Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 130, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1910 — FAIR OAKS. [ARTICLE]

FAIR OAKS.

Henry Lacrosse, of Kankakee, visited relatives here this week. Mrs. Hattie Kesler visited her mother in South Bend this week. Grandma Cox found her way back to Fair Oaks to attend the decoration day services as usual. A family named Richardson, of near Morocco, are camping east of town and working on the gravel road. Mrs. I. Kight, Miss Royer and Rev. Peterson were invited out to Egelsten Friday evening for supper. Frank Garriott, Arvil Bringle and Clara Brusnahan are back from Valparaiso for a vacation. A new well has been driven near the depot, a very much needed improvement. One of the men on the work train here got a very severe cut on the head Saturday by being struck on the head with a tie.

Fred McKay and Floyd Cox write home that they are cowboy? in western Montana and say, “If the folks down home could, see us now, they would hardly know us.” Dr. Briggs, of Hammond, the M. E. elder, will preach in the tent Sunday night, May 6th, and Mrs. Lawrence, a singer of note, will sing for us Saturday and Sunday nights. The meeting is progressing nicely with several additions to the church and a few conversions.

An all days meeting will be held here Sunday and an old-fashioned basket dinner. All are invited to come and enjoy a spiritual feast, as well as a dinner, in the open air. If, the weather happens to be unfavorable there will be a suitable place provided in which to eat dinner.

Fair Oaks had a real Memorial Day service Monday, consisting of songs, prayer, reading by Comrade Thompson, and an address by the Rev. Peterson, who did ample justice to the subject in hand, although it was a litlle out of his line of business. This was followed by the march to the cemetery.