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THE LYONS PROGRESS. VOL. 7. No. 52. LOCAL ITEMS E. “ Local Cotton Market. Corrected every Thursday morn- J ing, at opening: Good Middling. 14 50 to 14.85 Middling 18.25 to 14 00; For Sale —2 good gentle work horses cheap for cashor good note see W. H. Morris, Lyons, Ga. Parties wanting Stephens cot ton seed can secure them now by calling at the old J. L. Sutton place north of Lyons from J. W. Eight. We have a few thousand cabbage plants for sale. Parties wanting them in thousand lots or more will save money by seeing the Progress. If you have land for sale or rent list it with me. It costs you noth ing. lam in touch with people who want land in Toombs county. Clement C. Mosely, Lyons, Ga. Mrs. R. P. Sweat with little Hazel and Mrs. J. R. Anderson, Mrs. Sweat’s mother, came up from Nashville last week. Mrs. Anderson will visit her daughter for a week or so. Must Be Sold —Four adjoining residence lots in Lyons, 50x190 feet, within one block of school building. For location enquire of W. C. Oliver. Best offer gets them. V. P. Scoville, Waverly Hall, Ga. Wanted —A good man to cut up 500 acres of land near Plains. Ga., into 25 and 50 acre tracts and dis pose of it for us. We will offer an excellent contract to the right man. National Loan and Trust Company , Tifton, Ga. Special Notice —I have taken the agency for the Virginia-Caro hna Chemical Company’s fertili zers and will be pleased to take orders from all good customers who want first class guano. See or write me before buying. Solomon Mosely, Route 2, Lyons, Ga., Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Duffie, who have been living at Alston, came up the other day to visit Mrs. Duffie’s mother, Mrs. Peter Clif ton. Mr. Duffie has sold out his business in Alston and he is now looking around for another lo cation. Manager Willis, of the moving picture show, says that he expects to run his entertainment during j the two weeks of court. He is go- j ing to get the very best film ser-! vice and he is expecting a fine vocalist and a good musician to help him' E. M. Wimberly and Paul Cow art went to Savannah Monday morning and we understand that Mr. Wimberly has purchased an other car anc^ he intends to get into the automobile livery busi ness right. He has a fine Cole 30 already and he has decided to get a runabout. Dr. John Meadows seems to be anxious to get up a controversy with the P'rogress on the road question but we are not going to give him a chance yet awhile. In every article he writes he speaks sarcastically of some little item he has seen in our columns. Now, Doctor, this is for you. We want good roads for Toombs county and we believe the only way we can get them is through a bond issue. We want Vidalia to have good roads, we want Lyons to have the same kind of roads, we want the j same roads iu Cedar Crossing, also j in the Ohoopee district and in the 39th We have no choice as to j where the work begins The lit Me item that you saw about ‘’Vne next road to"be worked” happened to be what we had heard. It was a mistake, howevre, as we have since learned that the gang is on a road to Uvalda. Let’s don t show any jealousy, all work for the same thing. It is Toombs county and we want Vidalia to get just as much as any other district gets. Many Present At Meeting. Officers of \V. A. & L. for the Present Ensuing Year Electad ; There was a meeting of i directors of the Wrightsville Adri-; ! ai> and Lyons railroad last week | j and the following named officers 1 were elected : Mr. T. J. James of Adrian, w r as elected President, Mr. VV. C. Oliver of Lyons, was elected Vice- President, Mr, W. F. Staten of Adrian was elected Secretary, Mr. E. J. Sumner, of Wrightsville, el ected Treasurer, and Mr. J. H Rowland, of Wrightsville, Super intendent. The following directors were named: At Wrightsville —J. H. Row land, W.C. Thompson, Win. Fair cloth and E. J. Sumner. At Adrian —C. R. Williams, T. J. James, W. F. Staten and Neil Grill is. At Lyons —W. C. Oliver, I. Q. Coleman. Dr. I. E. Aaron and P. W. Williams. All of the directors are men who are thorough business men and have a reputation of pushing things that they get behind, and it looks like success to eee this lineup behind our railroad mov ment. Messrs. McKinzie and Snider contracted to finish grading the road from Wrigthtsyille to Adrian and we understand these gentle men have taken quite a nice block of stock in the road. This shows that they have confidence in the fact that there is going to be something doing. We undestand that these gentlemen are experts in this line of work and that the grading will soon be finished. We are told that the grading from this end of the line is now past the Ohoopes river and from the other end they have graded up to this side of Gillis’ Spring. They are cutting ties every day, and it is beginning to look more and more like a railroad every day, and it is the intention of the parties interested to have trains in operation on this road by the late summer or early fall which is both possible and probable. Mr. J. H. Rowland, of Wrights ville, was appointed Superinten dent, this means that he is the man who will put his shoulder to the wheel and will shove business along, he is selling stock every day | and ail the ppopte between here j and Lyons are very enthusiastic over the bright prospects. If Joe! H. fails, it will be his first failure, in fact neither Mr Rowland or any of the other gentleman con nected with the road have any such word in their vocabulary as “failure.” The road is now a cer tainty, it is no more a dream, it is just a question of time how soon you can buy a ticket from here to Lyons.