Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1898 — BLACKFORD. [ARTICLE]

BLACKFORD.

—Weather rainy and cool. —Election passed off very ly—Gifford’s railroad is still on the boom. —Fred Shriner, jr., went to Illinois last week. ”s. —Edward Jenkins is shucking corn for Charley Arnold. —Hog cholera is heard of once in a while in this locality. —Jesse Jenkins and family visited Henry Ropp last Sunday. —Mindania Burns, of DeMotte, is visiting her aunt Lizzy Jenkins. —Charles Pullins shipped another car load of hogs last Wednesday. —Candidates were around shaking hands with the voters of N. R. last week. —Samuel Williams and wife visited friends and relatives in White county last week. —George Stembel of Wheatfield was on N. R. last week looking after his political interests. —lt has been noised around that the Blackford correspondent is a republican. This is not so, he is a democrat O. K. —Sandridge school opened with 40 scholars, while the new Sandridge school has but 8. This comes from putting the school where it was not wanted. Good correspondence stationery cheap at The Democrat office.