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ed. He was accepted by the board and given full charge to do what he thought best to reorganize the school and grade it according to the most modern and improved methods. Young and inexperienced as he was, he succeeded to the satisfaction of the authorities and patrons. The best evidence of this fact is that he has been retained from year to year, even until now.

Mr. Ross is the junior member of the firm of Henderson & Ross, grocery company, in Montgomery City.
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THE STRAWN BROTHERS.--James G. Strawn was graduated in 1902. He has been steadily employed as clerk in a grocery story operated by colored men in Columbia, Missouri.
 
That he has been industrious, honest and energetic in this position is evidenced by his having been retained until a few months ago, when he was elected to teach in the Douglass School at Columbia--in the town where he was a romping boy, in the school where he obtained his training prior to entering Lincoln Institute.

Arthur D. Strawn finished the Normal two years later. The World's Fair being in progress in St. Louis, he went there and procured a very responsible and lucrative position, where he worked until about the close of the Fair. He is now in railroad service in Utah, earning money to pay his way through a medical school.

Estil Strawn is the youthful principal at Cedar City, Missouri. He is working as earnestly, planning as in-

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cessantly for his work there as if he were principal of some high school. He is very active in the church, Sunday-school and secret organizations among his patrons.

Mr. Strawn applied for a position as a teacher in Porto Rico and received favorable replies from the government, but his father and mother thinking he was too young to undertake this work interposed objections. Mrs. Strawn then accepted his present school.