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CHARILTON COUNTY HERBALD.
DOLLAR AND A HALF PER YEAR
Marooned. Storm Sweeps Florida aiildl South Geofém&BM
Contractor Begin Court House Work, .
Office Room and Material Shed Built.
Around the Court House site
Wednesday, business picked up.
Coutractor B. P, Kennerd, of
Jacksonville. arrived Wednesday.
accompanied with Foreman Collins
who immediately set about build
ing a temporary structure for an
office and storage ro~m. ;
Preliminary work and plans for
immediate commencement of cix
struciion of the Court House ‘was
begun.
A large sumber of applicants for
the various jobs were on hand to
aecure empioyment, and undoubt
edly the full force will be secured
here at home.
As soon as the choice of brick
is made by the commissioners the
supply will rushed to Folkston,
meanwhile a force of 'hands will
be used to get all the preliminary
foundation work done, for steady
advancement when construction
gets under way.
With material and labor plenti
ful progress of the work will be
gin to show the handsome edifice
that Charlton County will boast
in this stately Court House.
Pay checks wil! also materiaily
aid business with our splendid
stores. Grouped with our School
buildings and at the head of Main
street, Folksion will; poigt M
”pm‘lo it's'it?tn of justice. '
October Term Adjorned
Court Calendar Small.
Clerk Raulerson ‘nforms the
Herald: that on account of the
lack of pressing business for the
Court’s attention that there wili
probably be no October Session
of the Charlton county Superior
court. School in session, with a
lack of proper court room, makes
this decision necessary.
The only case of importance to
be tricd is the Hickox murder
case. Mr. Hickox being out on
bond, and the young boy in jail
it was felt that this case could
properly go over without much
concern.
Sheriff Mizell had however got
the empty store building in the
Masonic Temple ready for the
imergency, and if the need had
been pressing court could have
been held there without much
jrreat inconvenience,
Back with you a Year
Time is fleeting and our fancy
is that few of our subscribers
realize that we have been running
the Herald a year, since taking |
charge of it tne present time
This is our 54 Issue. Il has been
nard traveling brother, but we
have enjoyed it nevertheless and
we are hoping tha* a sufficiem
number of our friends will come
in and pay up to enable us to run
pot only one more year, but sever
al. We have our eyes to the
front and just a little aid in the
way of the business will make the
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We have quite a lot of new ma
terial and have prepared to turn
out promptly as well as neally
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ageus to do better, keep us busy
The subscription price is strictly
$1.50 per year.
Expansion of Cup Factory
Promised at an Earlv Date
Folkston has one infant indus
try that are long she is going to
have reasons to be proud of, and
that is the Buchanan Cup Factory,
manufacturers of one of the best
turpentine cups on the market,
with a gnm saver attachment that
mekes the saving pay for the cups
in short order. This device is a
patent product of Dr. J. W. Buch
anan, who on account of bad health
has sold the patent on a royalty
!to Mr. M. deWay, who will begin
at an early date thdl axtensive
mauufaziure of the cups. There
is quite a supply on hand, which is
being disposed of promptly and to
the eomplete satisfaction of the
turpentine manuiactyeers.
Mr. deWay is very optomistic
over the soles of the cup and says
car loeds of raw materials have
been arranged for early Sshipmeut
and that another site with a lar
ger and a better manufacturirg
process erected.
In line with our idea of industries
that can supply a home demand
this cup is an ideal example.
il Entertain "Friday P. M.
While the teachers are enjoying
a few days of rest the Woman’s
Club will entertain them on Fridav
afternoon with a program of liter
ary features, such as readings by
Miss Helen Mizell and Miss Sutton,
the expressicn teacher, music and
songs by our leading Musicians.
The Masonic Hall will be used for
the occasion and it will be bright
ened by decoration of ferns and
flowers., .
