Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1901 — Btackford. [ARTICLE]

Btackford.

Francis Marion and family visited in the city last Saturday. G. B. Switzer and family spent last Sunday with his. parents here. Mrs. Frank and son, of Chicago, visited at E. C. Switzer’s from Saturday until Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Frank and son, of Chicago, are visiting her brother and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Peters, at Dewdrop this week. They will spend the Fourth of July with them. Mrs. Nan Abbott and daughter Edna visited at Korah Daniels’ Saturday night and Sunday. Mrs. Daniels fell and hurt her ankle seriously. Presiding Elder Stanley held quarterly meeting at the U. B. church at Aix last Saturday. This will be the last of the work until after the annual conference. Renicker has finished picking strawberries at the fruit farm and commenced on the raspberries this week. We had a big rain yesterday and another today and plenty of hard thunder. The ground is thoroughly soaked now so people cannot plow corn. It begins to look as though some ditching was needed in this part of the country. Quite a number of farmers are going to town today.