Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1901 — FAIR OAKS. [ARTICLE]

FAIR OAKS.

Weather is fine. Grandpa Spry went to Momence last Monday. Corn binders are . still at work on the Otis ranch. Dr. Pagin spent Saturday and Sunday with T. W. Fry.

Rev. Brady preached at the Christian church last Sunday. Uncle Abe Abbott was in our town a few days this week. Isaac Thomas took in the excursion to Chicago last Sunday. The M. E. Aid Society met at Mrs. Bruce Moffit’s last Tuesday. Dr. Hogen of Chicago, was here on business the first ol the week. Bud Hammond and faniiiy spent Sunday with relatives in Fair Oaks. Mrs. W. L. Bringle took dinner at A. D. Washburn’s one day this week. Mr. Nelson, our photographer, is quite busy this week in his line of business. A. D. Washburn and family attended church here at the Christian church Sunday. Hiram Day of Rensselaer, is plastering McCoy and Rorter's new house this week. Charley Barket and family are visiting with his mother this week, down at Yeddo. Abe Bringle and family, with his mother, toon dinner with B. H. Zea last Sunday. Lawler & Thompson unloaded three car loads of stock hogs heie last Sunday, to be fed on their ranch west of here. Mrs. Isaac Thomas was called to Kninian last Monday to the bedside of a friend, Mrs. Deniston, who has been very sick. She reports her better. Mrs. Caldwell of Mt. Ayr, and her father, Grandfather Luster, an old pioneir of Newton county, who now resides in Nebraska, spent the first of rhe week at A. D. Washburn’s. On Wednesday they took the train at Fair Oaks for his home in the west.