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THE LYONS PROGRESS. Vol. 8. No. 23. LOCAL ITEMS Five or six doses of “666” will any case of chil's and fever. Price 25 cents. Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Sweat and little Hazel went to Savannah and Tybee Monday morning and spent a day or so. Guyce Hussey, Eugene Aaron and Bertie Swain went to Savan nah Sunday morning and spent the day at Tybee. J. C. Wilkes, of Molina, Ga., came over the other day and is spending a few weeks with his mother near Lyons. Agent A P. Thomas was a little under the weather the first of the week but we are glad to say that he is better at this time. Dr. Guyton Howell and two or three of his friends, of Reidsville, came up Sunday in the Doctor’s Primo, and spent several hours here with friends and reiativet. Mrs. R .S. Wilson and the child ren are at home again after spend ing a few weeks in Screven county. She brought a sister. Miss Shup trino, home to spend a week or so with her. Lester O’Neal, manager of the Minter-Smith Hardware Company branch at Uvalda, and a Mr. Mc- Cormick, another young business man of the same place were in the city Sunday on a short visit. Senator J. P. Brown came home from Atlanta last Friday night and remained over until Tuesday night. He says that the legislature is moving along all right, but he hardly thinks Hoke will go to the Se nate. Picnic« in all directions Tues day, ore at the Anderson school Jihse. one at or near the homo of L. L. Clifton, one at Marietta and one at Uvalda At every one there was a crowd and all had a good time. Tax collector Cave tells us that he is finding a splendid increase in the taxable property of Toombs county. The increase will be about a quarter of a million on all the property if not more. He will fin ish the digest this week. Mauager Shae Hendricks has resigned his position with South ern Bell Company in Lyons and he says he will probably go to Waycros3. Mr. Hendricks gave ! us as good service as we have ever had since he has had the exchange J and we are sorry to see him go. 1 With a tax list of over $8,000,- 000 and an additional mill tax for road purposes Toombs county will be able to do some read work with out bonding. We want to see every pad in the county made as good as the one to Vidalia. When this is the case automobiles will be popular with farmers as well as the city people. It is usual for newspapers to j , take a week off for the 4th of < July but we will have to issue an 1 advertising sheet as we are doing; the official advertising. We have! decided to take a part of next week to attend a meeting of the Georgia Press Association at Cartersville. Our next paper will ibe small and we will not have any room for correspondents. Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Heckle, who reside out on the John Odom place, had their aged mother and father with them last week and they gave a birth day dinner to a few friends. It was the 86th birthday of Mr Heckle and a very pleasant affair. The elder Mr. Heckle and his good wife are up in the seventies and eighties but they are hale and hearty. The Progress was invited to be a guest at the ! birthday dinner but we were so busy that we could not get away. We hora?, however, that the-young man the aged couple will all ! he here for many more birthdays. Col. Gifford C. Jones. The subject of this sketch a pr<> mineut member of the Toombs county bar and a noble and loyal citizen of Lyons, passed to the un known beyond Sunday night about 6: 30 o’clock after an illness that had lasted several months At first this illness baffled the doctors to some extent. It would not yield to treatment and several specialists were consulted. Col. Jones continued to get worse, how ever, and about six month ago he was compelled to give up his act ive practice. Later he took his family and weiff. up in Ji-fferson county and spent several weeks, returning much improved m health. He felt so much better that he thought he would be able to take up his practice again. This improvement did not last so long, however, and he again went from bad to worse and at last his suf fering was releived by the grim a'ngel of death. Deceased was comparatively a young man, being about 88 or 40, and in all his business affairs he was successful. He was a close student of law and had built up a splendid practice. In the making of Toombs county he had a special place and he did splendid work. He never entered politics, but was often urged to offer himself for places of trust. A good old mother, a loving wife and three littie children are left to mourn the loss of this good man, and the city of Lyons mourns the loss of a loyal citizen and the community at large is mourning a true friend. Deceased was a member of the Methodist church, a prominent Mason and a member of several other orders. His funeral took place from the Methodist church, the services at the church being conducted by Rev. J. W. Kytle, theßaptist minister,in the absence of Rev. Pafford. The body was then turned over to the Masons and the balance of the burial ser vices were under the auspices of that order. Col. Jones was a great friend of the Progress and we deeply sympa thize with his aged mother and his bereaved family. His malady, the experts say, was Bright’s dis ease with a touch of tuberculosis, and if these experts are right he was only relieved of long suffer ing, and it is hoped that we will all find him waiting for us at the golden gate should we be fortunate enough to find the goldon shore when the time comes. May God, m his infinite glory help us along in the right, path, i The Progress man went out in the edge of the city the other day and walked over a farm that we think is one of