Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-06-13
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
From Saturdays Daily.

krOm ShtuIuay DuiiJs
DIR. VIM. Clutch, of Blakesburg,
called, to-day, on his way home from
attending the National Medical As
ISOLATION at Chicago. The Doctor
reads and pays regularly for the
COURIER.
Win s. Mckclvey returned from
the Black Hills to-day. He reports
that everything out there is greatly
oyer-done, thousands of people are
leaving every day, and many moro
will follow as soon as possible.
Last night some thief stole fifteen
or twenty chickens from a coop be-
longing to II. e. CRUDE at his gro
Gerry store. They generously left
Henry three or four old hens and he
feels grateful for even that much con-
ISOLATION. He don't say much about
the matter but would be pleased to
know who got the fowls, just for fun
you know.
Charley Andrews, conductor on
the G. B. & O., road, informs that
Creston was visited yesterday by a
terrible rain storm, and the country
for miles on this side, was absolutely
flooded. The rain fell in sheets for
hours, and the smallest streams
were more like rivers than the harm
less looking drains Of ordinary
times. No particular damage was
done, however.
A night or two ago a night tele-
graph operator in one of the railroad
offices in town about the size of
this, concluded he would have little
fun with the boys, and sent message
down the road, Offering to hire opera
tors who he wanted to go to Chicago
to take the place of a lot of strikers
east of that city. He directed the
boys to report at Eldon where trans
portation was to be furnished them.
A fellow from Bentonsport resigned
his position on the X. s. d. M. rail-
road, and, together with one or two
other fellows, reported and asked for
their transportation, when they found
that ii. J. Hawley was myth, and
that they had been cruelty sold.
Notwithstanding the inclemency of
the weather, the City Hall was packed
as full of people as it could be,-and
many went away that could not even
find standing room,-to witness the
graduating exercises of a class of
eight young ladies and two young
gentlemen, as announced by the pro-
gramme published last evening. The
stage was neatly decorated with
evergrcens and flowers, Schwabkey's
band discoursed excellent music, and
every needed preparation was made
to render the exercises pleasant and
profitable. Mr.. Will Tisdale, Prin-
cipal of the High School the past
year, acted as master of ceremonies,
and did it with ease and grace. The
several members of the graduating
class read their essays, which were Of
a high order Of merit, in very COM
mendable manner, Morris II. Will
liams delivering an appropriate and
neatly worded valedictory. After
exercises by the class, J. w. Edgerly,
President of the School Board, de-
livered to the class their diplomas,
prefixing the presentation with few
well chosen and appropriate remarks.
Rev. DR.. Healy then addressed few
parting words to the class, advising
+, them that they were now just begin
: ming to climb the hill of life, that
their work was only just begun, and
urging them to endeavor to be useful
men and women. He paid them q
very high compliment, by saying that
their essays were good sermons in
themselves, and also to the superin-
tehoeht anu teacheIs, ioi TIC eNlaehI
success they had attained in training
this class for the duties of life. AS
each scholar left the stage they were
showered with boquets, and every
body seemed delighted with the sue
cess of the class in so honorably
completing their course in our High
School.