Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1901 — FAIR OAKS. [ARTICLE]

FAIR OAKS.

Edyth Moffitt is teaching the Moffitt school. Sohuyler Brockus is reported quite siok with a stomach trouble. The postoffioe will hereafter be •pen on Sundays from 10 till 11 o’clock.

Harvey 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 Goff has bought property here and will occupy it after making some repairs. Maud Fry has returned home after several weeks’ visit with her sister, Mrs. Schofield, at Michigan City. A good many of our sportsman are enjoying these fine days at fishing on the Kankakee. Jennie Cottingham left last Sunday for Chicago to remain indefinitely with her sister Stella and other relatives. Bertha and Essie Fentere, of near Morocco, spent Sunday with their sister, Mrs. George Lambert. Sherman Riohards, of Rensselaer, has the contract for painting McCoy & Porter’s new house. Hiram Day, of 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. ,0. Nelson and wife, the traveling photographers, have opened their gallery in the Kessler room and will remain here abont 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 there. Bert has a good job, as fireman on the Atohinson, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry., and after a thirty days’ vacation he will return to work again.