Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1909 — FAIR OAKS. [ARTICLE]

FAIR OAKS.

Barker visited relatives in Yeddo last week. A. M. Bringle and wife made a trip to Chicago this week. Mrs. Ella Rainier has been very sick for a few days. Mrs. Douglass contemplates moving bhck to Fair Oaks. Enos Moffit is lucky and is bringing in cucumbers by the load. Casey’s cucumbers are no more. They were frosted to death. Mrs. John Zellers spent Sunday with her brother near Surrey. Miss Ella Johnson, of Surrey, visited with relatives over Sunday^ It is rumored that two of Lyman Hall’s childrea have diphtheria. Mrs. R. A. Gordon, of Morgan Park, visited her pai%nts over Sunday. Mrs. J. R. Kight, of Thayer, visited a day this week with Isaac Kight. Will Blair, of Western Springs, visited C. L. Eggleston over Sunday. HaYvey Burns, of Rensselaer, visited relatives in this vicinity this week. Ed Lacon took a wagon load of pickles and musk melons to Parr Tuesday. Ed Hall and family, of Roselawn, visited a day this week with relatives here. Frank Helsel, of Biwabik, Minn., visited his brother A 1 a few days last week. Chas. Mallatt and family, of Michigan City, visited his parents over Sunday. It is reported that Frank Hooper lost 45 acres of buckwheat by the recent frost. Mrs. I. Kight and Miss Mattie McKay visited Mrs. Jose Kight at Thayer Saturday. Ray Casey and John DeWitt are now laborers on the gravel train under A 1 Moore. Quite a crowd of the young people went out to Dan Woods’ Sunday night and ate water melon. The Rev. Mrs. Fenneburst, of Evanston, visited among the M. E. people here this week.” John Marlowe and Leslie Warne, who have been in Brook for several weeks, visited here last week. We accidentally discovered Abraham Bringle digging his own potatoes and no one to help him.

There is a rumor afloat that Peter Cull will soon run a ranch and tell us what he knows about farming. Laurance Hallack went to Rensselaer Sunday evening, expecting to enter his second year of high school there. Walter McConnell will finish up his hay pressing here this week arid, go up near Shelby to work in the hay business : , A load of apples was sold oh our streets recently. They came from Samuel Williams’ orchard over in Barkley township. Abraham Broner and Jacob Zendel, of Laporte, have about completed their car load of junk and will soon ship it to the city. ==fe Over 12,000 bushels of cucumbers have been received at the Fair Oaks pickle factory, and all the twenty large tanks have been filled except one. It may seem strange and peculiar to our supervisor that our streets have not been worked for so long. In Fair Oaks ragweeds now attract the attention of strangers and citizens by being in the streets and alleys. Sandburs are numerous and the barefooted boy no longer enjoys marble playing and no one is seen sprouting stumps or digging for ginseng. Nevertheless it is true Fair Oaks is being laid in the shade by other enterprising towns.