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Your publicity-problem is halt of your store-problem. It should have the attention of 'th e boss.” VOLUME XIII., No. 239 OPEN MONDAY • 9A.M. OPEN MONDAY FOR BUSINESS AS USUAL. STOCK NOT DAMAGED. 7 1 " ' 1 11 ' *" 1 1 '" mm WE ARE CHOCKED FULL AND OVERFLOWING WITH GRATIFICATION AND APPRECIATIONFOR THE FAITHFUL AND HEROIC WORK DONE BY OUR EMPLOYEES IN ATIME THAT NOT ONLY PUT TO TEST THEIR LOYALTY TO THE INTERESTS THEY SERVE BUT TRIED THEIR VERY SOULS. YOU WOULD HA RDLY BELIEVE IT, BUT WITHIN A FEW HOURS AFTER THE WARNING WAS GIVEN (BY THE TREMENDOUS RUSH OF WATER) THEY HAD REMOVED ABOVE THE DANGER LINE MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS IN MERCHANDISE. TOWARDS THE LAST THEY WERE COMPELLED TO REMOVE THEIR CLOTHING AND DON BATHING SUITS IN ORDER TO FINISH THEIR TASK, WITH THE RESULT THAT SIOO.OO WILL COVER THE ENTIRE LOSS ON MERCHANDISE. PUBLIC RECOGNITION OF THE GOOD SER VICE IN THE PAST SPURS US ON. WITH WATER A FOOT DEEP WE WERE ALREADY BUSY WITH FIFTY OR MORE EXTRA HELPERS (GATHERED FROM EVERY QUARTER SHOVELING OUT THE MUD, WATER, SCRUBBING THE FLOORS AND POLISHING THE FIXTURES TO MAKE READY TO SERVE A DISTRESSED BUT NOBLE PEOPLE, AND INDEED AS A MATTER OF PERSONAL PRIDE ALSO. WE WILL HAVE OUR STORES AS BEAUTIFUL AND COMFORTABLE AND ADEQUATE FOR BUSI NESS MONDAY AS IT HAS EVER BEEN IN THE PAST. ' - - - • - 4 4 f P. S.—AS AN ASSISTANCE TO THE ABLE COMMITTEE IN CHARGE OF THE TREMENDOUS TASK OF PROVIDING SUPPLIES AND HOMES FOR THE HELPLESS WE WILL HOLD SPECIAL SALES OF THE KINDS OF MERCHANDISE MOST NEEDED AT ACTUAL COST MONDAY. CHOU FURS IR'RIER FIIHE Water Falling at Colum bia But Rising at Points Below. • COLUMBIA, S. C.—There is yet, some danger of water shortage. The j power house is closed for repairs but two special pumps have been Installed to pump water from the river into the city. The canal banks are brokeu in fifteen places. Chief Engineer Shedden of the Sea board Air Line states he expects op. erations to be resumed by the middle of next week. Nine trestles have been destroyed between Elbertnn, Ga.. and Columbia. S. C. While the waters are receding at Columbia ther are rising at points below here At Klngville. a junction point on the Southern railway, the station was abandoned yesterday and today the -own is under nine feet of water No deaths resulted but save SCENE IN FRONT OF ALBION HOTEL - -’■ ,* i|«|f fffiw i ■-».'Jpyp fiw*illE 1 " J gyp- yl }^i l w9fSSsS^y ' jA?WliUy{nPfyT ir9v I HEnME S MwE^NßhnwßK % •» ' r riSfrfi- A’’? ' , '"'■ v ,c ’ -V%4t r l ' > ’ THE SUNDAY HERALD ral houses were destroyed. Traffic on the Southern between this city and Charleston has been sus pended lor 10 days on account of the destruction of several thousand feet of track near Kingville. Connection with Spartanburg and with Greenville is still cut off. WEATHER FORECAST. j Georgia: Pair Sunday, warmer in interior. Monday fair, warmer in northeast portion; light to fresh j northeast winds on coast. South Carolina; Fair Sunday and , Monday, warmer in interior; fresh northeast winds on coast. Messrs. Will and Phinlxy Gary, : .lohn Harper, T. B. Irvin and “.lap" Hulbert had a very narrow experi ence Thursday afternoon. The boys founrl an old launch with the engine removed. They pulled it up Broad St. as far as Cummings and with sticks for paddies attempted to reach the out-skirts of the city. When the launch reached Greene street it struck a tree and capsized The young men after several hours work against the current finally got back to Broad street. A hack attached to a drowned horse passed the monument Thursday morn ing about fi o’clock. The hackmati was not seen. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 30, 1908 IRE SIRRED HEIRT COLEEGEJOT HURT I Will Resume Classes as Usual in September. The Sacred Heart college has suf fered from the recent flood but so ! slightly that Its classes will resume their work on Tuesday, September 'Bth. Only its playgrounds needs re pairing ami cleaning The elegantly appointed rooms for the boys are just, as spick and span as if Augusta had witnessed no deluge of water what soever. One of the finest corps of teachers from among the thousand Jesuit fathers In the Southland will make up the college staff this year. Rev. John J Sherry, the beloved i president, will he in charge, with the following professors: John D. Foulkes, John Cronin. Henry A. De vine, John II Meyer. Louis Bashnal. Alphonse A. Maureau, and James J. , McLaughlin. (/ ,wmmus* omr DtHMTMtNT BTWI JUDGE HAMMOND IN FRONT OF DYER BUILDING l.u' tMPr jVrfrf ijKf t, fIPBB ■ Lmm fjEJI ajLj to f . f y u - .