Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1901 — P[?]rimmer’s Coming Poem. [ARTICLE]

P[?]rimmer’s Coming Poem.

\ <«jApe Poet of the Kankakee,” m/W. Pfrimmer, of Kentland, is nqltar at work on a poem which is to ftleai with the traditions of the Kankakee river. He will embrace this poem with a number of others in a single volume and name the book “A Legend of the Kankakee.” Mr. Pfrimmer says there afe many interesting traditions connected with the history of the Kankakee and he will work some of them into his poem. There is a legend about Grape island for instance, to the effeot that many years ago the island bore a luxurious growth of grapes whioh were planted there by Jesuit missionaries. Mr. Pfrimmer recalls that the name Kankakee ip an Indian word meaning Wolfland river. It took the name from a remnant of the Mohican tribe of Indians that settled in that locality long ago. There is also the legend of White island. It is told that years ago some woodmen came down the river from Canada and found a band of Indians on a small island on the Kankakee. In this band there was a lone white woman. She was never able to clearly explain to the white men how she oame to be there as her mind was dim. The inoident will be one of the features of “The Legend of the Kankakee.”