Gets a New Bus
Mr. Taylor L. Pickren was here
last week “end from Jacksonville
on his way back home to Homer
ville, and stopped to visit a while
with friends and relatives. T. L
said he Lad traded his old Bus in
fora new International that he
was going to pul on befween
Waycross and Homerville, that it
is fitted to give comfortable and
quick travel, and as the old Bus
had been giving him some trouble
he was determined to serve his
patrons properly . and that his
growing business meant a new
bus was necessary.
T. L. now has a home at Argyle,
Lost Chevrolet
When Mr. F.D. Milis made the
trip to Del Ray he borruwed
Edgars carto make the trip in.
He had it housed at his daughter’s
home, and when the storm came it
knocked the garage flat mashing
down the wuto. It was too
much out of commission to bring
back. Tne home of Mrs, Zart
was also so badly damaged as to
almost cause a total loss,
Father Dies at Cordele
Upon his return from a frip to
Ocilla Sunday Mr. Artice Nobles
found wire from Cordele that his
father had succumbed to a death
call. Accompanied by his sister
Mrs. Joe Holt, they left Monday
morning to be present al the
last sad rites ot their Crisp county
home,
OFFICIAL. ORGAN ORSTHE COUNTY OF CHARLTON.
FOLKSTON GEORGIAR FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1928
/4th Quarterly Conferghce
. Meets Folkston.'F .
| e
Ending the term ol the pregent
presiding elder of the WayGgans
District, Rev. N. H. Wiliiams, Sl
Yold the fourth and his ‘l'ast,'f '
Folkston ebargs, Frildév,f%ai; !‘
Meihodist dhurch here. o
The hour for. the conference
10 o,lack; follgwed by a sernigH:
The Jadies will serve Juneh'in the
Sunday School rooms. Delepafiés
from St. George, Homeland, Beths
¢l, and Traders Hill will b
to make their reports. © # e
As'Brother Williems hassseryig
the dissrict four years Aspef
tom of the ‘Methodist, hg:.v'g_i_fi
sible be transferred as annififlg .
ference in November. It mihQ
to have aim come down befef
conference and give us a Sundas
appointment, oo
eet 3
Progress of Charlton Sclfl cls
Marked by Attendance:
How provd of the progress as
our schools, we are, can only be
proven by the increase of atte‘
dence now in comparison to agtbfi f
dance four years ago. In Septems
ber 1924, there were 693 enrolledy
[nere are now envolled 1009, In®
1924 we had 27 white schools;
1928 we laye nine white schoogfi
y%%gq attendgoce of 85
we are trying to increase (o dver
90 per cent this year,
With 32 teachers then in the 27
schools, we have the same number
in the nine schrols, It requires
fourteen school busses to trans
port the children to thé various
schools. Formerlv all school out
side of Folkston and Sk George
were one teacher schools.
We now have twelve teachers
in Folkston; six in St, George; four
in Uptonsville; three each at Sardis
and Moniac; two in Winokur; and
the other one teacher senools,
There has been many additional
features thathave made the schools
more attractive to the pupils, It
is the desire to add still other ser
vicable features that means an ed
ucation more usuable.
Our school contemplate domes
tic science feaching at anh eariy
date and when that is done there
wiil be inaugurated a lunch room
plan, where the service will be the
at the cost of the food only and
that featore is one that will make
many mothers happy to be reliey
ed of preparing lunches,
The superiority of the staff of
teachers and tzeir attendance at
summer schools fitting them for
better work proves the reeson,
\ Death of Mrs. Carter
Tha sad death of Mrs. Hanssl
Carter occurred Sunday evening
at their home near Uptonville,
after only an illness of three days,
she taking i!l Friday with a heart
trouble and indigestion,
' Beside her husband, she leaves
|t.».n children to mourn their loss:
Four boys, one of which is in the
army; three of the girls at home,
and three married, one at Way
| Cross, now il with typhoid feyer
wheré Mrs. Carfer was stricken.
‘ The funeral was held at dardis,
| Wednesday, the cortage moving
lunder extreme difficulty, teams
'being empioyed, which bogged in
| storm washed rosds. Rev. W 0.
