Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1900 — BLACKFORD. [ARTICLE]

BLACKFORD.

Mr. Independence had a hot time in Cuba on N. R, last Sunday. Zack Stanley, whose headquarters are at the tile factory, spent Sunday on N. R. Charles Jenkins and Samuel Hopkins did business at or near Parr last Monday. Miss Mary Morgenegg helped Mrs. Emmet Pullins cook for threshers last Monday. Charles Gdmore and children of DeMotte, are visiting relatives in this locality at presen’.

Mrs. Wm. Green, whose serious illness has been mentioned in former items, still lingers about the same. ' The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Campbell of near Parr, was buried in the Prater cemetery last Tuesday. There are two petitions being circulated hereabouts, one for and the other against the Gifford railroad. If the people want to sign either they had better sign against a petition that will double their taxes. Remember, friends, the people said ‘‘Na!" onces Now, don't petition for anything the people don’t want.