the center of the room. The only other piece of furniture was the teachers chair. Miss Alice Berry then taught a three month term in the new building.

Next, Mrs. George Rouse taught the school. The older boys thought of a trick to smoke out the teacher by stuffing hay into the chimney before she arrived. This resulted in fourteen boys getting a whipping on one day.

Mrs. Haight and her husband always had a keen interest in the school and the youth. She served as a 4-H Club leader from its very beginning in 1916. In her sewing, cooking, and chicken raising clubs: Sue Tegeler, Laura Reeker, Clara Carstens, Edna, Martha, and Alma Ruegge, Susie Beed, Sewerna and Frieda Rodekohn, Minnie Reeker, Martha Hoffman, Bernice Braun and Zetta Halsey. In the boys' Club, the pig, calf and corn raising club, she had Arthur and Carl Rodekohr, Burleigh Sesler, Guy Hunter, Harry Reeker and Harry Tegeler.

When Mr. and Mrs. Haight retired from the farm about 1920, they built the house which is now the home of Mrs. John Zohner.

The Haight children were Elera Haight, Frances (Mrs. Bert Baker), Eva (Mrs. Kibler) who, when her husband passed away, came to care for her mother in her declining years. Her home was the one where Mrs. Kristine Kubes now lives. The youngest daughter, Ora, married and lived in Denver. All have now passed away. Mrs. Mildred Ponton of Battle Creek and Velma Mangels and Arden Haight of Norfolk are also Haight grandchildren.

--Chas. Zimmerman

Mr. and Mrs. William O. Cunningham emigrated in a covered wagon from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to Nebraska in the spring of 1872. They first stopped in the Dakota County Bottom near South Sioux City. Mrs. Cunningham and daughter, Eva, were left here with relatives as she was expecting a new baby. Mr. Cunningham left to settle a claim which was eight miles southeast of Battle Creek. He paid $14.00 as a filing fee for his 160 acres. A creek ran through his land on the northeast corner. Mr. Cunningham decided that he must build his dugout close to the creek so that water could be had for his family and stock. He bought maple, walnut, cottonwood, mulberry trees or saplings for his planting. He thought the mulberry trees would make good posts while the others would be good protection for his land and stock. He also bought corn, calico corn, that they popped, and used for corn meal. Mr. Cunningham built a dugout for a church on a hill just west of his building spot.

Weeks and weeks passed by before they would get any mail from Battle Creek which was the closest place for supplies and quite a "wild" town.

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