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The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-08-01

See. 10S98. The county superintend-
ent of schools in each county shall Sc
lect a person of good moral character
to act rs school attendance officer for
the county. The person so selected
shall file with the clerk of the county
court his acceptance and oath of Of
flee and bond of one thousand ($1 ,000)
with two sufficient securities to be
approved by the county clerk. The
person so selected shall be known as
the county school attendance officer
and he shall have the power of dep
uty sheriff and shall perform the du-
ties of school attendance officer, in all
school districts of the county where
directed to do so by the county super
intendent of schools, except as herein
after provided; provided, that the
board of education in school districts
organized under the provisions of ar
t;cle XII, article XIII, and article "
of chapter 106 of the Revised Statutes
of the State of Missouri, 1909, may
appoint and remove at pleasure one
or more school attendance officers and
shall pay them from the public school
funds; and provided further, that if
any board of education in any school
district organized under the provi-
sions of the aforesaid articles does not
appoint a school attendance officer,
the county school attendance officer
shall act in such district. The COM
pensation of the county school attend
ance officer shall be fixed by the coun-
tv cnurt of each countv IN racnm-
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-08-01

as aforesaid, violate the provisions of
said section; shall, when reasonable
doubt exists as to the age of any such
child, require properly attested
birth certificate or an affidavit stat
ing such child's age, giving date of
birth, physical characteristics and
bearing the signature of the child;
shall have the right to visit and en-
ter any mine, office, factory, work
shop, business house, play or amuse-
ment, or other place in which children
are employed or engaged in any kind
of service, or any place or building in
which children loiter or idle during
school hours; shall have the right to
require the properly attested certifi-
cate Of the attendance of any child
or children at such day school; shall
have the power to arrest, without war
rant, any truant, or non-attendants
or other juvenile disorderly persons,
and place them in some school, or
take them to their homes, or take
them to any place of detention pro-
vided for neglected children in such
county or school district; shall serve
in the cases which they prosecute
without further fee or compensation
than that paid by the board as afore-
said, and shall carry into effect sucn
other regulation as may lawfully be
required by the board or superintend-
ent appointing them. Whenever 4
county superintendent of public well
fare has been appointed by any coun-
ty, such county superintendent of pub
lie welfare may be appointed by The
county superintendent of schools as
the county school attendance officer,
with such additional compensation as
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-08-01

1O901 and 10902 are hereby substitut-
ed in lieu thereof, as follows:
Section 1896: Every parent, guar
dian or other person in this state hav-
ing charge, control or custody of a
child between the ages of seven and
fourteen years, shall cause such child
to attend regularly some day school
public, private, parochial or parish
not less than the entire time the school
which said child attends is in session,
or shall provide such child at home
with such regular daily instruction
during the usual hours as shall, in the
judgment of court of competent ju-
risdiction be substantially equivalent
at least to the instruction given the
children of like age at said school in
the locality in which said child re-
sides; and every parent, or person in
this State having charge, control or
custody of child between the ages
fourteen and sixteen years, who is not
actually and regularly and lawfully
engaged for at least six hours each
day in some useful employment or
service, shall cause said child to at
tend regularly some day school, as
aforesaid, provided that a child be-
tween the ages aforesaid may be ex-
cused temporarily from complying
with the provisions of this act, in
whole or in part, if it be shown to the
satisfaction of the attendance officer,
or if he declines to excuse, to the
satisfaction of "a court of competent
jurisdiction, that said child is mental
ly or physically incapacitated to at
tend school for the whole period re-
quired, or any part thereof, or that
said child has completed the common
school course as prescribed by con-
stituted authority, or its equivalent,
and has received a certificate of grad
uation therefrom.
Section 10897. The foregoing sec
ton shall apply to Predetermined,
deaf, blind and crippled children where
special classes are provided for them
as directed in sections 1O795a, 1O795b,
10795c, of the Revised Statutes; pro-
vided, however, that the parent, guar
dian or other person in this State
having charge, control or custody of
such feeble-minded, deaf, blind and
crippled children for whom special
classes are provided, may provide such
child with such regular daily instruc-
ton during the usual hours as shall in
the judgment of court Of competent
jurisdiction, be substantially equiva-
lent at least to the instruction given
the children of like development on
such special classes.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-08-01
Now
Weigh
135
Pounds

