People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1894 — BLACKFORD. [ARTICLE]

BLACKFORD.

BY BESSIE.

I The weather is pleasant. I Jas. Price has moved on Ad. Parkinson’s farm. S. B. Jenkins and family visited his brother, Anderson, Sunday. Mr. Spriggs and James Geiman were at Kniman, Sunday. The infant child of Zeb Swaim is dangerously sick. A dance was given at John McCurtain’s Thursday evening. John Hoonen, of Hammond, i,> visiting Alec Hurley. He in tends to start for Ohio, nex week, where his wife resides.

Mr. Van Lesh is visiting relatives in Ohio. Protracted meeting is still in progress at the Independence school house, with little success. When it closes there they will open up at Brushwood church. There is a report out that a new Christian church will be built on Jacob Keener’s place w’est of Brushwood church. Henry Ropp is completing his new house. A shooting match at Cain Galbreath’s last Thursday. The box supper at the Burn’s school was a success. The proceeds amounted to over S2O. Miss Bertha Reed was voted to be the most popular young lady and was given a prize of a book.