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VOLUME 4, NO. 50
Compulsory School Attendance
Duty of Parent and Guardian. Enrollment and Attendance of Child. Excuse of
. .Absences.
Sec. 171. Every parent, guardian or other person having charge and control of
a child between the ages of eight and fourteen years, who is not exempted or
excused as hereinafter provided, shall cause said child to be enrolled in and to
dttend continuously for six months of each year a public school of the district
or of city or town in which the child resides; which period of attendance shall
commence at the beginning of the first term of said school in the year. Such at
tendance at a public school shall not be required where the child attends for the
same period some other school giving instruction in the ordinary branches of
English education, or has completed the seventh grade of school work as pre
scribed by the State Board of Education, or whore, for good reasons, the suffi
ciency of which shall be determined by the board of education of the county or
town in which the child resides, the said board excuses temporarily the child
from such attendance, such boards authorized to take into consideration the
seasons for agricultural labor and the need for such labor, in exercising their
discretion*as to the time for which children in farming districts shall be excused.
Provided, that no guardian shall be compelled to send such child or‘’children to
school out of any other than the funds belonging to the ward or wards. Tempo
rary absence of any child enrolled as a pupil may be excused by the principal or
teacher in charge of the school, because of bad weather, sickness, death in the
child’s family, or other reasonable cause.
Fenalty for Non-Compliance. Suspension of Punishment. Notice Board.
17:1. Any parent, guardian or other person who has cliarge and control of
a child between the ages aforesaid, and who wilfully fails to comply with. the
foregoing requirements shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction
thereof shall be punished by a fine not to exceed ten dollars for the first offense,
and not to exceed twenty dollars for each subsequent offense, said fines to in
clude all costs; but the court trying the case may, in its discretion, suspend en
forcement of the punishment, if the child be immediately placed in attendance
at a school as aforesaid, and may finally remit the same if such attendance has
continued regularly for the number of months hereinbefore prescribed for attend
ance. School attendance may be proved by an attested certificate of the princi
pal or teacher in charge of the school. No person shall be prosecuted for viola
tion of the foregoing requirements unless the board of education of the county
or municipality in which the person accused of such violation resides shall have
caused to he served upon the accused, at least ten days before prosecution, a
written notice of the charge with the name of the child to which it refers. Any
person so notified, not previously convicted of violation of this Act as to I,he
child referred to in said notice, may prevent prosecution on the charge set out
therein, by giving, at any time before such prosecution is instituted, a bond in
the penal sum of fifty dollars payable to the Ordinary of the county, with se
curity to be approved by the Ordinary, conditioned that the said person shall
thenceforth faithfully comply with the requirements of this section as to the
said child. Each day’s willful failure of a parent, guardian or other person in
charge and control of a child as aforesaid, after the expiration of ten days from
such notice, to cause the child to attend school, when such attendance is required
by this section, shall constitute a separate offense. In prosecutions under this
Station the exemptions and excuses herein provided for shall be matters of de
fense to be established by the accused, and need not be negatived in the indict
ment or accusation. , •
Duties of Boards of Education and Teachers.
S'cc. 17:?. It shall be the duty of the County and Municipal Boards of Educa
tion to investigate as to the attendance and non-attendance of children required
by this section to attend the schools under their supervision, and it shall also be
tbeir duty to institute or cause to be intsituted prosecutions against persons vio
lating this section. It shall be the duty of the principal or teacher in charge of
any public school, in which pupils between the ages of eight and fourteen years
of age are instructed, to keep an accurate record of the attendance of such pu
pils, and at the end of each month to make a written report of the same to the
Board of Education having supervision of the school, and to note therein ex
cused absences aud the reasons therefor.
Attendance Officer.
Bee. 174. Each County and Municipal Board of Education shall employ an at
tendance officer whose duty it shall be to report to the Board of Education fail
ure of attendance on the part of pupils between the ages of 8 and 14 years. For
this service these officials shall be paid not less than one dollar nor more than
three dollars per day during the time employed and said payment shall be paid,
so far as possible, from the fees collected. The balance due shall be paid from
the-school funds of the county or local aysstem. Any Board or local school sys
tem failing to comply with this law for attendance officer shall not be entitled
to receive funds from the State Treasury until it is shown that said attendance
officer has been appointed and has feuteredVipon his duties.
Pines aud Rorfeitures a Part of School Fund.
See. 175. All fines imposed hereunder and all sums required to be paid as pen
alties under bonds given under this section, shall, after payment of the costs of
prosecution and of recovery thereof, be paid into the county treasury arid become
a part of the school fund of the county.
Law Effective, When.
