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THE LYONS PROGRESS.
Vol. 8. No. 17.
LOCAL ITEMS
Champion, of Savannah,
was mingling with his Lyons
friends a few hours last Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Cadnian,
of Savannah, have been in the city
several days this week visiting rel
atives and friends.
Col. C C. Curry, of Vidalia, was
in the city several hours Monday
morning looking after some legal
matters for his clients.
Wanted —Pants and overall
operators willing to go to Savan
nah, Ga., good wages and work
all the year around. Address P.
O. Box 416, Savannah, Ga.
Our repair department is up to
date. Every thiug in Jewelry re
paired High grade watches a spe
ciality. Come to see us, will treat
you right. —W. E. Walker, Jr.,
Vidalia. Ga.
W. T. Moving and daughter, of
Reidsville, came up and spent Sun
day at the home of Will Coleman.
Mrs Coleman has been quite sick
and the visit of her father and sis
ter was a great pleasure.
Cashier Sweat, of the First Nat
ional Bank, spent Sunday in
Nashville with hie wife and little
girl who are there cu a visit. Lit
tle Hazel is not very well but we
hope that nothing serious is
wrong.
Mark N. Rogers and John Cole
man, who are now in business at
Reidsville, were in th& city Sun
day. They came up with Dr. G.
G. Howell, in his fine Overland
car, who spent the day with
friend-s and relatives in the city.
Rev. Pafford desires us to say
that he will be at home Sunday
and will have regular services at
the Methodist church both morn-
and evening. He has been hold
ing a series of meetings at the
Collins Mission church recently
built.
We hear that a move is to be
made to have Judge Rawlings ap
point a fish and game warden for
Toombs countv at the August term
of court. We are wondering wheth
er this would be a wise move or
not, but if the people want such an
officer we say let them have what
they want.
Dennis Boatright, who is now
riding woods for W. C. Oliver &
Son at Rincon, came home and
spent Sunday with his parents.
Dennis says he is getting along
fine at Rincon, and he says that J.
B. Johnson and Lercy Oliver are
kept quite busy these days and
that they are getting along fine.
Nathan Bazemore, who is farm
ing this year on the Tom Harden
place, brought to the Progress of
fice last w-eek the first cotton
square and bloom we have seen
this season. He said that he had
twenty acres like it, too, and if
seasons are right he is looking for
ward to v a fine crop. Nath is a
worker and he certainly under
stands the art of fanning.
Quite a number of ladies jpined
together the other day and made
Mrs. M. N. Rogers a present of a
handsome silver waiter loving
remembrance of her excellent w-ork
in the lady organizations of
which she was a member. • Mrs.
Rogers is a most excellent lady
and we are certainly sorry to see i
her give up her residence in Lyons, j
We wish her and her splend'd hus
hand unlimited success in their
new home.
The controversy between Sheriff
Thompson and C. W. Driggers is
getting a little too personal and
we have decided to cut it out. Let
them follow the suggestions of the
Sheriff, get together personally or
debate the matter in some public
plstce so that those who want to
‘jar the outcome can hear it and
Jfcose who do not care for such j
things can let it alone. We have |
hundreds of readers that don’t en
joy personalities.
Our School Has Closed.
Commencement Exercises End on
Tuesday Night with Delivery of
Diplomas.
The 1910-1911 term of the Ly
ons High School came to a suc
cessful close last Friday and at
night at the Opera House the first
of the Commencement entertain
ments took place. This was a
drama in four acts entitled “Val
ly Farm,” and it was presented
by pupuls of the higher grades,
We failed to get the cast of the
play but every part was well taken
and fine histrionic talent was
shown by the pupi's. Several in
the cast deserved special mention,
among them being Amariah Gal
breath, Edwin Thomas, Jadie Mae
and Georgia Lee Martin, Laurie
Williams, Lottie Hagan and oth
ers we cannot think of right at
this moment. Miss King’s music
class ably assisted in making the
program interesting by giving
during the curtain changes splen
did vocal and instrumental num
bers. The entire entertainment
was splendid and the great crowd
did not regret for a moment that
a small admission fee had been
charged.
