Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1898 — WALKED SIX HUNDRED MILES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WALKED SIX HUNDRED MILES.

Long Journey of u Veteran Who Attended Cincinnati Kncampment. At the Grand Army of the Republic encampment in Cincinnati one of the most interesting figures was Comrade J.

R. llappe of Marinette, Wis., a veteran of three wars and aged 83, who walked all the way from his Wisconsin home to Cincinnati. Comrade llappe 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 000 miles in twenty-eight and a half days. He declares that he never felt better than when he reached Cincinnati. Mr. llappe 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.