Sec. 176. The provisions of this Act shall become operative on the first day of
January, in the year nineteen hundred and twenty.
Publication of Law.
See. 177. It shall be the duty of the Board of Education of each county, at
least four weeks before the first day of January following the adoption of this
sxetion, to cause this section to be published in a newspaper of the county, if
There be one, aud to cause copies of this section to bo posted at the court house
of the county and at the public schools thereof.
The above is the Compulsory Educational Law. W> expect to draw the State
School Fuads as formerly, so it is necessary that wo enforce this law. W<- ex
peet every patron to put. their children in school so as to have a few prosecu
tions in Barrow County as possible. The law is elear to all and we s*-* no reasoa
for its not being complied with.
Board of Education Barrow County, Ga.
. Dr. J. C. Daaiel, President.
J. B. Thompson,
_ G. J. Parrish*
L. W. Leslie,
R. W. Haynio,
W. M. Holsenbeck, Secretary.
FIRST METHODIST.
Sunday School 10.20 a. m.
Preaching 11:30 a. m . and 7:30
p. m. Subject, Morning, “Strenflh
or wakness, Which Shall It Be.”
Evening Subject, “The Oreat
Physician*-
Vttng People's Missionary So
ciety meets 6 :45 p, m
lumber for sale
Will sell one buadred thousand
feet of old-field lumber.—J. C.
Turmer, Cart.. G- gt
THE BARROW TIMES
PIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.
Services for Sunday.
Sunday School 10:30.
Preaching 11:30, “The Deri!,
His Person, Power and Purpose.”
.Junior' and Senior B. T. P. I, ’s
6:30.
Preaching 7 M. “The Holy Spirit,
His Person and Purpose.”
Attendance i steadily in creas
ing Tou are weeded and will he
welcomed. — W. H. Faust. Pastor.
WINDER, BARROW COUNTY, GA.. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 11. 1919
REPORT OF BONDED WARE
HOUSE MEETING.
Friday afternoon Noverber ‘2Bth
there was held a meeting in the
court house of farmers. Plans for
organizing a cooperative company
to build a Bonded Storage Ware
house in Winder.
This meeting was well attended
by a good number of our leading
farmers and other business men.
Each and all were very enthusias
tic and are using their best efforts
to make this a success.
It was agreed by all that the
damage of unstored cotton and
other produce and the lack of pro
per marketing facilities make a
Bonded Storage Warehouse an ur
gent NECESSITV.
Tempoary organization was for
med with (’. W. Parker chairman
f
and W. Hill ffoscb Secretary.
It was voted to apply for a
charter for organization with the
capitol stock of SIOO,OOO with pri
viledge of increasing to $500,000.
The shares are to be $50.00 each
and the maximum for any one
person or co-operation is 100
shares, and the Warehouse Com
pany retaining the priviledge of
apportioning the shares among the
subscribers.
A committee for soliciting stock
composed of one or more citizens
of each militia district of Barrow
and the adjoining counties is to be
appointed by the chairman and
secretary .This committee will be
named and published at an early
date.
Since Winder is a central cot
ton market for this section it was
decided to include the following
counties in this organization—Bar
row, Jackson. Clark. Oconee, Wal
ton. Gwinnett, and Hall.
The following men were present
at the meeting and subscribed for
stock: C. W. Parker. P. R. Smith,
M. J. Orifi'eth. J. W. Casper. T.
A. Maynard, T. S. Johnson, Jeffer
son, Ga., A. N. Porter, A. J. Kite,
W. M. Holsenbeck J. L. Greeson,
W. C. Horton, J. W. Kesler, W. E.
Young, Cam Shields, W. T. Robin
son. W. 11. Baird, J. B. Lay, J. M.
Williams, Dr. W. L. Mathews, Dr.
George W. DeLaPerriere, Lee S.
Radford, W. L. Allen, anil M. A.
1 >1 a key.
The stock solicitor will visit you
at an early date so be in position
to subscribe libei aHy for stock and
help to make this a success and by
so doing be in position to market
your cotton and other produce
more profitably.
Progress of the organization
will be published from time to
tiiqe and at an early date another
meeting will be called for reports
of all coqimiftees.
W. HILL HOS('ll. Tern. Sec.
DRAINAGE OF FARM PRE
MISES.
How many times do we see a
stockyard so muddy that it is im
possible to pass through it with
out sinking ankle-deep in mud?
