parents in Logan township this week. Stanley was one of the best teachers of that township and has many friends throughout that section of the edunty. He is editing1 I a splendid democratic paper and has faith in William Jennings fry an being the next president. Very few people apprec ate the effect of sympathy on old and young. The child seeks it naturally and openly. The older people want it but shrink from the seeking. Those people who win the hearts of mankind give' out sympathy with generous freedom. A word of kind appreciation of effort, a gentle touch of the hand when sorrow comes, a .liberal recognition of work well done, are little things to the giver, but often they are worth great effort to the recipient.

Beginning September loth, a new form of postoffice money order will be brought into use, and will bp a great improvement on the one now given by the postoffice. The greatest change in the system will be in the giving of a receipt with each order. The receipt will be an exact fac simile of the original order when It 4s filled out. This method of makingJthe fac simile will prevent any mista&p. and at the same time will be conclusive proof that such an order was issued. In case the order is lost in transmission this receipt will be redeemed by the office after a reasonable time has elapsed for search to be nu.de for the missing order. The prices for the orders will remain unchanged. The Rev. Rabbi Isaac L. Rypins, formerly of Evansville, now of St. Paul, Minnesota, preached the sermoh at the Presbyterian churc: 1 last Sunday evening. He took for his subject “Character Building." He said character is cast in the mould of hardship | and toil. Only by the exercise of severest effort can excellence be at-| tained. As the gold is shajted by ham-J mer and blow, so the human soul is developed unto virtue ant truth and the image of its Creator by adversity and travail and pain. Foi character is made, not by ease, not by leaning upon crutches, not by walking in favored paths, and escape from life's burdens, but by strict fidelity and adherence to the duties of manhood, by humbly and honestly toiling even in the meanest lot, by the courage and discipline that only by the hours of endeavor and perseverance for the highest ideals of spiritual life can give. The doctor betrayed the affability and courtesy of a gentleman, the honesty and fervor of an orator, and the mind and learning if a scholar. His address was richly enjoyed by the large audience favored to hear him.

Mrs. Fred Smith visited friends at Washington la^t week. Fine repairing given prompt at ... tion at Hgm nond & Kime's. 10-4 —- -•--JMr The best cabinet photos 75 ;^ehts per dozen. ( allery next door to Lory's tinshop. .1. H. X.vaoHu D. (.’. Barrett, one of the substantial citizens and farmers living near Arthur, was ip the city last Friday on business. . 5 ' Cooling and soothing in its effects, you will find Dr. Sawyer’s Arnica and Witch Hazel Salve for eczema* hives, burns and cuts. Paul James Decker* aged 52 years, near Giro, Gibson county, died 5fon> day morning. The funeral was held Tuesday and burial at the Decker cemetery. \i-l . ' Musknu Ions have made their appearance inT this market. The crop of melons this year will be large and of a very choice grade, Watermelons will come in about the first of next month. It is said that there are young ladies in the city who are s ing close at home these mghts.J afraid to venture out for fear fiissing-Vug. There are others, ever, that do not fear the bug or f^ck-the-kisser, having a preference for the latter. Joe Patterson has rented the lington Hotel and has refurn’ from top to bottom. New h furniture, and is prepared to first class accommodations at able ratesv The house will h be known as the Patterson H south side of Main street. Fifth and Sixth. n wing to the sorrow and ment that has entered into theSRpme of one of our members, we. the Ladies’ aid society, from a feeling of respect and sympathy for Mrs. Frank, will postpone our midsummer garden fete for an indefinite length of time. We desire to extend to Mrs. Frank and her family our most sincere thies in this hour of their sorrb«r>;

Quite a number of-BenHur .members of the local lodge went to Petersburg yesterday afternoon, where <vihey instituted a lodge of Hurs last night, j The new lodge started otTwith;about 30 members and promises to b^|uite successful. The visiting members were well entertained by their l^bersburg brethren, and from all the e vening must have been aj one.* The initiating work by t^Aoeai team was highly commended, ^^nce* ton Democrat. ISiS An exchange gives the totibwmj. facts as reasons why our American birds should be protected from indis criminate slaughter; The stomach of four chickadees were found to con tain 1,028 eggs of canker worms. Th* stomach of a quail contained 101 .potato bugs, ami another was found t„> be digesting '*00 cinch bugs. |»--robi i had eaten 175 larve of an insect tha ; feeds on the roots of grass&p^t wa s pointed out, too. that birds|^t in a great deal of their time eating see* of noxious weeds. A bird that, puts la i^s time eating noxious and wecdseees should receive every eocouragemer t ivity instead of persecution. to longlivitf instead of persecution. Banish them and one of the best friends the farmer has will.l| gone. Therefore, protect the birds.m. ;

ffflKY lOT COH1SM506, to the Stion 1:o Commissioner Wilson of the bureau of revenue, has issued a circular absolutely prohibiting- bank*;' from affixing stamps to checks unstamped when presented and requiring them to return the same to the drawers. In his circular to collectors t^e commissioner says: “You are directed bo notify the banks that are ^hilty of stamping unstamped checks that if the practice is not immediately discontinued they will be re!>ortedio t ie United States district at prosecution. “The instruc tained in treasury decision under date of June £tk l| effect that there was no obj the affixing by the bank of theltequi <;e stamps to an unstamped ch^Ck presented for payment is hereby revoked. “This instruction was given to meet an emergency immediately |»reci eding the taking effect of the stamp act on July 1,1898, in order to obviatethe necessity of returning by the banks thousands of unstamped checks issued by drawers in ignorance of^tbe aw. The law being generally ondcrs ood ;here is no further need ofi^ach permission.” The action was information that certain hanks adopted the practice of not requ iring stamps, as an advertisement/testci patronage as against rival bank;.