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/ DOUGLAS COUNTY SENTINEL, DOUGLASVILLE GEORGIA
Good things to Eat
OUR CUSTOMERS ENJOY THE BEST OF EAT
ING AT ALL TIMES, BUT WE ARE PREPARED TO
GIVE YOU SOME EXTRAS—
FOR CHRISTMAS
DRESSED OR LIVE POULTRY, THE BEST
OF FRESH MEATS, FOR YOUR CHRISMAT
DINNER, WITH SUNSHINE FRUIT CAKES,
POUND CAKES, BEACHNUT JELLIES,
JAMS AND PRESERVES; DILL PICKLES,
SWEET PICKLES, FRUITS, NUTS AND CAN
DIES.
WILL MAKE A MENU FIT FOR A KING.
TELL US WHAT YOU WANT AND WE
WILL DO THE RESST.
EDWARDS GROCERY CO.
Y OU will hevsr bop in to get the most possible profit
out o{• your land until you solve the ditching and
foil-washing prcbleiuj. ‘lie-gin now. This month. Get ready
to raise really big crops and make sure of a ciop every year.
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building terraces to stop the
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time it is first receiv
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until you serve it on
your table.
coffee
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APPLUICATION FOR CHARTER APPLICATION FOR LEAVE TO i continued regularly for the number of this law for attendance officer shall
1 SELL LAND months hereinbefore prescribed for not be entitled to receive funds from
GEORGIA Douglas County. I attendance. School attendance may the State Treasury until it has shown
To The Superior Court of Said County: i Douglas Court of Ordinary, De-, be proved by an attested certificate of that said attendance officer has been
The petition of N. B. Duncan, J. T. cember Term, 1919. | the principal or teacher in charge of appointed and has entered upon his
Duncan, J. P. Lawson, J. P. Dodson, 1 Mrs. M. R. Camp, Administratrix the school. No person shall he prose- duties.
W. E. Burton, and their associates of of the estate of G. A. Camp, late of
said State and County, respectfully Douglas County, deceased, having
| shows: duly applied by petition for leave to
j 1. That they desire for themselves, sell the lands belonging to said estate.
' their associates, successors and as- Said application will be heard at
signs, to become incorporated under the regular term of the Court of Or
tho name and style of “The N. B. & dinary for said county to he held on
the first Monday in January, 1920.
This 1st day of Decomber, 1919.
J. H. McLARTY, Ordinary.
COMPULSORY SCHOOL ATTEND
ANCE
J. T. Duncan Company."
2. The term of which petitioners
ask to be incorporated is twenty years,
with the privilege of renewal at the
end of that time.
3. The capital stock of the cor
poration is to be one hundred thous
and dollars, to be divided into shares Duly of Parent and Guardian, En-
of one hundred dollors each. Being . rollment and Attendance of Child
one thousand shares. | Excuse of Absences.
