People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1893 — FAIR OAKS. [ARTICLE]

FAIR OAKS.

Our race track is covered with ice. It is rumored that Mr. Kesler will be our next post master. Mr. Burns has succeeded in capturing another large timber wolf. Mr. Murray, the day operator, at this place, has been complaining of the tooth-ache for the last week. Mr. Colwell’s large bay barn is doing an immense business. Mr. Richard Stowers and his brother John have succeeded in delivering the school house wood. Mr. David B. Nowels is teaching school in this place and we are satisfied that every scholar under his care is leaving rapidly. Mr. John Casey and Mr. Wm. Russel traded horses. They traded even. They now enter-

tain their friends by delivering lectures on horseoolgy. Mr Russel claims that the horse he now owns can out run any horse in Fair Oaks 1/2 mile standing start. He also intimates that his horse is only 24 years of age. Mr. Casey claims that his horse can pull more than any horse in Fair Oaks, providing that anybody has patience enoug to get him to pull. He claims the first time he worked the horse he got of Russel he hitched him to a heavy load, put in a half day and never got the horse to move out of his tracks. Wore out thirteen gads of good size. He also intimates that his horse is a sooner horse and is remarkable for his age, he being 23 years, 11 months and 29 days old. Cyclone.