Pike County Democrat, Volume 31, Number 34, Petersburg, Pike County, 28 December 1900 — Page 1

LOCAL BREVITIES. The News Gathered From Various Parts of the County. James S. Ride of Noxid, was in the city last Friday on business. R. E. Gladish and wife visited with friends at Evansville Tuesday. Samuel Nelson of Marion township was in the city Monday on business.

Miss Lola Parry of Boonville, visited Mrs. M. McC. Stoops over Christmas. Prof. R. N. Chappell of Patoka, visited his mother in this city this week. Edward Bottoms of Madison township, was in the city Saturday on business. Charles Russell and Renzie Gant of Washington visited friends in the city Tuesday. W. H. Scales, county auditor, eat turkey with his parents at Augusta Christmas day. Frank Thomas, cashier of the Winslow bank, was in the city Christmas day visiting friends. Rev. Darling of Indianapolis will conduct the regular services at the Presbyterian church next Sunday. Mrs. R. C. Grable, near this city, is spending the holidays with her sister Miss Lizzie Heft at Louisville, Kentucky. The population of the First congressional district is 189,423. In 1890 the population was 168,023; showing a gain of 21,400 in ten years. County Treasurer Smith went to Indianapolis, Tuesday, to make the semi-annual settlement of Pike county with the treasurer of state. He returned home yesterday. R. M. Gray, trustee of Jefferson township, and Ora Ashby, trustee of Patoka township, attended the annual meeting of the state trustees association at Indianapolis this week. A free-for-all-fight took place at Kelly’s saloon on lower Main street last Saturday night. Several bruised heads resulted from the fracas. Fights are becoming quite numerous in the city of late. Don’t use any of the counterfeits of DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. Most of them are worthless or liable to cause injury. The original DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve is a certain cure for piles, eczema, cuts, scalds, burns, sores and skin diseases. Harvard Stearnes drug company. * It is likely that at the coming session of the legislature and effort will be made to have the divorce laws made more stringent. In some counties it is easy to have the marriage ties severed, so much so in fact, as to cause general attention to be directed toward means for its suppression.

Last Friday noon, while playing ball at school, Frank Geddes, jr., had the misfortune to receive an accidental lick in the mouth with a ball-bat by Willie Allburn, knocking seyeral teeth loose and inflicting other injuries about the mouth. He is getting along nicely at this writing.—Velpen item. The census returns for Pike county by townships and towns is as follows, also showing population in 1890: 1900 1890 Clay township 1,257 1,178 Jefferson township 2,792 2,474 Lockhart township 2,144 2,220 Logan township 1,293 1,226 Madison township 908 825 Marion township 1,749 1,729 Monroe township 2,264 2,240 Patoka tp, including Winslow 3,926 3,095 Winslow 536 Washington tp, inc. Petersburg. 4,153 3,557 Petersburg 1,751 1,491 20,286 18,545 Owen O. Smith retires next Tuesday as treasurer of Pike county after a four years service. Mr. Smith has made an efficient and accommodating official and has at all times been at his post of duty and faithful to the trust imposed on him by the people. Mr. Smith has not yet decided what he will do for the present. He retires from office with the best wishes of all. Mr. C. D. Houchins will assume his duties Tuesday morning. The Indiana State Grange, at its meeting last week, adopted resolutions favoring the reduction of the number of schools in the state so that each child may have an opportunity to attend a township high school; recommended that a course pf nature study be introduced into the school; favored abolishing the truancy office and having its duties performed by the township trustee; and asked the repeal of the present enumeration law. The organization also is strenuously opposed to the race track at Roby and to the increase of county officers’ salaries.

Dr. John Grigsby was at Washington Tuesday on business. Miss Emma Hall of Patoka, is the guest of Miss Bessie Lamb. Rev. T. C. Probert and family visited relatives at Washington Christmas. Elmer Davidson and family visited with relatives at Vincennes Christmas.

