Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1902 — FAIR OAKS. [ARTICLE]

FAIR OAKS.

Prepare for Thanksgiving. Chas. Gundy has been granted a saloon license for another year. Jack Kight is attending the horse sale in Chicago a few days this week. C. C. Kent is sojourning at French Lick and West Baden springs. Mrs. Chas. Ferguson is visiting her sister and other relatives at Monticello this week. A new time card went into effect on the C. & E. I Ry. last Sunday, Nov. 9th, but the time of the two trains passing Fair Oaks remains the same as before. Squire Lamoine and Uncle Jimmie Blake were at the county seat Monday on business. Thos. Fry and wife spent Sunday with their son, J. J. Fry and family at Rose Lawn. Miss Pearl Dodge and her aunt Mrs. Blain, spent a few days in Chicago this week. Grandma Bringle, of near Rensselaer, visited her son Abe and family last week and part of this week. Mr. and Mrs. Miles Moffitt have returned home from Randolph county after an extended visit with relatives and old friends. M. D. Carr went to Chicago Monday to purchase lumber for his new house. John Casey returned to the Soldiers’ Home at Marion last Monday, after a week’s visit with his family here. The “Old Boys” have been made happy once more by receiving their pension checks from Uncle Sam. Miss Katie Nelson, of Brookston, is visiting her two sisters Mrs. Cottingham and Mrs. Richey, and other relatives and friends in town for two weeks, Mrs. Cottingham is the proud possessor of a new “Malleable” steel range, purchased in Rensselaer. Our meat man from Parr has quit coming, and A. M. Bringle is now serving the wants of our people with fresh meats. Born—Saturday, Nov. Bth, to Mr. and Mrs. Edward Kessler,-an 8 pound girl and their first child. Mother and baby aoing well, also the father. C. D, Norman, wife and child, of Rensselaer, spent Sunday with her mother, Mrs. Casey, and also to see her sister, Mrs. T. J. Culham, who left Monday for her home in Tennessee. Mrs. T. J. Mallett was at Lowell last Sunday to see Dr. Gerrish, who has been treating her for some »time past for a chronic trouble. Mrs. Casey is making extensive repairs on her residence in the way of several new floors, reshingling, painting and replastering and other minor repairs. When completed the house will be as good as new. T. F. Clark, superintendent of the county almshouse, was in town Monday evening looking for an inmate who had escaped that afternoon.

Don’t forget the Thanksgiving general supper at the school house on Thursday evening, Nov. 27th. Fresh oysters and ice cream will also be included on the bill of fare. Everybody come and have a good time. Can Manderville has just traded for 160 acres of prairie timber land near Murphy, Texas, through Babcock & Sapp, of Goodland. He offers it for sale at $25 per acre and says it is a bargain. Can is a hustler. T. J. Culham, of Pioneer, Tenn., came last Saturday for a short visit with his relatives and also to accompany home his wife, who has been here with her mother, Mrs. Casey and other relatives for about two months. They left Monday evening accompanied by her sister, Ethel Arnold, who expects to remain with them during the winter. After four weeks of steady grinding the revival meetings at the Christian church came to a close last Saturday evening and were quite successful. There were 27 additions to the church, seven of them were by letter, which is a good showing. The candidates were baptized in the Halleck dredge ditch, a mile north of town. Bro. Hall deserves great credit for the faithful work he has performed here.