Miss Clara LOhr,
q n, Gold St, Grand Rapids.
Mich.
In her letter opposite Miss Lohr
tells in convincing words of the
benefits she received from PEI
runa.
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The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-08-01

LOST-A Christian Science Quar-
terly in black leather case on West
Columbia street. Reward for return
to Times office.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-08-01
Weighed 80 Pounds Before Taking

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Recommends il to Her Friends
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Sold Everywhere
New-York tribune., 1919-03-16
Epidemic Hanpered Work
But Men Did Not C0mpIain

The influenza epidemic added g.est;y
to the strain and work of the Red
Cross. The report points out that
more than half the deaths in Great
britain among the American forces
we're due to this cause. The endemic
began early in September, there bein.
76 cases during the first week, and
reached it's highest point about three
weeks later when there were c.23O
cases. 1t then gradually tapercd of
through troubled period OF three
more months. in all there were 1872
cases, Of which 5,15S were treated in
American hospitals and 2,344 in Brit
i@n hospitals. The number of deaths
f!cm pneumonia during the SAME pc,-
ioc was 1,717.
The total number Of American sol-
diers who were patients in hospitals
ir Britain during 1918 was 1852. OF
this number it may be said that, speak
ing ronghly, one-eghth were treated
in purely Red Cross hospitals, two
eighths in British hospitals. aud the
remaining Ave-si,sh'hs in hospitals M
New-York tribune., 1919-03-16
Fancy Dress Ball to
Aid Italian Milk Fund
Managers Expect TO Raise Sew
cral Thousand Dollars at
Affair on March p

fancy dress ball for the benefit
OF the American Free Milk and Relief
for Italy, Inc, will be given March 81,
and promises to be one of the fca-
lures of Mi-Careme. 1t is expected
''"t several thousand dollars will be
raised to send milk to babies and chill
dren IN Italy. In February alone near
" fourteen tons of dry milk, together
with $4,000 nursing bottles and nip
pies, were sent to Italy by this or
ganization.
Mrs. Howard c.. Dickinson, jr., is
Chairman of the dance committee and
among the patronesses are: Mrs. Regi-
maid G.. Vanderbilt, Mrs. Stuyvesant
Fish, ir., Mrs. Lewis Iselin, Mrs. Good
hue Livingston, Mrs. George Peabody
Eustis, Mrs. Adolf Ladenburg, Mrs
Oren Root, Mrs. David Dows, Mrs. ]
Lowell Putnam, Mrs. Malcolm Doug
las Sloane, Mrs. Moses Taylor Pync
Jr., Mrs. Lewis Gouverneur Morris
Mrs. j. Couper Lord, Mrs. w. Ross
Proctor, Mrs. Walton Marshall. Mrs
George J. Gould, Mrs. Allen Gouvcneu,
Wcllman, Mrs. Jay Could. Mrs. Ben
jamin Guinness, Mrs. Loriliard Spen-
Ger, jr., the Duchess de Chaulnes, Mrs
lie Grand Griswold, Mrs. Anthony J,
Drexel, jr., Mrs. A. Stewart Walker
Mrs. Robert Potter Breese, Mrs. Henry
NJ. Rae and Miss Louise Scott
Boxes and tickets may be obtained
at the uptown branch office of the
American Free Milk Relief for Italy
III Fifth Avenue and at the Wander
bilt Hotel.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-16
Society Helps
MaryCarden's
Fund Benefit
BOxhOlders at Concert Are to
Include Many High in
Rolls of New York's Elect
Programme Is Changed
Noted Operate Star TO Ap-
pear in Several of Her
Best known Roles

