People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1894 — BLACKFORD NO. 2. [ARTICLE]

BLACKFORD NO. 2.

The people of the Independence neighborhood have had some lively times with the boys and the prospects are that there 'is still more to follow. Theodore Hurley is under the weather. Heart trouble seems to be the malady. The Burnstown social like all the other box socials we have read of this winter was “a grand success.” The cheapest box sold was for 75 cents and they ran from that to $1.50. The book put up for the most popular girl and voted on at 1 cent a vote brought 811.47. The winner was a little school girl Of this place. The net proceeds amounted to over S2O. Sandridgers went down to Burnstown social to carry away everything in sight, but went back more empty handed than they came. George McElfresh lost his best horse one night last week. It somehow got into the river and drowned.