Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1898 — BLACKFORD. [ARTICLE]

BLACKFORD.

—Lester Shriver spent Sunday at Parr. —Newton Jenkins is reported aick with the ague. —George Snow of near Parr, buried an infant child Sunday. The hot days and cool nights lias brought the ague aroifnd again. Mrs. Andrew Arnold is reported very ill at the present writing. Henry Steel’s family who have been sick so long are reported some better. Victor Yeoman and family spent Sunday with Anderson Jenkins and family. —Rainy weather. People in this locality are anxious to get their grain threshed. —Mrs. W. H. Deer and daughter Flossie, of Motion, are visiting friends and relatives near Blackford, —Fred Sliriver was seen going up north last Sunday. Wonder why he travels that road so often, boys? —Several people of near Blackford took advantage of the excursion rates and went to Ohidago last Sunday. —George Jenkins who got his hand broken a couple of weeks ago, reports that it is not getting along very well. —S. B. Jenkins and family, who have been visiting near Blackford some time, have returned to their home at Chicago Heights. —Among the Blackford people who went to Chicago on the excursion Sunday were: Frank Lakin and wife, Theodore Snow, wife and eon, Isaac McCurtain, Ed Sibnll, Alvie Snow, Daniel Lakin, and several others.