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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