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The Lyons Progress.
L. W. MOORE, Manager.
Published Every Friday at SI.OO Per Year.
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(Local notices. scts per line each issue
Kates for display furnished on
application.
Entered at the Postufice at Lyons,
Ga., as Second Class mail matter.
LYONS CHURCHES.
Primitive Baptist —Preaching at the
church 1 1-4 miles south'Cast of Lyons,
onthe second Sabbath c.at’ the Satur
day before
Methodist —Preaching or. Second and
Fourth Sundays, morning and night.
Sunday School every Sunday morning,
v PraycT meeting Wednesday nights.
Lev. V. P. Scoville. Pastor.
Baptist—Preaching on Firsthand Third
Sundays, morning and night. Sunday
School every Sunday afternooc. Pray
er meeting Thursday night. Young
men’s,prayer meeting Tuesday nights.
Rev. J. D. Kaoun, Pastor.
About the swiftest case of/burn
ing up money on record occurred
at Tarr.ytown, N. Y., the other
day, Louis Debiasto, an Italian
laborer, >was sitting on his piazza
counting his money preparatory
to a trip-to Italy, when there came
a blinding flash of lightning.
When the man recovered his sight
only the charred remain* of his
pocketboo-k and money were to be
found. The lightning stroke had
burned the«i up.
In New York the other day a
man found a pocketbook contain
ing upwards of $(>,000. re
stored the book to its owner. The
New York papers have printed
pictures of the finder of the small
fortune and congratulated him
upon his honesty. Are honest
men so few and far between in
“"New York that it is the sensation
of a dav when one is found? Luck
*
ily for the owner of the pocket
book, lie did not drop it in Wall
street.
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The suggestion of the grand ju-,
rv, that chaingang and jail pris-;
oners be given a chance to earn
a little money at the conclusion of
their sentences, so as to provide
for their wants until thev can sc
*
cure honest employment, is based I
on reason and justice. Many an !
ex-convict, just olf the chningang
and without a penny in his pocket
is led bv hunger to steal, whereas
if he had a dollar or two to buy
food with, he might try to earn
an honest living,—Savannah
Morning News.
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Citizens of Georgia, are we to
sit supinely by and see our waste
places invaded and built up by :
hordes of thrifty people and make
no protest? Are we to see factor
ies supplant forests, mills to stand ;
where scrub-brush once flourished,
and the prosperities of Georgia
swell her tax digest to over r. bil
lion dollars in the next decade,
and \et make no outcry against
the measley, mercenary railroad
gang that is doing these things?
Perish the thought, says an ex
change.
Baseball has been named as the
correspondent in a St. Louis di
vorce suit. The wife complains
to the court that her husband
loves the game better than he
does her; that he neglects her for
baseball and spends all of his
money on it. As a matter of fact,
she says, he has neglected his
business to attend games and thus
brought himself to the verge of
bankruptcy. So far as the infor- j
mation goes, this is the first time
that baseball has figured in the j
divorce courts us the alienator of i
a husband’s affections.
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Who is Paying the Bulls?
Inwiew of the contradictory re
ports floating about in the news
papers, .it would be interesting to
know who is paying the expenses
of the peace envoys at Hotel
Wentworth. It will l>e recalled
that a day or so ago the Russians
complained of the accommoda
tions at tlie hotel. That gave rise
ito a story .that the expenses of
! both the 'Russians and Japanese
were being paid by a private, es
tate. It seema the hotel is owned
by au estate, and the inference
was that the hotel was giving the
envoys and their attendants free
entertainment for the advertise
ment there was in it.
According to a New York dis
patch Gov. Lane ol New Hamp
shire is authority for the state
ment that the envoys and* their
attendants are the guests of the
state of New Hampshire, but
there being no fund in the state
treasury to meet the hotel bills,
a half dozen of public spirited
gentlemen came forward with the
money. The state, when the leg
islature meets, will reimburse
them, if it sees fit to do 60, but,
if it doesn’t, there will be no
kicking.
Until this publication it was
doubtless the very general im
pression that the Russians and
Japanese were paying their own
hotel bills. A cablegram was pub
lished a few days ago, in whicli it
was said that each of the envoys
was allowed S2OO a day for that
purpose.
The president of course suggest
ed that the peace envoys meet in
this country, but did that sugges
tion carry with it the the obliga
tion to pay nil the expenses of the
conference from the time of the
coming of the envoys until their
departure? If s<>, the president
ought to have seen to that matter
so lh*it there wouldn’t have been
v
anv gossip about it.
T!iq government brought tiie
envoys together, introduced them
in fact, and sent them to Ports
mouth. Not only that, but it pro- -
vided a handsomely furnished 1
place of meeting. If entertain
ment was also to be provided then 1
there has been mismanagement!
somewhere or else there is no;
foundation for the gossip in the
newsnaners. The envovs would
feel greatly annoyed if they should
hear that there was a question
about the payment of their hotel
bills. Perhaps it was because they
thought they were paving their
own bills that they felt free to
complain of the kind of enter
tainment they were receiving.—
Savannih Morning News.
A Great Writer Thus SpeaKs
Truthfully.
“She was a woman worn and
thin, whom the world condemned
for a single sin. They cast her
out of the king’s highway, and
passed her by as they went to pray.
He was a mau, and more to blame,
but the world spared him a breath
of sham<. Beneath his feet he
saw her lie, but raised his head
and passed her by. They, were
the people who went to pray, at
the temple of God on the holy
day; they scorned the woman,
forgave the man—it was ever thus
since the world began.