H. C. Thomas of Jefferson township, transacted business in the city last Saturday. Dr. J. W. Turner of Evansville, will conduct services at the M. E. church next Sunday. W. W. Jackson, the implement dealer, transacted business at Wash-ing-ton last Saturday. Miss Alma Griggs of Beverly, Ohio, was the guest over Christmas Wednesday. of Mrs. U. S. Gladish returning to her home Dr. W. H. Link was at Washington last Thursday wher4 he assisted in a very difficult surgical operation in the removal of a large tumor. Henry Broda of Ensley, Alabama, Mrs. Rothschild of Columbus, Alabama, and Mrs. Joseph Hamburger of Cincinnati, Ohio, • are the guests of Moses Frank and family. For Sale.—Two good mares, weigh hbout thirteen hundred pounds each. Will take good note. , Wiliam McFarland, 34-3 Algiers, Ind. \ Miss Lida Sthckey has taken office room with Miss Mary Glezen in the Citizens’ bank building, where she is prepared to do type-writing of any kind. She is competent and Well qualified for the work. / , The star mail route irom this feity to Arthur and thence to Spurgeon and other points has been divided into two routes which leave daily, one goes to Arthur, Augusta and Cable, and the other to C'laybank, Coe and Spurgeon, each making daily trips except Sunday.—Oakland City Enterprise. --j—Last Friday night there was quite a commotion on Mullin Hill. It was caused by an explosion of fireworks in Riley Lane’s store. The fireworks in some manner caught fire and there was a popping and cracking time for a few minutes. Luckily there was not much damage outside of the loss of fireworks. Help is needed at once when a per son’s life is in ganger. A neglected cough or cold may soon become serious and should be stopped at once. One Minute Cough Cure quickly cures coughs and colds and the worst cases of croup, bronchitis, grippe and other throat and lung troubles. Harvard Stearnes drug company. v * From the semi-annual settlement sheet we take the following amounts which were due the state for taxes collected: State tax. $2,620.84: benevolent institutions. $1,252.75: state debts sinking fund, $751.67; educational fund, $417.68; school tax, $3,192.47: school fund interest, $2,663.32; endowment fund, $33.87; docket fees, $102; total state taxes, $11,034.60.

The. United census States of in 11)00 places the the second rank among the world’s great powers. In 1800 the United States stood eighth and at the bottom of the list in, population. The powers are now grouped as follows: Austria-ilungarv. France. Italy...... Spain.. .i.130.896.fcS United States.. 76.i9o.iJ0 Germany.^.,|.53,000, into . 40,559,954 .r.'5.7£. 38.517,975 . 31.000.0 0 ... 18,250,000 -4. Many compliments were paid the Democrat on iits last issue, which consisted of twelve pages, and every page chock-full Of good reading matter. In the matter of news service the Democrat leads. We still have room on our subscription books for a few more names. During the past year 339 new subscribers were added to our list, giving the Democrat the largest circulation ever attained- by a newspaper of Pike county. Swindlers are working in this part of the state and people should bej ware of them. They purport to be selling rugs and other similar articles, but they are pure snides. They have just- harvested a most bountiful crop of suckers in Blulfton and may strike this city next. Their method is to go to a house and take an order. In a few days the victim receives a card from a Chicago house, stating that the order had been received and that upon the receipt of a certain sum the goods will be immediately shipped. The sum is so low that many are willing to run chances on it, and the result is that they are out that much I fcask-Ex.

Mrs. Fred Smith visited friends at Evansville last Monday. George W. Ashby of Coe, was in the city Wednesday on business. - A. D. McRoberts of Clay township, was in this city Saturday on business. Mrs. John Colvin and children visited relatives at Oakland City this week. William Neiman and wife visited with relatives at Vincennes on Christmas day.

A. L. Edwards and family eat Christmas dinner with relatives at Evansville. Richard Arnold left Monday for Willow HHl, Illinois, where he visited friends for a few days. Charles Schaefer and wife of the Pike hotel, attended a banquet of In diana hotel men at Indianapolis Wednesday night. Gene Taylor, Ollie Byers, Pat Carlisle, Goethe Link and Everett Richardson are home from college to spend the holidays with their friends. Quarterly meeting at the M. E. church Sunday. Rev. J. W. Turner, D. D., will preach both morning and evening. All cordially invited. Serg. Skinner of Louisville will be here next month for the purpose of recruiting soldiers for the Phillippine war. The headquarters will be at the office of Dr. Link in the Adams block. Col. W. A. Oliphant of this city, who was a. member of the staff of Governor Chase, is one of the members of the committee that will have charge Of the inaugural ceremonies of Govornor-elect Durbin. The Democrat would like a correspondent at Winslow, Augusta, Stendal, Pikeville, Velpen, Coe, Cato, Bowman, Rumble, Oatsville, Union, and other points in the county. If you desire to send in the news wyite us. Every locality should be represented by the news. Extensive improvements have been made about the Pike hotOl property during the past two weeks. The old trees have been removed j and other trees placed in position and- the walks have |Pen widened and other improvements made which add greatly to the appearance of that popular hotel. Now is the time when .croup and lung troubles prove rapidly fatal. The only harmless remedy that produces immediate results is One Minute Cough Cure. It is very pleasant to take and can be relied upon to quickly cure coughs, colds and all lung diseases. It will prevent consumption. Harvard Stearnes drug company. * * The county clerk has issued marriage licenses to the following persons since our last report: Charles W. Ferguson and Ola B. Woolsev. Norman Richeson and Emma Bilderback. William R. Bottoms and Lucy Pancake. Michael Ridge and Belle Harbison. Tommy Tisdel and Annie Richardson. Jerome Royalty and Nancy A. Eads. James C. Thomas and Della M. Thompson. James O. Chapman and Katie M. Merchant.

