Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 302, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1917 — FAIR OAKS ITEMS [ARTICLE]

FAIR OAKS ITEMS

Christmas has come and gone here without any serious happenings. Most all of our teachers went home to spend the holidays, also the men who work on the new school house. Miss Amy Bringle is here from Roanoke, and will visit her parents, and her brother, Orville Bringle, and his family of Remington. Several of the young people or this place attended the dance at De Motte on Christmas night. Martha Wendell and Florence McKay spent Monday in Chicago. About half of the population of Fair Oaks did shopping in Rensselaer last Saturday. Lew Moffitt and Charles Porter are here on a furlough from Camp Zachary Taylor, Ky. There was quite a lively basket ball game in the hall Christmas afternoon. „ Orville Abell and Milton McKay were here from Gary, over Christmas. _ _ „ John Gillmore and wife of Panama arrived last Saturday, they were on the ocean seven days during which time occurred the worst storm in twenty years. They will probably remain here for about two months. The Crawford and Brown families, also Misses Doris McKay, Ethel Burroughs and Madge Barker, all attended the Christmas exercises at Shelby Christmas eve. Mrs. Bert Warne is still quite poorly with rheumatism. Mary Abell and Florence McKay are spending a part of the holiday vacation in Gary. Mrs. and Mrs. William Wendell spent Christmas with the family of Mrs. William Cottingham at Momence, Ills.'’*