Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1901 — Fair Oaks. [ARTICLE]

Fair Oaks.

Edyth Moffitt is teaching the Moifitt school. Schuyler Brockus is reported quite sick with a stomach trouble. D. E. Brockus had the misfortune to lose a good cow by sickness last Saturday. The postoffice will hereafter be open on Sundays from ten to eleven o’clock. Harry Nelson, of Wolcott, spent Sunday with his brother, P, W. Nelson, and family. A. M. Bringle and wife spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs. Sam Thornton, at Surrey. Mrs. Ella Raynor and children, of Rensselaer, spent Sunday with her mother, Mrs. Lambert. Frank Golf has bought property here, and will occupy it after making some repairs. Maud Fry has returned home, after a several weeks’ visit with her sister, Mrs Schofield, at Michigan City. A good many of our sportsmen are enjoying these fine days at fishing on the KanJennie Cottingham left last Sunday for Chicago to remain indefinitely with her sister Stella and other relatives. Bertha and Essie Fenters, of near Morocco, spent Sunday with their sister, Mrs. George Lambert. Shermon Richards, of Rensselaer, has the contract for painting McCoy & Porter’s new house. Hiram day, ot the same place, will do the plastering. Our schools opened last Monday with a full attendance. The teachers are the same as last year, Lora Bruce and Jesse Fox. W. O. Nelson and wife, the traveling photographers, have opened their gallery in the Kessler room and will remain here about two weeks, after which they intend going south for the winter. Bert Harmon, who went to Riverside, California, last December with his brother Grant, arrived here Tuesday of last week and after spending a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Cottingham, left for Brookston to visit friends and relatives. Bert has a good job as fireman on the Atchinson, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry., and after a thirty days’ vacation he will return to wprk again. «