Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1886 — BLACKFORD ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

BLACKFORD ITEMS.

Boads very bad. Business is brisk in our little town. There has been veiy little farmwork done in this township this spring. Mr. J. Arnold, of Wabash, was visiting his father, A. Arnold, last Sat rday and Sunday. S. B. Jenkins was so unfortunate as to lose a valuable horse last week. There is talk of a new postmaster at this place in the near future. Mr. William Pullins is suffering greatly from a cut foot which, it is feared, will result seriously. J. 1. Burns has built a large shed in accordance with his desire to have ample room for his large amount of machinery. The old time amusement of “swinging on the front gate” is being revived little too early, as the danger of late frosts is not yet past. Garden making i in fair play now among the ladies of our community, and all they seem to want is plenty of good seeds, moist earth and two or three favora; le signs. One of the happiest men to be round anywhere is A. H. Arnold, and all because there came to his home a few days ago a bouncing girl, and Andrew now sleeps a smilin’. Jolk. Frazee is building a very neat barn on his farm, one-and-a-half miles south of this city. Geo. Andrews and son are doing the work. George Becd’s smiles are as bland and bright as the bottom of a new dish-pan—all on account of a boy Quite a polar wave swept over Nubbin Bidge to-day. Frank Goff now sleeps without snoring because lie is the father of another boy. “Old Mossy.” April 6th, 1886.