Pike County Democrat, Volume 31, Number 11, Petersburg, Pike County, 20 July 1900 — Page 1

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He ke Marble d Ue Ms Of Huntingburg makes a specialty of Artistic Monuments in Granite, Marble and Lime-Stone. Before you purchase anythihg in this line write us, as a few lines on a card will save you money. Correspondence solicited. Estimates furnisjied on all kinds of Monumental*and Cut Stone Work. mu

^i)Evei)it)g ->NEW AN O NOVEL.<5* ©| f^ecreatier) Will be the grand entertainment given l»y the Lady Members of the Presbyterian Church nt the N ^AUDITORIUMS Friday Evenin-g, July 27th, 2 * Consisting in part, of Tableaus, illustrating scenes from popular books, poems, comic songs, etc*. Also Pantomime ami short plays. PRICES OF ADMISSION. | : , a Reserved Seats.,. .25e General Admission .r.. . loc Children ...I..i.lOc. Seats go oil sale at Adams & Son’s drug store on Thursdav nv>rniug. I July 20th. ‘ JL _ 1

Job Printing at Democrat Office.

BRIEF LOCAL ITEMS. Short Paragraphs Items Briefly Told— ( ontcrnlna the People. ♦1.50slipped for *L 15, at Sol Frank 's Big Store. Investigate that slipper sale, at Sol Frauk's Big Store. Nick Collins of Pikeville. was in the city Monday on business. Max Blitzer is making low prices on all merchandise during July. " Henry J. Wiggs of Sophia, was in town Wednesday on business. Biggest line of slippers you ever saw. at Sol Frank's Big Store. Slippers cheaper than was ever known, at Sol Frank’s tlig Store. B. F. Strasser of Washington, was in the city last Saturday on business. You will miss it if you, don't buy slippers now, at Sol Frank's Big Store. L. V. Colvin displays the tinest line of straw hats in Petersburg, the latest things. 52-tf * llichard Bass of Lockhart township, transacted business in the city Wednesday. ’ i

You lose money if you fail to attend that slipper sale, at Sol Frank's Big Store. The Winslow and local ball teams played a game at the park yesterday afternoon. James Hurt and Joseph McCrary of Oliphant, were in the city Saturday on business. Men's tailor-made suits, in black and light colors, worth $12.50, for $7.">0, at the-New York Store. Lost—Pocket book, on last Saturday in this city containing $X,V>. Finder return to this office. Don't forget L. Y. Colvin when you want to buy shoes and hats, for he has got them and the right kind. .">2-tf llev. Francis Wood of Arthur, has been selected as pastor of the church at Mt. Gilead, Warrick county. Mrs. A. H. Taylor left Wednesday for Sedalia. Missouri, where she will, visit her parents for several weeks. ' One Minute Cough.Cure is the only harmless remedy that produces immediate results. Try it. Stearnes' drug company. * A farmers'and old settlers'picnic will be held at Winslow, August 1, 2 and J. There will be special programs each day to interest the people. As the time for the republican .convention draws near candidates are becoming more numerous, ahd the} slate as njade up by the Petersburg bosses, is likely to be slightly fractured. V _____ Home-Seekers' Excursion Kates. -sJuly 17th, August 7th and 21st, the L. E. & St. L. C. It. R. will sell round trip tickets to western, southwestern and northwestern states at greatly reduced rates. Inquire of agents for full particulars. J. F. Hurt, Agent. Oakland City. M. S. Funk of the Acme marble works at Huntingburg. called at this office and planted an ad in this paper which should be carefully read by our subscribers. Mr. Funk has been doing considerable work in this county which is evidence of his ability an3\ general satisfaction to his customers. Perry C. Miley, living near Coats Springs, is the agent for the Safety corn shredder. It is manufactured at Newcastle./ The shredder has a capacity of 100 bushels per hour, is a slelf-feeder, has blower attachment, and one of the best machines manufactured. If you are in the market for a machine call on Mr. Miley. 7-4 Every farmer who owns his land and is out of debt is independent. Banks may break, syndicates go to the wall and markets may all be in the hands of the bears, and yet the farmer may sit on the fence and whistle a merry tune, for life has the assurance, that seed time and harvest will hpt fail: that men must eat, and that he must help to feed them, and that when panics come he is out of, range and under shelter.

