Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1909 — FAIR OAKS. [ARTICLE]

FAIR OAKS.

The Carr children, who have had typhoid fever, are reported better. Mrs. N. A. McKay and children spent a day this week on the Kankakee. Mrs. Isaac Kight and Mrs. John Kight went to Wheatfleld on business Friday. J. Chas. Wolf and wife, of Peru, visited with John Casey and family over Sunday. John Dewitt and Ray Casey quite recently picked 21 bushels of cucumbers in one day. Joseph I. Burns visited E. P. Stanfield, of South Bend, last week on important business matters. Felix Parker and family, of north of town, spent a few days this week on the river fishing and boating. Ed Lacons has brought in five or six wagon loads of melons already with a prospect of several more. Mrs. Allen, of Davenport, lowa, formerly Mrs. Sina Lambert, of Fair Oaks, has just moved back here, and will keep the hotel on Kent street. John Casey has had considerable experience with a cucumber patch of his own, 140 feet by 90 feet wide, about 3-10 of an acre. He has sold the first month 1,632 pounds for $16.44, besides pickled for his own use and used for chicken feed and those thrown out, a total of all 2,172 pounds the first month, and they are just beginning to bear good. John says he-is good for another ton, and picks them himself. - - —i...'