Under-drains through such yards
have no effort on them, because
the surface becomes so puddled by
the tramping of tlie animals that
no water will pass through it to
the drains. Fn such cases, it might
he well, after laying the drains, to
till the trench with cinders, gravel
sand or some other porous mater
ial and also cover tlieent ire yard
gravel. The water will then reaily
reach the drains. The use of fenc
ed-in surface inlets at favorable
points is also recommenced., The
roof water from adjacent build
ings should be carried away
through underdrains so that none
will be discharged upon the yards.
shallow open ditch encircling a
stockyard will also aid materially
in keepiug such a yard dry.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF BARROW COUNTY
RURAL CARRIER EXAMINA
TION.
The United States Civil Service
Commission has announced an ex
amination for the County of Bar
row, Georgia to lx- held at Winder
on January 10. 1020 to till the po
sition of rural carrier at Bethle
hem and vacancies that may later
occur on rural routes from other
post offices in the above-mention
ed will be open only to citizens
who are actually domiciled’ in the
territory of a post office iu t lie
county aud who meet the other
requirements set forth in Form
No. 1977. Admission of women will
be limited to the widows of U. S.
soldiers, sailors, or marines, and to
the wives of U. S. soldiers, sailors,
or marines who are physically dis
qualified for examination by rea
son of injuries received in the line
of military duty. This form and
application blanks may be obtain
ed from the offices mentioned
above or from the United States
Civil Service Commission at Wash
ington. 1). C. Applications should
be forwarded to the Commission
at Washington at the earliest pra
cticable date.
Electric Irons, Electric Percola
tors, Electric Toasters, Electric
Grills, Electric Water Heaters,
Electric Chaffing Dishes, Electric
Heater Pads, Elect: ic Heaters,
Electric Sewing Machines, Electric
Washers, Vacum Sweepers, Elec
tric‘Floor Lamps. Electric Table
Lamps and Electric Swing Lamps.
Sold bv Smith Hardware Cos
MONEY TO LOAN TO
THE FARMERS
*
If you owe for your farm I advise you to got plenty of time to pay
for it. Lands have "one skyward and many of you are buying it, pay
ing only a portion of it down, and giving your notes for the balance,
payable in one, two, or three years. A great many people owe the
whole amount of tlveir loan payable in one year. If you have paid for
your farm except a thousand or more dollars and owe this amount one
year after date, do you realize what may happen one year hence? As
Jong as cotton stays a good price, and lauds are bringing a good price,
the fellow who is carrying you for one year at a time will he glad to
carry you longer if he is in position to do so, but just as sure as cot
ton goes down and land will tumble with it, then that fellow' will cal!
in his money, the whole amount, and your farm is behind it. Wl at
will you do? You w ill be absolutely at his mercy. The BOLL WEEVIL
is here, and if he eats up a crop, how are you going to pay the loan
off on your farm if it is due one year after date? A wise man will
look ahead and will not promise to pay a large sum one or two yeais
after date. A fool looks behind. If you are a wise man, you will gi- c
yourself plenty of time to pay for your farm, and if the boll weevil
eats up a erop, or if the rain ruins a crop, or if some death takes place
in the family, perhaps the head of the family dies and he is the sole
dependence to pay off the loan one year after date, what are you go
ing to do? 1 will tell you: Your home will he sold at publie sale to pay
debts and for distribution among the heirs at law, and your widow
and family w-ill perhaps be left without a home. f have at my com
mand almost unlimited funds to lend on farms for five years’ time,
giving the borrower the privilege of paying all or part of the princi
pal each year, or just pay the interest if this is all you desire to pay,
and give you plenty of time to pay hack your loan and improve the
lands with buildings. At the end of the five years, as a general ruie,
this loan can be renewed for another five years.
FIVE YEARS IS FIVE TIMES LONGER THAN ONE. \ am lend
ing anywhere from $20.00 to $40.00 per acre on lands, according to
the value of the farm and improvements. L am in Winder on Wednes
day’s and Friday’s of each week.
Write to me. or come to see me if you want money on your lands.
S. G. BROWN, Atty.
LAWRENCEVILLE, GA.
Insurance Solicitors
W anted
1 desire Insurance solicitors in Barrow, Jackson,
Walton, Oconee and Gwinnette counties for one of the
old and strong Accident Insurance Companies.
This is a fine proposition for you.
See or write me at Winder for full particulars, and
let me make a contract v ith you.
G. T. McDonald
GENERAL AGENT
EXAMINED FITTED
We relieve ocular headache and eye strain by properly
fitted glasses’!
Childen’s eyes given special attention.
Wo charge reasonable ice for a thorough examination and
nd\ iso you truthfully as to whether or not you need glasses. A
satisfied patient is our best advertisement.
We have our own grinding plant and can duplicate any
broken lens on short notice. Send them to me by mail.
J. L. WHITLEY
Optometrist and Manufacturing Optician
WINDER, GEORGIA.
$1.50 IN ADVANCE