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The Lyons Progress.
L. W. MOORE. Manager.
Published Every Friday at SI.OO Per Year.
advertising rates.
Local Notices. scts per line each issue.
Kate 6 for display furnished on
application.
Entered at the Postoffice at Lyons,
Ga.. as Second Class mail matter.
LYONS CHURCHES.
Primitive Baptist—Preaching at the
church 1 1-4 miles south east of Lyons,
on the third Sabbath and the Satur
day before
Methodist —Preaching every Sunday
at 11 a. in. and 8 p. m. Except third
Sunday. Sunday school every Sunday
afternoon at 3 o’clock. Prayer meet
ing Wednesday nights. Rev. N. T. 1 af
ford. Pastor.
Baptist —Preaching at the Baptist
Church every first and third Sunday
in each month, morning and evening.
Prayer meeting every Thursday even
ing at 7 o’clock. Y. W. A.’s meet ev
ery Monday evening at 7 o’clock. W .
M. Society, first Monday after third
Sunday in each month, 3 p. in. Sunday
School every Sunday afternoon. J. W.
Kytle, Pastor.
News from Sardis Church.
Harley Clifton called on Edd
Mcßride Sunday last.
G. F. Morris made a business
trip to Lyons Wednesday.
Edd Mcßride made a business
trip to Lyons Saturday last.
R.K. M orris and wife called at
the home of T. A. Clifton Sunday.
Miss Irene Alford is spending
awhile with her uncle, W. H.
Jackson.
G. F. Morris and wife made a
business trip to Alston Satnrdaay
afternoon.
G. W. Love and wife called at
the home of W. J. H. Foster Sun
day morning.
Jim Love and Joe Conner were
out riding for their health Sun
day afternoon.
W. E. Morris aud W. J. H. Fos
ter called on T. A. Clifton Sun
day afternoon.
We are sorry to note that W. H.
Jackson is on the sick list, but we
are glad to say he is improving.
Misses Irene Aliord, Annie and
Maude Jackson called on Misses
Annsnle and Eula Sharpe Sun
day.
Eune Cowart went down on the
river Saturday night and returned
home Sunday afternoon. Say,
Eune, what is so pretty down
there? Cotton Chopper
Kile Bridge News.
Quite a large crowd was out at
Mt. Moriah Sunday.
C C. Gainey and John McCarty
went down to Uvalda Sunday and
said they enjoyed themselfes fine.
David McCarty was at Mt. Mo
riah Sunday with his best girl and
called at the home of F. M. Mc-
Carty.
Guess what young boy went to
Mt. Moriah Sunday with a hen
in his buggy. Don’t ask N. N. T.
about it.
Plenney Gair.ey was a guest at
the home of F. M. McCarty Sun
day. Come again, friend, you are
always welcome.
Guess what two boys went to F.
M. Me Carty’s Sunday night and
were too late Say, boys, come
sooner next time.
Two Little Girls.
The Progress is offering a prize
again this year for the first water
melon brought to the office. It
must be ripe and full grown with
out any defects at all. The prize
will be a year’s subscription free.
We will also give another prize for
the largest melon brought to the
office during the season and a
second prize for the second larg
est. The weights of the melons
will be kept secret until Sept. Ist,
when the winners will be announc
ed in the paper.
Lyons is seemingly headquart
ers for life insuronce agents. We
have had a half dozen here for a
week or more and they all seem to
be doing business.
Our good friend, I). M. Dun
woody, who is making his head
quarters for the present at Vidal
ia, was in the city this week ming
liug with his many friends.
Judge G. T. Mason, and Clerk
of the Court, P. S. Hagan went
down to Savannah Wednesday
night and spenp Thursday at
Ty bee.
Straight from the Shoulder.
guy, citizens, we have been
tolu that religiou* envv liaecrep
int<» our pnbl»c school matter,
that jealousy has cropped out, be
cause some of the teachers
happen to belong to one denomin
ation. Great horn spoons, what is
this got to do with the school?
