Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1900 — BLACKFORD. [ARTICLE]

BLACKFORD.

Plenty of rain. Corn is growing fine. J. Q. Lewis will take the census of Barkley tp. Jacob Lesh was seen on Nubbin Ridge last Sunday. , Cut-worms are abundant. They have destroyed most of the onions. George Warren and family visited Anderson Jenkins one day last week. Billy Whited from Comer, was seen in this locality last Saturday and Sunday. Frank Hayes and his brother John, did business in Rensselaer last Monday. Theodore Snow went to Chicago, sight- | seeing on the excursion last Sunday, Lincoln Jenkins and John Lesh from west of Parr, were in this locality last Sundav. George Jenkins and daughter, Mrs. John W. Hurley, visited relatives at Monon this week. Birton Jenkins, the champion heavyweight cyclist, attended Sunday school and church at Surrey last Sunday. The people around this locality gathered at the Mt. Taber cemetery Monday to prepare the cemetery for memorial day. Any one wanting to buy a good second hand spring toothed harrow and a good riding plow will do well to call on Charlie Jenkins, 1 mile east of Blackford. The remains of William Smith, who died and was buried at Fair Oaks about four w eeks ago. was moved to the Smith cemetery, 3 miles south of here, last Sunday.