Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1898 — NORTH BARKLEY. [ARTICLE]

NORTH BARKLEY.

—Laura Ponto visited Mrs. L. ■J. Beedy Saturday. —Dick Zook did shopping in Rensselaer Saturday. —George Beedy has a very painful felon on his finger. —B. F. Funk of Ada, Ohio, moved to Deadwood Monday. —The onion business is rather slack this week it being too wet to load. —John Reniley of Rensselaer, visited Searle Steel a few days last week. —B. J. Gifford is loading twelve car loads of oats on the new railroad this week. —John Fanson and T. M. Callahan visited Alf. Donnelly and family Sunday. —We would like to know when Estil Pierson is coming out to the Gifford ranch to shoot “snipes” again? —Eva Meitzler, Orla Hewitt, Lewis Lemon and Chess Castor attended the dance Saturday night at Will Coady’s, near Medarville. —The following is a love letter received by a certain young lady of North Barkley: Dear Miss.— It’s to-night that I take the pen to write you few words of what I am long since thinking to write you I am sure you will be surprise, and say that I am a curious boy to write to a girl that I have seen only about twice. But if I wait till I see you a one hundred times it might take long, and it is not only to have seen you that has encourage me to write you. But it is also what I have heard about your charracter from my sister She has told me that you were a good little girl and that she would have a good confidence in you. trusting my sister word and having seen you it looks to me like truth, and since that time my head has been troubled with many thoughts and few wishes. They are too numerous to mention but one of my wishes is to know if it is useful for me tothink of you or r ot, if you could hope it useful for me, you can also hope it useful for you, this will be all for today, for health I am well and I hope this let - er will reach the same. I also hope you shall excuse my writing and its eloquence english is not my language. But it seems to me that we can understand us. I will now close my letter not with a big but with a little hope to receive an ans. soon. I remain as ever, your—l don’t know what?