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Col. J. S. James, of Atlanta, was in
Douglasville Wednesday.
Mr. J. G. Kite, ofvWinston, is a new
subscriber this week.
Mr O. P. Waters, of Rt 2, is/among
our new subscribers this week.
Miss Lessie Enterkin was
lanta visitor Monday.
Judge A. L. Bartlett wa
Dallas Monday.
Mrs. G. R. Adamson, of Bremen,
spe^it the week-end with her daughter,
RJrs. J. F. Marchman.
We acknowledge receipt of a re
newal subscription from Mr. M. B.
Vansant.
We welcome Mr. W. R. Smith back
to our fold of~Sentinelj readers, after
a \ short absence.
Mr. I. H. Willoughby, one of our
popular commissioners, has our thakns
for a renewal subscription this week.
Miss Esther Varner, ''of Mad and.
was a week-end guest of Miss Sarah
Meadows.
Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Maxwell, of
Lithia Spring, were shopping in Doug-
lasville Tuesday.
The Matrons’ Chib met with Mrs. F.
M. Stewart Thursday afternoon and
had a most enjpyable time.
The MethodistS unday School
have a Christmas tree this year for
the little folks only.
Mrs. Halcomb, of East Point, is
visiting her daughter, Mrs Hugh Ed
wards.
Friends of Miss Hattie Houseworth
are glad to know she has recovered
from her recent illness.
Mrs. J. E. Phillips was called to
Hoschton Monday on account of thc^
illness of her daughter, Mrs. Arthur
De LaPerriere.
Miss Mattie Aiken, has returned
to her home near Bremen, after spend
ing some time with her sister, Mrs. H.
G. Hall.
There will be a box supper at Mt.
Vernon church Saturday night, Dec.
20th, for benefit of church. The public
is cordially invited.
APPLICATION FOR. LEAVE
SELL LAND
Dc-
Douglas Court of Ordinary,
cember Term, 1919.
Mrs. M. R. Camp, Administratrix
of the estate of G. A. Camp, late of
Douglas County, deceased, having
duly applied by petition for leave to
sell the lands belonging to said estate.
Said application will be heard at
the regular term of the Court.of Or
dinary for said county to be held on
the first Monday in January, 1920.
This 1st day of December, 1919.
J. IL McLARTY, prdinary.
APPLUICATION FOR CHARTER
We are indebted to Mr. J. E. Gable
for a renewal subscription and for a
new subscription for Miss Esther Fay
Camp, of Rt 0.
Lieut Hugh Watson left Monday
on his return flight to Montgomery,
after being detained here for more
than a week with bad weather.
The music class of Mrs. II. V. John,
ston gave an interesting programmet
the Methodist church last Friday
night. We publish the complete pro
gram elsewhere in this issue.
We apologize to our correspondents
for leaving out all letters last week,
which was caused by lack of space.
Send in your communications now.
Will be glad to get them.
Buy your Christmas presents Fri
day and Saturday at the Bazaar at
AJmand & McKoy’s store. It is for
the benefit of the school grounds and
is being conducted by the ladies of the
town.
The city council has ordered that
there be no fireworks shot on the
streets, owing to the unusual amount
of cotton in town. MeVrchants are
requested to so inform those bujdng
them, and the marshal is instructed
to strictly enfonce the regulations.
The ladies’ bazaar for the benefit
Of the school grounds will be held at
Almand & McKoy’s store Friday and
Saturday, Dec. 19th and 20th. Those
Who will contribute articles pleas
send .them to the store or to Mrs. J.
A. Enterkin. Give cost price of article
■o the committee can fix selling price.
Y^ORGl A—Douglas County.
To The Superior Court of Said County*
The petition of N. B. Duncan. J. T
Duncan, J. P. Lawson, J. P. Dodson.
W. E. Burton, and their associates of
aid State and County, respectfully
shows:
1. That they desire for themselves,
their associates, successors and as
signs, to become incorporated under
the name and style of “The* N. B. «Sr
J. T. Duncan Company.”
2. The term of which petitioners
nsk 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
of one bundled dollors each. Being
one thousand shares.
•1. The obiect of the proposed cor
poration is pecuniary profit and gain
to its stockholders. Petitioners pro
pose to do n general mercantile busi
ness, to buy and sell all kinds of
goods sold in a general mercantile
store, to-wit: Dry goods, notions,
clothing, shoes, hats groceries, hard
ware. and also to buy and sell al 1
kinds of building materials, brick,
lumber, lime, cemen{, doors, glass; to
buy and sell cotton, notes, accounts
bonds, reaj estate, live stock, ferti
lizers, coffins: and do business as un
dertakers; and the pursuit of mercan
tile operations, wholesale and retail.
5. Fifty thousand dollars of the
capital stock has already been actually
paid in.
fi. The principal office and place
of business of the proposed corpora
tion will be in the town of Douglas-
ville, in said State and County.
