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CHARLTON COUNTY HERALD
VOL. X.--NO. 36.
FOLKSTON MUST
HAVE BETTER WA
TER,IT MATTERS
NOT WHAT
THE COST.
Again we are forcibly reminded that
we must have better water and better
sanitary concitions, Kolks on has
in the past, pointed with pride to
- her health, and untii a year or two
ago she had a right to do so. But
lock back over the past year. Such
an experience we have never bad
before. There is evidently a cause,
so let us look around for it and
eradicate it. As 1s well kdown,
~water is obtained at a very shallow
depth—about twelve or fifteen feet.
and rarely are pumps driven to a
depth of twenty-five feet. The
waet: obtained from pumps contains
too i2uch iron which is caused from i
the pipiug. And worst ot all, as
the town is rapidly growing, there
is more rcfuse than there used to be
and at the depth we get our water
-it is not properly filtered. We are
cautinuaily consuming the poison
contained therein and need not ex
pect wmuch improvement in our
health uutil we get artesian water.
The new council wlll have been
instalied betore we go to press again
and we hope ¢ -be able to state to
the public some definite action hav
ing been taken at the nitial meeting,
We believe that with artesian water
~ the scourge of typhoid fever that
has been upon us for the past year
will be practically overcome. We
are in favor of bonding the town
* for this business. The simple fact
of 2 flowing well in Folkston is not
sufficient. The s‘reets should be
cpmdtatamn i Sl
1 3 T OO U 1T ted
by cliarging a nominal price for
each spigot, and by levying special
taxes to meet them. By bonding
enough meney could be obtained to
clay some of the principle streets
which is badly needed and which
would add more to the appearance
and atiractiveness of the town thani
almost anything else of so small cost
We have good men on the council
.who, w 2 believe have the courage
to persevere in. carrying out their
convictions—men who will act on
their own judgement regardle~s of
the suggestions of the chronic kicker. ‘
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CARD OF THANKS.
Edltor Herald, l
Pl:ase allow space in your
columns to extend our heartfelt ap
preciation for the many kindnesses
bestowed npon us during the long
and fatal illness of our beloved little
daughter Vera,
I wish to thank my brother physi
cians for their loyalty in responding
s 0 nobly and promptly to the many
urgent calls made upen them, and
the many sacrifices wade by them
in answering those calls. |
Especially do we wish to thank
the officials of Folkston for the
good and quiet otder enforced by
them during the holidays.
Words fail to express our thanks
for the many kindnesses snd the
consideration shown vs. Trusting
that each individual will feel that 1s
directed to him personally, we are
Very respectfully,
Dr. axp Mgs. J. C. WRIGHT,
THAT ROAD TO THE COLONY.
It becomes more evident that the
proposed road to the Folkston addi
tion should be built, A few days
ago Mr. W, H. Clay closed a deal
with a number of Indiana people by
which it is expected about twenty
families will be brought here. A
good class of people are being in
duced to settle. over there and they
should have a way to get to Folks
ton without having to travel such a
round-abont way, Then their ad
vanced children could reach the
Folkston school,
VERA WRIGHT.
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«Unveil thy bosom, faithful tomb,
Take this new treasure to thy trust
And give these sacred relics room,
To slumber in the silent dust.”
ZAgain there 5 a heartfelt vacancy
at school and 1n the home, for it
has pleased Almighty God to take
from us our little schoolmate and
friend, Vera Wright. on of the
brightest and sweetest girls.
Vera, daughter of Dr. and Mrs.'
J. C. Wright, of Folkston, Ga , was|
born March 10, 1890 and died Jan
uary 23. 1908. She was a girl of
unusual musical and literary talents
for cne so yonng. She loved her
school-mates and they all loved her.
