This Week in Canton History

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Sandra R. Jones Van Zandt County Genealogy Society

Canton Herald – April 14, 1960:

In a drive to raise $25,000 for a swimming pool got underway Monday not with his selection of drive members by composite group of local civic clubs at the school cafeteria.

T. Dean Brown, chairman of the pool Drive, announced that the funds drive workers will be Mrs. Jack Smith, Mrs. Jake Slaughter, Jake Taylor, Jake Slaughter, Lester Slayton, Norris Birdwell, Sam Hilliard, Curtis Hilliard, W. E. West, W. H. McCauley, John Owens, E. H. Cherry, Chick Chaney, Norman Butts, B. R. Mahaffey, T. R. Keahey and Jimmy Matthews.

At the meeting held Monday night the drive committee was handed names of citizens in Canton who they will contact within the next two weeks. The drive is expected to be completed by May 1.

Shares of $25 each will be subscribed, giving each one buying a share his appropriate interest in the non- profit corporation being formed to conduct the activities of the swimming pool. A Board of Directors will govern the operation and it will be named by popular vote of the stockholders. The pool, if constructed, will be a modern pool meeting the requirements of the AAU. It is to be located at the city park next to the city like in Canton.

The organizational meeting of the Canton school board was held Monday night, April 4, in the office of Norris Birdwell, superintendent. C. L. Stanford was elected president of the school board. Other officers selected included Dr. George H. Hilliard, vice president; and James Beggs, Sec. – Treas. Other board members are B. J. Dawson, Arnett Robinson, Tom Hamilton and Jeff Teet.

Services for Hardy Lee Morris, 82, who died in Terrell Friday morning, were held at 3 o’clock Saturday afternoon at the Church of Christ. Officiating were L. E. Carpenter and Tilden McFerrin and, ministers.  Interment was in the Edgewood Cemetery under the direction of Eubank funeral home. Mr. Morris was born Sept. 13, 1877, in Johnson County. He married Hester Pear Stroud on Oct. 12, 1898. He was a member of the Canton Church of Christ.

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