—Wrightsville Chronicle. It is now Col. F. F. Goddard and he is to hang out his shingle right here in Toombs county. Col. Goddard has been reading and studying law for several months and he passed a splendid examin ation before Judge Rawlings in December. He got his sheep-skin a few days ago, has registered with j the Clerk of tne Superior Court and he is ready for practice. He will have offices in the McNatt building. SpencerS. Brown, with his wife and two children, left Thursday morning for San Antonio, Texas. Mr. Brown’s health is not good and he finds thac the Texas clim ate is better for him. Judge Walter W. Sheppard, of the Atlantic Circuit, .passed through Lyons last Saturday en route to south w-est Georgia on a pleasure trip. W. R. Lilliott, of the Lilliott Bros., went down ou the river Sun day to spend the day with his mother. Official Organ of Toombs County and the Town of Lyons. LYONS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1911. Additional Locals. Mrs F. M. Smith went up to Mt Vernon last Friday iu the in terest of Mission work. I “Hog killing” weather again | and we can hear of many that are ! making meat while it is cool. Dr. Brewton, of the Union Baptist Institute, Mt. Vernon, was in the city Tuesday on a short business trip. A. S Odom is selling guano also as will be seen from his half page advertisement See Alden Odom if : you want the good kind. McNatt & Mcßride are putting up a car load of fine wagons. This is about the second car load they have received this seasou. The Sothern BeU Company has run a line of poles to the western section of the city and they are now putting in several new phones in that section. W, L. Proctor who recently moved his family from Toombs county to Savannah, was up here several days this and last week looking after some business mat ters. R. F. Scarboro has moved his family to his country home. Frank lias a beautiful place down in the lower end of the county and we know that ho will do well down there. The Vidalia architect, Mr I. P. Crutchfield, was in the city the first of the week and we are of the opinion that he is getting up plans for a fine residence to be erected in Lyons. All the old subscribers of the Progress will remember that a new year starts on the 12t> day of Jan uary and we will be glad to issue receipts. All who come to court will please bring along the dollar : and mark up lor the year. The weather man at Washing ton dont give us any hope for a change in the weather soon and it looks as if real winter is jnst now getting to ns. We have had plenty of cold but the disagreeable weath er is just beginning to appear. C. J. Phillips has purchased the Morris meat market and we under stand that he is also going to put iin a neat stock of groceries. His [ place is small and he wont bo able to carry a great line but he can do a nice little business and we wish him well. Will Bradly of Hagan, who shot and killed the city Marshall of Claxton a little over a year ago and who surrendered himself to the Sheriff of Tattnall, county last week, was released on a $25,000 bond last Friday at Reidsville. His bondsmen are his father, Dan Bradly, D. C. Newton and G. W. DeLcach, three of the wealthiest men in Tattnall. The fertilizer agents are rushing around like mad men these days and it might be well for the farmer j to look well ahead before he signs a contract for the season. We have a few home enterprises that | make fertilizer in Toombs county ; and their goods should be inves tigated before the other firms are given the business. We are strong believers in patronizing home en terprises every time. Quite a number of the promi nent people of Ailey came down .Monday to attend the funeral of the late Peter Mcßride, an old re sident of that town Mr, Mcßride died Sunday at his old home, after a long illness, and his remains were brought here for burial. He waß the frther of Mrs. W . A. Me- ; Natt and Mr. G. H. Mcßride, of our city, and his death, while ex pected, caused sadness to reign on our streets. The funeral was large ly attended, thus attesting to the popularity' of this good man. The Progress extends condolence to those bereaved. G. C. & P. Extension. ) Ready to Build to Brunswick and to Lyons and Vidalia It was learned in Savannah yns- j , Urday that the Georgia. Coast, and Piedmont Railway Company has) completed financial arrangements ! with New York and foreign bank ers for the financing of an exten -1 sion on the west ro Lvnns and Vi- i dalia and on the east fjom Durien ! to Brunswick. It is understood that the com pany’s new plan contemplates the laying of the entire mileage with 70-pound rails, making the entire road modern and first-clasß in all departments. The road has already acquired extensive terminal prop erty in Brunswick, it was learned, and the necessary surveys have al ready been made, and the work is to commence shortly and will be pushed to completion by early' fall. The proposed extent ion and im provements also contemplate a large amount of new equipment, station houses, sidings, etc. When the extentions have been complet ed, this road, in conjunction with the Macon, Dublin and Savannah, will have an additional route from the west to the coast —Sa vannah News. The above will be good news to our people. We have heard often of the move to extend the line but it