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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 Herald bigger and better. A sub scription, job or adverlisement will make us try and please you more and more. Try us and see us smile. et We have quite a lot of new ma terial and have prepared to turn out promptly as well as neally printnr. Ifyou wish toencour 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 Y e’;‘i‘;{ b : £y ’»?-.*M &“ T i g W oy ,' ’g‘filrfQj }m .}-',,:, il o »e,“'w e calh Tad i ”"W‘&%W 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.