Monday night the pupils of the
lower grades gave another splen
did entertainments,the play being
a one act drama entitled“AThorn
Among Roses.” This w-as also
well rendered and again Miss
King’s music class made a splen
did record. The cast of this play
was not given on the program
either, but every participant did
splendid, knew his or her part
well and the great audience was
pleased. It would take the en
tire Progress columns to give each
one that deserves it special men
tion, consequently we are going
to say that all were splendid and
let it go at that. The teachers
who did the training are deserving
the greatest part of praise, how
ever, because the greatest trouble
was theirs. They did excellent,
too, and the people appreciate
their efforts.
Tuesday night came the graduat
ing exercises and the closing of
the school and on this occasion
our spacious Opera House was en
tirely too small to accommodate
the great assemblage. It was a
grand success, too, everything
passing off as merry a9 a wedding
bell. The following w-as the pro
gram of this occasion:
■‘Grand Yalse Concert”-- Mattei
Etlileen Pafford.
Salutation Edwin Thomas
Essay, “Be What You Seem”
Class Poem Riley Kytle
“Sans Souci” Ascher
Lucille Oliver
Recitation, *'Hager”
Jadie Mae Martin
Essay “Keep Honor Bright”
.Mollie Godwin
Class History Clyde Odom
‘‘Salut ’a Pesth,” Kowalski
Ina Coleman
Class Prophecy Myrtle Williams
Last Will Garland Williams
Valedictory ...Laurie Williams
“Oberon”. Von Webber
Nettie Oliver
Presentation of Diplomas..R.M.Monts
The graduating class this year
were Clyde Odom, Garland Wil
liams,Edwin Thomas,Riley Kytle,
Misses Georgia Lee and Jadie Mae
Martin, Mollie Godwin, Myrtle
and Laurie Williams, and each
one made a splendid record. They
are among our brightest girls and
boys and we join their many
friends in extending congratula
| tions.
Now that the school has closed
: speculation is rife as to the next
! term. We are glad to say that we
; are to have the same Superinten
dent and very near the entire fac
ulty. Miss Davis is probably the
only one that wont come back
and we must sav that we are sorry
She is a splendid teacher and her
pupils loved her. A young lady
that has been teaching at Glenn
ville has been elected to fill this
vacancy.
j One more interesting item is
, that our school building is to be
; greatly improved. The people
' have spoken and they are raising
Official Organ of Toombs County and the Town of Lyons.
LYONS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1911.
A Hobble Skirt Incident.
A lady (not of Lyons of course)
a worshiper at the shrine of fash
ion, and wearing a hobble skirt,
racently went to ride with a
young man who had very incon
siderately engaged a high buggy
and failed to procure a step lad
der. After offering in a gentleman
ly manner to assist her in a vain
endeavor to place her tiny slipper
ed footon the high buggy step, he
was seriously contemplating the
advisability of boldly taking her
in his arms and placing her on the I
seat, when with flaming cheeks
she turned to him and said: “Just
turn your > ack. please, and I can
manage it without your help!”
The modest young man did as re
quested and turned only when a
sign of relief assured him that the
thing which seemed impossible
had been accomplished. Then he
too climbed in, and with a look of
puzzled wonder on his face took
the lines and drove away. That
night the young man said to his
sister: “Mary, if fashion demands
and compels yon to wear either a
hobble, or harem skirt, don’t hesi
tate in choosing the harem, for it
has two legs, I understand, while
the hobbie has only one!”
S6OOO to he used in building an ad
dition and making repairs on the
old building. The Board of Trus
tees, the City Concil and the peo
ple are all working together in
this matter and when Lyons
comes together as they have on
this proposition, it means some
thing doing. We have had the
best school in the history of the
city during the last term and we
are going to have such a school
right along. How- proud we are
to make this statement and how
glad we are to know that we are
backed up in the statement by
nearly every man, woman and
child in the city. We want to
thank Prof. Monts, Mrs Shsw
make, Misses Blackwell, Kinman,
Proctor, Davis and King for the
excellent work they have done in
our city and we are glad to know
that they are to return again to
continue this good work.