Wherefore, petitioners pray to be
made a body corporate under the name
and style aforesaid, entitled to the
rights, power, privileges and immuni
ties set forth, together with such as
are now or may hereafter be conferred
by the laws of the State of Georgia on
similar corporations and subject to
the liabilities fixed by law.
J. H. McLARTY,
Attorney for Petitionrers
File<J in the office of the Clerk of
the Superior Court of Douglas County.
Georgia, this 10th day of December,
1919.
F. M. WINN, Jr.,
Deputy Clerk Superior Court.
GEORGIA—Douglas dounty.
I, F. M. W^nn, Jr., Deputy Clerk of
the Superior Courts of said County,
do certify that the above is a true
extract from the Minutes of Superior
Court of said County. This Dec. 10,
1919.
F. M. WINN, Jr.,
Deputy Clerk Superior Court.
agricultural labor and the need for
such labor, in exercising their discre
tion ns to the time for which children
in farming districts .shall be excused.
Provided, that no guardian shall b
compelled to send such childvor chil
dren to school out of any other than
the funds belonging to the ward or
wards. Temporary absence of any
child enrolled as a. pupil may he ex
cused by the principal or teacher ir
charge of the school, because of had
weather, sickness, death in the child’s
family, or other reasonable cause.
Sec. 172. -Any parent, guardian or
oth'-r person who has charge and ccn
trol of a child between the ages afore
said , and who wilfully fails to core •
nly with the foregoing requirements
shall be guilty of a misdeweanor, and
on conviction thereof shall he punished
bv a fine not toexeeed ten dollars for
the first offense, and not to exceed
twenty dollars for each subsequent of
fense, said fines to include all costs*
hut the court trying the case may, in
its discretion, suspend enforcement of
the punishment, if the child be im
mediately placed in attendance at n
school as aforesaid, and may finally
remit the same if such attendance has
continued regularly for the number of
months hereinbefore prescribed for
attendance. School attendance may
be proved by an attested certificate pf
the principal or teacher in charge of
the school. No uerson shall be prose
cuted for violation of the foregoing
requirements unless the board of edu
cation of the county or municipality
in which the person accused of such
violation resides shall have caused to
ho he served upon the accused, at least
ten days before prosecution, a written
motice of the charge with the name of
the child to which it refers. Any per
son so notified, not previously con-
PUBLIC SALE
COMPULSORY SCHOOL ATTEND-
ANCE
Duty of Parent and Guardian, En
rollment and Attendance of Child
Exease of Absences.
I will sell at auction, Monday, Dec.
29, at 10 o’clock, at my residence, 10
miles South of Douglasville, 3 good
mules, one good milch cow, one brood
sow, six pigs 3 months old, 200 bu.
com, 2500 bundles fodder, two wagons,
farming Hools, furniture, cook stove,
and many other thingh too tedious to
mention. Come everybody. Monday',
Dec. 29th, 1919.
J. H. LONGINO.
T. M. Hamrick, Auctioneer.
Buy a box of Caloid T '$; good
preventative for Influenza.
J. L. SELMA N G? SON.
"Big line sheeting, shirting,
checks and cheviots at BANKS
BROTHERS.
Sec. 171. Every parent, guardian
or other person having charge and con
trol 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 attend continuous
ly 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 attend
ance at a public school shall not be re
quired where the child attends for the
same period some other school giving
instruction in the ordinary brancnc
of English education, or .*iur. complete J
the seventh grade of- .vhool work as
prescribed by the State Eo* rd of Edu
cation, or where, for good reasons, the
suffic' incy of which shall be determ
ined by the board of education of th
county cr of the city or t>wn in which
theschild resides, the said board ex
cuses temporarily the child from such
attendance, such boards authorized to
take into consideration the seasons for
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GEORGIA Douglas County. APPLICATION TO HAVE TITLES the first Monday in January, 1920,
No. 2563. Libel for Divorce. Tn the ', EXECUTED UNDER BOND ;\vhy the order to require titles to be
Superior Court of Douglas County.* FOR TITLE j executed should'not be granted.
March Term, 1920. GEORGIA—Douglas County. This 1st day of Decembc:*, 1919.
Rosa James vs Clifford James ' Pepitlon to Require Titles Executed, j J. II. McLARTY, Ordinary'..
To Clifford James, defendant: 'Douglas Court of Ordinary, January!
