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THE LYONS PROGRESS.
VOL. 8. No. 24.
LOCAL ITEMS
Col. W. E. Brown went to
oi: a business trip a few
duffs ago.
Five or six doses of “660” will
cure anv ease of chills and fever.
Price 25 c^nts.
D. M. Dunvvoody was ming
ling with his many Lyons friends
the first of the week. He is still
buying timber.
Old “Aunt Charlott” our fish
dealer, has come back again. She
says that she has been over in Car
olina visiting.a brother.
We are taking our 4th of July
holiday this week and you must
excuse the small paper that we are
sending out to our readers.
Col. P. H. Odom, City Attorney
of Jacksonville, Fla., came up last
Saturday and spent a couple of
days in Lyons with relatives.
Old ’’Uncle Barton" is moving
back to Lyons again. He tried one
of the new towns down on the
Georgia &Florida but he says it
isnt like Lyons.
The machinery for the bottling
works is beginning to arrive and
it is to be located in the old store
building recently vacated by the
Union Supply. Company.
Chickens are cheap now and
once in awhile we can afford one
to divide around in our family. If
you owe us for the paper bring us
chickens if you have them to
spare.
Our merchants are already be
ginning to make preparation to re
ceive their Fall goods. They have
bought heavily and they are now
selling summer goods very cheap
so they wont have to carry them
over.
Dr. Norris, at the Aaron Drug
Styre, is making a specialty of
cream now and he has it fresh
■l the time. The Doctor knows
how to make fine drinks, too, and
the fountain there is certainly a
good one.
The Union Guano Works will
be operated strictly by the Union,
but they are not going to be self
ish. The factory will m'x the very
best guano for this section and
they will sell to any good farmer,
union or non-union.
Not a vacant house in the city,
no place for a person to get board
especially if" they have a family
and how can we expect Lyons to
get any larger. Build some houses
and the city will grow, otherwise
it will stand still. We mean this.
Senator Brown was at home for
a few hours Sunday, leaving again
on the night tram for Atlanta.
He is right on to his job as Sena
tor, representing the people. The
people of the district could not
have sent a better man to represent
them.
Those Who Take Foley Kidney
Pills For their kidney and bladder
ailments, and for annoying urina
ry irregularities are always great
ful both for the quick and perman
ent relief they afford, and for their
tonic and strengthening effect as
well. Try Foley Kidney pills. Soldi
by all Druggists.
Jordan Brown is about one of
the livest merchants in Lyons. He
keeps his stock in fine shape and
he has courtsous salesmen to serve
the customers. Jordan has just
finished a fine ware house and he
says that he is going to try the
cottonseed and cotton in the seed
market this season.
S. J. Bland, from down near
Cedar Crossing, has patented a
portable hay stack that is a dandy.
The stack can be made either of
light iron or wood and it is made
to fold so that when not in use it
can be put away in a small place.
It is a splendid idea and Mr. Bland
has a cut of it in an advertisement
in the Progress to day. County and
,S-vJPe rights are off ered for sale.
Go to Your Physician for Advice.
A great menace to the baby’s
life and health is the free for ail
advice with which a young mother
is deluged by doting relatives and
friends . For example, a common
belief founded upon tradition is.
that to avoid colic a nursing baby
should be given bits of food par
taken of by the mother; another,
that in cases of indigestion the
food may be chewed by the mother
and then transferred to the baby’s
mouth. These practices are fright
fully common I am told. Was
ever anything more barbarous? In
France the mother is fined it her
child is given a morsel of solid
food before it is a year old . Could
such a legislation prevail in our
land what a !ist of sinning mothers
we would have.
The one person to whom the
young mother should go for advice
as to the care and feeding of her
child is to her family physician.
Supplementary to this may be ad
ded good, sound, literature upon
the subject prepared by experts
upon the care of children, such as
Dr. Emmett Holt’s “Care and
feeding of Children,” and Mrs.
Hogan’s “How to feed Children.”
both of which are based upon the
latest findings of science and are
trustworthy in every respect.
