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Pitts School House in North Cove Burns, July 27, 1922

Pitts School House Burns

Fire of an undetermined origin destroyed the Pitts school house in North Cove township on Sunday night between the hours of 11 and 12 o’clock. The building was of wood and highly inflammable and made quite a blaze and considerable noise. The people living nearby were awakened from their slumbers and witnessed the destruction of the school building.

Early Monday morning a report was made to the county authorities, who went to the scene of the fire at once to investigate. The citizens of the community thinking the fire was of incendiary origin, bloodhounds were brought from Asheville in an effort to learn the guilty parties. The dogs were unable to pick up any trail and failed to follow the burners of the school house.

School will be conducted temporarily in the Methodist church in the community. Mr. R.E. Morris and Miss Annie Simpson are the teachers in charge and the school will open in the church Tuesday morning, with good prospects of a good term.

From the front page of the Marion Progress, July 27, 1922

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