You are hereby commanded to be | Term, 1920. j PUBLIC SALE
and appear at the next term of the O- A. DeVaughn vs Mrs. L. N. Hard-1 On Monday, Dec. 22, I will sell at
Superior Court of said County, to be ing, Admrx. of W. C. M. Harding, et al my residence at Bright Star church,
held on the Third Monday in’ March To Mrs. I,. N. Harding, R. C. Harding 'on the old J. Rice place, to the highest
1920, and make your answer in the i Mrs. E. C. Nalley, J. M. Harding, J. G. I bidder for cash, my Household and
above named and stated case, as re-! Harding, Mrs. B. F. O’Rear, J. R. ■ Kitchen Furniture, Farming Tools',
quired by the order of the said Court. I Harding nnd T. B. Harding, heirs nt one 2-horse Wagon, one Mule, one
Witness the Honorable F. A. Irwin Haw of W. C. M. Harding deceased, \ Horse, one Cow, Hay Fodder, Good
Judge of the Superior Court, this 19th 'greeting: !Mower and Rake, and other things
day of November, 1919.
T.J.. PITTMAN,
Clerk of the Superior Court.
You are hereby notified to file oh- ] not mentioned,
jections, if any you have, on or before 35-2
J. T. PRIG
GEORGIA—Douglas County.
No. 2564. Libel for Divorce. In the
Superior Court, of Douglas County,
March Term, 1920.
Nora M. Petty vs Robert Petty
To Robert Petty, Defendant:
You are hereby commanded to he
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. P*
\ Clerk of the Superior Court.
v'eted of violation of this Act as to
the child referred to in said notice,
may prevent prosecution on the charge,
set out therein, by giving, at any time
hefove such prosecution is instituted
r bond in the penal sum of fifty dol
ors pavnhlo 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 dnv*s wilfu 1 failure of a parent.
nrdian or other person in chnrg*
and control of a child as aforesaid, af
ter the eXpirdtion 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
hall be matters of defense to be es
tablished by the accused, and need not
be negatived in the indictment or* ac
cusation.
Duties of Board of Education and
Teachers
Sec. 173. It shall be the duty of
the County and Municipal Boards of
Education to investigate as to the at
tendance and non-attendance of chi
ldren required by this section to at
tend the schools under their super
vision, and it shall also be their duty
to institute or cause to be instituted
prosecutions against persons violating
this section. It shall be the duty of
the principal or teacher in charge of
any public school, in which pupils be
tween the ages of eight and fourteen
years of age are instructed, to keep
an accurate record of the attendance
of such pupils, and at the end of each
month to make a written report of the
same to the Board pi Education hav-
A DMIN1STR ATOR S S ALE
/
For January, 1920
Will be sold on the first Tuesday in
January, 1920, between the legal hours
of sale, by virtue of an order from the
Court of Ordinary of Douglas County.
Ga., the following real estate, granted
to W. G. Standridgo, Adm., eet.:
A house and lot, being in Lithin
Springs, Ga., fronting the Bowdon
land line off of land lot No. 319, being
Lithia road 60 feet by 210 feet, * to
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. '
To Help You Win
Riches—-power—happiness. The average
man places these as his goal. lie dreams
about having them.
But the average man is slow to take a prac
tical step towards that goal. He is content
to dream about it—and never gets there.
The most practical start is to start a savings
account. Rockefeller' had to save his first
thousand dollars. It earned the rest bf hia fortune.
Character Earns Credit
Saving men not only have capital for their efforts.
In saving, they establish a reputation which will make
it easy to secure additional capital when necessary.
A farmer has frequent need for capital if he is
striving continually to improve his property. Hew
important it is then that he build up his credit—
establish his char-
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DOUGLASVILLE BANKINGCO.
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ing supervision of the school, and to
note therein excused absences and the
reasons therefor.
Attendance Officer
Sec. 174. Each County and Mu
nicipal Board of Education shall em
ploy an attendance officer whose duty
it shall be to report to the Board of
Education failure 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 em
ployed and said payment shall be paid,
so far as possible, from the fees col
lected.’ The balance due shall be paid
from the school funds of the county
or local system. Any Board or local
school system failing to comply with
this law for attendance officer shall
not be entitled to receive funds from
the State Treasury until it has shown
that said attendance officer has been
appointed and has entered upon his
duties.
Fines and Forfeitures a Part of School
Fund
Sec. 175. All fines imposed here
under and all sums required to be pnid
as penalties under bonds given under
this section, shall, after payment of
the costs of prosecution and of the re
covery thereof, be paid into the county
treasury and 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 nine
teen hundred and twenty.
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Gifts for Him for Xmas
You’re certain to find just the thing
you want for “his” Christmas Gift
in our wonderfully complete stocks.
Never before have we had the ex
ceptional values to offer that we
have this holiday season.
Neckties, Mufflers, Walking
sticks, Silk Shirts, Men’s Jewelry,
Gloves—and hundreds of other
things that make practical gifts.
Come see them and let us help you
choose.
Blackstock, Hale & Morgan
Distinctive Clothiers and Furnishers
16 MARIETTA ST. RIGHT AT FIVE POINTS