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THE LYONS PROGRESS. Vol. 8. No. 25. LOCAL ITEMS The editor has away from _<e citv la9t Friday and we mav not g>-*t a local for all thp happenings since our last paper. We are going to do our best, how ever. Dr. Lewis N. Brown went up in Jefferson county to 9pend a week or so, taking his wife and son along. They returned home the first of the weeK and they say they had a fine time. The Robert Toombs Chapter U. D. C., will hold its regular meet ing in the parlors of the Lyons Hotel Friday, July, 21st. at 4 o’- clock. All the members are re quested to be present. The Farmer’s Union barbecue and picnic w-as a dandy. We have lots of the Union boys in Toombs and they are gaining friends fast. These Union boys are for Lyons and Lyons must be for the Union. L. W. Vann, of Montgomery, and a prominent engineer on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, is in the city spending a week or so with his father, Mr. Geo. W. Vann, and his sister, Mrs. M. O. Walker. E. M. Wimberly settled up with the Insurance company the loss of his Cole 30 last week, accepting a part of the face value of the policy and taking the old car for the balance. We understand that he is to have the car rebuilt. Those of the Farmers Union who are interested in the Fertiliz er plant to be erected in Lyons are asked to attend the meeting in Lyons on Saturday, July 29th, Every Union man that wants' stock in this enterprise should be I present as the charter will be sub mitted to them at this meeting ■ for adoption. Dr. Masrow, the eye specialist, is to be here two days during the first week of court and those who want glasses and who don’t want to pay out all the money they have and yet get the very best, should see the doctor while he is here. He has a splendid place in Savannah. He grinds his own lenses and does w r ork as good as the very best. Superior Court comes just a few | weeks off and we understadd that the term will be a busy one. We ' have very few places for people to get board in Lyons and we must: arrange in some way to take care ; of the court crowds. If you can take a boarder or two, reader, let the Progress know it so that we can send those who want a place to stay to you. The Seaboard’s annual Savan nah and Tybee excursion will be I run on the Ist of August and the tickets will be good for five days from date of sale. Parties can go down either on the morning cr evening train and a seat is guar anteed everybody. The fare from Lyons for the round trip will be $2.00. See Agent Thomas for fur ther particulars. I C. B. Knight and his excellent; wife, of Soperton, Ga., represent ing the Georgia Life Insurance Company in South Georgia, are m the city and during their stay they will be guests at the pleasant home of Mr. R. P. Sweat, the localagent. Mr. Knight is a master in the In surance work and he represents one of the best companies in the country. He will be in Lyons a week or so. In order to encourage the breed ing of fine live stock, the Georgia state fair will bring several car loads of registered stock to Macon this fall and after the fair is over will sell to the highest bidder. Among the stock which will be brought will be one or two car loads of Percheron mares, one car of Missiouri mules, one car of Berkshire swine and one or more cars of fine jersey and other cattle. Sunday School Convention. Programm of Sunday School j Convention at Long Pond, Julv 28. 29. and 30. Fridav morning. 11 o’clock, (1) | Introductory Sermon, J, R. Poole. (2) Organize. Afternoon, (1) The value of the Sunday School Ist, to the in dividual, 2nd, to society, 3rd, to church, J. A. J. Dumas. (2)How to interest church members gen erally in Sunday School, Dr. L.H. Darby. (3)How to secure the at tendance of children who do not attend Sunday School, C. C.Mose ley and Jas. T. Geiger. (4) How to teach a class, A. L. Lanier and J. A. Poole. Night, Sermon, O. 0. Williams. Siturday morning, (1) The im portance of doctrinal teaching, J. A. J.Dumas. (2)The importance of Missionary teaching, J. W. Kytle. (3) The importance of, and how to teach, temperance lessons, Dr. J. W. Palmer. (4) How- to secure teachers, A. P. Thomas. (5) The relation of the U. B. I-, to Sunday School, “A. M. Gates. Afternoon, (1) Parents’ duty to child and Sunday School, B. B. Mason and M. L. Stephens. (2) Pastors’ duty to Sunday School, M. E. Burns and H. L. Averv.(3) Teachers’ duty, B. A. Conner and S. D. Walker. (4) Program by Vidalia Sunday School. Night, (l)The Beautiful City, Long Pond Sunday School. (2) How to take a collection for Mis sions in Sunday School, M. E. Burns. Sunday morning, (1) The value of a teacher’s training class and how to do it, J. A. J. Duma3. (2) Advantages of teachers’ meetings and how to conduct them, Dr. L. ;H. Darby. (3) Sermou, J. W. j Kytle. J. D. Rabun, W A. Rivers, J. W. Palmer, Committee . Tax Returns of Toombs. The tax digest of Toombs coun ty has been completed for 1911 aud Tax Receiver Cave will send it to Atlanta in a day or so. By dis tricts it will show up as follows: 1536th District i 912,543. 51st District 1,148,761. 43rd District 371,939. 15315 t District 271,314. 1403rd District 259,185. 1192nd District 197,663. 39th District 207,851. j Total $3,369,322. This digest will compare with * that of 1910 a3 follows: I 1536th District I 853,884. 51st District 837.210. 43rd District 307,160. ! ; 15215 t District 199,337. j I 1403rd District 205,277. i 1192nd District 164,390. 