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ONLY NEWSPAPER IN TRANSYLVANM COUNTY A HOME PAPER IT-OR HOME PEOPLE-ALL. HOME PRINT VOIUME-XVIII BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. JULY 4. 1913. NUMBER-27 COMPULSORY ATTENDANCE An Act to Make School Attend ance Compulsory. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: All Children Required to Attend School, Age 8 to 12, Term Four Months. Section That from and after the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and tnirteen, every parent, guardian, or other person in the state of North Carolina hav ing charge or control of a child or children between the ages of eight and twelve years, shall cause such child or children to attend the local public school in the district, town or city in which he resides, con- tinixously for four months of the school term of each year, except as .hereinafter provided. This period of compulsory attendance shall commence at the beginning of the compulsory period of the school term nearest to the eighth birth day of such child or children, and shall cover the compulsory period of four consecutive school years thereafter, "^’his j>eriod of com pulsory attendance for each public school shall commence at the be ginning of. the school: term of said school unless otherwise ordered by the county board of education or, in cas^ of towns or cities ^of two thousand or more inhabitants, by the board of trustees of the public schools of said towns or cities.^ Continuous attendance upon some‘ other public school or upon any private or church school taught by competent teachers may be accept ed in lieu of attendance upon the local public schools: Provided, tnat said period of continuous at tendance upon such other school shall be for at least four months of each year: Provided, further, that any private or chnrdh school re ceiving for instruction pupils be tween the ages of eight and twelve years shall bo required to keep such records of attendance of said children and to render such reports of same as are hereinafter required of public schools. And attendance upon such schools refusing or neg lecting to keep such records and to render such reports shall not be ac cepted in lieu of attendance upon the local public school of the dis trict, town or city which the child shall be entitled to att«nd: Pro vided, the period of compulsory at tendance shall be in force and ap ply between the ages of eight and fifteen years in Mitchell county. EXEMPTIONS, Sec. 2. This act shalljnot apply in any case in which the child’s physical or mental condition, as attested by any by any legally qualified physician before any court having jurisdiction under this act, renders his attendance impracti cable or inexpedient; or in any case in which the child resides two and one-half miles or more by the nearest traveled route from the school house; or in any case in which, because of extreme pov erty the services of such child are necessary for his own support or the support of his parents, as at tested by the affidavit ot‘ said pa rents and of such witnesses as the attendance officer may require; or in any case in which said parent, guardian or other i)erson having charge or control of the child shall show before any magistrate by affidavit of himself and of such witnesses as the attendance officer may require, that the child is with out necessary books and clothing for attending school, and that he is unable to provide the necessary hooks UT>d clothes: Provided, that wheu uouks and clothing bhall have been provided, through char ts or by other means, the child shall no longer be exempt from at tendance under this provision. PARENTS SHALL CAUSE CHILDREN TO ATTEND SCHOOL. ^ec. 3. Every parent, guardian, or other person in the state of North Carolina having charge or control of a child or children be tween the ages of eight and twelve years shall cause said child to at tend school as afpresaid: Provided, that occasional abeence from such attendance by such child amount ing to not more than two unexcused absences in four consecutive weeks shall not be unlawful; Provided, further, that the superintendent, principal or teacher in charge of any school may excuse any child for a temporary absence because of unusual storm or bad weather, sickness or death in the child’s family, unforseen or unavoidable accidents, and such excuse and rea son therefor shall be recorded by said superintendent, principal, or teacher in charge of school and re ported to the attendance officer as hereinafter provided: Provided, further, that in case of protracted illness of any child whose attend ance is required under this act, or in quarantine of the home in which the child resides, upon report of the health officer or upon satisfac tory evidence to this effect, the at tendance office shall excuse from attendance such child until he is fully restored to health or until the time required by law that he shall stay out of school after quarantine has been raised. PENALTY FOR VIOLATION OF LAW. Sec. 4. Any parent, guardian or other person violating the pro visions of this act shall be liable to a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars, jand upon failure or refusal to pay such fine said i>arent, guardian or other person shall be imprisoned not to exceed thirty days in the county jail: Provided, that the fine for any first offense may, upon the payment of such costs, be sus pended and hot collected until the same party is convicted of a second offense: Provided, further, that after the expiration of three days from the service of the notice l3y the attendance officor each and every day a parent, guardian, or other person shall willfully and un lawfully keep such child or chil dren from school, or allow him to remain out of school, shall consti tute a separate offense and shall subject 'said person ^o penalties herein prescribed. ATTENDANCE