Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 165, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1910 — FAIR OAKS. [ARTICLE]

FAIR OAKS.

Mrs.* Anna Gilmore is on the sick list The signal gang is working here at present Dr. Rice has been very busy in Fair Oaks lately. Mrs. Pearl Kight has gone to Indianapolis to join her husband. Irwin Wise, of English Lake, visited Miss Ella Johnson Saturday and Sunday. The pony engine and dump cars are in running order out at the gravel road now. Mrs. May Howell and little son returned to their home at LaCrosse this week. Guss Pratt and wife, of near Surrey, visited with Tom Johnson and wife Sunday. McKay’s baby is seriously sick. Mr McKay came home from Gary Monday morning. John Thorn and Laurence Halleck are canvassing for the Halleck Nursery company. Mr. Cook and Mr, Wagner are here looking after the building of the new pickle plant. Pearl Zellars has come home to stay a while on account of her mother’s poor health. Loraine and Madaline Warren, of Rensselaer, are visiting their cousin, Edna Wood. Mr. Teach’s wife s and family came to camp out where he is working on the gravel road. Mrs. Blanch McCullough and children, of Pontiac, 111., are visiting her mother, Mrs. Dodge. Miss Fern McColly, of Virgie, was here Tuesday attending the birtdhay party of Miss Browhard. Mrs. Dora Merrill, of Lebanon, who has been visiting her mother, Mrs. Lettie Browhard, returned to her home last week. Mrs. Mik# Shehan and son Robert returned to their home at Lafayette. Beulah remained for a visit with her grandmother. -

The young ladies of the M. E. church will give an ice cream social at Mallatt’s hall next Saturday night, after church. Everyone come. Regular preaching at the M. E. church Saturday night. The Sunday night prayer meeting has been changed to a young people’s meeting. Mrs. Thompson and her niece, Miss Anna Williams, and Matt LaCrosse went to Rensselaer Monday.' The friends of Miss Lillie Browhard gathered at her home Tuesday afternoon and gave her a very pleasant surprise, it being her thirteenth birthday. Will Cottingham was overcome by the heat Saturday evening. It was thought for a while that he would not recover, but Dr. Rice was called and he was all right the next day. Cloyd Clifton and Cordia Umphress were married in Rensselaer Saturday and returned to Fair Oaks, where they will probably make their future home. Fred Phillips and family, of Rensselaer, came down to take supper with the bride and groom at Jack Umphress’.