People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1895 — Many Emigrants Coming. [ARTICLE]

Many Emigrants Coming.

Blackford. Feb. 25.—Owen Hurley, son of the post master* is recovering from the chicken pox. T. H. Hurley, the post master, has joined the church. Mrs. Booth, the preacher from Dew Drop, will assist in the protracted meeting at Brushwood. Chas. Gilmore was visiting at A. Jenkin’s last Sunday. There will be services at the Dunkard church next Sunday. Roads are breaking up fast and becoming bad in places. Mail at Blackford Wednesday and Saturday afternoons. J. L. Nichols was at Blackford last Saturday with J. W. Iliff, the trustee. Mrs. J. M. Lesli is very ill. James German is still in the well business. Mr. Masters of Ohio, who recently moved here, has removed to the Wolf place. A long train of movers are continually on the road emigrating to the marshes of this townshit). Barklky, Feb. 25.—A good many people of this neighborhood are attending the revival meetings at Brushwood a good attendance is reported. John Renicker of Blackford was in this vicinity last week selling fruit trees, and all other kinds of nursery stock.