Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1909 — FAIR OAKS." [ARTICLE]

FAIR OAKS."

• Mrs. Garritt Evers spent Sunday in DeMotte. Isaac Right went to Chicago Monday on business. Milt Gundy and wife spent Sunday with friends in Thayer. John Umphress went to Lowell Monday morning to work. Bert Wasson has treated *his house to a new coat of paint. Miss Neva Carder, of Lowell, is visiting relatives and friends here. Enoch Spry started for Dakota Monday morning to visit his son. Walter McConnell, with a force of men, is pressing hay east of town. Miss Ethel Myers, who has been in Chicago for some time, is home onr a visit. A wagon loaded with young people went to Virgie to the dance Saturday night. Mrs. Ward Barnes, of near Hammond, is visiting her mother, Mrs. Dodge. Ed Lacons has commenced digging his potatoes. He reports a very good early yield. Mrs. Lytner and daughter, Mrs. Kessler, went to the Kankakee fishing Saturday. ( Cordie Umphress, who has been staying near Lowell for several weeks, is at home now. Pickle hoeing and weeding is the principal industry just now, and the crop bids fair to be a good one. A. M. Bringle is having a large hay window put in the front of his house. N. A. McKay is doing the work. There will be preaching at the M. E. church Saturday night by the Rev. Mrs. Feniburst. All are invited. Miss Eliza Fay and Dottie Thompson, who have been visiting in Illinois for several weeks, have returned home. A couple of men claiming to he Mormons or Latter Day Saints, struck our town Wednesday evening and preached on the street to quite a crowd. The band hoys are said to have done excellent service here at the celebration Saturday, showing that they had more than two or three pieces at their command, as they played about thirty different pieces. _