When we send to this school, is it
supposed to be a church and is it
necessary that the teachers 1 •
chosen because of their religious
faith? If a good Episcopalian is
making an application, should he
or she be turned down because of
the church they belong to? For the
sake of good common judgement
don’t let such a small matter ruin
the city and the school. We have
only two denominations in the
city, the Baptists and the Meth
odists, both good and both doing
fine work in the Lord’s Vineyard,
but because a teacher is a Baptist
< r a Methodist doesn’t mea i that
thoy are any better to teach the
children than a Lutheran, Presby
terian or a member of the Episco
pal church. Jealousy don't show' a
Christian spirit at all, but it is
like the sting of the rattle snake
It saps the life from anything it
takes hold of and it means death
to a public enterprise where all
will have to work together.
Atone time the two religious
bodies in Lyons worked together
in unison and thev did great work.
But why should it not be this way
now? They are both teaching from
the Bible and the ultimate end of
this teaching is a home in after
life among the angels on the right
hand side of God the Father. The
only difference between the two
be dies is the manner in which they
should worship. This should not
cause envv and it should not be
the foundation of jealousy. But.
someone will say, they are in the
majority and they make fun of
us. That is where they are wrong.
If one branch should happen to be
a little stronger than the other and
win out in a selection of teachers,
it is nothing to brag about. Let
them be satisfied, it is nothing to
gloat over.
What we want and must have
in Lyons is a united citizenship,
united as one on all public mat
ters. Jealousy must not be shown,
and the church and the welfare of
the city must be held apart. If a
Carbolic or a Jew is among us we
must think just as much of him
as we would a Baptist or a Meth
odist. He can help us just a9 much
in building up the city as a mem
ber of any other denomination.
We must not make fun of him be
cause lie chooses to worship God
different from us and his denomi
nation is not quite as strong as
ours. We must offer him the right
hand of fellowship, make him or
her feel at home if we can.
Right now we are striving to
raise money to build a large ad
dition to our school building but
we are told that the commit
tee is meeting with poor success
and the reason given is that this
feeling spoken of above has spread
out. Jealousy has its talons in the
throat of the enterprise and it
threatens to die before it takes on
good life. How sad we feel to say
this, but it is the truth and if the
truth hurts it will just have to
hurt. Get rid of this feeling, fel
low citizens, help in the school
matter. It is the backbone of the
city and we must back it up as
one It will not stand division.
Let’s forget our religious feeling
for a moment and help just as
much as possible in enlarging the
public schoool building.
Tax Collector’s Special Notice
I will be at the Court House in
Lyons Thursday, Friday and Sat
urday, Juue 15th, 16th and 17th,
and Tuesday, June 20th, for the
purpose of receiving tax returns.
There are a great many that
havo not made any returns of
their property, so you had better
meet me on one of the above
named days and give me a return
of this property that is subject to
taxation, otherwise you will be
entered as a defaulter and your
taxes doubled. I will close on
June 20th and prepare to begin
posting my Digests.
J B. Cave,
Receiver of Tax Returns
The drought has been broken,
splendid showers falling Wednes
day and Thursday. Crops are
looking fine and prospects for the
farmer in Toombs counly were
never better than at present.
T HE LYONS rßOUliiiioo, JUNE 9 1911.
The South Marching Forward.
The Southern farmer is IT! No
Corn Belt farmer, Wheat Belt
farmer, Eastern farmer. Northern
farmer, or any other sort of farm
er on the continent, is making
things hum (pardon the slang for
once; we are indulging in a bit of
jubilation) like Mr. Southern
Farmer is doing.
This is no idle assertion, no
mere bombast, but u cold—no,
not a cold, but a red-hot burning,
statistical fact It is based on the
figures just given out from Wash
ington, showing the crop values
bv States for 1910, the total value
of the crops produced by the far
mers in each Commonwealth last
year. These show that one South
ern State —Texas —has “cut
down” everybody else in the class
stands head—and is going to keep
on standing head and that every
other Southern state in the Prog
ressive Farmer territory has also
moved up right toward head, ex
cepting only Louisana which is
going through the boll weevil set
back which will itself only pro
duce a healthy reaction in the
end.
Let’s take the record one by one.
Texas, as we have said, put out
Illinois which in 1909 was first in
crop values; and unless we are
mistaken, Texas will be first on
the ro!l always hereafter. South
Carolina (three cheers for our
Palmetto readers!) which was
twenty-first in 1909, broke all
records by cutting down eight at a
clip, and is now thirteenth in the
class. Georgia was teuth in crop
values in 1909, and climbed right
up to fourth place in 1910.