the best in all of Toombs county and it will stand right up beside the best in all South Georgia. It was the farm of H. A. Galbreath right in the edge of the city and we were agree ably surprised after we had seen it. Mr. Galbreath runs about four plows and he has large fields I of cotton that will make him near | if not quite two hales to the acre if he has no bad luck. On this ; same land he made a bale and a half last year. He has a corn crop, too, that is fine m spite of the dry season, and his cane is the best we have seen. Mr. Galbreath has a fine place and he is improv ing it by taking in at least twenty five acres every year. Only four, years ago he opened up this place j and he has made great progress on j it. He is a worker, knows how to farm and he has two sons that are a great help to him. Mr. Gal breath is on of the farmers that lives at home and he must cer tainly be independent. The Lyons business men made a recreation day out of the 4th, 1 most of the business houses tak ing a half holiday. Many went to i Uvalda to the barbecue, some to the Anderson school picnic and ! others out on fishing trips. It was a day of pleasure generaiiy. Official Organ of Toombs County and the Town of Lyons. LYONS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1911. Additional Locals. J. C. Adams, the Vidal in con tractor, has the contract for the three large stores to be erected be tween the hotel and the Trading Company building and he is to begin work as soon as the material begins to arrive . The stores are to be occupied by the Minter- Smith Hardware Company and they are to be up to date in every way. The new- tax digest will show that the Vidalia district lias gain ed during the last year nearly a quarter of a million dollars alone. In round figures the gain is about $240,000. This will be the largest increase of any district in the county and the 51st district will now be the largest tax paying dis trict in the county. The 1536th district has not beeu compiled at the time of going to press but we are satisfied it will make a large increase also. Remember the 20th is the date for the great Union Barbecue and picnic in Lyons and we are going to have the largest crowd of fann ers that Lyons has ever had. The people of the city must help the Union in getting up this barbecue and everybody should prepare a well filled basket of good things. Parties who want to give meat, lemons, sugar or anything else, should notify the Union Commit tee that will have the matter in charge. A letter was received from Christian Williams the other day and it was the first news that had been received from him in several months. He has located in Idaho, has studied law and got his sheep skin, and he says that he is going to practice in that state Chris makes good wherever he goes and we would’nt be a bit surprised at any time to see where he had been sent to Congress or elected Gov ernor. We certainly wish him good luck. The good people living up in the Oak Park section of Emanuel are making a strong effort to have the county line changed so that they will be in Toombs. We in>ed these good people in our county and w'e certainly hope they will besuccess sul in the move they are making. They are a long ways from the Emanuel county Court House, while Lyons is only a short dis tance from them. In all fairness this section of country justly be longs to Toombs county'' M iss Marion, daughter of Mr. | and Mrs. Thomas Clifton, from down on the Altamaha near Mar vin church, died last Thursday night and was buried at the old Clifton burying ground Friday. Miss Marion was a most charming young lady. loving and ac complished, and her death was a sad blown Her health has been bad during her entire life time but she was a pure Christian girl and she bore her suffering bravely. We deeply sympathize with the parents in their sad loss. The Appling county people have put it up to Toombs county to help build the bridge across the Altamaha. All other propositions were cast aside at the meeting held in Baxley last Friday and all decided that Appling and Toombs do the work. Our friend F. M. . Smith thanked the Baxley people i in a short but pointed speech, and the Toombs county committee that attended the meeting prom ised that Toombs w'ould do its share, and we must back up that promise. It is to be built as a pri vate enterprise and it will take at | least $12,000 in stock from the Toombs county side. A mass meet- I ing ia tobe held at the river to -1 day(Friday) and the engineers are to be present to go over the matter. 1 All the Toombs people that can get away should attend the meet ing. Lets have the bridge and the public highway from Augusta to the South. P. A. McQueen Dies Suddenly. A message from Vidalia Wed nesday announced the sad news Mur Prof P. A. McQueen had died almost suddenly. He was taken last. weeK while he was assisting Tax Receiver Cave and he went home to return no more. Prof. McQueen was one of the good men of Toombs county, served ably as its county school commissioner for several years and at the time of his death he was editor y f the ‘ Toombs County Local,” one of brightest papers in South Georgia. His death was a decided surprise and it was a sad blow to our sis ter city, Vidalia. He leaveg behind several sons, Henrv, Assistant Cashier of the First National Bank of Lyons, R. Don, business manager of the “Toombs County Local,” and Alex, w'ho is also connected with the “Local,” also one daughters who is younger than the boys. He also leaves three little boys and ane girl, children by his second wife that died sever al months ago. His remains were laid to rest Thursday inthe Vidalia cemetery and a great host ot his friends and relatives were present to pay the