Isaac Higgins, ex-marshal, who was employed as a carpenter on the new Hammond building, met with a bad accident Monday morning which will lay him up for sometime. While carrying one end of a joist he slipped and fell and in such a way as to break two ribs on the left side and also badly injuring his face. He was taken to Dr. Hunter’s office where his injuries were dressed and then conveyed home. At present he i‘s resting as well as could be expected. > S ■ *

Big slipper bargains, at Sol Frank's Big Store. Buy slippers at almost half price, at Sol Frank's Big Store. « Miss Lida Stuckey of Washington, is visiting friends in the city. Dq not fail to attend that slipper sale,at Sol Frank's Big Store. | You will find the best stock of shoes j in Petersburg at Max Blitzer’s. L. V. Colvin would like to see the man that can't be fit iu underwear, tf The lowest price on slippers ever heard of. at Sol Frank’s Big Store. H. H. Tislow, jeweler and watch maker, Petersburg. All work guaranteed. 28* A few few small sixes in #1.50 slippers for 50 cents, at Sol Frank's Big Store. J. L. Bass, trustee of Lockhart township, was in the city Tuesday on business.

C. Ci McDermott and family visited relatives at Ellsworth. Dubois county, last week. About T'» pair slippers worth $l.uO and #2.00 for "•'> cei^ts a pair, at Sol Frank's Big-Store. Dr. Jones and children of Bicknell. were the guests of Charles E. Jones and family last week. Joe Patterson of this city, has entered the race for the republican nomination for recorder. W. J. Conger, one of the old citizen?* of the county, is dangerously ill at his home on Eighth street. DeWitt's Little Early .Risers are for liver and bowel troubles. Never gripe. Stearnes’ drug company. * Sol Catt. Mel Go wens, W. O. Limisay and Mel Catt of Clay township, were in the city yesterday attending court. If you are going to do any trading, don't matter how small or; how large, it will be to your advantage to call atthe New York Store. E. Y. Price and family of (fhillicothe, Missouri, are visiting relatives in the city. Mr. Price \vas formerly a resident df Dutchtown. T. H. Dillon and Virgil Greene of this city, will deHver addresses at the Modern Woodmen picnic to be held at Boonville, Saturday, July 28th. Robert M. Gray. democratic candid date for trustee of Jefferson township, was in the city yesterday on business. He is now serving in that capacity and is making a splendid official. Judge Brownlee of Evansville, has announced himself as a candidate for the democratic nomination for congress. He is a well known citizen of Southern Indiana, an old veteran and a democrat. ---i— * Rev. W. S. Brown of Winslow, will preach at the Brenton chapel near the Hollon school house, Sunday morning, July 28th. Subject; “What must 1 do to be Saved.” The public cordially invited to attend. "Dr. W. H. Link has entered the race fur the republican nomination for trustee of Washington township against Lan Shandy. There will be two or three candidates, also several for assessor. The convention takes place next week. Wilmington, 111.. Sept, 21, 1898. W.‘ B. Caldwell, Dear Sir;—I take great pleasure in adding my testimony as to J:he efficacy of Syrup of Pepsin as Used in our home. We use it in all case of indigestion and constipation. Respectfully, ~ Eva J. Sweet, Nurse Soldiers' Widows' Home. Oliphant Drug Go. j

An exchange says Ahe farmers of Minnesota are up in arms against the breedersof Belgian hares. They claim that they are not hares but rabbits and belong to the same family which, are now making large tracts of lands in New Zealand and Australia barren wastes. They think the German carp and English sparrow should teach our people not to meddle with these foreign importations. It has been figured out In New Jersey that land values tend to rise JO per cent, in value wherever good roads are introduced, irrespective of other natural benefits. They are invariably the forerunner of other improvements, such as the electric railways, free mail delivery, increased demand for country residences, and so on. They create far greater social unity, they spread intelligence, they give to the isolated citizen a political significance not otherwise attainable.

