People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1894 — BLACKFORD. [ARTICLE]

BLACKFORD.

BY BUTTERFLY. Mrs. Malissa Renicker is very low. Burns school will close the first Saturday in May. The weather is very changeable with sleet and snow. Mr. Commodore Snow has planted an acre of onion seed. Ella Howell has returned to Nubbin Ridge again for summer. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Williams, one day last week, a boy. Some of the earliest sowed oats before the freeze are coming up. Rev. Pierson will preach at the Sandridge school house next Sunday at 11 a. m. Sunday school every Sunday at the Burns school house, at half past two, prompt. John McCurtain and family have moved on the Churchhill place, north of Blackford. The packet of No. 1 dredge of the Gifford dredging Company caught fire, and burnt d >wn. John and Isaac Marlatt and Charles Reed took a 'unit out in Walker, Saturday. The result was one duck.