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CHARLTON CORNTY HERALD VOL. X.--NO. 47. PRESENTMENS ks, We, the Grand Jurors, chosen and sworn, Aptil term 1908, Superior Court, Charlton County, beg to make the following General Present ments, : . We recommend that the County Treasurer pay order given W, H. Mizell———— 190— for gsilso.oo principal and $45. 50 interest, Said order now being the property of William Mizell. We recommend that T. L. Pick ren be appointed to fill the unexpir ed term of A. J, Howard, resigned, as member of Board of Education. W ¢ endorsed the report submit ted by . E. Mallard. C. 8. C. We recommend that the County Court be continued; also that the Sheriff of the county be appointed Bailiff of the County Court, after the ensuing election, We also re commend that the surplus funds of the County Court be applied to the public roads of the county. We Fave through a committee from our bydy examined the books of the various J. Ps. and £x J. Ps. and find them neatly and correctly kept. We have appointed O, F. Wilson, T. L.. Pickren and J- H. Johnson a committee to examine the books of the various county officers 2nd 0! make their report-to the Grand _lu.\ ‘ of October term 1908 of Superior Court and they receive $3,00 perl day each for their services, ; We recommend that a üblic road be openec from Uptonwville to Winokur. : | -We recommend that the following names be placed on the pauper list and paid as follows: Mrs, Mar)‘ Johns, $5 0o per month; Papl Dow ling, $7.00 per month; James Wil liams, $3.00 per months; Henry Wiiliams and wife, colored, $2.00‘ each per month, said amount to be paid to O, F, Wilson; also that B. A. Chesser’s children be paid SIO.OO per month instead of §5.00. We have through a committee examined the pubhic buildings and the property of the county and here with submit! their report; <We have examired the buildings of the county and find them in good con dition, except one room on lower floor of jai!, the plaster being brok en; also the corpers of the jail are becoming underminded by the wind blowing the dirt away from them. We recommend that these matters be attended to at once. We recommend that the county commissioners empfoy a stenograph er to take evidence on all true bills etc. acted on by the Grand juries. We recommend _that Lazarus Jourden, colored, be paid g 520.00 for taking care of Mouzon Price; We recommend that the following persons-be put on the Pension Roll; Mrs. Elizabeth Wilson, Mts. Mary Roddenberry, N. N. Mizell, Jacob C. Carter, Mrs. Julia A. Walker, Mrs Jave Elizabetb Hatcher. We recommend that our Senator and Representative support any measure that will tend to place the entirety of the surviving confederate soldiers on the pension list. Also recom mend that Mrs, Conie Higginbotham! Le put back ou pension roll. 1 We recommend that Irvin Privett be paid $6.00 per month instead of $5.00, ilso that Bart Crawford be paid $5.00 per month ginstead of $4.00 and that Amphil Harris be paid §£6.00 per month instead of $4, as heretofore We recommend that the county commissioners pay one half of the expense of boring an artesian wel] vin Folkston, also that they build a bridge across Baileys Branch on road leading from Foikston to Burnt Fort. j Whereas the time has arrived in the development of our county, for her citizens to take a stride forward m the great march of progress, we ;the Grand Tuiy of Chariton county in body assembled, do put ourselves ‘on record as favoriug the aggressive action on the part of the county for progressive improvements. After considering the reeds of the county from a liberal standpoint it is the opinion of this body that what we most need to put us in the vanguard of progress along with our sister couuties of Georgia is better schoels and better roads. We can never have a great people without liberal education, We can never have liberal edncation without good school houses, good equipment and sufficient teachers. Our present couutry schools are absolutely ia adequate. We have not a modern school house in the county outside of Folkstor, we have not a sufficient cquipment in the county, and ‘the pay for our country teachers is so small that it is next to impossibie to emplc_)y first class teachers, and our country boys and girls are put aside with a half morsel, while the city children and the childrer in the more progressive counties are . get ting a full share of education to fit them for the battle of life. . ~ Concerning the roads of our county, we can never have, perman ent homes and permanent improve ments throughout the country dis tricts until our public roads are permanently located and gradled, and the heavy phcts;fam capped wer with cla&,l)r;grg?éi.