The Metropolitan Opera House on
tho night Of the Mary Garden festival
for France. In aid Of the devastated re-
eions Of the somme and the Ardennes,
viii be almost as brilliant ss on
the night OF tbs opening of the opera
season Nearly all the boxes have been
taken by prominent men and women
and most Of the orchestra seats have
been sold, The performance will be
given under the auspices Of the Sc
cours Franco American in New York,
headed by Mrs. John A. Logan, jr,
and Mrs. Hamilton Wiles Cary, work
ing in cooperation with Miss Garden.
BY popular request Miss Garden has
made another change in her proposed
programme, and in addition to an act
from cleopatra" she viii appear in
Charpentier's Louise" one of her
greatest roles. The Russian dancers,
Pavley and Oukrainsky, will give
new ballet and other prominent artists
will appear.
Among those who have taken boxes
are: Mrs Odgen Goelet, box 1; Mrs
Hamilton Wilkes Cary, box 3; Mrs. W.
Watts Sherman. box 5; Mrs. Edison
Bradley. who will have with her Lord
and Lady Reading, box Z; Mrs. Ed
ward Mclean, box 8; Mrs o. H. P.
Belmont. box 13; Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
5. Hardness. box II; Henry Clay
Frick, box 49, Mrs. Alexander D. B.
Pratt, box 21; Mrs. Harry Payne Whit
ney, box 81; Mrs. E. I. Stotesbury,
box 33, Mrs. Herbert l.. Satterlee, the
Morgan box, 35; Mrs. Charles Burial
Hoffman, box 2S; Mrs. Oliver Harri-
man, box "a Mrs. Newbold Leroy
Edgar, box 20: Mrs. John A. Logan,
jr., box 12; Colonel and Mrs. William
Payne Thompson, box 6; Clarence H.
Mackay, box 40; Acting French High
Commissioner Edouard de Billy, NJ.
Ernest Guy and other members of the
Frepch High Commission, box g The
latter box was bought by Miss Garden
for $1,000, and Immediately turned
back to the Secours.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-16
Army Supplies Added to
From Red Cross Stores

To take a typical case of the supply
work of the Red Cross, it furnished
to the army hospital at Dartford fur
niture, surgical Instruments, operating
room fixtures, laboratory equipment,
musical instruments and gramaphonc
and records for every ward. Besides
this it supplemented the regular army
supplies of drugs, medicines, surgical
dressings, bed linens and clothing, par
ticularly such articles as socks, gloves.
underwear, pajamas, bath robes, sweat
ers and bed jackets. Such articles of
personal use as tooth brushes, tooth
paste, hair brushes, combs, razors and
razor blades, soap, stationery, comfort
kits and housewives were kept con-
stantly in stock in the Red Cross store
houses, and distributed freely to the
men as needed. There were regular is
sues of chocolate and cigarettes and
the wards were kept supplied with
American and English newspapers and
magazines. There were occasional is
sues of fresh fruit and candies of vari-
GUS kinds
New-York tribune., 1919-03-16

der the direct control OF the American
army medical authorities. TIE sct-ai
number taken care of in British hos
pitfalls was 1888. The high wate,
point of the American hospitals came
in October at the height of the nHu-
enza epidemic. During that month
1896 American soldiers were admit
ted to hospitals in Great Britain. About
one-fourth of the cases were wounded
and injured men; 6,211 of thcsn were
brought to England from France,
while 1906 cases of disease we're
brought over for treatment. There
were 15,107 illness cases from Eng
land and 7,147 from transports.
The first hospital opened iol Amor
lean troops in England was the Amer
lean Red Cross Military Hospital, at
Mosslcy Hill, Liverpool. From the be-
ginning every available bed in the hos
ptal, originally a mansion house with
extensive grounds, was occupied From
forty beds its capacity was extended
until 500 patients could be accommo-
dated.
With the influx of American troops
through Liverpool few beds were ever
unoccuDicd.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-16
Rainbow Ball Announced
For Sherry's April II
TO Be Given by ST. Timothy's 5
Alumnae Guild for Benefit
St. Ambrose Comm,1nitx