Alabama jumped six competi
tive States and is now No. 14 in
the list. North Carolina jumped
four, and Mississippi and Arkan
sas each climbed three points to
ward head, North Carolina mak
ing a gain of 18 percent in values
Arkansas 11, Mississippi 10. And
but for the boll weevil, Mississip
pi would have done even better.
Virginia moved up two points
and Tennessee one, and Florida,
while still 42nd on the roll, scores
a gain of 9 per cent in crop values.
Let’s all give three cheers for the
Southern farmer and get to work
harder than ever.
As for the man who isn’t work
ing and isn’t trying to farm better
than ever before, the man who is
not helping the South show the
rest of the world what we can do,
and what sort of Btuff her sons
are made of—well, he is a skulker
and a shirker, worse than the man
who ran away from battle from
’6l to 65, or else he just hadn’t
been waked up
There are mauy yet to be arous
ed and brought into the ranks of
those who are marching forward to
better things. The average farm
er made last year only 170 pounds
of lint cotton to the acre. He
ought to do better than that, he
can do better, and he must —for
the sake of the South.
Go after this farmer who is
standing still; get him to moving ;
take him out to the farmer’s Ins
titute; interest him in the Farm
er’s Union, and most important
of all, GET HIM TO READING.
Lend him the bulletins, lend him
any literature you can, but in any
case, get him to reading a good
farm paper as well as his LOCAL
paper.
The South is marching and we
need every man in line.—Progres
sive Farmer.
Flies Are Dangerous.
Flies are the most dangerous in
sects we have. They are much
more dangerous than bees or horn
ets; these may sting you and the
sting is painful but you soon get
over the pain. Flies do much
more harm than this. They wall
over filthy places like sewers and
garbage cans, and after eating the
filthy food which they find there,
they come into your house and
walk on the food you eat, carrying
cn their feet the tiny germs which
live in filth as you live in a house.
These germs are not only filthy
and disgust ing, but many of them
cause such deseases as typhoid fe
ver, cholera infantum and summer
complaint. When the flies bring
them from som9 dirty place to
your food or leave some of them
when they crawl on your face or
hands, you may swallow these
germs without knowing it ani be
taken ill with one of these diseases.
So the fly that seems so harmless
may do you much more harm than
a bee or a hornet.
I THE LYONS |
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Headquarters for Real Bargains. Just received, a full line
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<R Dry Goods and Ladies’ Muslin Underwear.
| Crawford and Beacon Shoes, |
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VIDALIA ICE AND COAL CO.
Manufacturers of Ice and dealers in Coal, Wood, Brick and Lime.
LYONS BRANCH.
Price List of Ice Tickets for 1911.
100 lb Coupon Ice Books $ 60
500 fb “ “ 2.85 Less than 100 fibs, at time
1,000 lb “ “ . 4.75 In 100 fb lots and over
1,000 fb “ “ 5.60 Less than 100 lbs. at time
2,000 lb “ “ 940 In 100 lb lots and over
5,000 ft> ** “ 22.50 In 100 ft» lots and over
10,tOO lb “ “ 42.50 In 100 lb lots and over
We wish to impress on all our customers the importance of using the Coupon Books.
Ice will cost 10 cts. per 100 lbs. more if you do not use the books.
Wagons will start on their rounds at 5 a. m., and will make another round in the afternoon.
On Sundays wagons will deliver ice from 5 a. m. until 9 a. m.. and remain at ice house from
9 a. m. to 10 a. m.
Always have Coupon Book on hand when wagons call to deliver ice. and in case there is no
oDe there to pull coupons please leave book at or near refrigerator so driver can get coupons.
Prices effective April Ist, 1911. TELEPHONE 91
VIDALIA ICE AND COAL COMPANY.
to the Trade.
Call and let me show you what I have in
the way of dry goods, hats and shoes, high
or low cut, gents or ladies. Groceries, drugs
etc. Walker’s Dead Shot, best known rem
edy for hogse colic. Come, I may surprise
you. I live out in the sticks in my own hut,
drive my own au to-be-mule, fed on home
raised gasolene, drink my own branch water,
burn my own knots, smoke my own cern cob
pipe. Trne I have to haul my goods, but
my haul bill only about equals town living. ,J
Yours for business,
J. M. FINDLEY,
(Old Rackley,) Lyons, Route No. 2