People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1893 — BLACKFORD. [ARTICLE]

BLACKFORD.

Our merchant, T. H. Hurley, reports trade good. The Gifford dredge No. 2 is close to Mr. Wm. Daniels’. Miss Rose Hurley, of Chicago Heights, is visiting relatives in this vicinity. There was church at the DunkarA church Saturday night, Sunday and Sunday night. Rev. Pierson preached at Burns Sunday. Rev. Wortley will preach there May 7th. Mr. Fish Gilmore and wife, of Fair Oaks, were visiting relatives on Nubbin Ridge Sunday. Mr. E. Yost and wife, of Pleasant Ridge, attended Dunkard church Sunday evening. B J. Gifford was in our town last Thursday. Chas. Campbell and Mt\ Wilson have traded farms and also have moved.

Bill Wood, of Rensselaer, passed through Blackford early Thursday morning enroute to Wheatfield. The Christian Endeavor society is still in progress every Thursday night at Burns’ school house. The blacksmith has been kept busy for the past two weeks. Newton Price and family and John McCurtain and wife, of near Rensselaer, visited Mr. W. Price’s a week ago Sunday. Rev. Mcßride will preach at the Brushwood Chapel next Sunday night. No new cases of measles are reported. Butterfly.