Pocahontas star herald., 1926-04-22
NOTICE OF ELECTION AND
ORDER


ct al, for the creation of rural /
special school district.
On this April 10, 1926, same being
an adjourned day for the meeting of
the Board of Education for Randolph |
County, Arkansas, and all the board
members being present, there is pre-
sented for consideration the Ex-Parte |
petition Of Elmer Wheat and more
than 10 others, all qualified voters in
the territory affected, praying that the |
sense of the legal voters in the follow |
ing described territory, located in Ran
dolph County, Arkansas, and bounded |
as follows, to-wit; Begin at the north |
east corner of Township IS North. |
Range 2 East, and run thence west |
with the north line of said township |
to Black river, thence follow the mean
derings of Black river in westerly |
direction to the west line of Township |
10 North of Range East, thence |
run south with the west line of the |
said Township 10 North, and the west |
line of the aforesaid Township 1Sl
North, to the northwest corner of Sec |
tion 30, Township Is North, Range Q |
East, thence run east along the north
line OF the said Section 30 to its north
east corner, thence run south to the
northwest corner of the Southwest
quarter of Section 80, Township ISL
North of Range East, thence run
east to the southeast corner of the
northeast quarter of said Section 80.
thence north to the northwest corner
of Section 21, in said township IS
North, Range 2 East, thence east TO
the northwest corner of Section % In
said Township and Range, thence south
to the southwest corner of said section
%, thence east to the Greene County
line, thence north with the Greene
County line to the place Of beginning,
be taken on the adoption of the pro-
visions of law for the establishment
of the said territory into a rural spec
ial school district as set forth in Sec
tiOns 1881 and others of Crawford &
Moses Digest:
And 1t appearing to the court that
the said petition is in due and legal
form, Is duly executed by more than
twenty voters of the territory affected,
is properly accompanied by map or
plat showing the territory in the COM
mon school districts to be included in
the proposed rural special school dis
trict, and the said petition and map
having been presented for considera-
tiOn by this board
And it appearing to be to the best
school interests of the territory affect
ed for the same to be organized into
a rural special school district, and it
appearing TO be advisable that the time
and place for holding an election TO
pass on the said question be named,
and that three qualified electors re-
siding in the said territory, to hold
said election, should be appointed
1t is therefore by this board con-
sidered, ordered and adjudged on mo-
tiOn duly made and unanimously car
ried, that the election be held at
Brooks Special District school-house at
Sharum i'm the said territory to he
affected, on date of Tuesday, April %,
! 1926, at which election the qualified
electors In the territory affected shall
vote for or against the creation of the
said rural special school district, and
shall also vote for the election of ak
qualified voters residing on the terri
tory affected, to serve as directors OF
the proposed rural special school dis
trict, if same should be created, until
the first regular annual school election
| thereafter.
/ Jim Armstrong, George James and
Jehu Presley, being three qualified
electors residing on the aforesaid terri
tory are hereby appointed to hold the
said election.
1t is further by this b0ard consider
ed, ordered and adjudged that a copy
of this order be published i'm some
newspaper printed and published in
Randolph County, Arkansas, and that
a copy of same be posted in at least
five public places in the aforesaid ter
ritory affected. to the end that due
and legal notice may be had of the
aforesaid election.
Randolph County Board of Education.
j. ID. Wells, Chairman; Rufus A.
Mock, Secretary; w. E. Hamil, Harry
Hite, f. E. HIlen, J. A. Ford, Mem
bers.
w. II. Phipps, County Clerk and Ex-
Officio Clerk of the Board Of Educa-
tion. 37-1t.