Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 210, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1917 — CENTRAL WALKER. [ARTICLE]

CENTRAL WALKER.

Miss Dolly Gordon came Saturday night for a few days’ visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Gordon. Wm. Smith is putting in wheat on the Dr. Kresler farm near Rensselaer. Mr. Smith expects to move there next spring. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Livingston and two daughters, of Hobart, spent Friday and Saturday with Mrs. Gail Michal. , , Mrs. Elmer Smith and daughter, Portia, returned to their home at Danville, 111., after several weeks’ visit with relatives here. Mrs. John Gustafson received a pleasant surprise Sunday when about thirty of her neighbors dropped in at the noon hour with well filled baskets to remind her of her birthday. Frank Smith, of Oxford, is here visiting his sister, Mrs. Wm. Hartley. ~ Ed Robertson, of Chicago, is visiting his sister, Mrs. Dave Peer. J. J. Tomlinson threshed this week. His oats went 60 bushels to the acre. He had about 57 acres. He is farming the Tom Davis farm this year. The Walker township schools opened Monday with the following teachers: Amanda Stienke, Center; Lulu Nelson, Norway; Bertha Hershman, Hershman; Margaret Pettet, Kennedy; Mary Walter, Buckhorn; R. A. Conn and Louise Lake, Kniman.