Tyrrell County has declined a County wide school term of eight months. Rather than impose the higher taxes necessary, the citizens voted down the measure last week. Of 804 registered voters, only 174 votes favored the special tax. And Tyrrell’s citizens will continue to move away, some to find better schools, others to seek employment in hosiery mills.
From page 2 of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, March 19, 1926
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