Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1898 — WALKED SIX HUNDRED MILES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WALKED SIX HUNDRED MILES.

Lon# Journey of a Veteran Wjto Attended Cincinnati encampment. At the Grand Army of the Republic encampment in Giueinuati one of the most interesting figures was Comrade J.

R. Rappe of Marinette, Wis., a veteran of three wars and aged 83, who walked all the way from his Wisconsin home to Cincinnati. Comrade Ilappe saw service in the Mexican, )Seminole and civil wars, and despite his advanced years reads a newspaper easily without the

aid of glasses. He covered the 600 miles in twenty-eight and a half days. He declares that he never felt better than when he reached Cincinnati. Mr. Itappe was a guest of T. A. Wilkinson of Avondale, with whom he served in the Thirty-second Wisconsin infantry throughout the civil war.

J. A. RAPPE.