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MISS CORDELLE WALTON.

a flattering recommendation to the school board at Muskogee.

Miss Waller is still teaching in the Dunbar Public School at Muskogee, and is said to be one of the best paid teachers in the Territory.
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Miss CORDELLE WALTON was graduated from Lincoln Institute June 16, 1899. In the following year she was elected to teach in the public school in Marshall, Missouri, where she taught for three successive years. It was quite a compliment to her, for this is her home, where she attended public school and her girlhood days were spent. Her work here was so satisfactorily and successfully done that her services were in demand by many principals throughout the State.

When a vacancy occurred in the public school of Columbia, Missouri, Miss Walton was elected to the position and offered a salary sufficient to induce her to accept. She accepted the position, and is yet teaching there with perfect satisfaction.
During her last vacation she studied at Chicago University.

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VIRGIL E. WILLIAMS.

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Mr. VIRGIL E. WILLIAMS is one of the late graduates, having finished the course in 1900.

After finishing his Grammar School course at Chillicothe, Missouri, in 1894, he taught two years at Bucklin and one year in a district school in Livingston county. But his ambition was to more thoroughly prepare himself for the work of teaching that he might hold higher positions and do better work. So with the savings of these three years he entered Lincoln Institute in 1897, and by diligent application he completed the course.

In the summer of 1901 he was chosen as an instruc-