Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1901 — FAIR OAKS. [ARTICLE]

FAIR OAKS.

Too much rain again. Charley Otis is attending the Pan-Am-erican. Mr, LaMoine transacted, business in DeMotte last week. Rev. Lewis preached at the M. E. church last Sunday. There is talk of a butcher shop in our town in the near future. Mrs. James Cox has returned from her visit in Southern Indiana. Charley Gundy is going to build a new ice bouse and a barn soon. Mrs. Ed Kesler has returned from Chicago where she had been for a few days visit. The superintendent of the C. & E. I. Ry. took dinner at Cottingham's one day this week. Isaac Kigbt moved hn, Gifford stock of goods over into his store here in Fair Oaks this week. Beet pulling began Monday un the Otis ranch. They will be shipped *to a Michigan sugar factory. David Winslow purchased a fine horse of Mr. Dickey last week. Dave is getting ready to farm next year. Johnny Kight made a flying trip to Lafayette Suuday and brought home with him his little niece, Beula Sherin. Mrs. Fannie Morgan and her sister, Miss Maud Fry, left last Tuesday for Eastern Ohio and thence to the exposition at Buffalo. John Talbert has returned from lowa where he has been looking for a location. He is undecided as to what he will do. He says land is as high there as here. Frank Oglesby, a boy whom Charles VanArsdel got from the orphan's home a year or two ago to raise, left for Chicago Saturday morning, where his mother is. Mr. and Mrs. Iliff of Chicago Heights, visited Grandpa and Grandma Cox last Saturday They intend moving to Fair Oaks in about a week and occupying the Widow Davison property, Mr. Piper, who in former years lived about a half mile north of here, near what is called Piper’s Pond, was in town in company with John Romaine. Mr. Piper lives in Kosciusko county. Samuel old soildier living a short distance from town, was lately appointed Justice of the Peace in Fair Oaks, and established his office here. A few days ago he indulged a little too freely in that fighting fluid, it is said, and concluded he would take a portion of his satisfaction out on a little 10-year-old uoy by throwing him out cf the barber shop door and taking a buggy whip to him. The boy's father, Barney Dewitt, had him arraigned before Esquire Troxlel of Renss- laer, and he was fined $lO and costs, amounting to $49.65.