Yesterday an election was held in the Farm Life School District, which was carried by a vote of 66 to 5 for local tax. This was the second election held within 12 months, the first failing by a very small margin. The tax voted will be 15 cents on the $100 valuation, and is to be used for maintaining and better equipping the Farm Life School, which had its department of vocational agriculture discontinued by the State Board of Education because the average did not come up to the required number of enrolled students. The past term had been a most successful one with a faculty of four teachers: Mr. John D. Lilley, becoming principal, and Mr. Bruce Wynne, Mrs. C.T. Roberson, Miss Carrie Dell Manning, teachers assisting. The people in the district are deeply interested in the life of the school, and are behind any movement for the enrichment of the facilities of the (end of sentence unreadable).
From the front page of The Enterprise, Williamston, Martin County, N.C., Tuesday, May 26, 1925
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