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Winslow Dispatch (Newspaper) - February 14, 1919, Winslow, Indiana The VOLUME 21 WINSLOW, PIKE COUÍVTY, INDIANA, FJ ^AY MORNING, FEBRUARY 14, 1919 Castor oil at Everett’s. Brass washboards 80c at Woodford’s'. No. 2 lamps complete for 50c at Wisdom’s. Ofd fashioned at Woodford’s. hoarhound stick candy We have a cough remedy for every cough., Everett’s Rexall Store. Purdue Don Wilder who is attending university, was home over Sunday. Fred Powers and family visited relatives and friends in Spurgeon Sunday. Our own make of meal from the finest of corn. Try it. Winslow Milling Co. £>ispatch office for Notary work. For Sale—3 sboats George Kam-merer. Otwell flour $1.35 ford’s. per bag at Wood- Men’s knives at Wisdom’s. Mrs. Ben Hook was in Huntingburg Monday. Poultry mash, 4c per low Milling Co. pound. Wins- If you want the to Woodford’s. best sliced ham, go The Rexall and every other kind of the finest toilet articles at Everett’s Rexall Store. Mrs. Maude McCormack and daughter of Huntingburg, visited James Way and family last week. That good creamery pound at Woodford’s. butter 54c per For Sale—50 music rolls, good as new at half price. Mrs. J. D. Simons. Woodford’s the garden seed man. Come in and see what you are getting. Mrs. Edgar Bell is in Louisville this week buying her spring stock of millinery. Come to our fountain for the soft drinks. Runs the year Everett’s Rexall Store. best in ’round. New Edison records at Everetts’. On sale Saturday afternoon and evening. Grover W. Sims. Mrs. Carl Wyatt and childen of Pet-ersbuiV. spent Sunday here with her sister. Mrs. James Way. For Sale—Two teams of horses and one team of mules. George Cox, at foot of Hill south of Winslow. Auto Livery—Call me when you need a car and driver. Am open for driving at all times. Addis Fettinger. It will soon be time to paint. This store carries the finest line and the best paints. Thiry’s Hardware Store. Now and then you want a piece of jewelry. Consult us next time you are Use Winslow flour while the price is right. None better, either. Winslow Milling Co. Bulk rolled Woodford’s. oats 6c per i>oand at Use aluminum ware and get it of usT Cooper’s Hardware Store. For a good, quick lawn ford’s'mixed lawn grass. For Sale—Jersey boar 9 Months old. Ready for service, Louis Harper. Mrs. Jane Cook is in Bloomfield visiting her daughter, Mrs. T. C. B^ant. The stork visited Muren Mond^ and left a girl with Mr, and Mrs. Lon Simmons. Dispatch NUMBER 49 use Wood- Iron beds, bed line of furniture. Store. springs and a full Cooper’s Hardware Wanted some good hens. Will pay Ic more than market price and come after them. ’Phone 97-2. New Edison records at Everett’s. On sale Saturday afternoon and evening. Grover W. Sims. William Willis who has been very sick at his home on North Main street for several weeks is improving. Lay in your coal while there is no rush on and get the best from the Fox Hill mine. George Wickware. Mrs. George Honig of Evansville, has been here this week on account of the sickness of her sister,Mrs. J. S. Johnson. in the market. Everett’s Rexall Store. Plenty of coal out at all times. Will deliver anywhere. Take orders on Ingle Supply store. George A. Cox. ■We have a full line of high grade garden seeds. Come to us when you start making garden. Tbiry’s Hard- ware Store.- Mrs Tilden Survant of Huntingburg, was here last week the guest of O. M. Survant and wife. She returned to her home Sunday. \ For Sale—The two story property auF-th» WoifsM In good condition and will be sold right and on reasonable teiins. Joe Snyder, Agent. The Winslow Chapter No. 391, O. E. S, will hold a regular meeting Thursday night, February 13. All members are requested to be present. Maggie Shiver, W. M. Myrtle H^oodard, a colored man employed at Ayrshire No. 6 mine, was caught by a trap door Friday and mashed. He was painfully but not seriously injured. Mrs. Matilda McConnell of Monroe township, is visiting her son Charley McConnell and family in Madison, 111. this week. Mr. and Mrs. T. H, "i? eager, Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Grubb, prominent people of Monroe township, were in Winslow Saj;urday._ Will hang your wall paper on days the mines do not run. Will have samples of spring paper before long. The famous Rexall remedies cannot be surpassed. A full line at Everett’s Rexall Store. New Edison records at Everett’s. On sale Saturday afternoon and evening. Grover W. Sims. Chrisina and Catherine Poehlein and 01 lie Dorsey spent Sunday evening with friends on Sugar Ridge. John Jordan, a prominent merchant of Spurgeon, was looking after business matters in Winslow Wednesday. illard coffee is the one good coffee, at Woodford,s. Sale Quick—Team lules. P. C. Russ. of 3 year old Gatton of Marion tpwnship, was iding to business matters in town iay. t |rdy Wise of Vincennes, visited his ler, James Way and family here ^ is the name of thei^ew boy to Mr. and Mrs. Lank Bolin of een Monday. ^ra Poehlein and Lillian Spraggins 81$ |iit