Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1910 — FAIR OAKS. [ARTICLE]

FAIR OAKS.

Alva Brohard - fias returned from his trip out west. Bart Crawford and family visited over Sunday at Casey’s. Floyd Cox and Fred McKay started for the w r est last Monday morning. Mrs. Allen and - Mrs. Carr were among the Rensselaer shoppers this week. Ed, Kessler has gone to Minnesota again this spring to work on a dredge boat. Minnie Cox has been on the sick list for over a week; also grandma Brohard. Several families from Pulaski county have moved here to work on the gravel road. This week has seemed almost like winter after several weeks of springlike weather. Dr. Rice was called to Fair Oaks several times within the past week to visit the sick. Several of the militia boys from here went to Rensselaer Thursday night for inspection. Joe Marshall and family, of Brazil, visited with Chas. Barker s and Jake Trump’s last week. . , There is quite a lot of much needed work in the way of ditching, etc., being done on our streets now. The funeral of Mrs. Allen, mother of Mrs. Chas. llalleck, was held Saturday at the Christian church. The blind people of Lee will give an entertainment at the M. E. church Wednesday night. All are invited. The work on the gravel road which was well begun, has been hindered considerably by the bad weather this week. A family named Morton has moved into the Burrows house and one'named Meeks into Enos Moffit’s house, both from near Winamac. Mrs. Emory Cox and Mrs. Charles Gundy will accompany Miss Minnie Cox to Chicago this evening, where she will be treated for appendicitis. Several persons from Fair Oaks and several from the country were called to Chicago the last of the week as witnesses on the Lakens street car company case.