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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.