The Stanford interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1911-1912, 1911-04-21

Ntbuidi ltIu i@lOtOiu toun-
" court held March 18th. 1871
| Hon. James y. Bailey Judge
Il presiding.
In the matter Of the petition
oil the Citizens Of Waynes-
burg for a common and graded
school.
At the last regular term of the Lin
coin Circuit Court. held on the l3th
day Of February 1911. a petition sign
ed by y. Reynolds, s. Mcintosh, A. l..
Foster. T. j. Burleson.W. H. Singleton
Eli Saylor. ". H. Singleton. r. 8.
Gooch, A. n. Morgan, T y. Reynolds.
Luther bunch w G.. Summers, O'Bar-
non Routon. II. f. Horton, ID. ~ Fer.
/ ~, J. l.. KoontZ, Plate Moore, r. ~.
Sorell. ID. Merritt. u. ". Claunch. J. n.
Sweeney. s. y. Svope. Berry iiurleson
and Garland Singleton Superintendent
Ot Common schools of Lincoln county.
Barber Wheeler. and ]. w. Wheeler.
and Geo. w Hum, W. f.andgTaf and A
I X. Caldwell county board of education
I for Lincoln county, and A. l.. Singleton
/ Trustee Div. Sub. asking that n
graded common school district, be es-
tablished within the boundary to wit;
| Beginning at Thos McMullin's includ.
Ahk lliiit AhNiNt 'AN'H
10 Il. Il. Caldwell" Jr.. including him.
thence down Fishing Creek to p. u.
Calowell's. Jr., including him. thence
10 Riley Reynolds place including him.
thence TO ELI Saylor's including him.
thence TO Joseph Phelps excluding
him. thence to Isaac Singleton's eS.
GLIDING him, then to the c. N. o. a T.
p. X. r., crossing said railroad l-2 mile
south Of mile post No. 14l. thence TO
led. Smiths including him. thence ito
James Wilson's excluding him, thence
TO and with Polly Sinsleton's branch
to the mouth OF same. thence to Mrs.
Elizabeth Gooch's including her place.
thence to the John johnson farm ex-
GLIDING t. thence to point on the
east side OF the G. n. o. a. T. r. n. X.
crossing same 10 mile south OF mile
post 1873. line oil Kings Mountain Grad
ed School. thence TO J. q. WARMERS
including him. thence to J. j. Falcon.
berry's including him. thence TO Thos.
McMullin's 20 the beginning. including
all of the within boundary.
And II appearing to the court that
white voters. residents. and tax pay.
all of the said petitions are legal
ers In the said proposed graded c"in'
mon school district. IN the town OF
WaynesDurg. KY. and in the Waynes-
burg Magisterial district. No. 3, and
the site designated for the school IN
said District for the proposed Com
mon Graded School Is the one now
used by the common school In the
town Of Waynesburg, and further APP
pearinC that majority OF the truH-
tees In said district embraced in whole
~ part in said proposed graded school
district herein, consented to the es-
Establishment OF the said proposed grad
common school and have endorsed
their consent in writing upon said pc
tjtion and In further appearing that
Garland Singleton Superintendent OF
Common Schools OF Lincoln county.
district. and has endorsed his con-
sent in writing upon the said petition
AZ provided by law, and also the LIN
coin Doard of Education has endorsed
same by signing said petition. and this
day the said petitions appeared In
open court and James y. Bailey, Judge
of the Lincoln county court, agreed
with them that the proposed common
school district shall be as heretofore
described, and the court being suffici-
entity advised, IN Is now ordered and
adjudEed that w. l.. McCarty Sheriff
of Lincoln County. be aud he is hereby
ordered to cause a poll TO be opened
in the town OF Wsynesburg, Ky, and
an election held ON the 10Th day OF
Apfil. 1911, same being more than (sO)
day. after the entry Of this order. 10
take the sense OF the legal white vot-
ers In said proposed graded school
district, whether there be levied aud
collected an annual tax OF thirty 500
cents on each one hundred t$leO) dol
lars worth OF taxable property assess
ed In said proposed graded common
school district, belonging to white
persons and corporations, and n poll
tax Of fifty 900 cents on each male
inhabitant over twenty one CID years
Of age, residing in said proposed grao-
ed common school district, for the
purpose OF maintaining a graded com
mon school In said proposed graded
common school district. and for the
purpose OF purchasing or erecting suit
able buildings thereafter. as provided
by the common school law.
The officers of election will also
cause the said legal voters In said pro-
posed common school district to vote
for five persons TO be trustees Tor
same. provided said tax shall be ap-
proved bv said voters. The officers OF
the election win make due return OF
tho result OF said election at once al
ter sane is held.
Att. G. h. COOPER. Clerk. Lincoln