Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 267, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1912 — FAIR OAKS. [ARTICLE]

FAIR OAKS.

Election came and went very quietly. The Ladies’ Aid society furnished ireate for the election board Tuesday. Mrs. Millie Gundy spent Sunday with relatives in Mt. Ayr. Ora Burns came home this week after an absence of many months. Chas. Halleck is digging and shipping trees to the city this week. Mrs. Simmons, of Kansas, came Saturday to visit relatives here. Mr. Clevenger returned Tuesday in time to vote. * Leslie Warne is working at carpentering on the Hilles ranch. Miss Mamie Bozelle went Tuesday to work near Kentland. Morton Clifton is again in Fair Oaks after an extended trip out west. John Stowers is reported as being still in a very critical condition. Maggie Barker, who has been very sick with pneumonia for the past week, is thought to be improving. Mr. Bozelle, Guy Potter and Clarence Goff went, to Rensselaer Wednesday to husk corn. Joe Clouse went to Dubuque, lowa, the first of the week to take a job as block signal man. Josiah Thompson is having an addition put on his house, now occupied by A 1 Abell. Mrs. Floyd Baxter, who was taken back to the hospital in Chicago last week, is reported a little better. Elinor Williams, who has been staying in Chicago for some time, is visiting home folks now. Sherman Richards, of Rensselaer, is papering the M. E. church this week. Cloyd Clifton and Wife are going over near Kentland to stay through corn husking. Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Elmore returned to their home in Arkansas Wednesday. There is to be a temperance program at the young people’s meeting at the Christian church next Sunday evening. Mr. Johnston went home the last of the week supposedly to vote, hut we are not sure whether he has reached the voting age. Lawrence Halleck and Miss McFarlin, Miss Peyton and a young man, of Rensselaer, were in an automobile accident Saturday night, but none of them were seriously injured.