Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1901 — Blackford [ARTICLE]

Blackford

Misses Bertha and Alice Daniels returned home from Fair Oaks, last week. They were visiting their grand-parents, Rev. and Mrs. Abbott. G. B. Switzer’s family spent Monday at his brother’s, E. C. Switzer. Celina Switzer spent Saturday in the city and returned to her brother’s, near Aix, and visited from Saturday till Monday. George Masters and wife, of Parr, and Steve Williams’ family, from the fruit farm, visited at father Masters last Sunday. J. Renicker and family, from the Popular Grove Fruit Farm, F. Peters and family, of Gifford ranch, visited E. C. Switzer last Sunday. Mrs. Allie Price is very sick with neuralgia or rheumatism. She is not able to get up or walk without help. Mr. Moore’s little boy that fell out of a wagon in Rensselaer and got hurt, is improving so that he can walk with his crutches now. A very sad death occurred here last week. Mrs. Maggie Hurley, wife of Roy Hurley, died, leaving five small children, one of them a babe about a week old. Mrs. Lina Meyers, her sister-in-law, took the baby home with her to care for. J. Wiseman’s family are all better except Earle. He is suffering with rheumatism and is not able to get around. Rev. Sines will preach in the morning at the church at Aix now so as to help in Sunday school. Preaching as soon as the school closes. We had a nice little shower Tuesday morning but the weather is a little too cold for the corn and frost is nipping some of the gardens.