Special Notice.
To the Farmer’s Union of
Toombs county. Yof are hereby
requested to be and appear at Ly
ons, Ga., on the second Saturday
in June, which is the 10th day.
Brethren please remember the
day and be on hand to transact
some important business. I mean
the Union of the county. Meet
at your Locals and arrange to
come to do business.
Yours fraternally,
J. L. Jones, Vice-Pres.
Returning to Lyons.
Dr. F. B. Hughes, the eyesight
specialist, will be at the drug
store of Brown-Odom for three
days, next Thursday, June Ist,
Friday, June 2nd, and Saturday,
June 3rd. Dr Hughes has taken
care of a large number of bad eyes
m our city and county, and he
needs no further endorsement at
our hands.
J. Perry Brown says he must
have some money and he is going
to put on sale beginning Satur
day everything he has in his large
store at strictly cost. Groceries
will go along with the other goods
and lie has a $15,000 stock that
will be sacrificed. As a sample of
the prices he is going to offer he
says meat will go at about 8 cents.
It will be a cash sale and it starts
Saturday and if you want to save
money, give this store a visit.
The Dublin scout car that is
picking out an official county site
route from Dublin to Savannah,
will come hack through Lyons in
a day or so. They went down
over the route through Emanuel
and Bullcck and they are return
ing through Bryan, Tattnall, Lib
erty, Tcombs and Montgomery.
We must give them a reception
when they come to Lyons.
Additional Locals.
Mrs. R. P. Sweat and little Ha
z“l are at home again after several
weeks spent at Nashville.
Miss Clara Cobb, who has been
attending school at Mt. Vernon,
came down Tuesday morning and
is spending a few days with her
friends, Misses Georgia Lea and
Jadie Mae Martin.
Saturday, June 3rd, the birth
day, of Presidium .LftV-rsou Davis,
being a legal holiday, both the
i Lyons banks will be closed. Pa
trons of the banks must make
their arrangements accordingly.
The colored base ball club of
Lumber City and the colored team
of Lyons are playing this Thurs
day and Friday in Lyons and a
number of whitfe people are going
out to see the games.
Hon. J. P. Brown goes to At
lanta to-day (Friday) to attend
the Greater Georgia meeting and
we know that he will have a good
time. The editor had an invita
tion but we could not get away.
Lost—Somewhere between the
Empire Store in Lyons and my
home on the Marvin road a cush
ion for a surry. Finder will he re
warded for the return of same to
H. H. Mann, Route 1, Uvalda, Ga.
Owing to commencement exer
cises la9t Monday night the
Knights of Pythias postponed
their regular meeting until next
Monday night. We will have plen
ty of degree work and we want a
good attendance.
Our readers should not neglect
their eyes if they need attention.
The expert service of Dr. Hughes
is offered you right at your door.
Don’t fail to see him if your eyes
need attention. Consultation and
examination free.
Dr. W. F. Peacock and Hon. S.
B. Meadows, of Vidalia, were in
the city last Saturday talking a
consolidation of the college mat
ter. Friends it is the only solu
tion of the matter if we want
Toombs county to have the school.
We have strong competition from
one entire county and it is going
to take a united effort if this
county to win the prize. Lets try
to get together.
It seems that some are wanting
to criticise the Progress for the
stand we take on the college mat
ter. We have taken the stand be
cause we think it is the only one
that will win the contest. Os
1 course we would rather see Lyons
win alone, but we dcn’t want a
chance to lose at all and in that
case the surest way is the best.
Thou again, we are working for
something else beside the college.
It don’t take a blind man to see
this point either.
