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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.