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THE LYONS PROGRESS.
Vol. 8. No. 22.
LOCAL ITEMS
Five or six doses of “666” will
cure any casp of chills and fevpr.
Pfiff 25 cpi)t,s
colored people are to have
a great 4th of July celebration in
Lyons, and they are issuing hand
bills for it this week.
Watermelons are getting to be
plemiful. Several wagons loaded
came to the city last Saturday and
they sold at good prices.
We had a good rain Sunday and
it struck a great part of the county.
The crops were all needing rain,
too, and they are now looking
fine.
Our repair department is up to
date. Every thing in Jewelry re
paired High grade watches a spe
ciality. Come to see us, will treat
you right.—W. E. Walker, Jr.,
Vidalia. Ga.
Sheriff Thompson took the
crazy darky he has had in jail for
several weeks to Milledgeville last
Friday. Alden Odom went along
and he says they had very little
trouble with the darky.
Mr. and Mrs. Ricks, of Alston,
were in the city last Saturday on
a business trip. We understand
they sold their home in Lyons to
Manager Meeks of the Union Sup
ply Co. This is a nice little home
and we understand that it was
sold at a bargain.
The new school catalogue will
will be out this week and we re
fer to it as beitig a neat piece of
work for a country print shop.
This catalogue was printed and
bound in the Progress office and
we are proud of it. The school
however deserves such a catalogue.
--' another part of this paper
wf be found..the jury Jist for the
Aug ’-t term of court. Good men
are t : be found on these lists and
the gi d jury will be a specially
sjflt?ng* o*Je. See if you can find
yptir name on the list, and if you
dOjfoake your arrangements to
come to court.
Those who have not subscribed
to the school building fund should
put down at once so that work
can be started on the building We
have only two more months to get
the annex fiuished and it is going
tc take a united effort to do it.
Throw aside your personal feel
ing and lets have a school in
Lyons we can all feel proud of.
The New Lyons has cer-;
tainly been a popular place with
the drummers lately. Manager
Goddard has had about all he
could look after, the house being
well filled from Monday till Sat
urday. Mr. Goddard has made
many improvements in the hotel
and he has tried tc make it comj
sortable for those who stop with
him.
The Farmer’s Union of Toombs
county have, decided thatjthey will
manufacture their own guano next
year and they will apply next week
for a charter for their factory in
Lyons. They say they are going to
put up a plant that will be able
to supply the farmers of the coun
try and they are going to prepare
to make the very best guano.
Their supply company has been a
success from the very start and
the guano factory will be even a
greater success if such a thing is j
possible.
Simon Levin and his little fam
ily narrowly escaped injury in an
automobile last Sunday afternoon
They were going to Vidalia to get
a train to Douglas, and on the
Matthews hill the car became un
manageable, the driver running
into a bank. All the occupants of
the car were thrown out and the
two little children had small cuts
on the head. Mr. Levin secured a
mule and wagon and went on to
Vidalia, but he was too late for
the train and came back home in
one of Mr. Grace’s cars. The car
wal badly wrecked in the smashup.
A Few True Facts.
Mr. Editor:—As I am long past
“school age,” and have no child
ren to educate, one might say I
have no cause for complaint, but
permit me to say just a word in
behalf of our Board of Trustees.
One naturally supposes them to
be men of intelligence, capable of
directing and controlling the af
fairs of the#chool placed in their
hands. These gentlemen km>w
moreof school|conditions than The
general community, have a much
better knowledge of its needs and
requirements. If they were sat
isfied with the work of the school
last year, and thought it wise,and
to the greatest interest of the
school to re-elect a faculty that
had been tried, and known to be
capable, why all this criticism and
fault-finding? To say the least of
it, it isqueetioniug the capability,
the honesty and the integrity ot
the gentlemen of the “Board.”