She was diligent at her books, being
the youngest one of the 7th grade, l
For about three months she suf
sered intensely from a complication
of diseases, making a brave fight
against death only to succumb and
pass over that river which each
must surely cross. And, may the
grave of this loved one be ever green
with flowers and love of her school
mates. :
Vera died a beautitul Christian
death which must ever be a comfort
to her parents and other members
of her family. With sweet visions
of the Savior and angels about her
bed her gentle spirit passed away.
Although so young her life should
be an example of Christian faith
and forbearance to all who kuew
her. .In life she was a lovely child,
with sweet disposition and gifted
mind. She loved her sabbath school
’and church, and was igcvgr absen&
when well.’ 3 it
;- li ) i 'fi'i,\km{ How g k the fu
thou art no mme'; thv sunshine has
been taken out of our lives; thy
bright smile we no longer see; thy
sweet voice shall never more ring in
our ears; never again will we hear
that sweet music made by thy skill
ful touch, for in the hearts of those
that love thee, there is a vacant
space that cannot be filled by anoth
er.
We mourn her loss, but, do notj
mourn as those who have no hope
of meeting her again in a Dbctter
world. |
“How could we bear tu lose our
precious child, ‘
From out our broken lives, and
bear the pain,
How could we live on seeing her
no more, |
But for the hope that we shall meet
again, » ‘
Shail meet in that dear home of love,
After life’s storms and heart-breaks
all are o’er, |
How soothing is the thought of that
dear welcome home, ‘
When we shall meet our Vera, gone
on before.” ;
Qur sweet young friend is now a}
lovely angel among the ransomed
children of God, blooming out her
pure sweet life in God’s fair garden
above. Christ walks among our
earthly gardens and when He finds
a sweet flower that He loves He
stoops and gathers it for the fairer
gardens above. Heaven has gained
another lovely angel, and .we hope
to meet her again when we too are
called from scenes of earth to join
our friends in Heaven never to leave
them again but dwell with them for
ever there,
BY HER MUSIC TEACHER.
~ Ah! little did we think that we|
iwould never see thee at school‘
again—the thought comes to us now‘
with strange sadness—and we know
there is none efficient to take thyl
place at home or in school, none so
bright and lovely. O, how we long
for just one more glimpse of thee,
chra.—to find thee absent; for one
more sound of thy voice, thy foot
lstcps,—to find them silent forever. ‘
FOLKSTON, GA, THURSPAY, JANUARY 30, 1908.
“0, Vera thy gentle voice is hushed,
Thy waerm, true heart is still; g
And on thy pale and peacefu, face,
is resting death’s cold chill. .
Thy hands are clasped upo.u thy:
breast, i
- We have kissed thy marble brow.
And in our aching hearts we knowt
We have no Vera mew,”
But even while we are bowed f
the dust and the night of griv
enfoids us in its sable gloom, we
krow that for Vera there is mo mo e
darkness and that cur darling is
dwelling in the eternal Light that
knows no glimmering—the light
from his glorified throne. This lifé
is real. Would we meet her there,!
then let us o
“Sn live, that when our summor
comes to join ' &
The innumerable caravan that moveés
To that mysterious realm, wheres
each shall take ‘*‘
His chamber in the silent halld
of death, ke
We go not like the quarry slage
at night, %
Scourged to his dungeon, but s/
tained and soothed 3
By an unfaitering trust, appru: 1
~ our grave,
Like one who wraps the drapery @
. his couch e
About him, and lies down to p 3
ant dreams,” 4
- Scuoom.u'zs:oi
it i i S
MILLIONIARES,
In its Febroary grocery at "
Woman's Home Companion '
this pint: “In a New Jersy *
not many miles from a fanious i
stitution of tearning, I foudd o |
those groceries whose proprietoss
have not progressed. You o
molasses barrel; you could dip your
hand into a cracker barrel and help
yourself; you could pick out ‘big
pickels with your fingers if you
wanted them uniform size, because
the clerk did the same taing; but you
could not couat the fly specks on
‘the cheese box or the coffee grinder,
‘because life is too short for so stu
pendous a task. And oh, the dust!