Undoubtedly the chief manace
to the health of the baby during
the summer months is the housefly
It is estimated that in one of our
leading cities 7,000 babies die
every summer from “summer com
plaint”, and other intestinal dis
orders —diseases transmitted
largely by the housefly. All over
the South rages the frightful
9courge of summerdiseases of bab
ies. First and foremost then, the
baby should be safe-guarded by
banishing the flies from the house
and premises —Mrs. F.L.Stevens,
in Progressive Farmer.
Jury List.
The following persons were
drawn to serve as Grand and Tra
verse Juror 3 for the August Term,
1911, by his Honor B. T Rawl
ings, Judge of the Superior Court
of the Middle Circuit.
GRAND JURORS.
J S Alexander, G S Spell, W T
Jenkins, D R McArthur, E M
Smith, R A Peavy, P A McQueen.
W W Anderson, A M Moses, D T
Gibbs, J J Odom, W J Poe, G W
Harden T A Scarboro, W O Dono
van B F Wolfe, J L Sutton, N B
Jarriol, R A Smith, D W Branch,
J A Bland, M Anderson, S I Hus
sey, G L Johnson, W W Moseley,
P H Banks, J P Brown, G R Roun
tree, I E Aaron, W S Harden.
TRAVERSE JURORS.
A A Darby, C A Garbutt, J R
Pool, M Findlv, J F McSwain, S H
Stanley, L Brewer, J L Anderson,
U H Partin, T R Sharpe, J S
Banks, E L McDildea, H L Lank
ford, H A Burk, F M Wilks, B D
Williamson, H T Thompson, A J
Mathews, W C Clifton, S C McCol
skv. C W Brazell, O M Glisson, S T
Hilton, K J James. F L Hardy, R
S Lanier, J W Rolison, B T South •
well, J T Page, S B Meadows, J T
Hilton, J M Meadows, S E Webber
J P Pughsley, V B Herring, M
Leader.
Card of Thanks.
We wish to extend our most
i profound thanks to the people of
this section for their many kind
nesses and expressions of sympa
thy in the death of our beloved
father, Phillip A. McQueen, and
assure each and every one of you
that these good deeds and words
of sympathy will ever be remem
bered and cherished bv us.
Respectfully,
Vidalia, Ga. The Family.
Special [Notice.
All parties who will donate
meats to the Union Rally on July
20th will please deliver it to Phil
lip Morris at the Spring in the
northern suburbs of Lyons. Not
later than 4 o’clock p.m.July 19th.
This July 10th 1911.
Phillip Morris,
Jack Collins,
Committe.
Official Organ of Toombs County and the Town of Lyons.
LYONS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JULY 1.4, 1911,
Making the South a Land of Painted
Farmhouses.
It is the aim of The Progressive
Farmer to start a crusade for pain
ting Southern farmhouses. Not i
only does painting a house add
greatly to its beauty and to the ;
beauty of the whole farm on which
it is situated, but there is no doubt
about it that it has a subtle psy
chological effect in bringing every
body on the place to a more cheer- i
ful frame of mind. i
There is something depressing !
about a weatherbeaten, impawned j
house that can not fail to have its
effect upon the temper and dispo- >
sition of its occupants. They can i
not have quite the cheerfulness
bouyanoy that comes frombeauti- <
ful surroundings with the conta- i
gious suggestion of cheerfulness '
and prosperity in them.
Paint the farmhouse and the far
mer will very soon decide that he
must have a farm fit to keep com
pany with the house; he will de
cide that he must clean up the rag- 1
ged patches and stop the ruinous
gulleys, and cure the galled and :
sickly spots and he will presently
begin tvj take more interest in his
own appearance also. It i 3 impos
sible to tell just how far reaching
are the effects of a properly pain
ted and beautiful farmhouse.
Nor will this good influence stop
with the individual farmer. His
neighbors will presently become
ashamed not to have equally at
tractive homes for t.iemselves, and
the neighborhood might soon be
come a neighborhood of painted
farmhouses, and then this neigh
borhood might, by the same pro
cess, awaken the emulation of
other neighborhoods and spread
the good work still farther.