This Should Put Our Country People
on Guard.
A prominent trade review says
that figures show that to-day the
south has almost as large a popo
lation as the entire country had
before the civil war began, that it
has almost as much valuation,
and that it has more railroads,
more exports, more cotton spin
dles, and in a general way is richer
in natural resources, bnnk deposits
pig in. n and coal than was the en
tire republic in 1800.
THE LYONS PROGRESS AUGUST 18, 1905.
These Indians Were Giants. j
Gigantic skeletons of prehistoric
Indians nearly eight feet, tall have
been discovered along the banks
of the ChoptaiiK river, by the em
ployees of the American Academy
of science. The remains are at
the academy’s building on Frank
lin street, where they are being
articulate and restored by the
academy expert. They will be
placed on public exhibition in the
fall.
The collection comprises eight
skeletons, of which some are
women and children. They are
not all complete, but all the larg
!er bones have l>eeii found and
j there is at least one complete
specimen of an adult man. The
excavation^were in progress for
months, and the discovery is con
sidered one of the most important
from the standpoint of anthro
pology, in Maryland in a number
of years. The remains are believed
to be at least 1000 years old. The
formation of the ground above the
location of the graves gives every
evidence of this. During the ex
cavation the remains of the camps
of latter Indians were revealed.
These consisted of oyster shell
heaps, charred and burned earth,
and fragments of cooking utensils.
These discoveries were made fully
ten feet above the graves which
contained the gigantic skeletons.
There have been other discov
eries in Maryland of remains of
men of tremenduous stature. A
skeleton was discovered at Ocean
City several years ago which
measured a fraction over seven
feet and Bix inches. This skele
ton was interred in a regular bury
ing mound and beads manufac
tured by white men were found
upon it. The dead indian was
probably one of the tribes men
tioned by Capfain John Smith,
who m July 1608 made a voyage
of explorat Cbeeapoftk l>ay.
At the po irit on the Choptank
where the remains were found
there are steep shelv ; ng dills of j
sand and gravel that extend to the J
water’s edge. Beneath the bank is
a laverof marl, and have deposits
of between twenty and thirty feet
of sand and gravel above them. A !
peculiar feature of the discovery
is the charred state of the bones
of the women and children. Those
of the men are untouched by fire.
This seems to indicate that the
ancient Indians cremated the
bodies of all except their warriors.
Th-* wet resting place of the bones
for so many centuries has made
them soft and fragile, and it was
with the greatest, difficulty that
they were removed. —Baltimore
American.
It is announced that Edison
lias at last succeeded in devising
a perfect electiic storage battery.
If this be true, then the great in
ventor and discoveror can claim
to have conferred upon mankind
one-of the greatest boons conciev
nble. It will effect a wonderful
revolution in industrial life.
It will practically eliminate the
beast of burden, and be applica
ble i:i a thousand and one ways.
Mr. Edison said two years ago,
that he had completed a storage
battery, butdt was too heavy. He
has continued to address himself
to the problem and as a result the
weight ha: been reduced to forty
pounds per horse power. Thus a
forty-horse power machine would
weigh only 1.600 pounds.
Chamberlain’s
COLIC. CHOLERA AND
Diarrhoea Remedy
THIS is unquestionably the most
successful medicine in use for j
bowel complaints, and it is now
the recognized standard over a large
part of thecivilized world. Every man
of a family should keep this remedy in
his home. Buy it now. It may save
life. Frick, 25c. Large Sizx, 50c.
WE ARE FIXED
lii Every Department of our Store to Supply
the Trade.
In Clothing
We have just received from
the markets of the East an
assortment of men’s,
youth's and ch ildren s’
suits at prices that would
tickle a cow.
In Notions, Laces and Embroideries we are Headquarters
Hat Department
In men’s and boys hats we
always carry a full assort
ment. To be well dressed
you need a Knox-All Hat.
Come and see our line.
In Hardware and Harness we are Headquarters
(Bents
Os Every discription a fine
line to select from and at
the right kind of prices.
ODOM & CO.,
LYONS, GA.
Bring Your Produce.
TO THE A
Lyons Produce Exchange
We pay highest market price.
either cash or trade.
Chickens, Eggs, Hides, Tallow and Beeswax.
In fact any thing in PRODUCE line. Fine
new STOCK of
Dry Goods, Groceries, Tobacco, Etc.
COME and see us and we will treat YOU
right, LOCATED in WOODEN STORE
EAST of BROWN'S OLD STAND.
S. GREENRURG, Prop.
Live to Eat and Eat to Live.
That’s the way an old saying goes and it’s just the way
most people think, but out in the couniry, it is a prop
sition some time to get something that suits. We are
here to say that we try to keep a variety of something
fresh and good at all times. We handle a complete line
of the finest canned goods put up, also pickles, relishes,
fine hams, in fact, everything usually found in a first
class grocery.
Cold Drinks, Candies and Fruits,
Are other things that we call special attention to. We
are serving as fine Cold Drinks as can be found in town
and our line of candy is always fresh. Suppose you call
and see us iu the Scarboro building and we will try to
please you.
BROWN & WELLS
In Dress Goods
We have them from the
plainest to the finest and
at the right prices. Be
fore laying in your winter
supply we invite you to
inspect our line.
Shoe Department
Seventy per cent of our
shoes stock is all new good.
We carry all styles and
sizes and prices, come
and see our line whether
you buy or not.
Groceries
Both heavy and Fancy we
handle a fresh clean line of
the best and believe in
quicK sales and small
profits.