Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1909 — FAIR OAKS. [ARTICLE]

FAIR OAKS.

A 1 Blake is plastering A 1 Moore’s house this week. We got quite a shower again Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Sweeny and family of Hebron visited Mrs. Ed Kesler Sunday. Mrs. Cottingham visited at Dr. Fyfs’s at Wheatfleld this week. Barney Dewitt moved to the Jake Junglas place west of Parr Sunday. Warren and Bark Crawford are loading cord wood for Lawlers nowadays. Lawler’s shipped three carloads of fat cattle from here to Chicago Sunday eve. Reason M. Dunn and family of near Remington visited relatives here Sunday. About all that went to North Dakota to work in the harvest, have returned home. Lou Moffitt and Fred McCay and Bert Umfries went down to Kentland the first of the week to husk corn. Mrs. Leavel of Chicago is vlsltng her sister, Mrs. Eggleston, south of town this week. Ben Zellers had a new floor put in his barber shop and pool room the first of the week. Uncle Joe Gaines and daughter, Mrs. A 1 Helsel, were callers here the latter part of the week. A. D. Washburn of Kentland and R. D Thompson of Rensselaer, were callers in our town Saturday. Chas. Manderville, who has been working at Kentland for a couple of years, came and Visited his mother Sunday. Floyd Baxter of the Otis ranch threshed Pete Wood’s rye Monday and Charles Halleck’s buckwheat Tuesday.

There to to be a spiderweb social to-night (Thursday) at Tom Mallatt’s hall, for the benefit of ’'the ‘M. E. Sunday school and church. Bert Warren and wife, have been holding a series of meetings at Gifford, closed Sunday. They went from here to Hoopeston, 111., Tuesday. Odo Geesa, son of Ben Geesa, a few miles south of town, was taken to a hospital in Chicago Saturday to be operated on, the result of an accidental gun shot he received In one of his feet several years ago. It had broke and caused him Intense pain.

FOUR CORNERS. Geo. Swisher attendfe : -• O. r>. F. lodge at Shelby Saturday night. Miss Ida Pinter of Wheatfleld is visiting in Valparaiso for a few days. Our supervisor, Marion S. Davis, is finishing his road work this week. Ed Wesnar visited with his brother William, west of Medaryville, Sunday. t Sam Nichols of near Medaryville visited Sunday with Dave Wesner and family. Janies McColly of Virgie is doing some carpenter work for Geo. Stemble of Wheatfleld. Orville Fisher visited with his brother Homer, near Lowell Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. F. W. Fisher attended a family reunion of her mother’s people at Francesville Sunday. )John Allen of Kankakee# spent Sunday with his mother and sister, Mrs. E. W. Allen and Mrs. S- Fendig of Wheatfleld. John Pinter has greatly improved the appearance of his store by remodeling same with a new front. James McColly did the work. Mrs. Morton, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. J. A. Hixson for the past month, returned to her home in St. Louis Thursday. John T. Biggs is now putting on metropolitan airs—new cement walks and foundation under house and has treated the outside with a coat of paint. H. W. Marble, who has been very low with typhoid fever, is now Improving and if no complications set in will be seen at the bank in a week or two. The new bridge east of town, across the Smith ditch, is near completion and when completed will be one of the best bridges in Jasper county. •

F. G. Barnard of Loekte! brought some cattle buyers here Tuesday, expecting, to dispose of. his cattle, but up to this time no deal has been closed. Henry Coffin is building a store building at Dunn’s Bridge. Several new club houses are being built on this side of the bridge, and if the temperance people o- rorter would oust the- “place” on their side of the river, the moral-atmosphere in this locality would be greatly benefited thereby.

LEE. Frank Overton was re-shingling his house this week. Mrs. Ireland Is sick. Dr. Clayton is waiting on her. Hoy Rlshling and family visited Sunday at S. M. Jacks. Miss Mary Wood visited a few days here the past week. Will Overton and wife spent Tuesday at Frank Overton’s. O. A. Jacks and family visited his sister at Rensselaer Sunday. The Ladies Aid did sewing for Mrs. Gilmore Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Zable’s mother and sister and children of Illinois came Monday to make them a visit. Quite a large number from here attended the horse show last week, especially on Saturday. The teachers and scholars had quite an Interesting program at school Friday afternoon. Alvin Clark’s moved Monday in the Mrs. Ola Randle property where Mrs- Dodd formerly lived. Arm Lewis and wife moved Tuesday in the Arthur Parcels property, just vacated by Alvin Clark. J. H. Culp and family and Mrs. Holeman and Orville went from Sunday school to John Mellender’s for dinner. Mr. Kingery who lived on the Josserand place loaded his car of goods Wednesday and moved to Center, Ind. Mr. Ostrander, a blind man and wife, who is also blind, and two children, who are not blind, of Indianapolis have moved in the Maxwell property and he is helping the blind man. Mr. Saxton makes brooms upstairs over the hardware store.