Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1879 — LETTER FROM BRADFORD [ARTICLE]

LETTER FROM BRADFORD

Bradford, Ind., April 20, 1879. Bradford is an incorporated town !at last. Good side walks are being j built. The grain elevator of Scott & i Co. is a big institution, with John C. Kelley as general manager, Geo. W. Hcrader, engiu er, and Geo. W. Imes, brother to your deservedly popular druggist, in charge of machinery. The farm- rs in this vicinity don’t come to town any more with long laces. If they have a bushel of wheat, corn or oats, they are met by Mr. Kelley with a smile, get hou st weight and the money for their grain, and go on their way rejoicing. The farmers of Jasper county will do well to sell their grain to Scott & Co. Corn is worth to-day 30c., oats 18c. and 20c. wheat 90c. and 95c.j Over seventy-five thousand bushels of corn have passed through this elevator since its completion. The Rev. Huston preaches to-day. Services morning and evening. The odd fellows are anticipating a good time at this place on the 26tb ins . TheL., N. A. & C. RR. has over half a mile of side track, and still building more, at this point. Plover shooting is the boys’ best holt. Mr. Bunches’ new store room is almost finished. Marshal Sparrow is collecting corporation tax. The hogs are no longer allowed to run at large. Two town lots are to be sold Wednesday for side walk improvements. The side walk will soon be built to the Narrow Gauge RR. Mr. Luther Lucas, an old and worthy citizen of this vicinity, and his daughter Rosa are both supposed to be on their death beds—consumption.

W.

Report of the Independence school, of Bark ey township, Jasper county, Indiana, for the month end lag April -11, 1879: Enrollment, 30; average daily attendance, 24.1; cases of tardiness, 5- Those perfect in deportment, punctuality and study, were: Mary Abbett, Maggie Abbett, Mellie Abbett, Alice Adair, Albert Patee, Charles Galbreth, Flora Daniels, Moldlie Daniels, Ella Ryan, Sarah Night and Mary Night. John-E. Alter, » Teacher. Ezra L. Clark is established in the Shanghai building with an extensive and entirely new stock of hardware, of all kinds, tinware, table and pocket cuttlery, etc., ete % to which he respectfully invites the attention of the public.