Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1901 — Blackford [ARTICLE]

Blackford

Had a nice shower Monday evening which will help late vegetables and pasture. G. B. Switzer returned from Watseka, 11l Saturday. No apples there at all. It has been very dry there. There is some very good fields of corn and others are injured with the draught. Ike Hamilton met his brother-in-law's family at Rensselaer Monday. They came from Clinton county. I armers are cutting up their corn here. Most of it is ripe and solid. Com is much better than they expected. Apples are plenty and not many faulty ones, but they are not large as they generally are. What peach trees are here are full of nice peaches and they are getting ripe. Potatoes are injured some by the bugs and grub worms, but there will be enough for home use. There is a strip of country between the two adroads from Sheldon, 111., to Goodland tha the corn is very good and ripe enough for the farmers to gather seed corn now.