Besides if fault was to be found,
complaint to be made, why wait
all this time; why w r as this not
done before the election of teach
ers? Why was the Superintendent
allowed to plan his work for next
year, believing he had the entire
confidence and co-operation of the
community, and then at the
eleventh hour spring all this dis
turbance, which simply means
ruin to the school interests.
As to the denominutionalism, I
do not suppose tlie “Board” con
sidered the church relationship of
the teacher. They naturally sup
posed they were dealing with the
interest of a Public School, not a
Theological Seminary. It is the
duty of the “Board” to secure the
very best, most capable teachers
possible for them to get, but when
it comes to church relationship—
that is one’s own personal privil
ege. Suppose the Methodists,
J
sriould boycott the physicians of
our town not because they are not
competent, honest, brainy physi
cians, but simply because they
are Baptists. Suppose this was to be
carried out to all the business in
terests, merchants, grocers, mark
ets and all, Wouldn’t we have a
flourshing town?vvouldnt we pose a
beautiful spectacle before the
w'orld? And yet that is just the
condition in which the grumblers
and fault-finders would place us.
Remember that we live in thr
United States of America, under
the Constitution given us by ths
heroes of 1776, and in which is
embodied the right of religious lib
erty, and the right to earn our
! dailybread is not to be imperilled
! bv the fact that we are a Metho
dist, or a Baptist, or a Presbyter
ian, or an Episcopalian, or what
church we may have allied our
selves with “Old Honesty.”
We have a letter from a promi
nent citizen of Uvalda announcing
that they are going to have a great
basket picnic and barbecue on
Tuesday, July 4th, and they are
extending an invitation to the
general public to join them and
enjoy the day. They say they are
going to prepare for at least four
thousands people and they are go
ing to have everything good and it
will be free. A prominent speak
er will be on hand and music will
be supplied. The Progress writer
hopes to be one of the attendants.
Miss Eilen Wimberly and a
number of friends enjoyed a pic
i nic on Pendleton creek near the j
Gordon bridge Wednesday and j
they say they had a fine time, i
The day was ideal and we hear
that they caught enough fish to
have a nice fish fry. We didn’t
get a list of the attendants but
they had two large wagons loaded j
besides an automobile and a single J
wagon.
Ray Loving, who is holding a
! splendid position in Dublin, is at
| home with his mother to recuper
ate. Ray has worked hard and he
is not looking so well, but a short
vacation at home will, we hope,
briug back his usual good health.
Official Organ of Toombs County and the Town of Lyons.
LYONS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1911.
Additional Locals.
Special Notice.
Tuesday being a legal holiday
and Monday being tho first day of
the week, all the banks ot Toombs
county, at Lyons and Vidalia will
be closed both Monday .and lues
day, the 3rd and 4th cfJuly. Part
ies having banking business will
please take notice.
Notice —The Tattnall Bank,
Reidsville, Ga., will be closed on
Independence day, Tuesday. Jul>
the 4th, 1911 —B. H. Groover,
Cashier.
Little Miss Annie Lois Cul
pepper is at home again and will
spend the school vacation. She
has been attending school at
Sandersville.
Mr J. M. jHp, of Arling
ton and a prowßent citizen of
south-west Georgia, was in the
city this week visting his neice,
Mrs. W. P. C Smith.
Next Tuesday being the 4th day
of July legal holiday, both
of the L_BR banks will be closed.
Those Having banking business
will please take notice.
P. A McQueen, the hustling
editor of the Toombs County Lo
cal was in the city several days
this week assisting Tax Receiver
Cave finish up his books
Mrs. R. 8. Willson and the
children have been spending sev
eral days this and last week in Sa
vannah and at Tybee. They will
go to Sylvania to spend a few days
before returning home.
The Macon, Dublin & Savannah
railroad, running from Vidalia to
Macon, makes a slight change in
4its schedule beginning ’Tgundav.
The copy came too late to get in
this issue but it will appear in our
next.
