Neck City School History

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="028c8c00dkelyh.jpg"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >Neck City School History<B>   </B></FONT><A HREF="http://www.jaspercountyschools.org/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.jaspercountyschools.org/"><U><B>home</B></U></A><B>    </B><A HREF="id3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Neck City"><U><B>Neck City School</B></U></A></div> <div> Consolidated with Alba and Purcell in 1930 to form District No. 46.</div> <bR> <div> Voting 237 to 218, residents of the Alba-Purcell-Neck City school districts, at a special election yesterday, approved the </div> <div> consolidation of the three districts under the state laws which make additional state school money available for such districts.</div> <div> The district, to be known as Consolidated District No. 46, will receive approximately $5,000 in additional state aid.</div> <bR> <div> The patrons of the three districts, at an election April 1, will vote upon a general school levy of $1, which will replace the levies</div> <div> formerly made in the various districts.  Alba has had a levy of $2.25, maintaining the only high school in the district.  Purcell</div> <div> has paid $1.20 school tax, and Neck City a levy of .65 cents.</div> <bR> <div> Directors for the new district were elected yesterday.  P. Kirk and John Burnsides of Alba, J. A. Jarmin and Erwin Andrews,</div> <div> of Purcell and Charles Scafe and William Cathers of Neck City, were named.</div> <bR> <div> The board organized by electing Mr. Jarmin as president, Bailey Hubbard, of Alba, was elected secretary.  Terms of two of</div> <div> the directors expier April 1, two others are elected to serve until April 1931, and the other two to serve until 1932.</div> <bR> <div> The consolidation gives the pupils of the three towns high school facilities without paying tuition.  Many of the students from</div> <div> Purcell and Neck City heretofore have attended the Alba high school, paying tuition.</div> <bR> <div> <I>The Carthage Evening Press, Tuesday, March 18, 1930, page 5.</I></div> <bR> <div> Neck City School closed between 1946-1948.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0482c3c0.gif" border=0 width="300" height="60" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Two fifteen year old school boys, Luther Dateman and Calvin Kelley of Neck City, became rebelious while in school Thursday</div> <div> and the latter, drawing a loaded revolver on the teacher, J. M. McColloch, ordered him to leave the school room.  This the </div> <div> teacher disliked to do, but the youth was waving the loaded weapon in such a threating manner that he finally did as ordered.</div> <div> Mr. McColloch at once notified the city marshal, Lynch, and both boys were arrested.  Dateman was latter released but Kelley</div> <div> is to be tried on the eighteenth, charged with carrying concealed weapons.  He is the son of a saloonkeeper in Neck City.</div> <div> <I>Jasper News, November 22, 1906</I></div> <bR> <div>  <script language="JavaScript1.2"> /* Disable right click script II (on images)- By Dynamicdrive.com For full source, Terms of service, and 100s DTHML scripts Visit http://www.dynamicdrive.com */ var clickmessage="Please send an email if you would like a copy of this photo." function disableclick(e) { if (document.all) { if (event.button==2||event.button==3) { if (event.srcElement.tagName=="IMG"){ alert(clickmessage); return false; } } } else if (document.layers) { if (e.which == 3) { alert(clickmessage); return false; } } else if (document.getElementById){ if (e.which==3&&e.target.tagName=="IMG"){ alert(clickmessage) return false } } } function associateimages(){ for(i=0;i<document.images.length;i++) document.images[i].onmousedown=disableclick; } if (document.all) document.onmousedown=disableclick else if (document.getElementById) document.onmouseup=disableclick else if (document.layers) associateimages() </script>  </div> </td> </tr></table></body>