Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1899 — BLACKFORD. [ARTICLE]

BLACKFORD.

—Rain, rain, rain. —Roads nearly impassable. —T. J. Hurley is very dangerously ill at this writing. —Mrs. Henkle is not expected to live, was the last report. —William Daniels is going to have some patent wire fence put up this spring. —Mrs. Anderson Jenkins was visiting her daughter, Mrs. Victor Yeoman, last week. —Nick Dexter and wife have been visiting friends on Nubbin Ridge for some time. —Miss Nellie Barkley is going to school this summer. She starts next Monday, we wish her success with her studies. —Now is the time for the young men of N. R. to hunt for places to work this summer. Several have found such places down about Remington. The “hired man’s” wages seems to be quite high this spring. —Subscribe for The Democrat, the leading paper for truth and honesty. It will tell you of the doings of our county officers. It does not guess at it, but looks up the records and finds it all in black and white.