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Feb'y 15th 70

Gen'l C. H. Howard
Sec'y etc. Chicago, Ill.

General:

I am just from Lake Village, Chicot Co. and will state briefly the situation, and what I have done.  The friends there had failed to secure a school site because parties owning land decline to sell for such uses.  We propose to circumvent them in this way: A House and lot well located adjacent to the court house square is for sale and this owner not suspecting what use is to be made of the house has bound himself in the sum of $3,000.00