Not only is it worth while to
paint the farmhouse for the sake
of the beauty gained and also for
the sake of the cheering effect up
on the persons who live in it, but
it is also worth while as a matter
of simple economy. Lumber is al
ready expensive, and becoming
more so all the time, and paint
lengthens the life of the lumber.
The South is to-day the only sec
tion of the country in which the
paiuted house is not the rule rather
than the exception. There might
have been some excuse for our
backwardness in this matter hen
' cotton wa9 selling for sor 6 cents
a pound and farm lands worth $7
to.flO an acre, but for the con
dition to exist to-day is an indict
ment of our civilization. Our far
. mers have money enough to enable
them to paint their houses and
. there is no excuse for their not do
ing it.
We would like to have every pro
gressive farmer reader enlist him
self or herself in this crusade for
well painted farm homes in the
i south. Os course, the farmer who
has had a great deal of sickness
i in his family or some similar mis
fortune. or who is struggling to
pay off a mortgage, may be ex
' cused; but we should like for the
painting habit to become so corta
gious among all others as to make
people Bay: If the prosperous far
mer has not painted his house.”
And even the man who feels that
he cant yet afford to paint, the, j
small farmer in debt, the tenant
can whitewash his buildings.
! Whitewash is wholesome and will j
make the lowliest home look neat
and thrifty and cheerful —Pro
gressive Farmer.
Kill More Than Wild Beasts.
The number of People killed year
ly by wild beasts don't approach
the vast number killed by disease
germs. No life is safe from their
attacks. They’re in air, water,
dust, even food. But grand pro
tection is afforded by Electric Bit
ters, which destroy and expel these
deadly disease germs from the sys- #
tem. That’s why chills, fever and
ague, ali malarial and many blood
i diseases yield promptly to this won
derful blood purifier. Try them,and
enjoy the glorious health and new
strength they’ll give you. Money
back, if not satisfied. Only 50c at
Brown Odom Drug Co.
Farmers’ ‘Phones Afford Protection.
Twice within the last month
h is the tHipplione on the farmers’
lines proven its value in Thomas
conntv. About three wpeks ago a
negro cut his foot almost off with
an axe. He lay in the woods bleed
ing profusely from the wound and j
unable to summon assistance. ,
Mrr Quarterman, who lives four!
miles from the city found him
and summoned a physician <>v-r
the telephone. In fifteo i minutes
from that time medical uid had
arrived and a life was saved.
Two weeks later the same house
was attacked by two men and an
entrance into the room of the two
young ladies attempted. On this
occasion, likewise a near neighbor
and the local authorities from
Thomasville were summoned and
were on the scene with blood
hounds a half hour after the af
fair occured.
These are but two of the many
instances where fanners line
phones are proving useful. These
many occasions are demonstrating
more than any one thing that a
farmer needs m a telephone, for
the protection of his family, his
business interest and the health
and sometime the lives of those
who are dear to him.
We are glad to see that the far
mers of this county are beginning
to realize the importance of this
feature of public service and they
are endeavoring to take advantage
of the splendid opportunity to
place a doctor, an officer of the
law or, in fact the whole of the
county within his reach at a
moment’s notice. It will save him
untold anxiety, many trips to dis
tant places and other thiggs too
important to neglect for the small
pecuniary outlay it will entail.
We would like to see every far
mer’s home connected with this
line. They show an evidence of
their good judgement, discretion
and sense when they have one in
stalled.
Watch Your kidneys
Their action controls your health.
Read what Foley’s Kidney pills
have done for your neighdor. Mrs.
H. W. Allen, Quincy, 111., says :
“About a year ago my kidneys be
gan bothering me. I had a swell
ing in my ankles and limbs, then
headaches and nervous dizzy spells
and later severe backaches. I was
getting worse, when I began tak
ing Foley Kidney Pills. I kept
|on taking them until I was once
more freed of all kidney trou
ble and suffering. I have a great
deal to thank Foley’s Kidney Pills
for and shall always recommend
them.” Sold by all Druggists.
