Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1898 — BLACKFORD. [ARTICLE]

BLACKFORD.

—Weather very frosty. —Roads rough and muddy. —Most of the schools closed f . Thanksgiving. —Charles Jenkins and wif y. i Sunday with Allen Louk and fai ily. —Edd Sybel says that he is a batchelor now, as the boss and wife have gone off on a visit. - —The school in the old Sandridge school house is suspended on account of scarlet fever. —William Daniels, who had been to Indianapolis as a juryman, returned home last Saturday. —John Marlatt and wife went to Illinois last Sunday for a week’s visit among friends and relatives. —Sylvester Jenkins is helping Jesse Jenkins cut sawlogs, with the lumber of which the latter is going to build a new house in the spring. —The Gifford railroad hands were to move to the north end of the road last Wednesday. It has not been learned whether they did so or not. —That love letter sent in by the North Barkley correspondent takes the cake for eloquence, and ought to be an example for some of the bashful boys of Nubbin Ridge.