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THE LYONS PROGRESS. Vol. 8. No. 21. LOCAL ITEMS UZ. Wimberly is at home again spending a few wpeks down i’n Florida. Five or six doses of ‘‘666” will cure any case of chills and fever. Price 25 cents. Dr. I. E. Aaron went, up to Gar field last Saturday to visit his mother and father for a day. Assistant Cashier Henry Mc- Queen, of the First National,went to Savannah Tuesday morning to return with the remains of his late uncle, R. B. McLeod. J. A. Sumner, Harry Grimes and W. C. Oliver went to Swains boro the first of the week. They went over to sell a Hudson and we are told they made the trade. Tax Receiver Cave is now fin ishing up his tax books and he says that the increase in Toombs will be healthy. We will be able to give the increase in our next paper Our repair department is up to date. Every thing iu Jewelry re paired High grade watches a spe ciality. Come to see us, will treat you right.—W. E. Walker, Jr., Vidalia. Ga. Say, ladies, have you looked at the stylish Peters shoes at Litliotts They are pretty and they wear well Peters shoes for men can be found at this store also and they are as good as any made. Wendell Beasley, of Palatka.Fla. is" here spending a few days with hia grand - mother, Mrs. Sarah Wilks. Mr. Beaslev is a clerk in the Palatka postoffice and he is a splendid young man. Mr. J. L. Jones, one of our leading farmers and a prominent member of the Union, went to Fitzgerald the first of the week to attend a meeting of the stockhold- the Union Phosphate Com p|*y- Chief DeLoach is now looking after the closet tax and this tax should be paid without any kick at all. Lvons has a very fair scavanger department and the small 6um of $1 per year paid for this work is poor pay. H C. Willis and his commedian, Mr. Hannah, have gone to Hazel hurst where they are to put on a picture show for a few nights. The new combination is to come back to Lyons in the very near future and put on entertainments for two or three nights. “Uncle Gub’’ Cilfton has pur chased a new Hudson 38 from Oli ver & Sumner, the Toomds county agents of this fine car. Mr. Clif ton has been wanting a car for sometime and he has certainly bought a good one. Mr. Oliver now has another and it is probable that it will be sold before the week is out. A hard hail fell in the neighbor hood of Berry Hall’s place last Saturday and we hear that his crop was badly injured. One man tells us that every leaf was knock ed from his c-otton, leaving only the stalk. Some say that this will not hurt but we have a different opinion. Other farmers in the same locality suffered also. Some party unknown to the Progressse.it in a letter purport ing to be Mt. Moriah dots last week, signing the name of our reg ular correspondent to same, and it was published in part. Every item it seems, was a fake and we are offering a reward for the name of the writer of the dots with proof to convict. It is a mean person that will practice deceit in this way and if we can find out who did the writing and forged the name ol our regular correspondent we will make them sorry it ever happen ed. Our regular correspondent denies knowing anything of the letter and she is anxious that we party that made use of heruom de plume and name. Mrs. Stewart Burned Out. Mrs. Stewart’s residence >n the north-eastern section of the city, was burned to the ground Tuesday night between eleven and twelve o’clock, and the family barely had time to escape from the building ' with their lives after the fire was discovered. The general impres sion is that the fire started in the kitchen, but when the flames were discovered the entire building was burning from one side to the oth er, consequently no one knows just how it started Not a thing was saved from the burning building, the family es caping in their night clothes and giving the alarm. A hundred or more people went to the scene but they could do no good . They did get the cow and calf away, how ever, and turned the chickens out. Mrs . Stewart is a poor widow woman, has struggled hard to make a living and the loss falls heavy on her. Miss Alice, her daughter, has only been out of the hospital a short time and was not in the best of health. She is a hard working girl, however, and was helping her mother in every way possible. Her young son, Tolly, had only recently started in the dray business, and with his wife, was living with his mother. He lost everything except his horse and wagon. Now, friends, this is a case of true charity. These people are all hard workers and they have lost all. They need assistance. Talk about foreign missions and the heathens, here is a case rigth at our door that must be looked after. We must help this good woman get started again . Her loss was not caused by any fault of her own, it was an act of providence. vVhat that means we cannot tell, because it looks hard that such losses seem to always fall on those who are not able to stand them. The fam ily is without home and without clothing, we mast get busy at once. Let some of you who are charitably inclined get a petition started, and lets all help just as much as we can. This is a worthy cause. Baptist Sunday School Convention at Long Pond. The Sunday school Convention of the Daniel Association will be held with the Baptist church at Long Pond on the sth Sunday iu July and Friday and Saturday be fore. A program for the occasion will appear later. We trust that every pastor,Sun day school superintendent and Sunday school worker within the bounds of the association will make a strenuous effort to be at this convention on all three days; and that pastors