Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-04-01
roy Consolidated
School By Pupils

LNlS large ulSIrlCl.
Troy school building is made of
brick 1t is built in a modern way.
1t contains six school rooms, one H.
brary, and one laboratory, one domes-
tic science room, a gymnasium and q
manual training room. ....a.
There are six teachers at present.
Prof Knobs, Miss Brown, Miss
Kairns, Miss Roberts, Miss Howard
and Miss Conrad.
There are one hundred and fifty or
more scholars.
We are taken to and from school IN
large closed wagons.
There are seven routes, seven wag-
ons and drivers. They are: Keith Buck
les, Irwin Darnell, Ed Buckles, Fred
Alternately, Paul Trachsel, Will Yank
and Walter Roberts.
Six Of our wagons are made by the
Studebaker and one made by Marshall
town.
Ben Downey is our janitor He
keeps our school building clean.
This is a school composition written
by
Otto Kruse, Age ~.
Selma, Iowa.
go to the Troy consolidated school.
am in the fifth grade. There are two
grades in my room. My teachers
name is Miss Roberts. There are six
rooms, three upstairs and three down
stairs.
The domestic science room and gym.
nasium are in the basement. The man.
ual training room Is in another build
ing.
There is drinking fountain upstairs
and one down stairs
There are about two hundred schol.
ars in all the grades.
Mr.. Knobs is the principal. We have
been in the new building about a
month and a half. They begun the
building last fall and finished it about
the last Of January.
There are seven wagons.
The wagons have seats along the
sides and a seat in front for the driver.
They have curtains on the sides.
There are eighteen ride in our
wagon. We have missed school two
days on account Of bad roads.
have to ride about two miles and
quarter.
1 start from home about 1880 In the
morning and get to school about SIS.
I get home about o'clock. The drivers
have q certain route to go. Some OF
the children have over five miles to
ride. -.ra. ~... "
We are going to have eight and one
half months.
We have had five and one-hali
months so that leaves three months
yet.
This is my school composition.
Henry e. Roberts, age II.
Troy, Iowa.
live in the consolidated school at
Troy. We live about three and one,
half miles from the school but have
to go about five to- get there. The
school house Is located at Troy, small
place with only few scholars so most
of them come in the wagons which are
provided on purpose to carry the chill
dren there
They are about the size Of com.
mon wagon with large heavy top,
which may have the side curtains up
or down according to the weather.
The wagons have seats along the
sides with seat up In front for the
driver.
There are three glass doors up in
: front and one in the back. There is
step at the back door so the children
can enter more easily.
It usually takes us about an hour
and half to go.
The time varies according to the
roads and weather.
The school house is large brick
building heated with steam heat and
lighted with gas lights.
There are six class rooms, library
| and labratory besides the large halls
and stairways on the upper floors.
Then down in the basement Is the
auditorium and domestic science room
besides the stage, boiler and furnace
room There are nearly two hundred
| scholars and six teachers besides the
professor who oversees the entire
school. There are at present only two
grades in high school but there will
be more after this year.
This is school composition.
Emily Casady, age IL,
Selma, Iowa.