“The proprietor of that sture
could not sell me a certain brand
of gingersnaps in a moisture proof
box. He said he did not believe in
package . goods. His customers
could not afford such luxuries.
“There are thousands of custom
ers like his all over America. Ihey
declare that package gooas are for
millionares, not wage earners, But
oh, if the wives of wage earners
wounld onlv study such problems and
not jump at conclusions, How much
farther the hard-earned wages would
go and how much better food'would
be placed before the man who carnal
the wages.”
KU KLUX KLAN REMINIS
CENCES.
The sccond installment of remin
iscences of the Ku Klux Klan, by
Colonel John C. Reed, appears in
the February number of UNCLE
REMUS'S MAGAZINE, giving the
account of how the Presidential
campaign of 1868 was carried for
the Democratic candidate in Ogle
thorpe County,Georgia despite the
fact that the negroey, together with
the few white Republicans, greatly
outpumbered the white masses.
While the article 1s only the account
of what happened 1n a very small
part of Georgia, it is of general in«
terest because it gives an ideavof
the power the Klan exerted throngh
out the Bouth by showing what one
Denaccom plished in one district,
Colonei Reed writes interestingly
and without prejudice or bitterness.
—
REMARKABLE,
‘““She’s the most remarkable elder
ly woman lever saw.” ‘
“‘Doesn’t show her age?” |
“'Not that. Dosen’t seem to re
gret it.” Ex. "
- DEPARIMENT.
CONDUCTED BY J. T. BRINKLEY. \
] (By Ropert MATTOX )
John Brown Gordon was born in
Jpson County, Georgia, July Gth,
832. He was the son of honest
ut poor parents and was a_boy who
lways took advantage of every op
ortunity, ; |
He attended schocl at home and
at the age of nineteen he entered the
?statc university, of Georgia and
raduated with first honors. Hej
tudied law and praceised in Atlanta
“hen the south called for volun
eers he was one of the first to Ofl'crl
himseif in the defence. From his |
evolutionary ancestors he inherited I
soldier’s courage. By repeated
romotion he rose from a common!
folunteer to lientenant general com- f
handing a wing of tiie army of Vir-f
inia. He became one of the most |
amous of coufederate generals. In l
873 he was eiected to the United
tates Senate. After holding this'
Mflice for one term, he was clectedi
overnor vs Georgia, holding thgtl
osition two terms. He was again'
ected to the senate and thmugh'
is effoggs the northern troops were
smoved from the state of South‘
arolina; the people of that state{
powing their appreciation by pre
enting him with a massive silver
rvice mounted with a gold pal
etto tree, the emblem of that state
al.
He retired from his political life
1895, One of the truest sayings
éver uttered when speaking of
"ta“t' of secession was “*From po
contusion, . angry controyer
a national peace more real and true
and a national union more endur
ing.” At the organization of the
United Confederate Veterans As
’sociation he was chosen commander
and at every meeting afterwards he
‘was chosen commander with great
enthusiam by the old soldiers.
Gordon institution was named for
General Gordon who was a close
friend of the first president of that
school, He died January 4th, 1904
and his death was greatly lamented
by the Confederate Soldiers and,
indeed, the whole south.
WARNING.
C. V. Holsbeke the photographer
will be in Folkston until February
2nd. Any one who wish to have
photographs made can see him any
time at the Johnson House.
Post cards, portraits, copying,
enlarging, etc., etc. All work pos
itively guaranteed and delivered in=
side of 24 hours. Look him up and
see samples of his work,
| Rank Foolishness.
“When attacked by a cough or a
?oold, or when your throat is sore,
’it is rank foolishness to take aay
‘_other medicine than Dr, King's
New Discovery,” says C. O. LKI
dridge, of Empire, Ga. “I have
used New Discovery seven years
and I krow it is the best remedy on
earth for coughs and colds, crovp,
and all throat and lung troubles.
my children are subject to croup,
but New Digcovery quickly cures
every attack.” Known the world
aver as the Kinfi of throat and lung
remedies. Sold under guaraptee at
all druggists. soc. and sr.oo,
‘Trial bottle free. :
; NOTICE.
i On February the 4th an examina
tion will be held for the purpose of
iexamining apphicants for the office
of County Schooi Commissioner in
accordance with the law,
A. J, Howard,
Pres. B. E. C. (.