will not allow themselves to be persuaded into making engagements to be some where else on this occasion. Think of the magnitude of this work, and how inefficiently it is being carried on in many of our churches, and how entirely neg lected it is by nine tenths of our church members, and let us come together and these three days prayerfully consider way9 and means for improving our Sunday schools and of interesting a great-! er number of our church members in the work. W. A. Rivers, J. D. Rabun, J. W. Palmer, Com. of the Association. Ohoopee and Collins met on the Ohoopee diamond last Saturday and they had a fine game of ball. j Ohoopee won by a score of eight to five and the boys down there are feeling good over the victory. Collins defeated Reidsville and Reidaville defeated Swainsboro. conseciuently Ohoopee must have a pretty good team. Strayed —White hound with dark colored spots, yellowish , black head and answers to name' of Vick. Seen in Lyons May 29 Reward for return of dog or in formation leading to her return. T. L. Ricks, Ohoopee, Ga. Official Organ .of Toombs County and thb Town of Lyons. LYONS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1911, Additional Locals. Say, boys, that F. would .be a good addition to the fire de partment-. It could pull the hose carts and it would be ready to pull : at any time. Jas. Gray and Miss Cft9sie You mans and Carson Mason and Miss Ina Coleman went up to Gillia Spring Sunday and they say thev had a fine time. • John Coleman, of Reidsville, was in the city last Friday a few hours. He came with Dr Howell, who spent a few hours w ith friends here. Mrs. Howell and the boy wore with the Doctor. The Lyons Bargain Store is ad vertising a mid-summer sale to begin Saturday and thev have listed some fint bargains. They want to reduce the stock before the repair work is started on their buildidg. We were fooled >ast Saturday when it began to cloud up and show sign of rain. A light shower came but it was not enough to do any good in this section and the corn crop as well as the* gardens are now suffering ffom dry weather. Manager Shae Hendricks, of the Southern Bell exchange, went toClaxton Friday evening, return ing Saturday morning in a Buiok car. He and a party of friends left Wednesday morning for a pleasure trip down to Jacksonville and other points in Florida to be gone several days. The boys said they were going out hunting a good road to Law tev, Fla., but they have failed to make a report and the good roads bunch in this-section can’t decide on the highway until this report is given. Dr. Coleman is the re feree and it is up to him to report. How about it, Doc? As per notice found in an other column of the Progress, the stock-holder 9 of the Union Supply Company will hold their annual meeting at the Court House in Lyons on Saturday, July Ist, 1911 at 10 o’clock a. m. A full meeting is desired as matters of the great est importance to the Company are to be discussed. H. V. Lynn went to Savannah last Thursday, accompanying his nephew, Sidney Adams, to the hospital to be operated on. Sid ney has been sick for several weeks and we hope the operation will be j successful. Mrs. Brown, Sidney’s mother, went down Sunday morn ing. and will stay until Sidney i 9 able to come home. Jesse Brooker, who came here several months ago to clerk for F. L. Bowen, and later went to work at Willson’s Parlor Grocery, has chosen for himself a sweet young wife and we hear that he will not return to Lyons. The bride is Miss Nicie Jones, a charm ing young lady of near Jesup and the wedding took place at the home of the bride. We are sorry to know that Jesse is not coming I back to Lyons, but we extend him ! hearty congratulations and best : wishes. I The first melon cf the season j came last Saturday and there was I a shower of melons. Four came m ; less time than it takes to tell it. This being the case we had to se lect a committee to decide on the Ist and 2nd prizes, judging the ; winner by the class of melon sent in. Mr. Wiggins was awarded the first prize, his melon being the largest and best developed. The other three were so close together that we have decided to give them all a second prize, consequently each of the other three who came in sc close as second will receive a subscription of six months. The 'others are L. B. Edenfield and A 1 L. Wilkes. We misplaced the address of the third man and we will be glad that he send his ad dress at once. R. Bruce McLeod is Dead. This is a sad announcement and it will be a surprise. Deceased was taken to Savannah last Thurs day morning by his brother. Dr. K. D McLeod, and he wa c placed in the Park View Sanitarium where he was given all attention and where he could be under the care of experienced specialists His disease was tuberculosis and it was in a moßt acute form. His recov ery was never expected, bur, it w as thought that he would get some j better for a time as he had done on several occasions before. The I end came however, on Tuesday and his remains were brought to Lyons Wednesday morning for burial. Bruce McLeod was born and reared right in this neighborhood. He was a polished gentleman in every way and he numbered his friends by the score. During the last year or so his health has not been so good, but he has been jov ial and interesting. He was iu the insurance business and he had worked up a splendid business in that line. He made human na ture a study and it was a pleasure to be in conversation with him. The remains were brought from Savannah Wednesday morning, taken from the train and carried to the home of Dr. McLeod. At 2 o’clock p. m., they were carried to