Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1901 — blackford [ARTICLE]

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Mrs. Dan Lesh and children visited at J. S. Switzer’s last Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Castor and daughters, Misses Gertie and Nettie, from east of Kniman. called on Mrs. Lesh Monday on their way to Rensselaer. Dr. Pagan called at uncle J. S. Switzer’s one day last week and wanted him to try some of his medicine. Said he was on liis way to Uncle Jacob Hurley’s. He was doctoring him for some chronic trouble. S. Galbreath has rented his farm here (the Zimmerman farm) to Mr. Hamilton, who will move there as soon as Lesh goes out—perhaps next week. Millard Frost moved from the Churchill form south of Aix, to a house on Joe Davisson’s place last Saturday. Wonder what George Masters is getting lumber for? Perhaps Sarah Emma could tell. Vannie Lesh had a bad fire at his place last Saturday afternoon. He and Theodore Snow were fixing to move a small building there for a kitchen, when Mrs. Snow discovered smoke issuing from a window. Mrs. Lesh ran out doors and discovered the-fire up stairs. She called the men and they ran up stairs, but were too late to put out the fire. They got some quilts and part of a bed and threw them out of the window, when part of the ceiling dropped down on a bed and they had to get out. They got out a box of clothing and a few things down stairs. A defect in the flue near the roof caused the fire.