Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1901 — CORRESPONDENCE. [ARTICLE]

CORRESPONDENCE.

Fair OaksLess than a week till Christmas. The thermometer registered 15 degrees below zero Sunday morning. John Prey and family have moved to Kniman. Mrs. P. W. Nelson visited friends and relatives in Chicago a few dajs this week. Mrs. Nettie Linton and little daughter Opal are visiting friends and relatives in town. Miss May Fox is visiting her cousin Mrs. Harry Bott, at Bloomington, Ind., for a few weeks. ’ Walter McConnell, of Kentland, was calling on friends and relatives in town the latter part of last week. Dr. Proudly returned home from a weeks visit with relatives in Chicago. He also purchased a line of holiday goods whi'e there. Miss Alice Proudly is expected home this week, after a several months visit with friends and relatives at Akron, Ohio, and points in Pennsylvania. Clarence McKean, who had been visiting his sister, Mrs G. W Proudly, left Wednesday of last week for Olwine, lowa, to accept a good position in the C. & G. W. Ry. shops at his trade, that of a machinist."" Mrs. Fannie Cottingham returned home Saturday from Brookston, where she had been for a week on account of the sickness of her mother Mrs. A. J. Nelson, but who has since recovered. C. L. Eggleston and family have moved here from Chicago, and are temporarily occupying, rooms ,in the Kessler block until their new house is completed on the farm just lately bought of C. A. Gnndy, which will be ready for them some time next month.