= A rainbow ball" will be given on
Easter Monday, April Il. at Sherry's
for the benefit of St. Ambrose's Com
munity Centre. There will be rainbow
decorations, arranged by we'll known
professional men, and at midnight
there will be tableaux.
The committee in charge includes
Mrs. George Whitney, Mrs. r. Penn
Smith, jr., Miss Katharine Mackay, Mrs.
John A. Dix, Mrs. Arthur O. Choate,
Mrs. c. Thayer Adams, Miss Josephine
Minott and Mrs. Frederick A. Cooley,
chairman.
The ball is given by New Forks St.
Timothy's Alumna Guild, among the
members of which are Mrs. Russell
Pope, Mrs. Charles Russell, Mrs. H..
Miss Genevieve Clendennin, Miss Mar
garet Strong, who is now the guilds
pres sident, and Miss Alice Dawson.
The patronesses include Mrs. Charles
Astor Bristed, Mrs. c. Ledyard Blair.
Mrs. George +. Baker, jr., Mrs. Andrew
Carnegie, Mrs. Lydig Hoyt, Mrs. Leon
ard M. Thomas, Mrs. Cornelius Wander
bilt, Mrs. Stanford White. Mrs Will
lam K. Vanderbilt, jr., Mrs. Charles
Cary Rumsey and Mrs. John S. Rogers.
Miss Katherine Mackay leads the pro
gramme committee The girls of this
committee will be especially costumed
and they are to be called rainbow
girls" SO far as chosen to date they
are Miss Julien de Forest, Miss Mar
garet Flint, Miss Betty Frank. Miss
Genevieve Clendennin, Miss Katherine
Van Ingen, Miss Elizabeth Jackson.
Miss Constance Jennings, Miss Eunice
James, Miss Helen Lee, Miss Lucy Pat
terson and Miss Beatrice Starr.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-16
Paris Singer Aided Troops
BY Ciring Up Estate

Then there was the American Red
Cross Hospital at Paignton, South Dcv-
on. 1t occupied buildings lent by
Paris Singer, of New York, beautifully
situated on the coast Of the "English
Riviera" and had capacity of 25O
beds when the Red Cross took over it's
management and maintenance on Jan
uary |, 1918. Paignton, popular
English watering place, enjoys natural
advantages which make it an ideal
spot for a hospital, particularly one
for convalescents. Chief Of its
healthful virtues, as the report en-
phaszes, is its moderate climate and
comparative freedom from the excess
slve rainfall common to other parts of
the country. The thermometer seldom
falls below 45 degrees or rises above
70, the average annual sunshine is
1,649 hours and the annual rainfall
80 inches.
The site was selected so years ago
by Isaac M. Singer, inventor of the
sewing machine shuttle, for his Eng
llsh home. His huge mansion was the
central building of the hospital, and as
the demand grew the capacity of the
entire establishment was raised to 700
beds by leasing two of Paigntons fin
est and largest hotels as annexes and
ward buildings, and at the time the
armisticc was signed was about to be
increased by at least 800 more beds.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-16
Marquette Club Dance
For St. Patrick's Day
Major Thomas T. Reilley Will
Be Guest of Honor and
Speaker

The Marquette Club will celebrate
st. Patrick's Day tomorrow by giving
a musical and dance at the Hotel Plaza.
Major Thomas 7. Reilley, commander
throughout the war of the Sd Bat
TALON, 165th Infantry, will be guest Of
honor and will deliver an address on
Over There With the Fighting Sixty
NINTH" A short musical programme
will be given and dancing will follow.
A committee of twenty under the
chairmanship of John Thomas Egan are
in charge of the arrangements. Music
will be furnished by an orchestra Of
college students under leadership Of
Harold j. r. Koran.
On Easter Monday April 81. the Glcc
and Mandolin Clubs of Columbia Uni
versity will give II concert at the
Plaza for the Marquette Club and will
remain afterward for the dance as
guests Of the club.
The proceeds from both dances will
be used to defray the expenses of the
civic and patriotic forum conducted
by the club. Ambrose O'Connell, 81
Chambers Street, is president Of the
organization.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-16
Many Nesv Polo Players
Gather at Aiken: Golf
Tourney aids Children
SDcc;al Corrcspondencc

AIKEN, 5. c., March i5.-March has
always been the popular month Tor
polo players at Aiken, and this year is
no exception. There are many new
players and more are expected. The
biggest match OF the season took place
to-day, when Aiken and Cooperstown
played for the Southern Circuit Cup.
The Southern cups are presented by
the Polo Association and they are en-
blematic of the championship of the
South. The cups were won four con-
secutive years by Aiken.
The Highland Park Golf Tourns-
ment, for the benefit of the Fatherless
Children Of France Fund, was won by
the Rev. l.. L. Ford, Of Aiken. The
proceeds from the Monday evening
bridge parties at the Highland Park
are also devoted to the Fatherless
Children of France Fund.
Among the recent arrivals at the
Highland Park are Chic Evans, the
famous golf player; Mr.. and Mrs. f. c.
Root and Mrs. Henry Grotz,, Detroit,
Mich; Mr and Mrs. S. f. Callaway,
". L. Gouldng, New YORK City; Mr..
and Mrs. Z. G. Grace, Bethlehem, Penn.
Mr. Grace is president OF the Betnle-
hem Steel Company
New-York tribune., 1919-03-16
Red Cross Hospitals in England Wire
Welcome Home to Wounded Americans
Extent of Work Done to
Aid Doughboys Injured
i'm War Is Shown i'm Re-
port Made by Commit
tee; Beautiful Estates
Turned Over to u. S.