Ihe editor of the Progress has
decided to offer the plant and
business for sale. We have the
best little city in Georgia and we
have as good people as will be
found in tbe universe, but a
change may be of benefit to all
concerned. We will not sell,how
ever, only to a man who can issue
a strict up-to-date newspaper It
is a paying investment to a man
who can collect and dun the sub
scribers. We have never had to
do this heretofore, but they are
beginning to expect it and we
would rather let some one else do
the dunning.
The cow pea weevil is doing un
told damage to the cotton crop in
thi6 and the surrounding counties.
We can hear of it everywhere and
it i 9 proving a worse pest than the
boll weevil. It seems, however,
that they only appear on land
where peas were planted last year.
The expert l ‘bugologist9” are be
hind them now and we hope that
some remedy will be found to
! exterminate them before thej get
| to be as dangerous as the boll wee
vil. We were wondering whether
or not it would be a good idea to
plant a few boll weevils to get rid
of the pea weevil.
Subscription SI.OO.
LOCAL NOTES
D. M Dunwoodv and Dr. Pow
ers went to Darien last Sunday
to spend several days.
Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Smith went
to Uvalda Tuesday to spend a few
hours, returning in the afternoon.
Dr. E. P. Bomar went to Darien
this week to attend Superior
court and he says he had a pleas
ant trip in his Case car.
Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Collins, with
their little son, of Atlanta, are
here to spend a week or so with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P.
Collins.
Traveling Passenger Agent, G.
N Patrick, of the Georgi a & Flor
ida railroad, was in the city this
week visiting his sister, Mrs. W.
L Jones.
G. K. Ferguson, a Veterinari
an, has a card in this issue offer
ing his service to the people. He
claims to cure diseases of stock or
no charge.
Mrs E. C. Collins and children,
of Reidsville, came up this week
and spent a day with Mr J. P.
Collins and wife. Miss Sallie
Kate Collins came up also.
Maurice Thompson, of Screven,
was in the city the first of the
week visiting his many friends.
Maurice is looking fine and he
says that all the family is enjoy
ing good health.
We have a splendidly written
article on the automobile trip of
Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Smith to
Jacksonville last week, describing
the highway and the country on
the route. It is readable and in
structive, but it is too long for
this issue. In our next issue we
will give it in full.
Lyons should have a delegate at
the good roads moeting at Way
crqss today. This meeting is to
formulate plans for through high
ways, to talk bridge across the
Altamaha and those who go w r ill
have a gcod time. A recognized
highway through Lyons would be
a great thing for the city and the
county.
The Georgia & Florida railroad
will run its first Sunday excursion
to Augusta Sunday, leaving Vi
dalia at 7o’clock a. m., arriving
at Augusta at 11:45. Returning
the train will leave Augusta at
4:50 p. m., arriving at Vidalia at
9:20 p. m. The fare for the round
trip is only $1.50 and it allows the
passengers to spend 5 hours in
Augusta.
Mr. R. L. Page attended a meet
ing of the U. B. I. trustees at the
College last Monday and the ques
tion of dividing the male and fe
male departments of the school
were discussed. Claxton and Vi
dalia had committees on the
ground with fine offers, that of
Claxton being a site and about
S3O. 000. To land the school in
Toombs will require a united ef
fort of both Lyons and Vidalia.
The matter will not be settled for
a year yet.
A young son of W, T. William
son, who lives near the Whick
strum bridge in Emanuel county,
was bitten on the foot by a rattle
snake Wednesday. Dr. Darby, of
Vidalia, was called and he was
rushed to the scene in an automo
bile kindly furnished by Mayor
Smith, of Lyons, and the life of
the young man was probably sav
ed, as he was getting along nicely
when last heard from. The snake
was killed and it had seven rattles
and a button. This quick trip
shows the advantages of tele
phones and automobiles. The
young man that needed attention
was in Emanuel county twelve
miles from Vidalia, the home of
the Doctor. The car was in Lyons.
The message was sent< the mach
ine sent to Vidalia and the Doc
tor was at the side of the wound
ed man in about an hour or less.
A life was thereby saved. No fur
ther comment is necessary.