The second election to be held in the Northeastern Special School Taxing District was defeated on Tuesday, March 2, by 486 votes. The election called for a special tax throughout the district of not exceeding 50 cents on the hundred dollars worth of property, and the voters showed emphatically how the majority feel about increased taxation. The books showed 3,610 registered for the election, and only 1,319 votes were cast in favor of the uniform tax.
Only two townships gave a majority favoring the proposition, Selma and Beulah, and Selma and Glendale (in Beulah) districts already have a special tax. West Smithfield township, constituting Hopewell and Johnson school districts, rolled up the biggest per cent against the issue. Twelve votes out of a registration of 200 were cast favoring it. Next to this section, Pine Level, which included voters from Pomona, Creech’s and Yelverton’s Grove districts, defeated the measure with only 64 votes cast for the tax out of a registration of 582.
The vote in the other voting precincts was as follows: Selma, registration, 654, with 376 for; Boon Hill registration 528, with 147 for; Beulah, registration 447, with 250 for; Ingrams registration, with 315 for; Oneals registration 334, with 47 fore; Micro registration 217, with 108 for.
From the front page of The Smithfield Herald, Friday morning, March 5, 1926
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