Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1918 — FAIR OAKS [ARTICLE]

FAIR OAKS

Health is still reasonably good with us. Mr. Tolin shipped several carloads of cattle to market this week. We were favored with a nice, much-needed shower Wednesday morning. J. J. Lawler’s men hauled a carload of oil cake from here tq the ranch Tuesday. Mrs. James Clifton visited her daughter at Demotte a couple of days last week. Bert Warne and family “Forded” over to IHoopeston, Uinois, and visited relatives over Sunday. Rev. Downey delivered a splendid sermon from the M. E. pulpit Sunday evening to a good sized audience. John Wildrick, and old citizen of Colfax township, Newton county, is very critically ill at his home with a cotmiplication of diseases. Carl Hoover of Kentland visited his uncle, F. R. Erwin, the past week, which is the last before enlisting to help knock the kaiser out. Homer Lak to has been hauling and piling up/cordwood at the side track this week, preparatory to shipping it as soon as he can get cars. Charles Manderville has been putting up wire fence this week for A. D. Washburn, fencing off a tract of land which he has leased to C. T. Otis for pasture this season. The school house contractors are very much handicapped this week on account of being unable to get their material for plastering the building, owing to the shortage of cars. Bob Halleck was out with his Ford Tuesday taking an estimate to see what the prospects were for establishing a huckster route the coming season. He brought in a nice bunch of eggs. Mrs. Roy Brouhard left Monday with the two Sigman girls for her old home. One of the girls will live with her parents and the other with an aunt. She will be gone about ten days. News was received here a few days ago that Lou Moffitt, who is in military training at Camp Taylor, had met with a very painful accident in which one of his knees had been dislocated and he had been in the hospital for a week from the effects. Colfax township is to have a new brick, up-to-date consolidated school building to begin school in this fall. It will be located four miles west and two miles south of Fair Oaks, on Lawler’s land at the George Handley cross roads. The contract will be let the first of May and work will begin at once. They have just finished hauling two car loads of coal for fuel for school purposes. Trustee Tolin’s motto is “preparedness.” Frank Teach hauled the coal with his large auto truck.