Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1901 — Blackford [ARTICLE]

Blackford

Lora Steele is working for Alexander Hurley. Hurley and Tanner are shipping poultry nearly every day. Zebedee Swaim’s family, at Aix, are nearly all sick with lung fever. Raska is moving from Gifford’s ranch to the Rich farm southeast of Blackford. Mamie Myers is working for Mrs Lena Lakin on the old Robert Swaim place. Snow is so deep that dogs and rabbits can’t run through it. It is knee deep on the level. Henry Steele is on the sick list. He iliving in the old Sandridge school house on the Arnold place. Mr. Arnold was buried in the Dunkard graveyard north of Blackford last Saturday. She had been a sufferer from cancer for a long time. Mrs. Rose Hurley Sh'ekls brought her dead baby on the train from Chicago Heights Sunday and buried it in the Hurley graveyard at Sandridge.