Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1902 — Blackford. [ARTICLE]

Blackford.

Rev. Byrd *preached the memorial sermon at the Brushwood church at Aix last Sunday morning. The house was crowed so there was hardly standing room. John Alter and family and Korah Daniels and family spent last Sunday at G. B. Switzer’s.

Mrs. Mell McColly and children came from Chicago Heights for an extended visit with her sisters and other relatives here.

Elopments seem to be very fashionable. No wonder the children run off. They only follow the examples of the aged grooms of seventy-eight years. Decoration day will be observed in the country north as follows: At the Smith cemetery in the morning and march from there to the old Sandridge graveyard and place flags on the old soldiers’ graves and then rest and eat dinner and in the afternoon repair to Mt. Tabor east of Blackford. Rev. Byrd will address the crowd in remembrance of the noble soldiers. There will be an organ and a choir to sing patriotic songs. The Sabbath schools will join in strewing the flowers. Everybody invited. Bring plenty of flowers and wreaths for friends and soldiers.