Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1898 — BLACKFORD. [ARTICLE]

BLACKFORD.

Milroy Hurley of DeMotte, has moved iuto the city of Blackford and is working at the blacksmith trade. * A shooting match here Saturday each one went home with a Christmas turkey. Lou Stowers and family visited at Fair Oaks Sunday. Emmet Pullins attended the shooting match at Wheatfield Saturday. A total eclipse of the moon was seen Tuesday night very plain by the clearness of the evening and also by the moon being full. Alec Hurley and family visited at T. H. Hurley’s Sunday. Most of the schools are having vacation this week.