? LOCAL BREVITIES. j The New* (fathered From Various Part* of the ( .lunty. Attend th£ slipper sale, at Sol Frank's Big Store. HOO pair of slippers at cost and less, at Sol Frank's Big Store.' * ---f- > i , Robert Kdmondson l»f Otwell, was in town Tuesday on buriness. W. C. Mason of Rock port, was in the city Wednesday on business. [ You never saw prices so low on slippers, at Sol Frank's Big Store. j Children’s slippers, good ones for ; 42 cents at Sol Frank's Big Store, ; We have too many slippers so we i have cut the price at Sol Frank's Big ! Store. -1 j Buy a union-made shirt fromyL. V. i j Colvin. All colors, aU sizes and all j i prices. _ 52-tf ; Clel Riley and Putnam Richardson | of Sophia, were in town Monday on business. (Jeorge Philippy and Jones Kemp of Marion township, were: in town Tuesday on business. You can afford to buy slippers and save them for next year, at the sli{>per sale of Sol Frank. If you are looking lor clothing it [ will pay you to visit the New York j Store. Prices very low.

Court will adjourn Saturday afjterj noon. The court ha.- been very busy ; during the past two weeks. Money to Loan*. Famish your abstract and get your money the same day. Mary M.Olkzkx. Sec. Sig Frank returned Monday to Peru after a two weeks' visit to his parents. He is engaged in the boot and shoe business at that place. The Democrat office is headquarters for job printing of all kinds. We do all classes of work and keep a large ^tock of stationery in Mock. / The four-months-old child of Smith Rodgers, living in tlii west part of town, died during Sunday night. The child had fallen from bed and injured itself. Coroner Rumble held an inquest Monday. » The M. E. and C. P. Sunday schools of Algiers will give an ice cream social Friday evening. July 27th. The proceeds of which will be for the India relief fund. All are cordially invited to attend. The county clerk 1 as issued marriage licenses to the following persons since our last report: John L. Richardson and vuc\ urshall. Thomas K. Jones and Lydia A. Welton. Cicero Fettinger and Ada K. Steele. Stull & Moran will shortly commence the erection of .a brick livery stable, where the Rodi nel stable stood • on Depot street. The building will be 1 (ioxtOo and front on De pot street. The! gentlemen live at Phelan. Tennessee. [ and will put up a firstolass building. Lumber for SAL.fe.--We are now • prepared to supply customers with ! the best grades of itfrubgr. House | and bam patterns s >eClalties. Our new planed does the very finest work. Call and see us befor j you place an ; order for rough or dressed lutnl*er. 9-4 J acob Bowers Sox. Otwell.

The town council session Wednesday nig works. Read & Lee drill test wells for w; drill an eight-inch we Main street; They viper foot. At the tirs in August the board w bids for the eompletic water works. net in special ht to talk water were ordered to iter. They will I at the foot of ill receive $2.00 t meeting night II likely receive u of a system of Ed Lane, a young man living near Alford, was struck by lightning last Tuesday in a peculiar manner. He was using the telephone in the residence of John Gray '"hen he was seen to suddenly drop. Ligh tning had struck the wire and ran into the residence. He was paralyzed for the time being. Dr. Imelbf Algiers, was called to attend him. The young man is improving slowly, and his escape-was a very narrow one. Oomr adks. —The Attention Comrades.—The old soldiers of Pike coun ty, Indiana, will hold their annual meeting on the 4th day of August, 1900, at the court house at Petersburg, Indiana, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Business of importance requires the presence of every old soldier in the county at this meeting. A cordial invitation is extended to the returned soldiers of the Cuban and PhillippEue wars, and to the Womans Relief Corps,/to join with us in our annual hurrah. By command of W. E. Chappell, Col. M. J. Brady, AgL

