Mountain advocate., 1919-03-28
SCHOOL ELECTION CALLED
KNOX COUNTY COURT.
william s. Edwards, ct all.

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Hon. J. d. Tuggle, County Judge,
Knox County.
Il appearing to the Judge of the
Knox County Court that a petition
was filed in the office of the Clerk
of the Knox County Court on the
25th day of January 1919, and on
the 9th day of January 1919, it be-
day, of Knox County, the said petit
tion was presented to and received
by and filed with the Judge of the
Knox County Court, and an order
was made at the Regular January
Term of the Knox County Court by
the Judge of this Court, endorsing
the said petition filed, and ordering
the same to lay over until the Reg
ular February Term of this Court
for investigation, and it appearing to
this Court that the said petition is
signed by more than twenty-five
(25) per cent of the legal white
voters in the Artemus Magesterial
District, within which the Graded
Common School is sought to be es-
tablished, and it appearing to the
Court from a careful examination of
the said petition that the proposition
to establish the said Graded School
: is approved in writing on petition to
the County Judge of Knox County
} by the County Board of Education
: of Knox County and by the County
} Superintendent of Common Schools
) signed the said petition approving
! the establishment of the said Grad
!, ed Common School sought to be es.
; tablished by the petition filed in this
action, and it further appearing to
the Court from and after a careful
examination of the boundary of the
said proposed Graded Common
School and the boundry lines there
of, that no points in the said bound
airy is more than two and one half
miles from the proposed site of the
said school building and grounds and
it further appearing that the Bound
airy and location of the school build
ing is definitely, specifically and with
exactneSs set forth in the said petit
ton, and it further appearing that
there are. within the said proposed
graded school district, more than one
hundred white pupil children, and it
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this Court and the petitioners and the
County Board of Education and the
County Superintendent of Schools
have agreed upon the boundary of the
said proposed graded common school
district:
1t is therefore ordered by this
Court that the new and proposed
Graded Common School District
shall be known as the Artemus Grad
ed Common School District, if es-
tablished and that the boundary of the
said Artemus Graded School District
shall be as follows:
beginning at the mouth of Fight
ing Creek, thence up Cumberland
River near the Railroad Bridge,
thence to include James d. Blacks
land and Harve Sowder's lower farm,
and up Gregory's branch to include
the same, thence including James
Bill Campbell's, and James Durham s
farms, thence Cumberland River,
; thence crossing same so as to include
the HUH farm, drained by Cumber-
land River, thence with the Ridge to
Robert Bain's farm, thence to the
p beginning, and being the same
boundary as that of the Artemus
Graded School District before this
date.
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1t is further ordered by the Court
that the site and grounds of the Ar
temus Common Graded School Dis
trict shall be the same as that which
has heretofore been the Artemus
Common School District, and which
has heretofore been used by it, and
is more particularly described as
follows:
"On the North by John Davis's
lands, and street leading to Baptist
church, on the East by Jake Sowder's
lands, on the south by Jake Sowder's
lands, on the west by Jake Sowder's
lands and containing 2 acres more
or less, and being located in the
town of Artemus, Knox County, Ken
luckily, and the school building To-
, Gated on the said site will be the same
building used by the new graded COM
mon school district, and the said new
district may make whatever improve
ments on the said building it shall de-
sire, in case it is established by the
vote of the people in said district.
1t is further ordered by this Court
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