People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1895 — Oldest Citizen of Jordan. [ARTICLE]

Oldest Citizen of Jordan.

Jordan, Jan. lfi.— Uncle Jimmy Dutton, whose eightysix years probably makes him the oldest man in this township, is again able to be about after being sick for several weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Kennedy of Rensselaer are visiting their two sons of thf§ township. Robert ' Michaels has just finished shelling 3200 bushels of corn which he.is hauling to the Rensselaer market, a distance of eight miles. Jesse Sayler and Miss Kittie 'Adams were married Wednesday evening of this week at the home of the bride’s mother, Mrs. Henry Adams. Mrs. M. A. Timmons of Remington is visiting S. F. Iliff and family this week.

W. E. Morris has purchased a corn sheller and is shelling his crop. Erastus Roadifer, near Goodland. was at the county seat Wednesday attending court. Enos Timmons has taken the contract of sawing one hundred cords of wood for Henry Welsh. The several typhoid fever patients of Jordan township, are all getting better. I. U. Iliff’s three children, Omar, Edna and Ethel, the two last being twins, are very sick with lung fever, Dr. Hartsell being in attendance. Mrs. Blanche Sparrow of Lee Station made the county metropolis a visit this week. Two large sleigh loads of young people from Rensselaer attended a dance at Ephraim Fleming’s last Tuesday night. On the return trip they got stuck in a drift and had to get shovels of the farmers near by and shovel away the snow before they could proceed. There will be a box supper at the Bullis school house next Friday night. It was to have been held on the 11th but the weather was so bad that it was postponed. Miss Hattie Mitchell is the teacher, and will use the proceeds to buy Reading Circle books for the school". Fred Way mi re of Benton county has purchased Jud Adam’s farm seven miles from Rensselaer, and is hauling tile, preparatory to giving it a good drainage system.