Bryan ami Stevenson suits the voters of Pike county* ^ ^ Any kind of-slippers you want, at Sol Frank's Big Store. < .| Go to H. H. Tisiow for all kinds » f watch and clock repairs. 2b* Slipj>ers ne ver were sold as cheap as now at Sol Prank's Big Store. liobert Hynemanirf Play township, was in town Tuesday on business. Get a bill and read about the cheap slipper sale at Sol Frank's Big Stpre. T. C. Nelson, trustee of Marion township, was in the city Tuesday on business. John B. McKinney, county assessor, is here this week looking after business affairs. Wanted.—Teams to haul logs. Call on or write to A. B. Xickey & Son , Huntingburg.Ind. Mr>. Anna Irish and Miss F.tth McCrillus of Los Angeles, California, are the guests of Dr. J. B. Adauis and wife. ' ... •; ’ ’>•"* There are no better pi lie- made than DeWitt's Little Marly Misers. Aiwa} s prompt and certain. Stearnes' drug company. J* ■ * The Pike county teachers' institute will be heid at Winslow September 10 and 14. The instructors are F. P. Churchiil and J. Cf Hartzlee.

Walter Burlingame of 1‘ikevilli, who has been attendin'? law college at Indianapolis for several months pa.-st. returned last week. He was here this week visiting relatives* When you are passing I,. V. Colvin‘a store step in and see those pretty imperials, English squares* puffs, tecks, bat wing strings, bat wing bows, club strings, club bows and wash tie* of all kinds. The rough riders led on by General Thompson and Colonel Wilson made a charge on Otwef^last Friday night to recruit a new company. The meeting was a dead failure, only about two dozen persons being present and six were from this place. It has been dtrtibnstrated by e;:oerience that consumption can be pro. vented by the eaHy use of < >ne ute Cough i iire. :This is the favorite remedy for -.cdpghs, colds, crouj, asthma, ripi^ghnd all throat ard lung troubles. CufTsuuick|y. Stearnes drug company,.J : * C ■ William Sloan* a miner employed in the coal nrine-e. at Hartwell, had a serious accident .^befall him Monday evening. He w;is •■making a shot” when the squib:went off sooner than (expected, lie sorted to run and^the Charge of powdft went off and be was serrtously injured in the back. „ 1 When will the thieves who looted Cuba be prosecuted by the republican officials? The people are getting tired of waiting and being bamboozled in this way. The Indiana men who are connected with the stealing seem to be standing the officials off in the hopes of bringing influence to bear to whitewash the whole allair. The law holds both maker and circulator of a counterfeit equally guilty. The dealer who sells you a dangerous counterfeit of DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve risks your life to make a little larg er profit. You can not trust him. DeWitt's is the only genuine and original Witch Hazel Salve, a well known cure for piles and .all skin diseases. See that your dealer gives you DeWitt's Salve. StearneT drug company. *

John D. liockfeller expects to be able to buy a new pair of overalls this summer if business keeps good as at present. His protit thus far during UKX) is only 121,000,000 but he will try to eke tnit an existence some Avay. Poor Jaflchas a hard time of it. He hasr ottered a million a year for a competent bookkeeper and finds no takers. Pi tty the sorrows of this poor old^mao who hasn't the strength to carry to the bank even one month’s {interest on his invested wealth. Our cash contributors on subscription since our last report were S. P. Wolven, Johnson & Lane; Moses Frank, C. A. Burger, Dr. T. It. Bice, It. M. ’Stewart, W. V. Hargrove, John W. [ Arnold, Vinson France, Judge O. M. 1 Wei born, W. L, Lindsay, Theodore Arnold, W. H. May, William McCormack, H. J. Wiggs, Thomai Abel, Fleming Brbs., O. K. Lett, William * hewniug, L.B. Itogerson. John Sampson. Samuel Holding, Batio Curtis, It. M. Crow, Dr. It. W. Harris, J. O. Gray, George Catt, W. H. C. Lingo, Putnam. Richardson, George Philippv and Lafe Dean. ■