County Welfare Board to See That Children Attend School, Work With Juvenile Court, July 1919

From the Brevard News, July 18, 1919

Transylvania to Have Welfare Board

The last legislature having created the offices of County Board of Public Welfare and Superintendent of Public Welfare to be filled by the County Board of Education and Commissioners in joint session, the aforesaid board entered into the election of a county Superintendent on July 7 and as provided for a small county, the board elected A.F. Mitchell, Superintendent of Public Instruction and agreed to provide an assistant when necessary in order to carry out the provisions of the law.

The County Superintendent of Public Welfare is to serve without pay, save that the aforesaid boards are to pay his assistant for the necessary time, presumably for only the period of the compulsory school law which covers the length of the entire session.

The County Board of Public Welfare, which is to advise with the Superintendent of Public Welfare, is composed of the following:--Rev. J.C. Seagle, Chairman; Miss Annie Gash, Secretary, and Rev. J.R. Hay. The new officers are part of the machinery of the juvenile court of this county of which Mr. N.A. Miller is judge. The juvenile court has the enforcement of the compulsory school law or in its jurisdiction among other very important matters. The attention of the reader is called to the act of the last legislature creating the aforesaid offices. The enforcement of the compulsory law is a sure thing now under the juvenile court and Superintendent of Public Welfare.