Dr. W. W. Odom is on a spree,
as the saying goes, this week, but
he has a good excuse for his gaity.
He has a fine nine pound boy at
his home and it is the first one.
Mother and chiid are both doing
fine, w r e are glad to say, and the
Doctor is being congratulated on
all sides.
Remember you subscribers who
are in arrears more thau one year,
after July 15th you will find your
accounts in the hands of an at
torney in the neighborhood of
your home. We cant get to you
with a statement because in many
places it would cost more than we
would get, but money orders cost
very little and if you say so get
one and take out the cost of the
order. You certainly ought to
knew how much you are behind.
The Progress, along with all the
othei weeklies in Georgia, usually
takes a week off to celebrate the
4th of July, but we are doing the
official advertising and it is neces
sary that we get out a small paper
anyway. We are going to wait,
however, to take our holiday on
the week following so that we can
attend the meeting of the Georgia
Weekly Press Associatian to be j
held at Cartersville on the 12th |
and 13th, consequently our read- 1
era must not look for much of a
paper on the 14th of July.
At the regular June meeting of
; the Board of Directors of the First
i National Bank, held the other day,
! the business of the institution was
gone over and found to be in excel
lent shape. A semi-annual divi
dend of five perceut on the capital
stock was declared and ordered
paid and a handsome sum was set
aside for the surplus fund. Cash
; ier Sweat and his able assistant,
Henry McQueen,were compliment
ed by the officials for their excel
| lent showing. This bank has never
grown in popularity before as it
has in the last few mouths, and it
is now looked upon as one of the
most solid financial institutions
in this section of Georgia.
J. P. Pughslev, Sr.
Last Thursday, June 22nd. just
at the close of a beautiful day—
as the mantle of darkness was fall
ing around us, the news went
around that a life had passed out,
a career as beautiful as the day
that had just ended had also been
closed. J. P. Pughsley, Sr , an
aged and honored citizen, after a
suffering of many months from
cancer and some sav a type nf
tuberculosis, had been relieved of
his pain and suffering and his soul
had started on that journey from
which no one has ever rettfrfied
For months he knew that the end
was coming slowly and with Chris
tian fortitude he bore his suffer
ing. When the end came he was
ready to go and up to the last
moment he was conscious, calling
hisgood wife to his bedside and
bidding her a loving good-hve.
Deceased was in his 70th year of
usefulness and was born in Eman
uel county. Early in life he mar
ried a Miss Mobley, of that portion
of old Tattnall county that now
makes a great part of Toombs.
From this union there were several
boys and girls who are growing up
in the footsteps of their noble par
ents, He was a consistent member
of the Baptist church, lived a
noble life and when dentil came to
end his great suffering he was
taken into the.pearly gates where
suffering ceases.
The remains were laid to rest in
the Lyons cemetery last Friday
arternoon, the funeral taking
place from the Baptist church.
Rev. J. W. Kytle officiated with
ease and grace and ’the church
was crowded with friends and rel
atives, nearly all of whom follow
ed the remains to their last resting
place in the cemetery. Deceased
being an old Veteran the old Vet
erans who* survive him acted as
pall bearers.
In this death Toombs county
has lost good citizen, a family has
lost a loving head. Our loss, how
ever, is a gain on high and we
must try to emulate the life so
that we can be joined again at the
end of time. The Progress extends
condolence to those bereaved.
The Faircloth School Picnic.
Friday, June 23rd, brought to a
close a very successful term of
school taught by Prof. Youmans
at the Faircloth school house in
the Cobb's Creek school district.
On this day the patrons aud
pupils nf the school came logether
and had a picnic at the school
house in honor of the occasion.
Iced drinks and ice cream were
served in abundance and were en
joyed by all. Also the bountiful
basket dinner which was furnished
by the patrons of the school.
