Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1895 — FAIR OAKS. [ARTICLE]

FAIR OAKS.

i A grand musical entertainment at Mr. Dora Cottinghams last Thursday . evening. The music was splendid ' and every one present enjoyed themselves. Last Tuesday a quilting party met at Mr. Reece Duns residence. Mr. Eli Yoder, Isaac Chup and Jacob Schanlaub, from near Mt. Ayr, took dinner at Caseys Boarding House. Thursday noon. They have been traveling in the southern states and bought them fine farms in Chicasaw Co., Mississippi, paying sl6 an acre for improved farms. Those gentlemen were of the opinion that the negroes in Mississippi do not get c justice but are generally out generalI ed by the whites. On last Wednesday a foot race at Fair Oaks, created considerable excitement. The contestants were Edward Griggs and Nicholas Dester. Distance 100 yds., time 9 seconds. The race was w6n by Dester. Joseph T. Burns is now a full fledged section hand on the C. & E. I. R. R, under David Winslow, Sec. Boss. This road is good pay and an easy road to work on. Mr. Washburn, Mr Kents overseer,’ has all the idle men of Fair Oaks at work on the Kent Ranch. Wm. Smith, of Blackford, is preparing to move back to Fair Oaks, where he claims that he can live cheaper, enjoy life better, drink pure water and be healthier than in any other part of Jasper Co. Levi Hodge is now living at Dyer, where he intends helping to put up a large amount of hay on a ranch run by Mr. Graves. Little Fred Hobaum threw a fire cracker into his grandmothers dress hanging on the wall in the house of Esq. Canning Hays, a few days ago. It is needless to say the dnm burned up and the house came very near being destroyed by fire* It happened to be noticed in time to extinguish the flames after considerable damage being, done. George Lambert visited Chibago Sunday the 14th, with the expectation of recruiting his health to some extent, and he expects to hunt up a good location for a blacksmith shop where he can move and settle down to business permanently. Bert Brasket, of Union Tp., passed through Fair Oaks Sunday on his way to Shelby, where his father, Mr. I. G. Brasket is very ill. Mrs. Hattie Mallatt, of Reynolds, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Kesler, of Fair Oaks. Robert Gregory, of Chicago, passed through Fair Oaks last Sunday. We understand that there will be a lawsuit Saturday the 19th of Jnly, in Fair Oaks, between Chal Fry and Legget and Hutchinson, for labor performed by Mr. Fry upon the piemises of Hutchinson In Union township. Mr. Mercette, of Momence, 111., is still herding sheep for McCoy and he has a pretty hard task watering such a large flock and keeping up the fences and attending the pumps, tanks &c. Mr. Jim McDonald of Marlborough made Fair Oaks a visit last Saturday.