Jones County Texas Archives - New Light School - 1927 *********************************************************** Submitted by: Dorman Holub Date: 19 January 2020 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/jones/jonestoc.htm *********************************************************** The Stamford AmericanThursday, July 7, 1927New Light School has no bonded indebtedness New Light School District No. 3 has no bonds. The valuation of the district is$105,870.66. The local tax rate is 75c. the area of the district is nine squaremiles. the building with teacherage on the grounds is located seven miles northeastof Anson. the trustees are W.B. Sandifer, I.L. Byrd and W.J. Wesley. the teachers areD.C. Lindsey and Miss Lora Thomas.New Light, formerly named Frog Hollow school, at first was a one-room structure usedfor a school house and a church. It was called Frog Hollow because it was locatednear a creek locally known as Frog Hollow Creek. The first school house was built byMessrs. Keen and Thornton and these men served as the first trustees of the district.The first teacher was Miss Frankie Boles.Twenty-five years after the first building was erected the school was remodeled andrenamed because as teachers began to attend County Teacher Institutes they felt aslight hesitancy in saying, ÒI teach at Frog Hollow.Ó The patrons by common consentdecided that New Light would be a much better name for a church and school than theformer name, therefore the change in name.This district has land suited to the growth of cotton and grain. The average yield ofcotton per acre in 1926 was one-third of a bale. The yield of maize and grain peracre was good.