Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1898 — County Correspondence [ARTICLE]

County Correspondence

BLACKFORD. Thomas Price who has been seriously sick is able to be about again. , Jesse Jenkins and wife visited then family of Victor Yeoman Sunday. Theo Snow and wife visited alt Chas. Schroyers’ Sunday. Mrs. Ellen Culp of near Monon, ■ visited the family of Samuel Price : last week. Mrs, John Marlatt who has been I quite sick is slowly improving. Most of the men around here have# gone out on the hay marsh. Andy Ropp's threshing machine is at work ou the Charles Pullins farm. Elda Stowers who was knocked unconscious bv receiving, a fall from a hay mow on the Lakin farm near Fair Oaks is about well an 4 able to be about. Reports are that quite a race is to be run at Blackford Saturday afternoon between Al McCurtain and Owen Hurlev. Staked a watch on a side, supposed to be Waterburys. Reports a large amount of money bet. Miss Mary Price, of Parr, visited in this vicinity Tuesday. Jacob Lesh has purchased a new binder. Theo. Snow's baby is reported as having the whooping cough.