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Show .An Ancient Vlllajje School. Pocahontas, III., the otier day celebrated cele-brated n seml-centcnnlal "celebration commemornttvo bf tho erection In 1851 of tbo vlllago school houso, still standing and In excellent condition for a framo building half a century old. Tho structure was built beforo tho days of publla schools In that section sec-tion of tbo country, and was consequently conse-quently a private enterprise nt tho POCAHONTAS ACADEMY. ' start Later tho building was turnid lover to the public, and for many years retained Its old name of Pocahontas Academy, Tbo first name of the vlllago vll-lago tor Amity, and by somo of the "oldest Inhabitants" tho school was called Amity Academy. iV tow preferred pre-ferred the name Hickory Grove Academy, Acad-emy, becausv of the fact that for several sev-eral years tho ofllclal name of the town was Hickory Grove, hut majorities ma-jorities ruled In those days, and the majority, among whom wero the founders foun-ders of tho school, gava It tho name by which It was known most widely and longest Pocahontas Academy It will bo observed that all Insisted that tbo school should be called an academy. acade-my. Pocahontas Is now but a small place with a fow hundred Inhabitants, and It was much smaller In tho early tJOs. Pocahontas Is In Hood, ono of the original flvo counties of Illinois, and on tho Vananlla railroad, about forty miles from Bt Uml |