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Lagrange Ark. June 4th 1870 Friend Wm Colby; Thinking that perhaps it would be interesting and encouraging to you to know how our schools, Sabbath Schools, and Temperance mtgs are flourishing, I have taken this opportunity to inform you therein. At present we, my wife and self, are both teaching; my wife has at this place an interesting school of about thirty, and I have a school, seven miles above, which owing to the busy season