Sunday ih Birdseye visiting with re Mtives and friends. |fas8 seed, extra clean : extra clean Red Top, 1 at Woodford’s. Timothy, $2.55 per rley Russelí. a first class citizen ckhart township, was attending Biness matters in town Monday. have a nice stock of harness. N^ is the time to get ready for the ig work. Cooper’s Hardware Store. Elias Rosa a good fariper and first-class citizen of Monroe township, was attending to business matters in town Monday. _ Greenward was the name given to a little son born to Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Northerner in south Winslow Tuesday. The little fellow lived but~>a short while. James Sandage. For Sale—Thoroughbred barred Plymouth Rock eggs for hatching. Bred to lay strain. The kind that lay and weigh. Mrs. D. E. Hicks. ^ The stork visited with Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Edrington of Simtown Thursday afternoon and left « They have named her Lucile. No needle 2 change, nonbreakable record, only phonograph in the world with an oiling system. Hear one at Everetts*. Grover W, Sims. If you have not seen our line of new rugs you have missed something. Some of the prettiest room size patterns you have ever seen. Inspect them any day. Cooper’s Hardware Store, Grow two stalks this year where one grew last year and do it by using commercial fertilizer. I have a car of that celebrated BoWker brand. Now is the time to plan for spring planting. John Hogan. The stork visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Erwin Davis, north-east of town one day last week and left a boy with them. They have named him Lawrence. . / Beatrice Bradfield, age 5 years, daughter of W. G. Bradfield, of Wash ington township, whij^pplaying in front of an open grate with newspapers, caught the papers afire and the house was set on fire. Mrs. Bradfield came to the child’s rescue and in putting out; the fire was burned about the hands. The child escaped injury. 7 lOtC Homer Drew was caught by a motor in Muren mine Saturday and knocked down and a trip of loaded cars caught him. His right leg was caught by the trip and broken, the break being below the knee. The break is a bad one and will lay him up for some time. Homer formerly lived in Winslow and worked in the Ayrshire mines Did you feel the earth quake Mon day evening about 9 ;30? Many people report that they felt it. In places the windows of the houses were rattled. Some people thought it was some one fooling at their windows. It was neither. A powder magazine blew up over in Illinois which caused the earth in these parts to quake. The Arthur School will give another pie supper on Friday night, February 14 in order to make the last payment on the Playerphone. We wish to thank the public for the splendid patronage at our last supper and invite you all back again. Bessie Bonenberger and Nettie Wiggs. A few weeks ago a party advertised, drógfcter. had lest m- ChevnAmt bile crank. As a result this office has an extra Chrevolet crank. A long with it the ad gathered a wrench which is also at this office. ‘ Advertising always produces results but in this case^er produced. If the fellow who owns the surplus Chevrolet crank will call at The Dispatch office he may have . . -_ V Wi liam Tislbw, night watchman of Petersburg was assaulted early Sat urday morning in front of the Citizens ere is nothing more servicable the right kind of a kitchen cabi-We have the right kind. Cooper’s are Store. and Mrs. W. O. Pancake, prom-ii« I people of Monroe townsihp, were wa Tuesday attending to business m . Luther Robinson and Mrs. J. redith of Velpen and Mrs. Hugh of this city were in Evansville •ing Tuesday. an |ninglirip#ith friends. Get writing material of every kind at Everett’s Rexall Store. Hear the New Edison at Everetts’. Grover W. Sims, exclusive dealer for Pike county. A full line of patent medicines of every kind is carried in stock at the Salad bowls Wisdom’s. for 25c Saturday at; We Argo ford's. can still get 5 pound packages lump starch for 44c at Wood- Rexall Store. Do you esjuy a good light lamp? Then get Woodford’s your incubator. I un your oil, for will have a saw mill on the fair grounds in a few days. Any one having logs they want sawed can make arrangements now. Gilbert McCord. The new Mineral remedy, good for all stomach, rheumatism, liver, kidney and female troubles. Guaranteed to do the work See Mrs. Bertha Coleman, Agent, Winslow Ind. Mail orders filled. ^ Harry Bryant, a loader in Muren mines, was severely mashed by a fall of slate Monday. His head was cut and his back hurt. A heavy fall of slate caught him while at his work. He was brought home in an ambulance. He is getting along fairly well but will be confíned to his home for some time. Sale—Rose Comb White Wyan-egga from thoroughbred, large heavy laying strain. Eggs for fifteen. Mrs. P. D. Collins, lal Exchange. ^ n. David D. Corn, postmaster of burg, left Sunday for Florida, he will spend three or four taking a much needed rest, family has been In Florida all r on account of the condition of 