Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1900 — BLACKFORD. [ARTICLE]

BLACKFORD.

Quicksand abundant. Oats acwing about over with on N. R. Zack Stanley was in these parts last Sunday. Hurrah for our next president, whose name Is W. J. Bryan! Uncle Newman Snow and wife are reported able to be about again. Owen Hurley came down from the Morris ranch, where he had been working. Theodore Hurley, our- Blackford merchant, is very dangerously 111 at this writing John W. Hurley and wife spent Sunday with the latter's father. George Jenkins, Sunday. Several young people went to Parr last Saturday night to the dance. A good time was reported. An old gypsy woman was in this locality last week telling fortunes for 25 cents or an old hen apiece. She got several quarter’s, so 'tis said. If Miss Aix would be more regular in sending in the Aix sunbeams it would look as though she was not an old maid, but a nice, charming young damsel. The N. R. young men. for amusement, come down to Blackford Sunday afternoons, tie tin cans to dog’s tails to seethemrun. Fie, young gents, can't you find something better to do than that?