Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 188, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1911 — FAIR OAKS. [ARTICLE]

FAIR OAKS.

Mrs. Leslie Warren is quite sick again. Mrs. A. M. Bringle went to Chicago last Week. John Staple Sundayed at the Cottingham hotel. Mrs. Nim Littlefield and children visited here Sunday. Mrs. Isaac Kight went to Lafayette the last of the week. Miss Carrie Stowers is assisting Mrs. Cottingham this week. Cal Burroughs is building an addition to his blacksmith shop. Ben Zellar’s cow was killed by the northbound train Tuesday afternoon. Miss Wilda Littlefield, of Rensselaer, is visiting this week at F. R. Erwjp’s. Florence- McKay and Kate Trump visited over at Enos at the gravel road camp last week. Miss Ella Cox, sister of the Cox boys here, was married Wednesday, in Shelby, lowa. > Walter McConnell has quite a force of men and teams putting up hay, baling and shipping it. Frank Cox had the misfortune to break one of the bones in his hand this week by falling from his bicycle. The dry weather does not seem to have attested the pickle and melon crops. The pickles are beginning to come in pretty lively, and Mr. Bozelle has shipped several carloads, besides all that have been sold here, and still there’s more to follow.