last sad tribute. The Progress extends heartfelt condo lence to those bereaved. J. L Huggins gets the contract for the addition to our school building and he is to begin work at once making the improvements in the old building so it w'il 1 be ready for the opening of the Fall term of school. The auditorium addition will not be built right away, but the delay will be only short and it will be ready for the Spring term we hope. The work is all being done by private subscrip tion and the building committee thought it best to delay this a little while until the subscriptions amounted to enough to guarantee the payment. The denominational fight against any improvement in the school is disappearing, we are glad to say, and the people are coming together. How proud we would feel if we could see unity of action among the people of our city in all matters that would benefit Lyons. Friends, lets get rid of the selfish and jealous feel ing and all work for Lyons as we did at one time. Congressman Bell, of Georgia, has taken up the fight in congress in favor of letting the newspapers and the railroads exchange con tracts , the newspapers to be al lowed to sell advertising space to the railroads and to take pay in transportation. This is a measure that is sane and just. We never did believe that Congress had any right to interfere in this matter in the first place, hut it did interfere by killing our right to make con tract and as a consequence many of the country papers have never done any more advertising for the railroads. This hurts the editors of such papers and it al so makes it inconvenient for the ruralist to see the schedules of the railroads that had been pub lished usually in his county paper. Congressman Bell has done the proper thing in introducing the bill and we hope the entire Geor aia delegation will fall in line and j assist in its passage. We are often asked what is be ing done on the W, A. & L. rail road and our answer has been that work is going right on. Ye 3, work on this line is progressing nicely. It has progressed so far that it looks slow now but the reader must remember that the world was not mads in a day. The W. A. & L. will be completed and it will be a much larger line than was first supposed, notwithstand ing that we have pessimists and knockers that would laugh at a failure. Remembber a failure is not possible. Judge G. T. Mason was a busi ness visitor to Vidalia last Satur day, being called up there to at tend the meeting of the Masons. Subscription SI.OO. LOCAL NOTES Acting-Manager, Euson Collins, of the local telephone exchange, went to Hazelhurst Wednesday to visit relatives. A cold drink is refreshing, es pecially one that is fixt-d up in style hv Ed Parker, at the Brown- Odom Drug Store. W. E. Meeks and his little fam ily have gone up in Emanuel county to spend a few days with his parents and to visit friends. Miss Pauline Summers, a charm ing young lady of Jacksonville, Fla., came up this week and will spend several days w’ith Miss Mol lio Godwin. J. A . Sumner and W. C. Oliver went to Vidalia and Ailey in the new Hudson Wednesday and we understand that they found sale for a new car up in that neighbor hood. Sheriff Thompson is having very little to do these days. He made only one levy for the August sales day and as a consequence will have one advertisement. Very little le gal business is going on these days any way. All the members of the U. D. C. should attend the meeting at the Hotel this(Friday)afternoon at 4 o’clock. The monument question is to be discussed and we want to see the ladies succeed in this undertaking. Contractor John Jackson, with his two sons, Ebb and George, are new working on the front of the Lyons Bargain Store. A new glass front is to be put in with two large show windows and the build ing i 9 to be improved generally. J. C. May. manager of the Ice Factory at Vidalia, was in the city Tuesday looking over the business of the branch under the manage ment of Mr. Grant in Lyons He is satisfied with the Lyons busi ness but the people here will never be satisfied until we get a plant of our own. We see several young iady strangers m the city but no one seem 9 to take interest enough in their visit to give it to the Prog ress. vVh cant get these items any other way, friends, and we want you to call us up or drop us a note telling who your visitors are and where there are from. Otto Deistel was in the city Wednesday mingling with his friends. Otto has been on the Panama canal for a couple of years and he says that he likes the isthmus fairly well. He says he is still in the employ of the Canal people but he will re’main in this section for several months. The Union Guano Factory is a certainty and it will be located in Lyons. The Union boys are begin ning to see where they will save by mixing their own guano and they say they will know what they are getting when they make it themselves. If the charter doesn’t appear in this 'ssue it will appear in the next, j The school catalogues are out j and the announcement of the Fall ! term opening appears iii this issue. Lyons has had u fine school for a year and we are glad to say that we are going to have a better one for the next year. The improve ment will be m the building, Our school Bhould be the pride of our I city and we are glad to say that 1 the people are realizing its worth. J. B. Johnson is moving his family back to Lyons this week and they are to occupy the Walker cottage, near tne cottage occupied by Mr. Culpepper. Mr. Johnson is to take the active management of the hardware and mill supply business of W. C. Oliver & Son, having purchased an interest in the business . He will be a good man for this place, too, and we believe he will do well.