4. The object of the proposed cor- i
poration is pecuniary profit and gain I Sec. 171. Every parent, guardian
to its stockholders. Petitioners pro- or other person having charge and con-
pose to do a general mercantile husi- trol of a child between the ages of
ness, to buy and sell all kinds of eight and fourteen years, who is not
goods sold in a general mercantile exempted or excused as hereinafter
store, to-wit: Dry goods, notions, provided, shall cause said child to be
clothing, shoes, hats groceries, hard- enrolled in and to attend continuous-
ware, and also to buy and sell all ly for six months of each year a public
kinds of building materials, brick, school of the district or of city or
lumber, lime, cement, doors, glass; to town in which the child resides; which
1 buy and soil cotton, notes, accounts, period of attendance shall commence
bonds, real estate, live stock, ferti- »t the beginning of the first term of
lizers, coffins; and do business as un- sa 'd school in the year. Such attend-
dertakers; and the pursuit of mercan- ance at a public school shall not he re
tile operations, wholesale and retail. q«ired where the child attends for the
5. Fifty thousand dollars of the same period some other school giving
capital stock has already been actually instruction in the ordinary branches
; d j n ' of English education, or ".hr. completed
0, The principal office and place the seventh grade of &*hool work as
of business of tbe proposed corpora- ^ prescribed by the &tntt? 1 ^
tion will be in the town of Douglas- cation, or where, for good reasons, the
ville, in said State and County. sufficiency of which shall be determ-
Wherefore, petitioners nray to be ined by the board of education of the
made a body corporate under the name county or of the city or tiwn in which
and style aforesaid, entitled to the the child resides, the said board GX ' |<uitii
i rights, power, privileges and immuni-' cuses temporarily the child from such j sc hools
cuted for violation of the foregoing Fines and Forfeitures a Part of School
requirements unless the board of edu- I Fund
cation of the county or municipality | Sec. 175. All fines imposed here
in which the person accused of such under and all sums required to be paid
violation resides shall have caused to as penalties under bonds given under
bo be served upon the accused, at least this section, shall, after payment of
ten days before prosecution, a written the costs of prosecution and of the re
notice of the charge with the name of covery thereof, be paid into the county
the child to which it refers. Any per- treasury and become a part of the
son so notified, not previously con- school fund of the county,
victed of violation of this Act as to j Law Effective, When
the child referred to in said notice, | Sec. 176. The provisions of this
may prevent prosecution on the charge Act shall become operative on the
set out therein, by giving*, at any time first day of January, in the year nine-
before such prosecution is instituted, teen hundred and twenty,
a bond in the penal sum of fifty dol
lars payable to the Ordinary of the
county, with security to be aproved by
the Ordinary, conditioned that the
said person shall thenceforth faith
fully comply with the requirements
of this section as to the said child.
Each day’s wilful failure of a parent,
guardian or other person in charge
and control of a child as aforesaid, af
ter the expiration of ten days from
such notice, to cause the child to at
tend school, when such attendance is
required by this section, shall consti
tute a seperate offense. In prosecu
tions under this section the exemp
tions and excuses herein provided for
shall be matters of defense to be es
tablished by the accused, and ne**d not
be negatived in the indictment; ac
cusation.
of ISonrd of Education and
Teuchers
Sec. 17$. It shall be the duty of
the County arid ^Municipal Boards of
Education to investigate as to the at
tendance and non-attendance of chi
ldren required by this section to at-
under their super-
GEORGIA—Douglas County.
No. 2563. Libel for Divorce. In the
Superior Court of Douglas County,
March Term, 1920.
Rosa James vs Clifford James
To Clifford James, defendant:
You are hereby commanded to be
and appear at the next term of the
Superior Court of said County, to be
held on the Third Monday in March,
1920, and make your answer in the
above named and stated case, as re
quired by the order of the said Court.
Witness the Honorable F. A. Irwin,
Judge of the Superior Court, this 19th
day of November, 1919.
T. L. PITTMAN,
Clerk of the Superior Court.
i
GEORGIA—Douglas County.
No. 2564. Libel for Divorce, In the
Superior Court of Douglas County,
March Term, 1920.
Noi-a M. Petty v? Robert Petty
To Robert Petty, Defendant! '
You are hereby commanded to be
and appear at the next term of the
Superior Court of said County, to be
held on the Third Monday in March.
