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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.