People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1895 — Barkley Institute. [ARTICLE]

Barkley Institute.

Blackford, Jan. 21.—Marsh Steel drove over te Blackford Sunday. J. M. Spriggs has been ill a week but is better now. Barkley township held the third institue Saturday, and there were several teachers absent. Bill Hurley goes about the house with a smile and a song. They have a new cook. Ott Clark made a business trip to Goodland Monday. We see by the Herald that Monticello has a steam laundry,, running in first class shape. What is the matter with Rensselaer.

The Democratic Sentinel has not been issued for the past two or three weeks, on account of Brother McCuen falling and injuring his arm that he does his work with. Mrs. Willis McColly and family, formerly of this’place, but recently of Fair Oaks, has returned to Rensselaer, and occupies Geo. Stickfaden’s house. Ed Mauck and wife of Arcadia, and Mert Brown and wife of Yuntsville, are visiting at the home D. H. Yeoman, both ladies being his daughters,