Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1902 — Blackford. [ARTICLE]

Blackford.

Plenty of wind and tramps begging for something to eat. A heavy gale of wind ever •since Friday night. Quite a number are sick at present in Jasper county with grippe, typhoid fever, lung fever, malaria, chicken pox and scarlet rash. Mr. Fletcher, who has been sick for a long time, is no better and Ike Hamilton and wife are still on the sick list. Moving, buying, and selling land is the general occupation here at present. A number of Gifford's tenants are moving away and others are taking the places as soon as vacated. Rev. Byrd commenced a protracted meeting at the U. B. church at Aix last Sunday night. G. B. Switzer has several men at work chopping wood on A. McCoy’s farm north of here. Fanners are busy now getting ready for farming next summer. All have enough to do except a few that are always hunting work, but very careful not to find any.