OFFICERS, DUTIES, COMPENSATION, ETC. or police justice, or recorder of any county, town or township in which the person prosecuted resides. The attendance officer shall have the >right to visit ard enter any office or factory 'or busings house em ploying children, for the purpose of enforcipe the provisions of this act; wht.a .ioubt exists as to the age of a child, he *iay require' a properly attested birth certificate or affidavit "stating such child’s age ; he shall keep an accurate record of all notices served, all cases prose cuted, and all other services per formed, and shall make an annual report of same to the county board of education. In the discretion of the county board of education, the attendance officer may be allowed reasonable additional compen^iatioif from the county school fund for such services as are required of him under this act, compensation for which is not specifically pro vided for herein: Provid^, that in case the county board of educa tion shall appoint a school commit teeman or township constable as attendance officer, the duties of such officer herein prescribed are hereby declared to be a part of his duties ex officio: Provided, fur ther, that the school committee or board of trustees of any school in any town or city of five thousand or more inhabitants, operating its schools under special character, is hereby authorized and empowered^ if in their judgment such action is wise, to appoint an attendance officer for the schools under their direction, fix his compensation, and pay the same out of the special tax school funds of said town or city, and assign to him other duties in addition to those enumerated above. •' ' TEACHERS MUST CO-OPERATE, PEN ALTY FOR NON-COMPLIANCE. Sec. 6. It shall be the duty of all principals and teachers to co- operaie with the attendance officers in the enforcement of this law. To this end it shall be the duty of the principal or teacher in charge in every sehool, in which pupils between the ages of eight and twelve years are instructed, to keep an accurate record of the at tendance of such pupils; render during the period of compulsory Continued on page eight. VOTE OF THANKS l- AN IMPORTANT MAH£R S^c. 5. The county board of edu- ca^tion in each county shall appoint and remove at will an attendance officer for each township to enforce the provisions of this act who shall serve also as taker of the school census, performing all the duties heretofore reqmred of the school committee as to the census under section four thousand one hundred and forty-eight of t^e revisal of one thousand nine hundred and five of North Carolina, and as keeper of the attendance records, for which service he shall be allowed three cents per child of school age each school year. It shall be his duty to take an annual census and to furnish each superintendent, principal or teacher in charge of school with an accurate school cen sus of the district at the opening of the school each year, and also to furnish a copy of the school census of each district to the county su perintendent of public instruction. The attendance officer shall serve written or printed, or partly writ ten and partly printed notices upon every parent, guardian, or other person violating the provisions of this act, and prompt compliance on the part of such parent, guardian, or other person shall be required. For serving such notice the at tendance officer shall be allowed a fee of twenty-five cents in case of conviction^ same to be taxed in bill of „osts; and if any parent, guardian, or other person upon whom such notice is served fails to comply with the law within three days, then it shall be the duty of said attendance officer prosecute such person. Prosecution under this act shall he brought in the nam? of the state of North Caro lina betQre any justice of the peace, On the last day of the tea<jhers’ institute, which closed on Friday of last week, the following resolu tions were adopted by the teachers: “We, the teachers enrolled in the Transylvania county teachers’ in stitute, do hereby extend our sin cere and hearty thanks to Mr. C. H. Trowbridge and Miss Hattie Aiken for their faithful services as instructors in this institute, for their painstaking care, untiring enthusiasm, and tor the excellent quality of their work. “We also wish to express our gratitude to our county superin tendent for the interest taken in this institute, and to commend him most heartily for his devoted efforts in the past for the welfare of the youth of our county; and in recognition of these things we do earnestly recommend to the county board of education his re-election for another term oi service.” A remedy for women that will put an end to nervousness, head aches, sickness of the stomach, painful irregularities, languidness, bad breath, poor appetite, is that fine old regulator DR. SIMMON’S SQUAW VINE COMPOUND. It is prepared for women only, being es pecially adapted to act on the deli cate female organism. It banishes suffering, corrects weakness and the whole bn>od of distressing symptoms which follow disorders in the generative system. Price 11.00 per bottle. Sold by S. M. Mae fie. adv SELICA SCHOOL DEATH OF MISS ROWE Mr, H. R. McCausland of Wades- boro, Va., has been re-elected prin cipal of the public school at Selica. Miss Mary Rice has been elected first assistant, and Miss Ara Davis teacher of the primary department. Both of these young ladies are from Asheville and were students at Brevard Institute the last ses sion. Selica is one of the largest schools of the county. Mr. McCausland made a good record there last year, and the school prospects are bright under his management. I desire to take this methed in commending the board of > commis sioners of Transylvania county for making an appropriation necessary to secure the free treatment of the children of the county for hook worm. Investigations in a great many counties show that a very