Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1881 — Keener and Walker Items. [ARTICLE]

Keener and Walker Items.

The Rev. Mr. Thompson, of Medaryville, will preach at the Pleasant Valley school-house next Saturday night and Sunday. Mr. Thompson is a good speaker, so let us all turn out and hear )iin. Da Brockway contemplates moving to Rose Lawn and turning paddy Institute oommenced at the Pleasant .Valley school-house on Saturday last, and at the Hershman school-house, in Walker on Monday. Ed Turner returned home from Winamac last Monday with his wife, where he found the boys waiting to give him a hearty welcome with bells, horns, guns, ete. The beer was handed out with a lavish hand by the happy bridegroom. The meeting of Keener Literary Society, last Saturday night, was a grand success. The question was so hotly contested that our president ‘“rode off on his ear,” after which quiet reigned until the decision was rendered. |

George Wessensee is talking of moving to Oregon in fee spring. V e shall be sorry to lose so good a citizen and Republican. Several of our young men talk of making a tour of fee Western States and Territories in the spring, us soon as their schools close. Rodgers k Bro. are gathering com for Dr. Antrim. Wheat and rye look well. Mr. Grape Island, I would say nothing • about Keener looking barren if I lived on an island surrounded by an ble swamp, where nothing can flourish save boll-frogs, reptiles and Democrats. . The teachers of Walker are: William Bringle, William Churchhill, Louis Fleeuer, Lottie Hollie, Mary Hilton, J. F. Antrim and G. B. Antrim. Two schools in Keener are still without teachers. Teachers who have not yet engaged schools will do well to apply far these schools as good wages will be paid.

SPY.