Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1900 — BLACKFORD. [ARTICLE]

BLACKFORD.

Let the majority rule. If Bryan gets beat, call a new election. —gjju Jesse Jenkins and family spent Sunday at Isaac Miller’s. Mrs. Andrew Arnold has been on the sick list for some time. Victor Yeoman and family visited in this locality last ’1 uesday. George Marlin bought a team of mules in Rensselaer Saturday. Chris Margenegg...Sr., did business in Rensselaer last Monday. Henry Brovant attended the German Baptist Church north of Blackford last Sunday. Anderson Jenkins and Newton Jenkins helped John Nichols thresh last Monday. George Jenkins returned from Monon last Monday. He reported his daughter as very seriously ill. The Perkins well-drilling outfit is trying to finish the well they commenced for S. R. Nichols last fall, just east of Blackford. A majority of the voters of Barkley tp., said they did not want the Gifford railroad, but that would not satisfy, so they got up a new petition. They might just as well try to run water up hill as to call a new election. What is the use of making us pay for something we don’t want? The pass-word is, Gifford's railroad? No!