36th District 188,424. Totol $2,911,094 This shows a gain in every dis- | trict, but the least gain was in the 1530th and the reason of this was that many of the people in this district gave in their property in the rural districts so they would get the road tax. The total gain in the county has been nearly a half million and it is a showing that we feel proud of. Important to S. S. Superintendents. The fifth Anual Session of the ! Sunday School convention of the | Daniel Baptist Assoceation will meet with the Longpond Baptist ' Church on Friday before the fifth Sunday, this month, and continue in session three day 9. Each Sun day School is entitled to three representatives to every fifty pu pils enrolled. Female as well a9 j male members are elegible. Repre-1 sentatives are requested to send : anual written reports . All chool ; uot represented in person are re-! quested to mail their anual reports to Mr. Willie Johnson. Mt. Ver non Ga. Any suggestions or invitations can be writen at bottom of report. Meet me at Longpond Friday a.m July 28 1911. Yours for better Sunday Schools in the Daniel Assoceation. M. E. Burns, President of S. S. Con. 5 or 6 doses of “000’’ will cure any case of chills and fever, j ' Price 25 cents. Official Organ of Toombs County and the Town of Lyons. LYONS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1911. The Union Barbecue. " ■■ Forty-two Quarters of Beef, Several Sheep and a Number of Goats besides Many Baskets. As predicted in these eolums several times, the Union Barbecue, which was going on Thusday as we were getting ready for press with this paper, was the greatest success ever heard of tor an affair of the kind. We had people here from four counties and they were in great numbers, some esti mating the crowd at 5000. The grounds selected were out near the Morris spring and over three hundred feet of tables were erected. While out in the sun to some extent, the spot was pretty, the speakers’ stand being erected in a clamp of pretty pine trees. They had speukers, too, men of re noun and the speeches, only a part of which the writer heard, were fine aud along Union lines. Right here we want to sav that we believe in the Union and we ap prove of all that we heard. Now that barbecue was about the largest we have ever seen. The Union boys brought meat and they were determined that all should have plenty. Ten beeves were brought in and they were all good ones; besides this we saw several sheep aud a number of goats, beside the fine pigs. The boys suplied meat enough for 5000 people and added to this were hundreds of well filled baskets from every direction. About a thousand loaves of bread were used besides the bread and biscuit fur nished from our homes aud the country. To say the least the boys had plenty to feed the multitude and they fed. A band of music from Cobbtown came to help out in the entertain ment and it was one of the best little country bands we ever heard. And on the side was a lemonade stand free for all. They made lemonade, too, by the barrel. Sev eral barrels of ice water were scat tered around the grounds, all of which was free. It was a free e.i terainment from the beginning to the end and nothing was allowed to be sold on the ground. Lyons took a hand in helping I j out the Union . Our ladies did all 1 | they could and the baskets were ! well cared for. The men w r ent ' down in their pockets to help pay the expense and we are glad 1 of the success of the undertaking Suffice to say all who came had a good time and if they did not eat ! it was their own fault, Up to the hour of going to press i the principal speaker was Pres ident Duckworth of the State Union. He is a good talker, too, and his advice to the farmers to day was good. There will be other speakers but we have not heard i who they are. The day was ended with a ball game between Lyon 3 and Reids ville and hundreds of people went out to the ball game. Talking it all round the day was pleasant! and the Union entertainment was j splendid from every point of view. | The editor aud his wife went to the Georgia Weekly Press Asso- ! ciation at Cartersville last Friday and we certainly had a fine time, j While at Cartersville we were; guests at the pleasant home of S. P. Jones, Jr., son of the famous , ; Sam Jones. Mr. Jones is a news ■ paper man of great ability and j his excellent wife is one of the I best entertainers we have ever had ! the pleasure of meeting. We were certainly pleased with the recep tion extended us at Cartersville and at this pleasant home and in a ] future issue we want to have more to say about the country and city. “Uncle Ike” Hussey got cut his ; advertising benches just in time to come in good use. He put out a half dozen or more advertising the White Hickory wagons, of which he is agent, and they were U9ed. ■ The wagon is the bept made and | “Uncle Ike” is selling lots of! ' them. Cross Road Dots. Morris Moore visited his parents last Suuda r. C. R. Beasley made a flying trip to Vidalia Saturday. J.D. Carr and wife attended meeting here last Sunday. Mrs. Adam Taylor is spending the week with her parents. Mrs. W. D. Grant attended the meeting here last Sunday. Morris Beaslev called to see Miss Zeda Moore last Saturday morning. Floyd Moore attended the Pic nic at Alston last Saturday and reported a fine tin^e. A. L. Beasley was very happy last Sunday afternoon. He was walking with girls. Sam Evans called to see Miss Cinthy Moore last Sunday. Hur ry, Sam, and give us some cake. Sherwood Boyd aud his best girl were riding last Monday. Hurry up Sherwood aud give us some cake. Miss Sallie Abney ha 9 returned after spending