The census reports for the several counties in this section of the state for 1900 and 1890 are as follows: 1900 Crawford. 13,476 Daviess...3),914 Dubois... ...... 20,357 Gibson. 30,099 Spencer. 1890 13.941 26,227 20.83* 24,920 Greene..... 28,530 24,379 Knox. 32.746 Orange....... 16,854 Perry.....—.. 18,778 28,mi 14,678 18,240 Pike. 20.486 18,544 Posey. 22.333 21.529 Vanberburg..... 71,76i> Warrick.^... 22.329 22.407 22,060 59,809 21,161 Last Monday, George Hollon, one of the oldest citizens of Marion township, died of apoplexy. He had been in very feeble health for the past two years. He was eighty years old the first of this month. He was born in Boyle county, Kentucky, and came to this county wfien a young man. He leaves a large family and numbers of friends. The funeral took place Wednesday and interment at the Flat Creek church cemetery. The services were largely attended. It was learned to-day (Friday) that the leaders of the republican state organization are fighting the Hopkins reapportionment bill at long range by writing to the Indiana senators and representatives, informing them of the effect the bill would have in Indiana. It is conceded that the republicans would lose at least one district—the First—if the bill should become a law. To bring the popula- | tion up to 208,868, the unit of apportionment provided in the Hopkins bill, one or two counties must be annexed to the First district, and as all of the contiguous counties are democratic the district, which is close, would be rendered democratic.—In* dianaitoVis Pr^ss.

BRIEF LOCAL ITEMS. Short Paragraphs Items Briefly Told— Concerning the People. Christmas passed off veVy quietly in Petersburg. W\ Hursey has returned from a business trip to Hedrick, Iowa. James Hammond of Dale, visited friends in the city over Christmas. Frank Taylor and wife of New Harmony, are visiting relatives in the city._ J. N. Kinman was at home this week from Tennessee visiting his family. Misses Sallie Catt and Maggie Higgins were at ^vansville Monday visiting friends. ' ’

Will Carleton and wife of Evansville, were the guests of Postmaster LaMar and family this week.. Dr. J. R. Burger moved into his. residence at the corner of Walnut and Eleventh streets this week. The most effective little liver pills made are DeWitt’s Little Early Risers. They never gripe. Harvard Stearnes drug„company. * O. M. Colvin and L. V. Colvin were at Francisco Tuesday to attend the funeral of their nephew, George W. Drain, aged 14 years, who a few years ago resided in this place. David D. Corn, who has been employed in the auditor’s office for several weeks past, leaves next Wednesday for Bloomington, where he will attend the Indiana university. If there is any shortage of news items this week it may be attributed to the fact that Tuesday was Christmas and the editor took a half day off and indulged in turkey and the necessary accompainments which generally follow. Excuse us for once. The Modern Woodmen had an open meeting Tuesday night at which nearly all the members were present besides a number of invited guests. Virgil R. Greene delivered an address on Woodcraft which was very interesting. The evening was thoroughly enjoyed by all present. In this issue appears the statement of the financial condition of the First national bank of this city. The statement shows a large increase in business over the statement issued sometime ago. The bank is ably financiered and is one of the sound banking' institutions of Southern Indiana. When the stomach is tired out it must have a rest^bdt we can’t live without food. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure ‘‘digests what you eat” so that you can eat all the good food you want while it is restoring the digestive organs to health. It is the only preparation that digests all kinds of food. Harvard Stearnes drug company. * There are a few of- our subscribers who are yet delinquent on their sub scription for a year or two that we would be pleased to hear from. We occasionally need a few dollars, especially is this so on Saturday evenings when the printers want their wages due them. Bear this in mind, and if you know you are delinquent send a few dollars by money order to our address and we will promptly mail you a receipt for the amount.

