Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-15
AGENCY.

AGENCY.
Agency, May 14.-At the school
meeting on last Wednesday evening
the following teachers were elected:
First room, Miss Ida Kneen; second
room, Miss Hulda Cremer; third room,
Miss Fannie Nye; assistant in the
high school, Miss Davies, OF Fairfield.
The fourth room is vacant yet, and
+. E. Callister was elected as principal
some time ago.
Jesse Ankrom and Web Clements,
who have been building a house for f.
A. Fair, at Council Bluffs, returned
home Friday evening.
The postoffice room has been i'm.
proved by putting on new paper.
w. C. Hicks went to Richland last
week.
Inez Chambers and her sister, Mrs.
V. Long, have been visiting relatives
here.
Mrs. George w. Newell is visiting rel
atiyes here, and expects to leave soon
for Des Moines, where she will make
her home. f
A number OF persons are putting up
new monuments and fixing up their
lots in the cemetery here.
The Epworth League rendered a
program Sunday evening in honor OF
the eleventh anniversary. .;s
DIR. J.. T. Newell has improved his
residence by putting porch on the
front of it.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Bryan AMI
family, of Charlton, visited over Sun
day at the home of their mother, Mrs.
c. A. Bryan.
Five persons were taken in as MEM
bers at the Congregational church
Sunday morning.
B Harry Meyer and wife, Mrs.
Anna johnson and Mrs. Kate Arnold,
all of Munterville, Pa, are visiting
their sister, Mrs. G. A. Bryan.
Farmers are about thru planting
corn.
ALBA.
Abba, May IL. Miss Retta Jackson,
accompanied by her friend, Miss Blair,
returned home Thursday night from
Apollo, Penn, where she has been
teaching in the city schools.
Major Lacey was called upon to
name the new mining town which the
Consolidated Coal company will build
in Bluff Creek township. He has given
it the name of "Lakonta." The coal
veins at Lalkonta are six feet and seven
inches deep and a fine grade of soft
coal is reported. Work at the shaft
will begin as soon as the Northwestern
track can be constructed, and several
other shafts will be. sunk into the
same coal field. One hundred cars of
lumber are ordered to commence the
buildings of the town, which will be
located about one mile and quarter
northeast of the shaft on northeast
and southwest slope, better to insure
the salubrity of the place. Business
is on a mighty boom at Lakonta.
Major w. K. Hardenbrook has lust
returned from Des Moines, whittier he
went to investigate the methods of
street pavement employed by that city,
and incidentally to attend the state
convention.
Abba, May 14.-Misses Gussie Lam
bert and Grace Henniman spent Sun
day in Eddyville.
Charley johnson. OF Centerville, yis-
tied over Sunday with his brother, Dee
w. johnson.
Pursuant to an order of the CITY
council, every place of business except
those necessary to be opened, was clos
ed tight yesterday.
About IL o'clock Saturday night Tom
Shahon was attracted to his front
door by the crying OF child. On
opening it he found that some one had
left baby but few hours old on his,
door step. Several persons have want
ed the child, but up to the present it
continues to reside with Tom.
At meeting of the school board
Saturday night the following teachers
We're elected for the ensuing year at
the high school building: Principal,
Prof. j. w. Hollingsworth; first assis-