some time with friends and relatives near her old home. Miss Ida Bell Holton and 9ister Mary Bell Beasley 9pent a part of last week with friends and rel atives. Mr. Carr, of Vidalia, spent Monday evening at the home of R E. Boyd aud attended meeting at Center. Me •ris Beaslev called to see M ss Gus&ie Taylor last Sunday afternoon and reported a verv good time. Morris Beasley and Mis Geor gia Lee Taylor attended a meeting here Sunday night. There must be something doing. The meeting at Center was en joyed by a large crowd. Those who attend from here were Misses Inez and Natalie Boyd Sherwood Boyd, Morris Beasley, Moore, Pearl Grant and others. Gues3 what boys it was had a little gray mule hitched to a yel low buggy and a little boy who hid behind a tree and jumped at | the mule, turned the buggy over i and 2 of the hovs went out at the 1 side and the one went over 1 the back. Two Blue Darters. Sharpe’s Chaple News. Lonnie Higgs has three foxes in a cage. They are cute little creat ures. Wilson Mclntyre, of Vidalia. visited his sister, Mrs. J. J. Odom Sunday. Miss Ruby Odom spent last week with her grand parents in i Vidalia. j Mrs. Eddie Higgs and the child ren are visiting Mrs. B, M. Higgs this week. Well I guess the showers that are coming now will keep the peo ple busy at work. S. L Rowland, the Misses Eth ridge, Blanch Carter and Rosa Higgs attended preaching at the Primitive church Sunday. ; Mr. aud Mrs. J. F. McCarty have returned from Alabama, 1 where they have been every since | their marriage. They say they i are going to make Georgia their 1 future home at least for a while. Mrs. J. H. Ethridge has return -5 ed from Scott, where she has been i : spending a fews days with freinds. Miss Blanch Carter, of Scott, re turned with Mrs. Ethridge and will spend a few days down in this section. Protracted meeting begins at this place next Saturday and! i everybody i 9 cordially invited to come. We have heard that Rev. Walter Flanders was going to help Bro. Sumner and he is a fine preacher. Sunbeam. —— W. A. McNatt went up to j Indian Springs last week and : spent several days on his vacation j and he says that he feels very much better since returning home Subscription SI.OO. LOCAL NOTES new Coleman building is going to l>e one of the handsomest in the city It is going to be erect ed especially for the hardware business and it will giv<‘ the Min ter-Smirh Company a tine new home. We are a little late with the paper this week, the reason of our de:av being that we wanted to get everything connected with the Union rally. It was a big thing and it will show the world how strong the Union is getting. J. C. Paulette, one of the pop ular salesmen at McNatt & Mc- Bride’s, is'quite sick as we are go ing to press. He is at the home of Z. P. Williams and his parents have been with him for several days. We are glad to add that he is a little better than he was and we hope that he will soon be well again. The United States weather de» partmeut has been invited to place a weather station at the Georgia State fair this fall so that vis itors to the fair may see just how Observer Mitchell of the Macon station makes his observations. This exhibit promises to be of es pecial interest to the farmers of the state. In order that Georgia may be a9 well represented a9 ether states of the south, the Georgia agricul tural society will ask the state leg islature to give $50,000 for per manent improvements at the state fair grounds. If the legislature grants the appropriation the City of Macon will make a second ap propriation of $50,000. The ball game between the team representing Lyons and the Reids ville boys yesterday afternoon was quite a bum exhibition of the na tional game for the first few in aings but the boys settled down nt last and they put up a good ar ticle of ball. The game went ten innings to a tie and the score was 9to 9. It was called off on ac count of darkness. The gain of property valuations in Toombs county this year is re markable. Every district in the county has gained, but the great est gain was in the 51st or Vidalia district. The net gain in the coun ty foots up $458,228. This makes the total for the county $3,369,- 322.00, which we think is a pretty good showing for a county the size of Toombs. Hurrah for our tax receiver, Mr. J. B. Cave, and our grand county, Toombs Lodge Xo. 195, Knights of Pythias, installed officers at the meeting last Monday night week and at this meeting they had a splendid attendance. The follow ing officers were installed by Dep uty Grand Chancellor McGregor, and they will serve for the balance of the year: T. J. Parrish, Chan cellor Commander; C A. Rogers, Vice Chancellor; G. H. Mcßride, Prelate; J, A. Sumner, Master at Arms; Gordon Floyd, Master of Work ; Harry Brown, Inner Guard and Ed. Parker, Outer. Guard. These are all good boys and loyal Knights. We were sorry to see the element of greediness that was shown by a few people at the barbecue yester day. In that great assemblage it | was expected that we would find a j few of the hoggish kind but we die not expect to see so mauy. The talk of Mr. Proctor before dinner was announced was a good one but it seemed to have very little weight Those that had the hog gish streak pushed right in, grab bed and wasted while the good people had to stand aside, mauy of them becoming disgusted and leaving without any dinner. There I was plenty for everybody and lots of tine barbecue was left over. We only wish that there was away to keep some folks from mingling with good people in any affair of this kind.