In the afternoon Miss Faircloth
who is an accomplished musician,
furnished music and thereby ad
ded much to the pleasure of the.
day. Miss Faircloth was assisted
in the singing by the Denmarks
and others. A very pleasant
time was spent together. Every
one came to have a good time and
never went away disappointed.
All who know Mr. Sam Fair
cloth know that he always makes
1 a success of anything that he ever 1
[undertakes and the success of the
j picnic was largely pue to his un
tiring efforts to make it so. All
| who attended appreciate and
thank Mr.. Faircloth for all that
he did for them.
As night came on the party be
gan turning their faces homeward
after thanking Mr. Faircloth and
others for their untiring efforts in
behalf of the school and for the
pleasure of the day which will be
long remembered by all who had
the good fortune of being at the
picnic. Another school will start
in a few weeks. A Visitor.
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w. L. Jones, our jeweler, has
moved to Pembroke again aud Ly
ons is now without a jeweler. This
is a fine location for a good man
and we want to see one come here
and locate that will look after the
I work given him.
Subscription SI.OO.
LOCAL NOTES
Mrs. W. T. Chipa has been iu
South Carolina for a few days vis
iting relatives and friends.
Mrs. R. S. Scott and the child
ren, of Ocilia, are spending a few
weeks with her mother, Mrs. Jake
Pughs ley, Sr.
Remember the Union Supply
Company’s stockholders’ meeting
at the Court House Saturday.
The Official call can be found in
anther column of the Progress.
The Lyons Loan aud Abstract
Company continues to do business
and they get money for their cus
tomers when they go after it. The
Company closed three good loans
this week and they have plenty
more money to lend good men on
real estate.
Yes, we are going to have the
bottling works and the building
recently vacated by the Union
Supply Company will be used for
it. The bottling works will pay
but it it could be operated in con
nection with an ice factory it
would be a little gold mine.
H. C. Willis, the moving picture
man, returned home Sunday after
giving three performances at
Hazelhurst. He says that he did
fairlv well and he expects to start
out again in the very near fu
ture. It is probable that he will
give a couple of entertainments
m Lvons before he goes out again
and we hope the people will give
him patronage.
M. M. Coleman has great faith
in the future of Lyons and he has
given the contract for three stores
to be erected in the vacant space
between the hotel and the Trading
Company building. The stores
are to be large and roomy and we
hear that two of themhave already
been leased for a term of years.
We haven’t heard who got the
contract, but we understand that
the walls are to be made heavy so
that a second story can be erected
at any time as an addition to the
hotel.
The Masonic anniversary cele
bration and basket dinner at
Ohoopee last Saturday was a de
cided success in every way. Hun
dreds of people were there and the
good people had dinner enough
for many more. The speakers
were given every attention. A
ball game in the afternoon be
tween Ohoopee and Mt. Moriah
was very interesting. The editor
had prepared to attend the cele
bration but we had so much to do
in the office that we could not get
away. We were very thankful,
however, for the special invitation
sent us.
Sister Folsom, of the Tattnall
Journal, took us up last week for
saying that business was a little
dull in Lyons. Sieter, you don’t
know what we meant by a little
dull. If Reidsville ever had a
busy day that would compare in
the least with one of the dullest
in Lyons, a whole day when she
would get as much trade as
Lyons gets in a half of a day, she
would have something to crow
over. Business generally was nev
er better in Lyons than it is right
now at this season, but it seems
dull after the great rush of the
Winter and Spring trade.
A rumor has been started that
very little repair workwill be done
on the old Lyons Ginnery and if
such is-the case a move should be
started right now to have another
ginnery erected in our city before
the ginning season. The Garbutt
& Donovan gin is in fine shape and
it will do its share of the ginning,
but the acreage in this country has
been greatly increased this year
and one ginning plant cannot
handle the cotton that will be
brought to Lyons if the crop is any
ways fair. The editor was told a
month or so ago by one of the
owners that the old Lyons Ginnery
would be entirely rebuilt and we
hone yet that it will be done.