Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1908 — Fair Oaks [ARTICLE]

Fair Oaks

A. M. Bringle is rewalling his cellar. Frank Cox has been visiting in Mt. Ayr this week. Dora Cottingham is fishing at the Kankakee river. F. R. Erwin went to Chicago Monday on business. Preaching at the Christian church Wbxt Sunday at 11 o’clock. Miss Nellie Hickman is visltftg friends here for a few days. ~ Nora Whalen and three friends, of Wheatfield, were here Sunday. Charles Halleck and Eugene Barfoot are hustling in the berry harvest. Mrs. Norman, of Rensselaer, is visiting her mother, Mrs. Casey, this week,,. Jr red McKay visited friends and one friend in particular, in Thayer Sunday. ‘'Mrs. May Howell, of Lacrosse, is visiting her mother and friends here this week. Charles Gundy, who has been sick for several weeks, is able to be about town again, ... -- Mrs. Moffitt has been very sick for the past few days, but is reported a little better. There will be a bible reading and lawn meeting at Mrs. Casey’s next Thursday night Carl Hoover returned to his home fit Missouri Monday, after a sojourn here of eight months. The Blakes have moved out into a tent on the Hampton ranch to stay during the haying season. David Winslow and Lora Brohard started for Dakota Tuesday morning to work in the harvest field. Mrs. Nelson, es Brookston, Is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Cottingham, and will visit in Wheatfield before returning home. Several persons went from here to Roselawn Tuesday to attend the funeral of Estella Kight, daugher of Wm. Kight, who died Sunday, July 12. Another dance was held in the park last Saturday night, which We hope" will be the last one for a while, as we do not consider there is any benefit to our town, or to the young people who attend them. Get your glasses and your gloves on and be ready to pick those pickles the boys are pushing along so fast For what will it profit a man if he pushes them all the way to picking time and then don’t get them picked.