Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1898 — Blackford. [ARTICLE]

Blackford.

Weather pleasant. Corn about hip high now. The peach orchards ‘in this 10-. cality are affected with the leaf , curl. j We are having some cold nights | i in this locality. Charles Jenkens and wife visitbed friends in Wheatfield Saturday] and Sunday. T. H. Hurley, our Blackford j ' postmaster is very low with heart: trouble. Edward Jenkens Sundayed at I Monon. He says he goes there to j visit his sister, but the young peo- ' pie of this vicinity think dilferj ently. Maggie Kenton preached at ; Rose Bud chapel last Sunday. Edward Walker is working for ■ the Burns brothers this season. ; Mrs. George McElfnesh and inj fant daughter are on the sick list at present. We don’t hear much about the war lately. Is it about over? ; George Cooper had a runaway ' last week. Not much damage was done. . . Thomas Price has bought a new wagon. Mrs. Mary Yeoman is on the sick list. Mrs. Deer/mid daughter Flossie, ! of Monon, are visiting in this vi- ' cinity .