Teachers Seen Smoking Cigarettes Will Be Asked to Resign, Feb. 10, 1926

Teachers in Wilkes Who Smoke Cigarettes Will Be Asked to Resign

To whom it may concern:

It having come to the knowledge of the board of education that some teachers, both ladies and gentlemen, in the public schools of Wilkes County have been seen smoking cigarettes, it is the order of the board that in case such action is persisted in, such teachers will be asked to resign.

This order made this the 2nd day of February 1926.

--C.C. Wright, Sec. Board of Education

From the front page of the North Wilkesboro Hustler, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 1926

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