4K>n’s health. William Minor of Lockhart township, lost a fine mule one day last week. He bought a span of 6 years old mules and the next day took one out of the barn and rode it to the home of a neighbor. The mules had never been separ^ed. After he had gone with one mule the one left in the barn hung itself with the halter. When he returned he found the mule with a broken neck. The loss was heavy as,,^;^wa8 a fine animal. Hear the new Edison at Everett’s. Grover W. Sims, exclusive dealer for Pike county. Sant Singleton. Ross Blythe and A. W. Corn were in Evansville Tuesday taking the examination for mine boss. Lard is again advancing. We have a few cans we will sell at the old price. Pure leaf lard 46 pounds, $13.80 Woodford’s. at George Harger, a good farmer of Monroe township, lost a valuable horse one day last week. Another horse kicked it causing it to die. Elder Haate will fill his regular appointment at the Christian church Saturday night, Sunday morning and Sunday night. The public invited to the services. Lloyd Briggs, One of the tv^ sons bom to Mr. and Mrs. George Briggs two weeks ago, died Sunday afternoon. The little fellow did not do good from the first. The funeral was held Monday, burial being in Oak Hills ceme-try. prices at the Busy Store, Gtibcery Ot^ll: i' soup beans.'per lb...10c country potatoes per bu..$1.65 Hwe bog lard, per pound.........30c beans, per pound. ......11c J|É||^led oatB. 4>-pounds........25c M VCiilyiAiii Pike county coal is very much in demand wherever known. Much of the coal lands are subject to strip propositions. A new strip mine is being promoted now east of Spurgeon. A company has 2,340 acres of atrip land under lease and is running three testing rigs.. If the land proves out as expected the land will be taken up and a new mine opened. Benjamin F. Johnson, 84 and k veteran of the civil war, died last week at his home in Owensville. He was a native of this county but left here when a small boy, his parents moving to Gibson county where he became a distinguished citizen. His mother was an Allman. The Allman family was a prominent family of this county for many years. The new revenue law will place a tax on the luxuries of life to pay the war debt. Incomes of single men from $1,000 to $4,000 will be taxed at 6 per cent Of the aurplus. Incomes of married men from $2,000 to $4,000 will be taxed 6 per cent, of the surplus, an allowance of $200 being made for each t:hild under IS years of age. Incomes over $4.000 will be taxed 12 per cent. JMany luxuries will be heavily taxed. Tobacco and elgars come in for a heavy tax. Men who peraist in chewing tobacco and smoking will pay a large ^ share of the war debt. The only way for them to get out of it ÍB to quit using tobacco in ány form. Schedules roust be filed bf March 15. 25 per cOTt. of the tax must be paid at filing time. Of course ^1 of it may be paid then if one cares to. The seventy-first birthday of Joe Davis, a former resident of this county, was celebrated at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Parker of Roll, Oklahoma on Ferbuary 1st. Relatives, neighbors and friends made him a big dinner and gave him mány presents of which he was very proud. The entire afternoon was spent in the celebration. , V State bank. He was making his rounds and as he passed an open stairway in the bank building he was struck with a heavy club but before he could get up his assailant or assailants bad dÍ8a]> peared, leaving no clue behind. Officers believe that Tislow was attacked by bank robbers who became frightened and ran away after the attack was made. ^ By the small margin of one -vote equal suffrage was defeated in the United States Senate Monday. This is the fourth time the United States The State of Indiana obtained a judgment against the DePauw estate in the Clark County Court for $8,200.00 tax money that the estate had failed to turn in. Recently Governor Goodrich compromised the suit with Col. Vernon T. Knight for $5,000.00. The matter came up while the governor was sick and was taken to Lieutenant Governor Bush who refused to compromise the suit, claiming that the estate should pay the full amount. After the governor got well he took the matter up and settled it for $5,000.00. Now Lieutenant Governor Bush is taking the governor to task for changing his ruling, claiming that it was done because CoL Knight is on the governor’s staff and that the governor gave the DePauw estate $3,200 of the state’s money. The governor says that only one-third of the money belonged to the state, the balance to Clark county and that the taxing officials of that county are willing to the compromise. Several letters have been passed between the two which have been published in the liMlian^polis papers. Senate has refused to giv^ women the right to vote. It will net come up again soon but when the next session convenes suffrage will again be brought forth. For many years it has been advocated,. At first but few people were for it but gradually the equal suffrage idea has gained supporters. Eventually the women will be given the right to vote by the United States congress. ^ Louis Caldemeyer, 5 yeart 6l<I son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Caldemeyer southeast of Arthur, hung himself Monday afternoon. The little fellow got hold of a quarter-inch rope and said he was going to make a swing. He went to the kitchen, tied the rope aronnd bis neck, climbed on a coal oil can and tied the other end of the rope to a four penny-nail which had been driven into the wail. The nail was barely low enough for him to reach it after he was standing on the can.