Athens Weekly Review
Jan. 28, 1926

Murchison Has Splendid School
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All Subjects Taught to High School -- Athletics
Encouraged
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Murchison, Tex., Jan. 27-- We have at Murchison a
modern school building equipped with all modern
conveniences, such as water, electric lights, athletic
dressing rooms, toilets, baths, library and Smith system
of heating.

Although our school is not affiliated, all subjects are
taught from the kindergarten on through the high school
course. We have an enrollment of about three hundred
pupils in all grades.

Our faculty is composed of W. H. Woodall,
superintendent; Dolph B. Tillison, principal; Miss Ethel
Pickering, Miss Myrtle Godwin, grad teachers; Mrs. J. L.
Mitcham, primary; Miss Kate Pickering, kindergarten,
and Miss Olivia Hellums, music teacher.

Another remarkable thing about or school is that five of
the teachers live here and claim Murchison as their
home. Four of this five were reared here and went to
school here before they began teaching.

Our board of trustees consist of R. E. Saxon, president;
P. L. Fowler, secretary; Dr. A. C. Horton, W. T. Robinson,
Porter Luker, T. L. Carnes and Frank Scott. All are
progressive men and easy to get along with, therefore
our school is free from unpleasant frictions that so
frequently arise between trustees and teachers.

Our basket ball teams are among the fastest in the
county. The boys team, with Dolph B. Tillison as coach,
includes Coy Scott, captain; Alton Jackson, Hubert
Dyer, Rex Reece and Reagan Hamill, with Vernon Owens
and Roy Dodson as subs.

The girls team with Miss Myrtle Godwin as coach,
includes Doris Godwin, captain; Johnnie Fay Lewis,
Faye Bingham, Ruby Yancy, Thelma Tillison, Vertie Mae
Irving, with Cecil Scott and Lovone Carnes as subs.

The Murchison boys have won three=fourths of all
games played, and the girls have won two-thirds of al
games played. Therefore they hope to win in the county
meet, or at least let be known they are there.

Our school gets $735.00 State aid this year. This is not
as much as was needed and our school will in all
probability be cut short, but we are thankful for the
amount received.

Our special tax is the full amount of one dollar and we
feel that the board of directors and the citizens in
general are doing all they can for the best interest of the
community.

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