People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1893 — FAIR OAKS. [ARTICLE]

FAIR OAKS.

Wm. Clemons has moved to Minnesota, where he has been engaged to work for $2 per day. Elmer Arnold is visiting relatives and friends at Peru. Wm. Russell has bought two lots of John Kent for a new dwelling house and store room. Mr. Schofield, of Bailey Mills, Ohio., is coming back to Fair Oaks with a stock of groceries. Cale Goff has moved into the house recently vacated by Wm. Clemons. Mr. Blomberg intends moving to Chicago. Wrnr. Burns caught three large mink last Saturday. One of Barkley township’s best citizens concluded to try the fur business. He commenced by killing the old family dog. The dog’s skin was dressed. Not yet content, he killed his other dog and sent both skins to Chicago, realizing 19 cents therefor. We -were not informed how much the freight was. Later he dressed a horse skin, sent it to Chicago, and realized the handsome sum of sl. Cyclone.