The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1913-08-14
MADISON COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT


In Re Petition of J. s. Colt, and
others, to fix boundary Of proposed
graded common school district in the
Glade Magesterial District.
This matter being on the docket Of
the court this day and II appearing
the order heretofore entered was not
carried out owing TO oversight in
certifying same to the sheriff; and il
appearing that more than ten legal
voters, who are taxpayers in the pro-
posed graded common school district
have petitioned the court 10 fix the
boundary Of said district and to or
der an election to establish a graded
common school, and it further ap-
pearing that said petition is approx
ed by the trustee of the common
school whose district is embraced in
said proposed district, and the coun-
ty school superintendent and the
county board Of education, and it
further appearing that no part of the
proposed graded school district will
be more than two and one half miles
from the schoolhouse, the court be-
ing advised, it is considered and ad-
judged and hereby ordered that the
following boundaries shall be spread
upon the order book of this court
as the boundaries Of the proposed
graded common school district:
Beginning at the Cemetery sexton
house, including same; thence a
straight line TO the residence of C.
|. Ogg, including it; thence a straight
line to the Squire Wilson house, now
owned by Berea College, including it;
thence South with the railroad to
Alex Moore's southeast corner; thence
with his south line westward to the
residence of J. X. Baker on his farm
and including it; thence a straight
line from his house to the residence
of Leon Lewis, including it; thence
a straight line to the lot of Andrew
Isaacs on Chestnut Street, including
it; thence a straight line to d. H.
Smiths residence, including his farm;
thence a straight line to the residence
of E. c. Wynn, including his farm;
thence a straight line 10 the Scaffold
Cane Pike at Bushy Fork Creek,
thence with the creek to the bridge !
at Big Hill Pike; thence a straight
line to the house of Tarlton Combs,
including his farm; thence a straight
line to the beginning.
And it is further ordered that the |
Sheriff of Madison County, Kentucky ,
do hold on the 10th day of August
1918, at the school house in Berea,
County, Kentucky, between
the hours of 6 a. m. and 4 p. m. an
election for the purpose of taking the
sense of the legal white voters with
in the above described boundaries
constituting the proposed graded
school district, upon the
whether or not they are
for or against an annual graded
school tax in the sum of thir-
ty-fve cents on each one hundred dol
lars of the property assessed within
The above described boundaries belong
ing to said white voters or corpora
tons; and in addition thereto an an
nual poll tax of sl.00 per capita on
each white male inhabitant over
lwenty-one years Of age residing in
said proposed graded common school
district; all for the purpose of main
aiming a graded common school with
N the described proposed graded CON-
non school district and for erecting
'r repairing suitable building for said
purpose upon the present site of the
public school in Berea, KY, and for