*" Just as he got the rope tied around the nail the can turned and threw him off leaving him swung by the neck. His sister, a girl of 18 waa working in the kitchen with her back te him but be was ao choked that he could not make a noise. When she turned around she saw him. He was black in the face and his tongue was hanging out. She took him down. T wo neighbor men were sitting in the front room. They went to work on him, in the meantime calling for Dr. George DeTar. He waa brought to life after much vrork and Is now gettiOg along alt right. The father was away at work and the mother was in Huntingburg. R. M. Craig & ^dn. Bessie Rumb'e was taken to the girls’ reform school in Indianapolis Tuesday, having been sentenced there in court iast week on a charge of delinquency. She is 17 years old. Her father. Ras Rumble lives in Petersburg and her mother in Hosmer. Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Abell took her to Indianapolis for the sheriff. ^ Lawrence Smith died early Monday morning at his home in Petersburg after a long sickness of a leakage of the heart. He was 68 years old and is survived by the widow. He was a good man, a member of the Baptist church in Petersburg. The funeral The fifth Liberyt Loan, which will be floated this spring, in April, will be called the Victory Loan. This will be the last of the great series of loans growing out of the World War. The amount has not yet been announced. Neither has the interest rate nor the exact date. While the Government will probably require still more money, even after the Fifth, i%is announced that this will be the last to be raised by popular subscription. The Winslow High School basket ball team went to Boon vil le Saturday afternoon and'defeated the high school team of that city, the score standing 20 to 4. It was a great game from the viewpoint of the locals. However the Bo^-ville fans gave the local team credit for playing the game like real sportsmen. A number of “rooters” went along. They made the trip in automobiles. This is the sixth game for the local team this season and six games it bas won. The members of the team are expecting to figure high in the tournament which will be held in Vincennes beginning March 7th. service was held at the family residence Tuesday afternoon. Burial was in Walnut Hills cemetery. Persons who appreciate a good lecture will have the opportunity of hearing one at the Methodist church Friday evening. Dr. Ward is district superintendent of the Evansville district of Methodist churches and has preached here aeveral times. He comes this time to deliver a lecture that will be heard with interest. He is being brought here by a committee that is paying the expense of the visit In order to get the lecture in town. The public generally invited to the meeting.. Dr. Ward is an entertaining talker and vrill interest you if you care to hear him. We predict a large audience will hear him. ^ Older residents of Window and Southern Pike county will remember Winslow now has a real fire wagon. The two chemical tanks that were mounted on hand carts have been taken off of these and mounted on a Ford ehsnaia. Theu-sth^e.jaffair, h&® been painted red and they can be taken to a fire on the double quick. Fire chief Elmer Wilhelm has the fire fighting wagon almost completed. It is the proper move. Some new ladders have been ordered and in a few days we will be equipped for fire fighting. An almost new Ford was purchased and placed in first class condition. With the fife fighting force that has been selected we are in a pretty fair way to care for our fires. We feel that this is one of the best moves that has been made. Mrs. James M. Johnson who Lived here for many years. About seventeen years or so ago they moved to Hunting burg, later to Cannelton. Mrs. John< son died week before last. An account of her death is'given in the Cannelton Enquirer as follows: The ^remains of George Curtis died Monday night in the Pike County jail in Petersburg where he had been making his home for some time. Months ago be became epileptic. He- bad no home and an effort was madjot to get him into some state institution but there was none for him. The matter was taken up with the board of state charities but nothing could be done so he was left in the jail. Deceased was raised north of Winslow,a son of the late Sam Curtis. He was 48 years old. When a young man he was married to Opha Evans. Two children were born to them, one