No prisoners at the Indiana reformatory, except those refusing to obey the rules, have been wearing stripes for a long time. When the old prison was transformed into the reformatory three grades of standing were established, the first designated by a gray suit, much like a citizen’s; the second, a modest check suit, and the third, blc^ck and white stripes. Yesterday Superintendent Hert ordered the remaining men to discard their stripes as a Christmas gift and each of the fifty-four beneficiaries was given two suits of the second grade. With the beginning of last July Secretary Hurty, of the state health board, made the declaration that 500 men and women, at that time perfectly well,- would b£ dead before January 1 of typhoid fever. And today he exhibited a classified list of 658 persons already dead within the ttime indicated of this fearsome disease. These died during July, August, September and October, and in addition the board has been notified of the death of 164 persons during November, while December is yet to be heard from. The secretary claims that typhoid fever can be controlled if the health authorities had funds with which to circulate educational literature and to keep up a constant agitation of the necessity of purity of the water and milk supply and the Cleansing of house premises.

John Anderson of Martinsville, visited friends here Tuesday. Prof. Hamlet Allen of Washington, was in the city last Saturday. Dr. J. W. Cook visited his father at Elberfield the first of the week. A. W. Hollon of Wayne City, Illinois, is visiting his parents south of the city.

1 George Benjamin and wife of Oakland City, visited with friends near the city this week. j Mrs. Jacob M. Harlem and daughter | of Mt. Vernon, are the guests of Gustoff Frank and family. Rev. Charles Darling left yesterday for Chicago and southern Michigan. He will be absent about ten days. Mrs. Will D. Crow and Miss Anna Read were in Evansville last Saturday, shopping and visiting friends. William Fulcher and wife of Elkhart, Illinois, are the guests of Herman Fulcher and family of Madison township. DeWitt’s Little Early Risers are dainty little pills, but thejf never fail to cleanse the liver, remove obstructions and invigorate the system. Harvard Stearnes drug company. * Tuesday night at the Gray church, Jefferson township, was given a splendid entertainment by the Sunday school. A big Christmas tree was one of the features and presents were distributed to the little and big boys and girls. __ If a boy wants to be spider legged and weak-kneed; if he wants to be short-winded and hollow-chested: if , he wants to be thin-jawed and dead on his feet: if he wants to grow into a scrub that no business man wants to employ, let him be a cigarette fiend, otherwise let him keep the nicotine out of his windpipe. Fifteen photos for fifteen cents. We are now located over Charles Burger’s store room and will for the next two weeks make a specialty of penny photos. We also make button photos and do copying. Don’t neglect this golden opportunity. VTe can do work in cloudy weather as well as sunshine. The Penny Photo Company. Rule 3 of the health laws of Indiana is as follows and parents and aL interested should govern themselves accordingly: “It shall be unlawfm for any parent, guardian or any person having control of any child affected by any contagious or infectious disease dangerous to the public health to permit said child to attend any public, private, or parochial school or be present in any public place.” Wanted.—Young men of good moral character between the ages of 18 and 35 to join the regular army. This is an opportunity to travel, see the world and at the same time get good pay for it, board, clothing and medicine furnished free. Now is your chance as only a few more men are needed to fill the quoto in tbis "and foreign counfrrigs.Recruiting office will be opened at JlrTLink’s office over Adams & Son’s drug store from January 9 to January 11, in charge of Sergeant Skinner. 35-2

Dr. S. L. Wilson was ^Wednesday bound over to await the action of the circuit court on the charge of shooting at with intent to kill Constable Robert Wallace. The two had a fight on December 4th, which resulted in Wilson shooting three times at Wallace. Only one of the balls struck him, it grazing the thumb*on his left hand. The preliminary hearing began at nine o’clock this morning ant. lasted until three o’clock this afternoon in Streeter’s court. Prosecutor Padgett and Ogdon & Inman prosecuted; O’Neall & Hoffman and Henry Bordinett defended.—Washington 3erald. The following is the program for watch night at the M. E. church next Monday night: 8:00—Song and praise service: led by R. E. Unsaved”: by Prof. W. B- Foreman. -Solo by Miss Grace Stuckey. 8:50—“The Secret of Soul Winning”: by Prof. J. H. Risley. —Duet, Misses Merle Parker V u. Beblah Thomas. 9:10—Address, “The Rewards of Soul Winning"; by A. W. Selby. —Solo by Miss Bessie Lamb. 9:30—The Installation of Bpwortir League Officers. —Special music. 9:45—Song and praise service: led by G. J. Nichols. . —Special music. 10:15—Chorus, “Herald Angels." —Devotional service. —Chorus, “While Shepherds patched.’ —Sermon by a visiting pastor. 11:30—Prayer and consecration sei vice. 12:00—Hymn and benediction. An invitation is extended .,o ever} chafe to attend these services* Gladish. —Special music. •8:39—Address, “Conditioi Peril of the

