People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1893 — The County News. [ARTICLE]

The County News.

FAIR OAKS. Carmy Hays has just finished building himself a carpenter shop. Fred Hobaum has finished a new kitchen and is otherwise improving his premises. Chas. W. Gundy has been re.modeling his house and making it look very attractive. John Blomberg has just finished a new dwelling house and will shortly occupy the same. Mr. Schofield, our groceryman, has finished his fine dwelling house and will soon occupy it. James McColly, of Chicago Heights, has material on the ground for the erection of a fine dwelling house. Francis Burns and Frank Swaim, better known as “Cranky” Swaim, have gone into the magic lantern show business. Fair Oaks market report: Potatoes, $1.25 per bushel; eggs 15c, butter 25c, beef 6c and 7c, old corn 45c, new corn 35c. oats 30c, bacon 13c. groceries—coffee 27c. sugar 6Ac, flour $1.20, corn meal 35c; stove wood, 75c per load, wild hay, $3.50 per ton. Fires have ceased since the rains. The long, continued drouth brought forth an abundance of fires in this section, the result of sparks from the engines caused the destructive elements to conflagrate trees, logs, stumps, fences, hay stacks, farm machinery. and even burned holes in the ground. True Blue.