Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1883 — WALKER ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

WALKER ITEMS.

J. F. Pettit J is 06 the sick list. The measles is still on the increase. Several of the advanced scholars of this tp., will attend the Normal at Valparaiso the coming Summer. Messrs R. Ziek and F. M. Hershinan have been out buying cattle. They returned with a handsome drove which they will osier for sale. A scatting school is making good progress Under the directions of its shillful teachers, D..J. Yeoman and E. Gard. Admission free. Place of practice in and about the suberbs of Opal. W, Hoile, and*J. Meyers, are seriously but n n t dangerously ill. It baffled the skill of several of the leading physicians to pronounce what the trouble was. Finally after a careful investigation they decided that they were cutting their eye teeth. Miss Mary Brown is going to spend the coming Spring with . her sister Mrs. Bullis at Rockford, 111. . There were quite a number ol bridges and in mapy place portions of grade, washed away by the recent high water.