This is the ocr text of an article from the Thursday, November 10, 1887 issue of the Maquoketa Jackson Sentinel.
Mas. F. A. W. Snmut, of ait. Carroll, proposea tg ^iva her Mt. CRrrollidicialy seminary, ivitb. its buildings, grounds aud fixture, values of .$156,000, free of in-oumbrauce, to the Baptist ladiea ol Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa. The condition a nro Chat aa endowment fun doc $11)0,000 ba raised and that It be continued as a debaol for the higher ed-, uoailou o£ girls. Mrs. Sbtmer catuu west thirty-five years ago ttflh nothing but a good education, and opened a Rchool for girls in a. small room iu Mt. Carroll, from w fetch am all bejtfumnjs it haa srown to tho jjroaporDus inatitatUm oC learnlug that it 13 to-day.