1920, and make your answer in the
ties set forth, together with such as attendance, such boards authorized to
are now or may hereafter be conferred take into consideration the seasons for
by the laws of the State of Georgia on agricultural labor and the need for
similar corporations and subject to such labor, in exercising their discre-
the liabilities fixed by law. fi° n as time for which children
J. H. McLARTY I * n farming districts shall be excused.
Attorney for Petitionrers I Provided, that no guardian shall be |
Filed in the office of the Clerk of compelled to send such child or chil- j ye&rs of age are in3tructed> t „ keep
the Superior Court of Douglas County, ‘iron to school out of any other than | an accurate record of the attendance
Georgia, this 10th day of December, the funds belonging to the ward or i Qf guch pupils> and at the end 0 f ea ch
1919. j^rds. Temporary absence of any | month to make a written report of the
F. M. WINN, Jr., oh,Id enrolled as a pupil may be ex- i, tQ th(J Board of Education hav-
Deputy Clerk Superior Court. cused by the principal or teacher in |. supervision of the school) a nd to
GEORGIA—Douglas County. cioi go of the sc oo , ecausc ° •> ' note therein excused absences and the j j 19 n 0 between the legal hours
I, F. M. Winn, Jr., Deputy Clerk of weather, sickness, death in the child s \ therefor January 1J20, between the legal nours
the Superior Court of said County, family, or other reasonable cause. ,easons thelefo '' j of sale by virtue of an order from the
do certify that the above is a true i Sec. 172. Any parent, guardian or Attendance Officer j Court of Ordinary of Douglas County
extract from the Minutes of Superior ! other person who has charge and con- ! Sec. 174. Each County and Mu- Ga., the following leal estate, granted
Court of said County. This Dec. 10, trol of a child between the ages afore- | nicipal Board of Education shall em- j to W. G. Standridge, Adm., ect.:
1919 ‘ ■ ’ ~ ’| said , and who wilfully fails to com- | ploy an attendance officer whose duty j A house and lot, being in Lithia
vision, and it shall also be their duty
to institute or cause to be instituted
prosecutions against persons violating above named and stated case, as re-
this section. It shall be the duty of : quired by the order of the said Court,
the 'principal or teacher in charge of j Witness the Honorable F. A. Irwin,
any public school, in which pupils be-1 Judge of the Superior Court, this 19th
tween the ages of eight and fourteen day November, 1919.
T. L. P 1 '"
Clerk of the Superior Court.
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE
For January, 1920
Will be sold on the first Tuesday in
V r M. WINN, Jr.,
Deputy Clerk Superior Court.
NOTICE
After December 1, 1919, no one
will be allowed in this office at all,
except on business with the company.
You will find a Public Telephone at
Marchman’s Pharmacy and Selman’s
Drug Store, also at the Douglasville
Hotel. Our motive in doing this is
for the good of the service only.
GAINESBORO TEL. & TEL. CO.
ply with the foregoing requirements j it shall be to report to the Board of ! Springs, Ga., fronting the Bowdon
shall be guilty of a misdeweanor, and ! Education failure of attendance on ,T: ^ : ~
! on conviction thereof shall be punished . the part of pupils between the ages
1 by a fine not toexceed ten dollars for 1 of 8 and 14 years. For this service
the first offense, and not to exceed these officials shall be paid not less
twenty dollars for each subsequent of
fense, said fines to include all costs;
but the court trying the case may, in
than one dollar nor more than th
dollars per day during the time em
ployed and said payment shall be paid,
its discretion, suspend enforcement of so far as possible, from the fees col-
the punishment, if the child be im
mediately placed in attendance at a
school as aforesaid, and may finally
lected. The balance due shall be paid
from the school funds of the county
or local system. Any Board or local
remit the same if such attendance has 1 school system failing to comply with
Lithia road 60 feet by 210 feet, to
land line off of land lot No. 319, being
in the 18th District and Second Sec
tion of originally Cherokee, but now
Douglas County and known as the W.
B. Rogers lot.
This is a nice three room house with
good garden and barn.
To be sold as property of A. T*
Gore, deceased. Terms cash.
W. G. STANDRIDGE,
Administrator.
DESIRABLE GIFlf
Below We Have A Number of things that are Appropriate
for Gifts. Beiow are mentioned a few in the way of suggestions
fRIBBONS
Dolls, Handerchiefs, Bags,
Ivory Combs and Brushes
Beads, Fancy combs,
baby sweater sets, boudoir
caps, Neck fur piece,
Georgette Waists.
MISS LILLA FREEMAN