large per cent of the children of school age in the counties where investigations have been made'|ire infected with hook-worms, which is the cause of a great many dis eases, and especially brings about a stupid condition on those so affiicted. I certainly hope that the people of the county will be free to take their children out and have them examined, as it costs nothing, and if they are afflicted it is extreme ly important to have them treat ed at once. The people will be fully informed of the times and places where the treatment will be dispensed. As chairman of the board of edu cation of the county I insisted upon the commissioners making the nec essary appropriation to procure the free treatment of all the chil dren of the county, laecause I hon estly felt that it would be the best thing for the school children of the county who are so unfortunate as to be affiicted with the hook-worm to be treated before entering the schools, and further, our people would become more familiar with the causes and effects of the hook worms in the country, and would thereby be caused to use more cau tion in the future than they have in the past in regard to the condi tions of affairs which bring about the conditions that now exist. Respectfully, W. W. Zachary. SOME CORRECTIONS Miss Marjorie Rowe died at her home on East Main street last Fri day. Her death was sndden and came as a shock to her friends. While she had for a num^r of years been a victim of tub^enlosis, her sudden death was not caused directly by this disease. Funera^j^services were held at the home last Monday morning and continued at the grave in the Gil lespie burying ground, conducted by Rev. L. D. Thompson, the young •lady’s pastor. The pall bearers were: Messrs. Fred .Tohnson, Fred Miller. Clay Ross, Mack Allison, Walter Whitmire ^nd Overton Erwin, Relatives from a distance pres ent at toe fnneral were Mr. I. New ton Rowe, an uncle, and Mrs. Alpha Rowe and Mrs. Eliza Stuckey, aunts of the deceased, all from Washington C. H,, Ohio, and Mrs. Nina Duncan, an aunt, from Greenville, Ohio. Miss Marjorie Rowe was born August 27, 1891, in Fayette county, Ohio. In early life she joined the M. E. church, from which her membership was transferred to the M. E. Church, South. Three or four years ago she came to Bre vard with ^er mother, Mrs. Josie Rowe, and her sister, Miss Amanda. About two years ago the young la dies, both in feeble health, were caused to suffer the loss of their mother. The only surviving mem ber of the family us Miss Amanda Rowe. The hearts* of all friends, and no doubt all in the community, were touched by the peculiar sad ness connected with the latest be reavement of this sister, who is far from her former home and herself suffering from a protracted disease. CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank the friends and neighbors for the sympathy and kindness §hown during the sickness and death of our sister and niece, anA for the beautiful flowers. Ammanda Rowe, . Uncle and Aunts. In view of the fact that the write-up of the new ordinances in last week’s issue was taken from the ordinances as they appeared on second reading, there were a few errors in the special privilege taxes, several changes being made on third reading. A tax of five dollars is imposed upon fish and oyster dealers except when in connection with a market. No extra tax is placed on the mar kets for handling fish ajid oysters. The tax on barber shops was changed from two dollars a chair to four dollars for the first chair and two dollars for each additional chair. Ice dealers are charged twenty- five dollars instead of ten. Instead of one per cent of gross receipts express companies are charged ten dollars; light and gas companies twenty-five dollars, and power companies twenty-five dol lars. The ordinance forbidding fox hunting on the streets caused some of our readers to become humor- is|is, and a number of additions have been proposed. One sug gested that the speed of motor cycles should be limited to at least three hundred miles an hour on the business streets, while another imposed a very heavy penalty on anyone who should ride, drive or walk on the streets of Brevard. Another would prevent all persons from hunting, fishing, trapping, cutting wood or timltor, digging roots, setting fires, ranging stock, or grazing in the business section of the town. I CEDAR MOUNTAIN NEWS Rev. E. Allison delivered a good sermon to the people present at Rocky Hill church on the fourth Sunday in June. Miss Nina Cassell has been visit ing triends in this section some few days. On account of sickness Uncle Billie has not been keeping up with liis correspndence. He wishes to say that he is feeling fine at this writing and hopes to report the news from Cedar Mountain every week. Miss Leslie McGaha is visiting her sister this week. J. E. McCrary and brother vis ited their parents on Saluda Sun day. Mr. Otis Shipman passed through this section Thursday on his way to Caesars Head. Misses Audra Burns and Lottie Heath are vi^ting their cousins, Mr. Leonard and Miss- Carr^ Burns, this week. Mr. Markley Jones was a visitor in this section Wednesday on busi ness. Mr. Ellison McCrary from Saluda was a visitor to Cedar Mountain Tuesday. Look for rattle snakes. Mr. Joe Johnson, the postman from Pisgah Forest to Cedar Mountain. sectr«d a large rattler with eleven rattles. Dry, hot July causes them to visit us more frequently. Uncle Billie is afraid of snakes. Jack’s Wife must be snake bitten. Uncle BiLLirif Last Wednesday Mr. E. H. Kitchen of Balsam Grove brought into this office and left here the skin of a rattlesnake wMeb^minu^- head and rattles, measured eight feet one inch. It was not, how ever, a Transylvania bred rattler, but was sent from Golan, Texas, by Mr. Kitchen’s brother, H. Kitchen. Rattlers don’t grow thati long in this country.
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