IN MEMORY OF
JOHN C, CANADAY.
O, Death,, so stern, so grim, so bold!
~ Thou reaper of both yeung and
old, :
Cannot the tender tear of love
Cause thee to spare one from above?
How hard it is that thy cold hand
Must steal away one of our hand,
No fairer flower e’er graced our \\'ayi
Than this one thou hast plucked
to-day. \
; |
“Twas just a few short days ago, |
When bright and radiant was the
glow ,
Upon that rosy cheek so fair, :
Formany happy smiles played there,
And visions of a future bright,
In which the mind e'er takes de
light, :
Found ia this charming flower of
iove
A friend as true as those above.
But thou, stern garner of us all
Before whese sickle we must fall,
We cannot keep the tears away . o
When we but think of this sad day.
So many friends will miss him now,
For death has paled that Jovely
brow;
But in the halls of memory
A picture of him e’er shall be.
And we'll entwine a golded wreath,
And plice this picture just, be
neath;
For, in the worn of life's bright
day, :
This carthly flower was stole a
way.
L e
L. E. MALLARD has some bargains in Real Estate as follg) ’"?gig
Lot No, 2, Renfroe addition to town of Folkston, sroa. 00 ’,f‘g; “s‘s
« 7 11, Layton addition to Folkston, floo.co by ;”fl;’fifi
4 lots within 3 blocks of Courthouse St. Cheap. ¥8 one as- tiaets
just outside the town at $25 cach. ‘ w :*:-s‘
2 farms in the county, reasonable. Thiold Layton hom "?‘;fi;
Folkstou will and is growing, Write or see [ ¥, Mallard about .gets.
ting a home in Folkston. = :
:
FOR CASH ONLY. :
To Continue for 15 Days, ¢
g — :
Best Calico, 6 1-2 cts. per yd. i
Good Yellow Homespun sc, per yd §<
2octs. Dress Goods, 15cts. per yd. ¥
abcts. M- T XY B ] ?
All other Dry Goods at reduc=- 3'
ed prices. :
Clothing and lots of it at &
10 per cent discount, §
All kinds of hats at reduc= :
ed pricese. §
We have just received some :
New Goods which will go in this :
salee . ———— %
I'ry usif you are look~ ‘i
Ing for bargains.
Yours for good service. i
MIZELL & PAXTON i
S.OO A YEAR,
O, true friend ! for such wast thou,
With weeping heart and aching
brow,
We homage now must pay thee, -
For thou hast crossed life’s stormy
sea. : ;
We almost heard the hreakers roar,
As the boatman came to ferry
thee o’er; {
We almost saw that patient hand
Wave gently as thou left the strand.
We grieve when thus we have to
part,
And though it almost breaks the
Leart,
We know a home thats freefrom tears
Awaits beyond ths vale of tears.
A home where loving hearts are
found,
A home where joy and peace abound;
O, death ! this home you bring to
mind, W ol
And in its joys we comfort find,
Yes, in that home with stree%
. gold, % I
Afidgwhele the spirit ne‘er gra:%?i"g
old, : g
We know you rest. dear friend,"t
now, i w
W hile we are here with saddened
brow,
Some day we'll quit this walk belowii
Then to that home we hope to ghis
And what a meeting that will be, g
With all the good and pure and freg e
Drear friend, for a few aho‘:t yén
We bid you this &ood- ye With ©
tears; LR l%
But then wé’ll meet to rt hoi i?”
Upon that never Chag‘l"f{. %&s’:
Moniac, Ga., Jan. 27, Yooy W
