Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1901 — FAIR OAKS. [ARTICLE]

FAIR OAKS.

Felix Erwin spont last woolc with friends and relatives at Brook. , Jennie McConnell is spending this week with her brother Walter at Kentland. Idel Street left Monday for Monticello to visit friends after a several weeks visit here with her uncle and aunt Mr. and Mrs. Cottingham. Jo9iah Thompson has built an addition to his house. About thirty people from here attended the cirous at Rensselaer last Monday. Dr. Hartsell and A. McCoy, of Rensselaer, were in town Sunday. Mrs. P. W- Nelson was the guest of Miss Eliza Ebert, at Lowell over Sunday. Another cheap excursion to Chicago Sunday August 11th. Only 75 cents round trip. Mrs. A. M. Bringle and (daughter were at Lowell last Sunday to see Dr. Gerrish. Marion Baker lihs moved here from Monon and has rented Rev. Abbott’s house. He is employed on the Monon section. Don’t forget the lawn social at Littlefield & Erwins next Saturday ; evening, Aug. 3rd. Miss Stella DeWitt of Goodland, is visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. Barney DeWitt. Miss Ethiel Sayers, of Hersher, 111., visited her aunt Mrs. Mundon a a few days last week. Mra. G. W. Proudly left last Sunday for Akron, Ohio being called thereon acoount of the serious illness of her sister-in-law, Mrs. Anna Harrold. Our local fishermen are enjoying fine sport St the Kankakee these days and report some good catches. Edyth Moffit has returned home after a two weeks visit to her sister Mrs. Nora Thornton, near Surrey.

The Great Wallace Shows Are Called the “Fashion Plate Shows.” Probably no paper in the United States bas roasted and adversely criticised as many shows of ail kinds as has the Examiner of San Francisco. Such is the reputation of the Examiner for its harsh treatment of shows that ‘‘press agents” keep their distance from its office. The morning following the first day’s exhibition, the San Francisco Examiner paid the following glowing tribute to the Wallace Shows, unsolicited: ‘‘We have been reading lately many complimentary oomments on the greatly increased size and unquestioned merit of the newly equipped Wallace shows, but were agreeably surprised yesterday, first by the magnitude of the show as a whole, as it arrived in sections on its elegently constructed trains, and again by its stupendous, clean and novel parade. A show never presented a more gorgeous pageant. We visited the grounds a second time on a business errand, and again met a surprise. The show is absolutely new throughout, tents at the afternoon performance were packed with visitors, and the circus program, for novelty, great features, comedy and real refinement, exoells anything San Francisco has seen in many years. The Examiner endorses the Great Wallace Shows to the world in general as the most meritorious they may possibly ever see, a real fashion plate show, if there ever was one.”

The Great Wallace show, whioh was enlarged and thoroughly reorganized this season, will exhibit in Rensselaer on Tuesday, August 27th.