The great Union barbecue and
picnic is only a week off and it is
to be the greatest blow out Toombs'
has ever known. Committees from
the Union have been out for a
week soliciting things for the bar
becue and we are glad to know
they met with great success. Now,
you people of Lyons, every one
get busy and do your share. Each
family should prepare a well filled
basket, and we must all help sup
j ply the lemons and ice as well as
sugar for the lemonade. The Un
! ion is for Lyons and Lyons must
!be for the Union.
!
A Peek Into His Pocket
would show the box cf Bucklen’s
Arnica Salve that L. S. Loper,
a carpenter, of Marilla, N. T. al
ways carries.” I have never had a
cut, wound, bruise, or sore it
would not soon heal,” he writes.
Greatest healer of burns, boils,
scalds, chapped hands and lips,
fever-sores, skin-eruptions, eczema,
corns and piles. 25c. at Brown-
Odom Drug Cc.
South Thompson was the scene
of a fine picnic on the 4th and a
large crowd was present to enjoy
the dav. This picnic was gotteu
up on very short notice but at the
head of it were the Thompson boys
and everything they start is a suc
cess.
Subscription SI.OO.
A Prize-Winning Receipe.
Below is given a receipe for
yeast, and, bv Mrs. W T. South
ern, of Srokes county. N. C.
Light-bread made by this receipe
took the prize at Stokes County
V\ omen's Institute Inst Summer,
jlf Mrs Southern’s bread could be 1
duplicated in every farm home in
the South, we shouh; have taken
one long step in advance of the
matter of more hygienic food.
ihe day before making bread
peel three good sized irish potatoes
and boil in a pint of water untill
very done. Mash and add 1 tea
spoonful of salt, 1 tablespoonful
of sugar Pour water that you
cocked the potataes in over all
this. Just before it gets cold add
1 cake of Magic yeast and set m a
cool place. Sift i gallon of flour,
add 1 teaspoonful of salt 1 table
spoonful sugar and 1 tablespoon
ful lard add rising made the day
before and make up with warm
water. Set aside to rise two or
three times, working down when
your dough has doubled its bulk.
Mold into pans. Let rise until it
has doubled its bulk. Bake in a
moderate oven for about one hour.
—Progressive Farmer.
Toombs county will get the
bridge across the Altamaba and a
great part of the capital has al
ready been subscribed. The meet
ing last Friday was a success and
the propositions to move the
bridge to some other locality were
turned down, in this meeting it
was decided that the counties of
Appling and Toombs build the
bridge and nearly ten thousand
dollars was subscribed right on
the Bpot. The bridge builders
say that the outside cost will be
about |20,000 and this amount
will be easily raised in the two
counties.
The Toombs Couuty Bank is
clearly a local institution, manag
ed by men who have the interest
cf the city and county at heart
and it is making a record that is
really enviable . Cashier China is
always courteous and obliging and
he is a banker naturally. Under
his management the bank's busi
ness has grown steadily and now
it can be classed among the very
strongest financial institutions in
South-east Georgia.
’ The ladies of the U. D. C. are
determined on the monument
’ question and they have gone to
’ work in earnest. They are going
i to put up a shaft that will be an
ornament to the city and they are
j going to expect help from every
j person in the county. We must en
courage the ladies by helping just
as much as we can .
In our last issue we said that
Contractor Huggins would be
j awarded the contract for the school
’! building improvements. We were
wrougly informed. Contractor J.
C Adams, of Vidalia, was the
lowest bidder and it is very prob
able that he will do the work.
J. C. McDaniels, of Uvalda,
was in the city a few hours last
Friday mingling with his many
friends. Mr. McDaniels is selling
Buick cars in Montgomery county
I and he has placed several in the
' last few months.
The National Show Case Co., Colum
bus, Ga., are builders of distinctive
show cases, bank, store, drug and of
fice fixtures and jobbers of plate and
all kinds of glass. Write for prices.
W. G. Austin, of Vidalia, was
in the city last Saturday looking
around the old Lyons Ginnery.
This gin is to be greatly improved
; we understand.
Chief DeLoach i 3 doing some
| nice work on the streets now. His
j force is small but he will get
j around if the work is kept up.
The Nwew Lyons Pharmacy is to
have a new fromt also and it will
be almost solid glass.