‘" Tu build a modérn school house wherever a good school may be maintained in the county and to improve the roads as they should be will cost a large sum of money a.d to do it gradually by taxation 'wfl'J&xemWM i'bi’zt our little children cahnet: wait, they are growing beyond the school age and we must be quick or’ hun dreds of them will be without edn cation. To drag along over heavy roads for five, ten, fiftecn or twenty years longer will cost us more in ‘horses, vehicles and wasted time than the roads wiil cost. - Then why put these improvements off indefinitely when there is a way provided whereby we may have them without waiting. We can bond the county, get the money and spend it in the county now and get these things we want, letting the future generations help to pay for therr, that gives the people who are passing away, and those who are living now the benefit and the pleas ures and profits they will bring us. In consideration of these facts we propose that this Grand Jury re. commend and urge with all dili gence that the Commissioners take steps at once to bond the county, and commence the work of build ing modern school houses and good roads all over the county. Now is the time to do it while labor can be had at the lowest cost. While material can be purchased at low. cost, and while commerce is in a depressed condition and the people most need the money in cir culation, we shall not only get the improvements at the lowest possible cost, but the expenaiture of that amount of money In the county will virtually sweep away the panic in our midst and start immigration to our cnunty from other sections, that will more than repay our cx penditures 1n thc shortest possible time, - We endorse the following me morial to the State Legislature: ‘whereas the question of extending the State Road (T'he Western & At llantic) on to the sea is now being agitated before the people of the state, and in consideration of the many advantages which we believe will accrue from the extension of this road on to one of the ports on the Georgia coast, not only in the preservation of the state’s present road, but in the increased valuation it will give to the pioperty, the FOLKSTON, GA THURSP®AY, APRIL 6. 1908 large income it will bring to th state, the rehef of taxes to the pes ple,. the development of the and the permaneut guarantee. it wil be to the people in rates andit ‘k vice, therefore we the Grand of Chatiton county do heartily dorse the idea, and we hereby mes morial the Legislature to take i mediate steps to have the road ” }on to the sea. TRy *" We believe that the immebiate iextension of this will not only great savieg to the state in its cons stiuction, but it will go a great W in releaviag the depressed commers cial condition of the state and Qgt&{ employment to thousands of lab@fi% ers who are out of work, “ 3 We not only endorse and ur& immediate action in this matier bu we recommend that the con"“:‘ commissioners take steps to Secure. the right-of-way through this county free of cost to the state, prdfidc’:{i’j the course of tiie rvad, to be final_ljé determined shall pass through this county. . L i e We recommend tnat the fore?‘fié and clerk of the present Grand tifi" be paid $3,00 per day each for t&i(fi‘ services. ¢ We recommend that these G‘euéf-j al Presentments be: published in khe; Charton County Herald and Bty George Gazette, and that they ° i : paid sloo.oo each for same, ,% We desire to extend our thanks to his Honor Judge T. A. Parkéfi: for the able and impartial mamfi in which he has presided over the present term; also to !c‘ting Sol'ici"{_j tor Geueral, A. D. Gale and his as 'soc’ate Robert L. ‘Bennef{vforrco}m?" esies show;x our ‘,b'od‘l):. fi‘?fi& Fi ) an T L. Pickren, ‘Clet {ijt Malt(t::mf:rfin mflm*“’ CUPRPTIRIEGS B Rarford Ciarter: = Je Vao J. Waller Tohnson ~ B.S. Preseott D.F. Roddenberry T.E. Sykes S.B. Rodienberry RA. Hardee A.]. Howard I.G. Rowe W.OO Gniffin N. Roddenberry H.O. Prescott O.K. Harrs A.H. Howard J.C. Carter H.G. Gibson The within General Piesentments of the Grand Jury having been read in open court, it is therefore order ed that they be admitted to record, and become a part of the minutes of this court, as in terms of the law, It is further ordered that they be printed as therein recommended, In open court, this the gth day of April 1908. T. A, Farker, & Judge S, C. B. },.C. Georgia, Charlton Ceounty: I, Jesse W, Vickery, Clerk of said court do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the Gen eral Presentments of the Grand Jury, sitting at the April term, 1908 of Charlton Superior Court. Witness my signature and seal of said conrt this April 11th, 1908, JEssie W. Vickery, LS. Clerk. DENTAL NOTICE. I will be at Folkston on Monday 2oth of April, prepared to do den tal work, and will remain there two or three days. J. C. BrEwER, Dentist. The ‘“Brown Men” are offering even money that their favorite will carry Fulton county, but, unlike two years ago, Gov. Smith’s sup porters want odds. Begins to look very Brown to us, : | CE. The people of Folkston and sur rounding eountry can get ice at any {ime from now on in large quanti ties of 100 pounds ‘and over. A car load just mn, Picnic parties can always depend upon us for Ice on short notice. ' Yours for busidess, i W. W. TYLER. HAT GRAND JURY AS A HUMMER. Sone progressive work was done them. The progressive spirit adominated throughout. . ‘The re mmendation offering substantial ouragement for the State Road serves spectul mention, While it no more than we expecied of em, yet this is capabie of doing Ich good, not only to this_inune- Hate wire grass section but to the &tate at large and to 4he northwest : herally, and right here we take casior to say that we should take SBccial pains 1o select business men & judgement, who are progres‘sive, Bd e ability enough to put Mgeir ideas of progress into actual Wheration on the Bbard of County : Dmuissionsrs. There 1s neariy a ’, %Board to be elegted and great @re sliould be exercised in their se fg&ction. | " a The suggestion of bonds for Rarlton is not only a 700 d one but ' sthe prover thing to do. It would bring beneficial results now. f, tu'ruing loose 4 or 5 hundred ~ dollers in the county it wounld fyg the financial strain and give ing improvements that would ; j»hirlton county In 2 class with ORI counties that ar¢ nov consid kol for her snperior. With - good f,e_:b,; our waste lands would build @pinto fine farms, people would ;"”~)sfi§fimong.u§.