LONDON, March T. Frequently
when Il big convoy of wounded ar
rived at one of the military hospitals
in Great Britain m American was
found among the number. AS oftsn rs
not, within "a hours, If he could be
moved, n special Ambulance arrived
and took him away 10 ai American
hospital. And those IN adjoining beds
would mufmur with some envy, "These
lucky Yanksl"
The reason WAS that to the british
Tommy the American Red Gross and
the American hospitals stood for all
that was best in skill, comfort and at
tention. Well looked after as they
were, the British thought that when
it came to hospitals the Americans had
trife the best of the deal
The first part of the report Just be-
ing issued of the work of the Amer
ican Red Cross Commission for Great
Britain gives some explanation Of the
way this was accomplished and the
manner in which so much was done
in an incredibly short space of time
1t must be remembered that the carly
months of 1918 were period of prep
aration only, and that only for work
on limited scale. Practically no
plans, as the report says, for any cx-
tensive disqualification in Great Brit
ain were thought necessary until the
German offensive of March brought
about a sudden decision to bring large
numbers of American sick and wound
ed to England. Until then it had
been contemplated that accommodation
would be required only for the small
or passing through en- route for
France.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-16
American Consul kept
Busy Visiting Soldiers

Another service of the Red Cross
in this district was the office at
Southampton, which had charge of all
the visiting arrangements of the dis
trict. The American Consul, Colonel
Albert w. Swain, was the head of the
local visiting committee, and during
1918 Colonel and Mrs. Swain paid
more than $4,000 visits to American
soldiers in this crowded centre.
At Liverpool, too, where the troops
.debarked, the Red Cross had a camp
hospital at the rest camp which, tow
ard the end, seldom had less than 400
patients. For the purpose of motor
transport for this hospital the Red
Cross provided sixteen Ford ambu
lances, three convertible trucks, one
motor van, one touring car, one auto
cycle and ten cases of automobile
parts. Similarly at Queenstown the
Red Cross provided the naval base hos
pital with everything needed and the
Il; G. Russell, of Great Bend, Kan,
who was assisted by two American
women members of the local Red
Cross Care Committee" Mrs. Charlie
M. Hathaway, jr., wife of the Amer
ican Consul, and Mrs. McAndrews. wife
OF the vice-counsul. The Importance
OF the, work can be judged from the
iact Cnat there were between 1000
and 5000 men stationed constantly at
Queenstown. Again at the naval base
hospital at Strathpeifer, Scotland
stated by Red Cross unit from San
trancisco-the patients we're similarly
individually taken care of.
Major William Endicott is the Com
missioner for Great Britain, and the
Deputy commissioners are Mrs. White
law Reid, Major Il. Marion Cox, Major
Foster ii. Rockwell, Major f. Huroer
Sibley and Major r. Stuart Smith. The
American ambassador is the president
and Consul General Skinner the vice
president of the London Chapter, and
Mrs, Whtelaw Reid is the chairman.
The Executive Committee includes
Mrs. John Astor, the duchess of Marl-
borough. Lady Harcourt and Lady
Ward.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-16
Benefit Dance Tuesday
At the Hotel Vanderbilt

The second of series of eight
dances bein. given in the Della Robbia
room of the Hotel Vanderbilt, to raise
money for the Hospital for Tubercu-
lar Children of France, to be founded
by the American Fund for French
Wounded, at Nancy, France, will take
place on Tuesday evening.
Among those who have reserved
tables are Mrs. John Clafin, Mrs. d.
Hunter McAlpin, Mrs. Herbert Ship
man. Mrs. William Disston, Mrs. John
D. Rockefeller, jr., Mrs. II. Benedict
Lockwood, Mrs. NJ. |. Hughes, Mrs
Frederick II. Eaton, Mrs. Gordon Blair
Major Edward B. Close, Robert A.
Shaw and Robert 7. Mckee.