Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 301, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1918 — FAIR OAKS. [ARTICLE]

FAIR OAKS.

About all means of entertainment is suspended on account-of the “flu.” But people are visiting and partaking of the good things Christmas affords about the same as usual. The Gundy family and John Deane and family took Christmas dinner with Wm. Cottingham and family at Momence. John Kight and family and Beulah and Robert Shehan, of Monon, are visiting with Isaac Kight and wife. Mrs. Nell Dunlap and Mrs. Douglas, of Gary, are visiting the Abell family. Walter McConnell and wife spent a couple of days in Chicago this week. Bart Crawford and family and the Garrie family are the latest victims of the “flu.” Mrs. John Gilmore has returned from Monon, where she 'had been taking treatment for heart trouble. Sam Potts and wife have taken the eight-weeks-old babe of Alva Potts, and expect to raise it. The Halleck girls and Amy Bringle are on the sick list. John Michaels and Albert Cox are among the latest soldiers to return home. Also Paul Barker arrived Sunday evening. Milton M*eKay is home from Purdue for a two weeks’ vacation. He has been in the Student Army Training Corps. Dr. Rice made several professional trips here this week. Quite a lot of our people did shopping in Rensselaer and Hammond this week. Miss Anna Pritchett, of Buchanan, Mich., is here visiting Bryant Pritchett and wife. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell, 4 of New Albany, parents of our school principal, are here spending the holidays. N. A. McKay visited relatives in Kirklin last week. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Brouhard are spending the holidays at Bloomfield, Ind.