Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1909 — FAIR OAKS. [ARTICLE]

FAIR OAKS.

Mrs. Isaac Right spent Sunday with relatives in Thayer. Ed Kessler has gone to Minnesota to work on a dredge boat. % Clint Gundy and wife are visiting his parents here this week. Mrs. Lowe, wife of the night agent here, is visiting her husband. Mrs. Ella Rhorda has been sick for the past few days of heart trouble. Cora and John have returned from a two weeks’ visit near Wheatfleld. Wm. Warren is having his house painted and other improvements made. Jim McColly and two sons are doing carpenter work in Fair Oaks this week. • Mrs. Frank Goff and daughter, Mrs. McKannell went for a week’s visit to Cissna Park, 111. N. A. McKay and Bert Hell wig are making improvements in the carpenter line on the Otis ranch. Mrs. Cottingham is having an addition built to her house, which will make it a model hotel. Almost everybody around here are picking pickles now, and those who are not are wishing they had some to pick. The band boys cleared about $25 at the dance at Virgie Saturday night. A big crowd and a good time is reported. ■ —- Mrs. Blanche McColly, who has been visiting her mother, Mrs. Dodge, has returned to her home in Pontiac, in 7 Miss Effie Odel, of Indianapolis, is visiting her grandmother, Mrs. Manderville, here and her parents out in the country this week. Prayer meeting will be at Hustead’s house Wednesday night, and preaching at the I M. E. church Saturday night. All are invited to attend. Miss Blanch Braskett started this Wednesday morning for Davenport, lowa, and it is reported on good authority, that she will be married within a few days to an lowa man, and make that her future home.