Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1901 — Blaekford. [ARTICLE]

Blaekford.

Mr. and Mrs. Zeb Swaim visited at John Switzer's Sunday. John and Theodore Hurley, of Aix, are dangerously ill. Frank Osborne, of Rensselaer, was a caller in this vicinity Tuesday. The Holiness class at Brushwood school house held meeting Sunday. Mrs. Joe Norman visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. P. Coiner, Tuesday. Jesse Fox is finishing Miss Henry’s term of school at Cosy Palace and is taking the enumeration. Jennie Hogan Hoyt, of Watseka, UL, was buried last Tuesday, death being caused by cancer on the breast. Mr. and Mrs. Will Ridenour and children started for Oklahoma Tuesday, where they expect to make their future home. Rev. Sam Sines, pastor of the Brushwood United Brethern church, moved Monday to Rensselaer to work for Judy & Wood. Ed Smith, of lowa, has moved on John Knight’s farm northeast of Blackford and Knight has moved to Wheatfield to engage in teaming. Elias Arnold, trustee of Barkley township, has so far recovered from his recent illness as to get out of the house a little, but is not able to attend to business. ALr. James Wiseman did business in Rensselaer Tuesday. Oats sowing will soon be a thing of the past in this vicinity. The Holiness people held service* at Brushwood last Saturday night and Sunday. Born, Monday night to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hurley, a thirteen pound girl. Mrs. Maggie Norman, of Rensselaer, spent Tuesday with her parents near this place. Rev. Sines, of this place, finished moving his household goods to Rensselaer Monday. He has accepted a position with the Judy & Wood firm. Come, brace up. I mean the Journal correspondents. Last week only two of us were represented. N ews surly must be getting scarce. [Look again, Aix, and you will find you are mistaken in the namber, and also that you were one of the delinquent ones.—Ed.] Charles Garriott and Miss Davison spent Sunday with Jesse and Orpha Swaim. A nice time was reported by Charlie. You can’t loose me, Charlie. Isaac Miller has been working for Nancy Burget. They are young and single. Maybe they have more on their minds than garden making.