Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1908 — MISS AETNA LEBO SURPRISES HER FRIENDS. [ARTICLE]

MISS AETNA LEBO SURPRISES HER FRIENDS.

Resign? Position as Teacher and Starts to California to Become Wife of A. L. branch, L.

Miss Aetna Eeto, teacher of t' e first primary department of the Rensselaer schools, resigned Ear position the first of the week and left cn Thursday for Sacramento, 'Cal., where she will be met by Mr. Arhur L. Branch, formerly for several years a resident of Rensselaer, to whom she will be married. They will then go to BanFrancisco,' Cal., where he is employed as the manager of a large milling concern and w; ere they w 11 probably make their future home. Miss Lebo has been a teacher here for the past three years and has made many friends and her departure will not only be a surprise but a disappointment to them all, but they will Join in wishing her a happy married life. It seems that the arrangement for her departure had been made some time before and she had given the school board notice of her intention to leave, but had kept the matter a secret from her teacher friends and none of them were acquainted with her intention until the afternoon of

her departure. She expects to reach Sacramento Monday and the marriage will be performed there. Mr. Branch is a widower and.has two little daughters who have lived with their grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Wilcox, since the death of their mother about five years ago. They will continue to live here at least until after the close of the school year when they will probably be taken to California by their grandmother and will make home hereafter with their father and his new wife. The courtship that leads up to this marriage has covered two or three years and while the result was one that the public had been anticipating it was not' thought by the many friends of either that it would take place until after the close of the school year. The position in the school made vacant by Miss Lebo’s resignation wi 1 be filled by Miss Lucy Beasley, of Remington, who resigns a position at Wingate in order to come here.