„ Z~ • ■■ • | VS'aHyl WAGONS BADLY NBBDBD TO HAUL PROVISIONS All efforts ar„ concentrated today by the relief committee In getting the worst phrase of destitution r< II -aC Hcrrctary and Treasurer, i; R, (loos announces that the car load of pro visions from Atlanta that arrived last nl at will be distributed this morning b< :lnnlng s' ten o’eloek Wagons will lie gathered at the car, which la placed on a siding at the corner of Walker and Jackson streets and from that point'd Hiribullon will be made. Last, night Mr. Hook had been able to gei but four wagons and desires some more. He asks the briery, merchants with d> livery wagons, or Individuals to be at the unloading point, this morning to aid In the work It rill ri-ijij,re only a few hour* and the an mint of good accomplished will b, great Parties owning wagons who are unwilling to donate them will he j»n!d if th*y no fjr»*ir • Meaara fb >m Conklin, George N’eea, «. H r, J. R Stratford W It Burton at.d oth< rs will |„. p „i |„ charge of the wagons and attend to the distribution. The car contains provisions as well as articles of clothing, all of which will lie dlstrlbut <d at once • Vesti rday gfti moon Mr. George Nccs was sent out. under direction of Mr. Hook Into the Shake Rag din trie! with a two-horse wagon of pro vision. cooked and uncooked, and re llevcd many In that vicinity. Mr. Hook himself went with a wagon load to the upper part of the city on Reynolds street and found many suffering greatly. In some In stances poor people have lost evVry thing except the clothes they were wearing when the waters arose. Their plight was pitiable. ■ianager K 11. Gunter of the Au gUKta Motor company has placed a White steamer at the disposal of Mr Hook for one week, and thb, greatly facilitate* the work The awirtneas with which sh,. secretary of the com rnltte,. is able to go from place to I place Is invaluable. DAILY AND SUNDAY, SO.OO PER YEAR. 'WATER IS FILL!IIC (I FITETTEIIE KAYI/D LVILI.K, N, c Art-r tr.ifdilpg tin- unpi* ci-donted height of il If'" tie flood water ol iin Gap i''i Hi ■ to ... io rec.de today will, a full ot ahou' <> incites ,jn hour Ity tomorrow the city Is expected > o< frn I'out wa ir. |i | K estimated 1 ton -1111111 i were driven out o' on hundred hnuses, while m least two nuiidi tl other hour were d strayed by water Hundred* of people are suffering and a citizens meeting ye„ ienL ook st-'|/rt In relieve Ih-'in. A thousand doll an already has heen sub C- do-0 ai-d e h-i.rd of ald-'l 111-n his opened the city n | ms- to any extent for tin benefit of the sufferer The hlk's lodge voted one hundred dollars to the relief fund lioitts ar» now plying up and down the principal * tresis of the city in i.k„ very heart OPEN MONDAY 9 A. M. IWR.CARR'SFUNERAL WIEI OOiK Dpc|„ (K t Sympathy Ex tend ®d to F ‘n»Hy of tho Popu lar Young; Man. wlmse d''a,T Hl ° r Mr " Hrry c *rr. fp prime < < ,r"iir, W “V y °"" K ' nn, ‘ 1,1 the to Jure -V w « on " *""<1 road ii ~H' M untimely rlpAth iu V" ( HO " r ‘" "f "“"I’ regret, to hi* hi. , ■ '-I* of trlen.lH In lh„ city, and h, 1 - pest sympathy Is extended to hi, " n,plc,y * " f thn n.* 11-iute ,w n ',h! r ''•■""''"''ey, Will of fl, . * Mineral Hurvlms Tho following gentlemen „ r ,. requested to ■;< I-S l-all harers Honorary Messr, -w w T,a ni HvH^ Moore nr N u w MoMr »- Lug. Me M.,r„*oy? M M,n: , ; >ro fl,eln' Rurdell arid ££ piac ° at M» HHrn. rilfforrl U..SI - a «"d McKlnnle U ; n tre :;„ W 7 h V ,f ,!rr '"' l t»r .wo I ,;^::;*.s: , "w„e,r n, ! t sr .roZ^z from It store on Broad street ** W I .Vi;;' WTvzr' ha r, *rh ii-, i-oir'ar^i He- 'ilver "r " f Ink- a r„ r nr . i|, Li J, * H j - , JLltrtT I ;rl« light Plan, l„ „ndc waUr Hie is in darkness at night’ Spend mere fnr advertising this August than ever before —and do more business this August than ever before.