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Arkadelphia Arks September 5th 1869 Hon W M Colby Supt E.B.R.F and AL Little Rock, Arks. The Board of Directors for the Arkadelphia School District respectfully represent that the Freedman School House here is Without a Heating store and that there is no state fund available past now for the purchase of One, and it is of the utmost importance that the school be furnished with one at once. As the Children here already suffered from cold It is impossible them get even a decent hand one here. the have rigged up an old Cooking Stove 'th best that can be hand for love or money, for the present.