of whom is ilving. They separated years ago. The remains were moved from the jail to the home of Wash Kinnfan, north of town Tuesday. The funeral was held Wednesday, the remains being brought to Oak Hi cemetery for burial. A damage suit was tried in the Gibson county court at Princeton last week in which this community figured. Mrs. Sarah Burns, south of town brought a suit for $3.500 damages against a Huntingburg saloon keeper by the name of Midkiff alleging that her husband Thomas Burns went to Huntingburg in company with some other men asjt wintet and bought a ease of beer á half galfon of «Ailskey vftwich it is claimed he brought home with him. The suit alleges that Bums took the booze into the old house at the Cox mines where he got drunk and was found dead as a result. His trip to Huntingburg was on Staurday but be was not found until Monday morning when the men went to the mine to start work. It was claimed in the law suit that he remained in a drunken condition all day Sunday which caused bis death some time that night. It will be remembered that it was during the awful cold weather of last winter that Mr. Burns was found dead at the Cox mine shack. Mrs. Sara Ann Johnson, wife of James M. Johnson, arrived in the city Sunday morning from Huntingburg, Ind., at which place she died the day before. The funeral took place on Monday morning at 9 o’clock from St. Michael’s Catholic church with burial in the Catholic cemetery. Mrs. Johnson had been an invalid for years and was totally blind. Fifteen yean ago she and her husband came here from Dubois county to make their home. Her husband being old and lümost helpless binaself took care of the deceased until her condition demanded more partic-attention,. She then went to a relative at Huntingburg wbmM ahe awaited her final auminon. % She^as 77 yean old. There are no children mnd: dwágad husband alone enrvivee taer. S» resides in l|t. Louis addition. The merchant who does not advertise these days is not keeping his ear to the ground. The scope of trade is widening out these days. Formerly, the people traded at any store they could reach easliy by hitching to the buggy or wagon. They paid the price and took tb® goods whether or not because it killed so much time to drive five or ten miles farther. With the advent' ot automobiles on every farm the scope of trade to any one store has been enlarged. People do not mind an extra five or ten miles drive to get what they want. They do not know what a store has unless that store tqlls them through their favorite newspaper. The scope of country a store may draw from these days depends upon that store’s ability to tell che people through the newspaper what it has. Small town merchants who do not realise this make a great mistake. Not a store in Pike county but that Cfn profitably spend money for advertising In The Dispatch as it reaches fbe people of central and southern Pike county almost to a home* The rates are very moderate—so much ao that a merchant can reach the people within a trading radius of hie store at a verydow ooet per hundred fatafiiee. The Pike County Memorial Association is planning a big patriotic celebration in Winslow Sunday afternoon. The meeting will be held in the Lobbey building at 2 o’clock. Hon. W. B. Carleton of Evansville, will deliver a patriotic address .A program of music will be rendered. A large number of soldier boys will be present and stage a parade before the meeting. Every soldier of the county is invited and urged to be present wearing his uniform if possible. Lieutenant Horace Whitman ^iil have charge of the eol-diers. The meeting is planned to arouse interest in the building of a suitable memorial for the soldiers of Pike county. The Pike County Memorial Association organized many weeks ago hopes to arouse the interest of the people of the county toward building a suitable memorial for the men who left their homes and their employment and went out to give their all for the country's cause.' People from every section of the county are expected to be present and many have signified their intention of being here. The large hall will hold many people and the program as prepared will be worth the while of any Pike county citizen attending, Mr. Carleton is one of the best patriotic i speakers in the country and will deliver an address worth hearlna. The Winslow Chamber of Commerce has taken notice of the meeting and a reception committee has been appointed to look after the pdbple’s wants as they come to town. The committee, beaded by Lee Dearing is composed of the following citizens: Walter P. Seheer, JaroM Way. J. Ross Blythe, Ike Royalty, Everett Fettinger. M. O. McKinney, Gilbert McCord. Jesse Littell, Ira Smith and John Hogan. All expenaee of the meeting have been met by tbe Pike County Memorial Associatien anA there will be no collection afi#«o de> nations asked for. The pec^e aae invited to this meeting solely to A. M$^-«r»Ae imtrietie addvsag. rbcimedi tbe I soldier boys ef i

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