Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1902 — MR. WALTON MUST BE DEAD. [ARTICLE]

MR. WALTON MUST BE DEAD.

Designer of an Angler's Retreat Did Not Know of the Esteemed Izaak. A gentleman who has spent part of his vacation season in a Canadian town has just returned home for a rest before resuming his labors and relates his experience thus: “I went off the beaten path for a few days’ fishing. In a small village not a great way from Quebec. I stopped at a smal inn to get a drink. The name of tne inn was the Izaak Walton. I said to the man who brought me the drink: “ ‘Does Izaak Walton keep this place?’ “ ‘No,’ was the answer. ‘Mr. Smith keeps it.’ “ ‘Then why does he have the name Walton hung out there?’ I went on. “The drink man looked at me as if I had said something derogatory to the establishment. “‘Can’t say, sir,’ he replied. ‘Mr. Smith has had the place only this season. I suppose he hasn’t had time to take the former owner’s name down yet. I’m a newcomer myself, but I think Mr. Walton died."