People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1893 — FAIR OAKS. [ARTICLE]

FAIR OAKS.

S. B. Jenkins has bought Mrs. Kirkaby's property an€ will move there about the Ist of June. Wm. Russell has bought Mr. Reece Dunn’s horses, harness and wagon and is going to deliver goods to any part of the city. Samuel Yeoman, of Rensselaer. visited Fair Oaks quite recently and sold ten tons of wild hay to John Casey for $25. Samuel Clifton has moved from Fair Oaks to the country, where he will engage in farming. Rush Duncan has moved from Fair Oaks to Blackford, where he intends working on a farm. Lemuel Mclntire, our good natured section boss, has bought the Chris Swaim property and will move there in the near future.

Thomas Mallatt has sold his tine horses to a regular horse buyer, who had them delivered to Rensselaer. Mr. Schofield and family, of Bailies Mills, Ohio, have moved to Fair Oaks. Mr. Schofield will engage in the merchantile business. Sylvester Jenkins contemplates running a feed store in Fair Oaks. He ■will bring a mill here and do his own grinding. Levi Hodge has rented his farm to Charley VanArsdel’s father, who lives near Francesville. John Gilmore has moved from Fair Oaks to the town of Aix in Union township. Henry Darner has moved from the town of Aix to Zanesville, Ohio. Under Grover Cleveland’s first administration Darner was the postmaster at Blackford, although he was a strong Prohibitionist and voted for St. John.

Last Sunday we visited Blackford and the surrounding country. We were surprised to see the people all sociable and found Landlord Hurley’s table loaded with rations. We dined sumptuously, took a walk through the town and noticed that Mr. Hurley was building a new house for a blacksmith to occupy. We noticed a large congregation of Dunkards on their way home from worship. True Blue.