!G(hlon officigted
[ :Mrg, Carter was @ spiendid
woman and good wife and beloved
‘bya wide circle of feiends and
neighbors,
Folkston Boys Win Cont est
In Live Stock Judging
! * County Agent Hursey returned
{from the Live Stock Judging Con
test at Waycross Saturday even
{ing. with his Charlton Ccunty
team who captured the winning
laurels, winning first place. Levis
Gibson was the first individual
winner with a score of 492 out of
{4 possible 600. His team' mates
Powell Leckie and Lee Prescott
cate close enough to make the
.am the winner and win the right
g 0 .to Atlanta to the South
edstern Fair, to complete with the
other eleven district teams, they
®epresenting the 11th Distriet,
here they will compete for the
free trip to Cnicago, to judge in
| Hhe International Cattle show.
:; hat is needed to make these
loys efficient is just more practice
#id Mr. Hursey is anxious to take
thiem. to the communities where
d'cattie are to give them that
aguen. : |
% dairy herds al Callahan,
Tifton and other places should be
vigited and tesf out their ability
futther. < This team if sufficiently
’f; athed would compare 1n judging
cillle with any other team of
Jibior judges, ir: the United States.
qg,, ould be 3. iuegdlq.. PRt
tle, county” or_our’ Chamber .o
Commerce .to aid 1
RR T R v £ i
would be great abvertising of
Charlton county: ‘
We back our local baseball team
tc win with our means. and we
ought to pback a team as this t
win laurels in a contest on on¢
of our chief products that adver
tising our rzising cattle, and in
dustry that makes us claim it as
one of our main, pursuits of #
livehood,
Hurrah for the 11th district
team, Charlton's chamnion stock
judges,
Some Rattle Snakes
Jesse Mattox came in a few days
ago with a big dmamond back
rattlesnake that he had killed be
side the Highway near the river.
It was six feet long and had nine
rattles,
Last week Ed Shiver coming in
from Colraine detected e nice
long coiled up on the edge of the
road, He missed him with his
car, but got out and dispatched him
with a pine limb, He was another
six footer and had nine rattles.
Ralph Davis told us Saturday
that in mowing some hay the
day previous he cut the head off
of a rattlesnake that measured
six and a half feet. His rattles
were the same as the others—
nine. Ralph says this was the
seventh he had killed tius season
so much wet weather had run
them on the high grounds, ac
counting for their plenti‘ulness.
Thig 18 probably truc as some
20 has been reported dispatched
this season,
So we all feel less scared of the
rattler since ' Autivenin” is on the
market to cure his bite,
Lost 225 Piling
Mr, J. C. Littlefizsid that has
been cutting piling on the large
lract cast of Folkston, and had
‘some two or three hundred ready
for floating down the river, lost
'some 225 piling in the high water
| Tuesday. With a crew and a
power boat they have beea rafting
‘them up, having already secured
halt of them and hopes to get
many more. With a boat one
lun cover a wide territory now
’ Railroads Suffer from Terrible Floods,
" Highway Broken in Places, but Open.
’Florida Reports Storm Center at West Palm Beach and
Ocheechobee Section, Homes Wrecked and 400
Killed. Red Cross Felief Noble Working.
While Military Guards Stricken Area.
Locally a 50 Miles Gale Blew, while Torrents of Water Fell
Flooding Low Lands, River without Banks, Siock Maroonens
with Loss of Sheep heavy, Cows not so many. .
No Mail since Monday, Rural Route all blocked, communi
cation with country limited. Highway open between Jack
sonville and Waycross. Highwater caused sand bags used on
Highway near §t. Mard’s Bridge, where surfacing cracked.
Folkston got a touch of the
Florida storm Monday and Monday
night and the torrential rain and
high winds played upon the nerves
of our people until the most of us
was worn out. ‘
" The rain fell in torrents for the
‘most of twenty four hours, and
the wind hlew at a rate of about
fifty miles tx hour, except fre.-‘
quents gust of winds that approxi
mated seventy miles.
~ Day trains made their schedules.