was slow in taking shape and we had about decided that it was given up, and we dont vet know any of the arrangements made but before the next issue it may be possible that we can tell some thing of the plans. Mr. F. F. Goddard, on last Fri day, received a certificate from His Honor, Judge B. T. Rawlings, to the effect that he had satisfac torily passed the examination for admission to the Bar, which was held before Judge Rawlings at Sandersville in December, and ac cordingly license to plead and practice law was issued to Mr. Goddard bv Clerk of Court P. S. Hagan. So Mr. Goddard is now a full Hedged Georgia Colonel. We understand it is Mr. Goddard’s in- I tention to remain with us for the practice of law, and he will have offices in the McNatt building formerly occupied by Col. Parrish. I jln addition to law it is said that j Mr. Goddard’s purpose to also of fer his services as a Public Ac countant and Auditor, and from his long and varied business ex perience, coupled with his well known and recognized ability as an Accountant, together with a thorough knowledge of the law, we have no hesitancy in predicting a successful career for Mr. Goddard. Our good old friend, the Sage of High Point went off into a canter last week about the bond issue, i We love to read after our good old friend, we love to have him write for the Progress, but he is just as i liable tc get wrong a* any of the j other people of the county. We ; hope that some of the other older i ! citizens of the county will answer ; 1 ! what he had to sav on the bond l issue. . i Toombs county property seems < to lie jumping in value very rapid- 1 ly. Dr. Gray bought last year a tract of land down near the Cedar > Crossing section that cost him in ■ the neighborhood of $lO an acre, j He sold it for about S3O an acre- “ and the party he sold it to let it 1 go a few days later for S4O un acre That is what we call rapid advance- j ment in the price of real estate. Only a very short time now and , the bird law will come in again, j We have had more birds this year j 1 than in many years past and if : the people will respect the law we will have still more when the law is out again. — I Manager Meek, of the Union Supply Company, is back at home i again and he says that he had a fine time up at his old home. Subscription SI.OO. LOCAL NOTES . J. W. Crosby, of Helena, was in the city tin- first of the week on a business trip. Eas'Ui Collins went up to Ailey i last week to spend a few days with | friends and relatives. Mr. Thaxton, the clever man ager of the Coca Cola bottling works at Vidalia, was in the city the first of the week on a busihess trip. Col. C. C. Curry, of Vidalia, and Col. Kemp, of Mt. Vernon, were in the city the first of the week t) look after some legal mat- I ters. Mr. Geo. W. Vann, who has been at his old home in North Carolina for the past six months, has returned home, much to the delight cf his friends. W. P. Scruggs, traveling freight and passenger agent of the Georgia & Florida railroad with head quarters at Douglas, was in the city Friday morning a few hours. Col. G. C. Jones has sold his in terest in the firm of Battle and. Jones at Sharp’s Spur, ou ac count of his ill health. We hope that Col. Jones wilV soon regain his usual good health. D. W. Cuurrie. J. B. Moss and several other boys from down in the lower end of the county, were in the citv the first of the week. Mr Currie is in the real estate business in Florida but he is also doing business in Georgia. Mrs. Grimes, of Claxton, came up Saturday to visit her boys, and we hear that she is also looking for a ‘home in Lyons. Vacant houses in the city are very scarce and we would like to impress upon our people the necessity of build ing more houses. John W. Greer, of Tifton, was in the city several hours last Sat urday. Mr. Greer is editor of the magazine known as Wire Grass Georgia and he is at the head of the greater Georgia movement. He is a hustler, too, and he seem ed pleased with his visit to Lyons. Truck farming is catching on with our people now and we can hear of several market gardens. Postmaster Aaron is putting out 10,000 cabbage plants and plant ing other vegetables, ard Mr. Vann is going to use about two acres for vegetables. Market gar dens will pay, and we are anxious to see others make a start. The protracted meeting at the Methodist church is still going on and Rev. Cowan, the evangelist, is just beginning to warm up to his work. He had large congrega tions both at the morning and evening services last Sunday and the people are beginning to warm up to the work. Such preaching as Rev. Cowan is doing is needed in Lyons The Wrightsville people have come right in with us in the W. A. <fc L. railroad proposition and they are doing their share right along now. As will be seen from a clipping in another column they have contracted the grading from Wrightsville to the city of Adrian and the grading from Lyons to Adrian has about been completed. We will soon be able to say “all aboard for Wrightsville” over the W. A. & L. railroad. The impression seems to have gone out that wo should have county commisssioners if we vote bonds and if we don’t have the bond issue we don’t need the county commissioners We have always opposed the county com missioner form of government for our county but if the majority of the people want the county commissioners we are willing. We want good roads all over the county and are willing to take the commissioners if it takes them to get the good roads.