¢, enhancing, the valnation of this new almost worth. less wasté land and, Uging here, W bmg tfiemt of the burden ’& ying these bonds, and we would % g greatest benefit from the ] ? ‘mn“nf"of money put _in -0 c "}l]g‘fiyw, and the gaod Sllxstre; ~ the: TferommMEAING 17 the Grandl Jury .that the Coux}?y Commissioners pay one half the ex pense of the boimg of an artesian ';fi'éfl;siti‘:'l?olkaton. Folkston greatly appréciates this help, though we were determined (6 have artesian water even at our own expense, and we think it a very wise thing for the cou;’ny officials to do, They can then have a voice in where the well must be put so as to accommodate the greatest number of country peo ple who have business here and find no public watering place for their suffering horses and mules, It was indeed a touching sight t» wi{ness the poor dumb animals, thirsty from being tied up here all day during court, pushing one an other about in order to reach a small bucket at an ordinary hand pump. Such progressiveness deserves more than passing notice. Let us all join hands with the Grand Jury and push the good work on. -~ TO THE PUBLIC. [ take this opportunity to contra dict certain rumors which have and are being circulated to the effect that I said I had known Col. E. L, ‘Walker from childhood and that he was a regular grand rascal. To say the least, this is not true. But Ido ’say that I have known Col. Walker all his life and that he is a perfect gentleman and fully competent to take care of the office of Solicitor ‘General. 3 Hampron CrEws Sk, j Plenty of Troubie 18 caused by ctagnation of the liver and bowels. To get rid of it and headache and biliousness and the poison that brings jaundice, take Dr. King’s New Life Pille, the re. liable purifiers that do the work without grinding or gripiug. ~ 25¢. at all drug stores, | R b bl b, % That Brown joke seems to be giv ‘ling Gov. Smith a whole lot of trouble these days. “Hurrah for llitt!e Joe Brown.” RACEPOND . The turpentine platform, belong: ing to Medlin and Sundy, burned down a fw nights ago at about two o’clock in the morning. Itis sup posed to have caught from one ot the late trains. Mr. Arch Crews has established a new grocery business near here, Racepond has been planted for some time and is just now coming up. The ground is cmci&l in sev eral piaces. In one place’ a new]| shingle mill has come up, in anoth er place ther¢iis a new house, occus pied by >ur esteemed operator and wife, and tht:'sha\'mics are just crack ing the ground everywhere. If we could just have a good rain it would be dangerous to get oat for fear of stepping on a shanty, Medlin and Sunday are having some fine cypress logs hauled for-1 their shingle mill. J. T. Brown has been very ll hutl we are glad to say, he is much bet ter now. ' Mrs. O. G. Medlin will leave one day this week for Abbeville, 8. C. to visit her sister, Mrs. J. D. Mur. doch. ¢ ' Mr. J. H Stancel, from Sonuth Fla,, is spending a few days with his daughter, Mrs. W. G. Medliu. REPUBLICAN MASS MEETING 2 NDTICE, Tl i The Repubhicans of Charlton Coupty are calling a mass meeting at the county site on April 2sth, 1908 at 12 o'clock M. for the pur puse of eiecting two delegates and two alternate delegates to they Re: publican Eleventh Congressional District and State Convention. * The Congressional Convention convenes in Brunswick, ,th «May T, Wil 00l A Big Stock of Shoes to be Sold at Greatly Reduced Prices. We put this Sale on in Order to make room for New Stock which will arrive in a few days. MIZELL' & PAXTON S.OO A YEAR, 48 Merritts Avenue, Atlanta, Ga., February 1908. W. W. Tyler, Tolkston, Ga, g My dear siri— e There is a probability of my having opposition fur re-election as State Treasurer, and I wish to soli cit your influeace and active sup port: "l ‘ Since 1900, when T was first elect ed Treasurer ot Georgia, I have paid out un the State's Publie Debt, as principaband interest, and to the Public S:hools, the Confederate Veterans, and to general expenses of the state $30,004.771.63. :Of this grand total not a dollar las been lost to the state. The past year $4,797,469.59 passed through' my hands, and | attended “so. this business with one clerk at a fotal cost to, Georgid of $3,600,00 per annum, out of which my assisu{é"’ and I have paid our surety bonds, mine being for $200,000,00, * The duties of State Bank Examiin er are joined to those of the States Preasurer, and the numbeg{g‘? Banks have grown from Iso. ifi 1900 to 448 at this date, or 220 per cent.* In wy eight years ot service ém'f? five State Barfl;é have fuilc("t.fibflxisjl September 1,190 y, I had onl_v-;' one Assistant Ixaminer, and the f‘s’tqu paid only g 1,200.00 f:o‘m"thfi??if#s& ury forithis hqrculcanwot\g‘ %AL © Georgians are faitg‘igxihi'dgd and reasonable people, and I belieye that they will be just..” That is all { ask, and 1 request yout active’ aid. Kindly let me hear from z,fll.,‘i cannot canvass the State; am. too iy 7GR FA to enc 01 copies of Jé&ffl%ccfiy;t{m?pgmfi would be very glad to have you read and haod to some friend. R e ORI T egar s