Ralph Davidson and wife of Qtwell, were in the city Wednesday. The state teachers' association is in session at Indianapolis this week. Misses Mabel and Maggie Jordan of Vincennes, are in the city visitiog friends. A small child of Edgar “Brenton, living south of town, was buried last Saturday.

Richard Tevault and Joe Shrodes of Lockhart township, visited friends in the city Sunday. Albert and Miss Addie Hemenway of Boonville, were the guests of Miss Vena Brewis this week. __ About twenty couples of Petersburg’s young people tripped the light fantastic toe at the McAtee hall Wednesday night. Business men are busy a t work since Christmas making their annual invoice of stock on hands. It will take some of the merchants nearly two weeks to complete the work. The census reports since 1&.0 give Pike county the following population: 1820, 1,472:1830, 2,475: 1840, 4,769; 185C, 7,720: 1860, 10.07LMS70, 13,779; ISSr, 16,383; 1899, 18,544: 1900, 20,486. The show windows at W; V. Hargrove & Co.'s dry goods store are very tastily arranged and present a very handsome appearance. The de signs are good and shows much thought and study in window decoration. When you need a soothing and healing antiseptic application for any purpose, ,use the original DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve, a well known cure for piles and skin diseases. It heals sores without leaving a scar. Beware of counterfeits. Harvard Stearnes drug company. * Miss Esther King, the young lady from Petersburg, who sprang into national prominence last week by presiding over the convention of the American Federation of Labor at Louisville, visited her cousin Mrs* Logan Richardson, in this city yesterday while enroute to her home at Petersburg.—Oakland City Journal. * A young lady asked a naughty editor how to make “not enough” out of the word “enough” and he told ber it is done by transposing letters into words like this: “Take the third, second and first letters of the word ‘enough' for the first word, and the sixth, fourth and fifth for the second word, and you will have two-^Kprds that signify, something thatris not enough for most young ladies.’’ Many persons have had the expedience of Mr. Peter Sherman, of North Stratford, N. H., who says, “For years I suffered torture from chronic indigestion, but Kodol DvspepsiaCure made a well man of me.” It digests what you eat and is a certain cure for dyspepsia and every form of stomach trouble. It gives relief at once even in the worst cases, and can't help but do you good. Harvard Stearnes.drug company. r

County Auditor-.Scales completed making the December settlement sheet of state, county, township and town taxes for 1899 this week. The several amounts collected for the funds are as follows: State tax..........-i Benevolent fund.,.... State debt sinking fund.. Educational institution tax... State school tax....... County tax..... Township tax.,.. Tuition tax... Special school tax.... Road tax....... .«. Street bond tax..... Township poor tax... Additional road tax...... County.bond tax. Corporation tax. Illumination tax.i. Deficiency bond tax....... School house bond tax. 2,688 PS 1.265 37 759 24 421 88 3.195 13 12.314 US 2.77!) DO 4,545 2U 5.878 03 :«»8 06 314 25 1.424 13 2.0*58 80 2,849 42 1.122 16 516 39 334 96 3 4 96 Total. .W.m 85 The following special from Indianapolis to the Evansville Courier has reference to a young man who sold pianos and organs in this city last fall: “Charles E. Barton of Washington, Indiana, is detained at the police station as insane. His mania is riding in cabs and yesterday he employed three at the same time. For several days Barton has been stopping at the Occidental hotel. Yesterday his mind '’took a decided turn for the worse. He rode about the city all afternoon and when he returned to the hotel, he telephoned for two more cabs. The three “cabbies” were told to await his orders. He asked everyone about the hotel for a revolver, saying he wished to go to the stock yards to collect $300. Patrolmen Cronin and Barmf uhrer were finally called. They dismissed the cabbies without pay, as Barton had only 3 cents. It was ascertained that he had been in the is* sisHe hospital at Evansville. * r' <