People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1893 — BLACKFORD. [ARTICLE]

BLACKFORD.

Wm. Durant is working on the Burk farm. Miss Nancy Price has returned frim the World’s Fair. Wallace Nichols is erecting a new addition to his house. Miss Lucinda Price is visiting her brother near Wheatfield. The fall pastures are beginning to appear a little green. A game of base ball was played near John Lewis’ last Sunday. Ora Burns, of Fair Oaks, purchased a fine pony of Ed Griggs last week. Mrs. George Adair, of Chicago Heights, is visiting friends and relatives in this vicinity. The annual communion meeting -was held at the German Baptist church last Thursday. Mossie Davison and family, of Pleasant Ridge, were the guests of Charles Caston last week. Miss Jessie Hulce was the guest of Emma and Ruth Schroer last Saturday night and Sunday. The long looked for rain has come at last and the farmers that are not through sowing grain are busy at it. T. H. Hurley, our merchant, was united in marriage to Miss Mary Knight at the German Baptist church last Friday morning by Rev. Clear. They have the -well wishes of their many friends. Come Again.