the cemetery w-here they were iaid to rest. Quite a crowd of) friends and relatives were present to pay the last sad tribute. was unmarried but, he leaves a brother, two or three sisters, a great number of relatives and , many friends to mourn his loss, ' to all of whom thej Progress ex- | tends condolence. Rev. J. W. Ky- j tie presided at the funeral. Basket Picnic and Barbcue. At a meeting of the County Union of Toombs County held Saturday, June 10th, 1911, a res olution was introduced and adopt ed that we give a grand rally, with a barbecue and basket din-: ner, at Lyons on Thursday be- j fore the fourth Sunday in July, j the exact date being July 20th. Prominent speakers of national reputation will he invited to ad dress those who attend and we ex pect to make it a grand day for the Farmer’s Union. We also ex pect to have free lemonade, plen-1 ty of iced water and a brass band j to make music A cordial invitation is extended to everybody, farmers, merchants, and citizens generally, and all : are asked to bring along well fill ed baskets to spread on the great I table. By order of the County Union. R. A. Smith, Pres. A. J. Matthews, Sec. and Tres. — Lvons had as guests last Satur day at the New Lyons Hotel, R. T. Pickens, Secretary of the Board of Trade, J. P. Highsmith, a prominent lawyer, and E. J. Youmans, a good mads enthusi ast, all of Baxley, and D P. Wat ers, a Florida newspaper man. They came as a committee to con sult with our people on the bridge ! proposition across the Altamaha. !It seems that Tattnall county j i wants the bridge built down near 1 I the mouth of the Ohoopee and they agree to put up half the | j cost The people in Appling want , the bridge at or near Bell’s ferry i and we are satisfied that Toombs I can do as well as Tattnall. We i understand that the bridge will j cost in the neighborhood of SBO,- I 000 and the plan is to organize a stock company and build it as a private enterprise. Appling is ready to do her shaae and we are glad to see some of the good peo ple of Toombs taking tne mutter up. We have two weeks to give our answer in the matter and we must be ready in that time. Brooks Cowart has left Spring i field and he is now in Savannah driving a car for Geo. M. Brinson. Brooks has had some trouble with his eyes but we are glad to say he is getting all right again. Subscription SI.OO. LOCAL NOTES Miss Adel Peck, of Savannah, j '• in the city spending a while with Miss (Geraldine Aaron. Our ex foreman. Mr. E. S. War j rock, came in from the country Just Saturduv and went to Savan nah to spend a few days. L'ttle Miss Thelma DeWitt had a party Monday night in honor of j her guest Mary Fred Broughton. A i number of their friende were pres ent and they spent a most pleas jent evening. Paul Cowart went up to Louis ville, Ga , Tuesday to drive Col. Jones and his family hack in their car. The Colonel is in very bad health and not able to drive the car himself. Senator Brown will leave for Atlanta about Saturday. The leg islature meets the following week and Mr. Brown wants to get on the ground to look things over be fore beginning his duties. The bail down in the Rocky Creek section Sunday did a great deal of damage. Several of the farmers will have to plant over if thev make any cotton at ail and very few of them will pull any fodder. The hail was very heavy and it covered a large area of the country. The Model F. is running, hoo ray, hooray; the Model F. is run ning and the boys will get away, To Florida they are going, hooray, hooray; to Florida they are going ! and they may (?) get there today. If they don’t get there today, they sa>, they say; They’ll get there to-morrcw, hooray, hooray., Good luck, boys. We are already beginning to hear the rumble of county politics and by the day Superior court meets in August things will begin to hum proper. The congressional race, we understand, is to he ; mixed again, and every offiicer in the county w’ill have opposition. It seems funny to us why people are so hungry for office. Sycamore Place, the beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Smith, will be one of the hand somest places in this section of Georgia when the new repairs are | finished. The building is being remedied all over, with wide ver andas and many new convenien ces. It is going to be a handsome home and modern in every way. Judge Mason, Clerk Hagan and Tax Collector Thompson,also She riff Thompson, returned from the j meeting of the Georgia county offi cers at St. Mary last Saturday and ! they say they had a fine time. Sheriff Thompson came back by Blackshear and brought Henry Stanley who escaped some weeks ago from our jail. Henry was work ing in a turpentine place and he says that he was doing well.He ex pects to get a new trial. The Southern Express Company has issued an order that no more 1 “booze” can be shipped to the in terior points from citities in a prohibition state. That is play ing havoc with the Savannah i blind tigers, but the boys are go : ing to find away to get it and the shipments will be decreased very little if any at. all. We are begin ning to see boxes of “medicine” and “groceries” come in on every j tram now. Lyons is to have a bottliug works and a , gentleman from Swainboro will be the proprietor. He has rented a home here, also a place for his plant and he will be gin shipping his machinery at once. All the bottling machinery will be strictly up to date and the proprietor understands the busi ness thoroughly. We see r.o reason why such an industry would not pay. Now for factory. We must have one and the local de mand for ice proves that it will be a paying investment.