»vith.M' .'foqs f . time, l‘put_‘"flw
Trafn seventedn )
W LW ,‘:g % -
A stoppaflßßaEOulLO! &3S,
to Folkston. Pigeon creek had
filled so with water, that when
the first rear sieeper went on il
it began to give way, The train
was halted, but the bridge bad
sunk so low, that passengers were
rushed to safety, and two sleepers
‘had 10 be cut loose on the sinking
fill, going down some thirty teet
right side up.
Train 83 from Savannah, was
ordered detoured via Waycross
and Valdosta In going over a
culvert some five miles north o
Folkston, the cu'vert begin to give
way. The engineer feeling.. it
give, stopped the train after ss'fe.-
ly passing over it, to find just
ahead another fill entirely down
and out. The train spent the
night between the two washouts
at Uptonville,
Train 21 was halted at Folkstoi
after trailing train 17 to rescue its
passengers, The width of Pigeon
creek having become so wide, they
could not assist them, and they
were taken to Hilliard for the
night.
At Newell, Winokur and Hickox
he Coast line track was so badly
washed s to ston trafic on the
Short Line. Several culverts was
also reported washed out hetween
Folkston and Jesup.
On the Waycross division sever
al places were washed oul leaving
the track hanging by the rails,
Power was cut off by the Light
Plant, but Foreman Carl Sectt was
on the job and had power on by
- 1
Around Folkston the Hignway
suffered badly, underming in frort
of the Mills residence, ot the bridge
ot Harden Garage, and a fifteen
font washout at the Bauman place,
where a new Ford in transit took
a nose dive. with a wet darkey as
the damage, The blocked trans
portation only lasted for tl e day,
Just above Muttox there a short
break the Highway.
Fear that the filled approach in
the Saint Mary bridge would give
way caused sand bags to be placed
on it but calm waters, indicated »
sligut settling of the road bed, A
rise of two inches Thursday was
supposed 10 be caused by high tide
backing tlood waters. “
VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 48
Twice storm struck within two
years Florida, has suffered its sec
ond storm more calmly,
More wind swept; spread over
a greater territory; the aggregate
damage is hard to estimate, but it
will hardly be less than a hundred
million, with a known death list of
250 reported by Red Cross relief
workers. An extimate of others
olace more than that in the West
Palm Beach area,jiherefore the re
ported 4& ‘::d. is conservative,
R . CPPUSERE Jgpmer
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than the previous storm. As to
property destruction it wasso gen
eral as to make it impossible to
record with limited ccmmunication.
From Jacksonyille north more
rain was indicated by water stand
ing in the flat woods. Wind was
recorded at Jacksonville as blow
ing 48 miles, with destruction lim
lited to blown down tree and some
houses unroofed, which the Times
Union mimerizes in face of great
er damages elsewhere,
Senator Robinson cumpaigning
in the storm center turned his
special train over for relief work,
returned to Jacksonville and left
to fulfill other engagements,
Military was rushed to the West
Palm Beach sectin for guarding
the damaged property, while Red
Cross workers set ahont to render
aid to dead, dying and destitute.
This organization started supplies
from centers immediately and in
short order thousand were being
housed, supplied cots and food.
Immediate dangers are being
prevented by inocculution for fey
ers and other diseases.
The Royal Palm enroute to Jacks
sonville went into a washout near
Crawford. Thetrack sank beneath
the train and settled to stay withe
out loss of life we understood.
Trees were dows in eyery direc
tion and school busses blocked.
Vacation was declared for a few
uontil the roads were cleared.
About town favorite trees were
shattered by \be blast, laid hang
ing to upturned roots, on fences.
in yards and on streets, The lar
ger sturdy oaks stood the gale.
The beating rain drenched many
a busincrs place as well as home,
Walls and window could not with
stand the driviog rain. Damages
by dampness will be muterial,
Stranded cars were numerous,
were picturesvbe on the lande
scape head on in holes or stuck is
washouts; many were blown across
streets from parked ploces,
The low lands from the Johnson
place wos a vast lake to the river
some two miles ia extent, andd sea
birds flultered cverywhere, many
captured by blinding car lights.