Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1899 — FAIR OAKS. [ARTICLE]

FAIR OAKS.

Supt. Hamilton visited our schools last Friday and left on the evening train for Wheatfield. Mrs. Cottingham and son Willie spent Saturday in Rensselaer. Several people from here attended the temperance lecture by I. S. Wade, at Rose Lawn, Wednesday evening. Bessie Kenton, of Rensselaer, spent Sunday with friends here and took part at the temperance meeting in the evening. i. Quite a number of people from here will take advantage of the cheap holiday rates and spend Christmas with friends and relatives out of town. i|| ■ ■ The regular monthly temperance meeting was held at the M, E. church last Sunday evening, conducted by the President Mrs. E Thornton. A gocd program consisting of select readings, declamations, speeches and music was well • rendered and listened to by a large audience. Several people from Rensselaer were to have taken part t: An unavoidable accident on the

' afternoon. An extra north bound freight took siding for passenger train No. 33, due here at 1:31 p. m., and as the frieght started to pull out of the switch one of the brake shoes came down, and in some manner caused the rails to spread, thus derailing four cars loaded with coal and pig iron. The main track was not obstructed and trains were able to pass as usual. The next day the wrecking train was on hand and soon set things to right. No one hurt, Georgie, the 4 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Call, died at the home of his parents in town last Sunday morning at 6 o’clock, after about a two weeks’ sickness with brain fever. Only brief services were held at the house Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock. Interment in Fair Oaks cemetery.