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THE LYONS PROGRESS.
VOL. 8. No. 27.
LOCAL ITEMS
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| sor 6 doses of “666” will cure
any case of chills and fever.
Price 25 cents.
1 4
E. M. Wimberly went to Savan
nah Sunday and returned with his
,wife and children.
R. Lester O’Neal, of Uvalda,
came up and spent Sunday with
his many friends and relatives.
D. E. Collins with his wife and
little boy went to Tybee Sunday
and they report a pleasant time.
Dennis D. Moore went down in
the county of Tattnall the first of
the week on business connected
with the Union Guano Factory.
It will not be Phillips & Findley
any more, Mr. Findley having de
cided to withdraw from the firm
to look after his farming interests
Two or three of Mr. W. L. Proc
tor’s children came up from Sav
annah last Saturday and they will
spend a week or so out on the
farm.
F. L. Bowen, our market man,
had a relapse last week and he is
just able to creep out again- We
hope that he will soon regain his
health.
Mrs. Wm. Johnigean, of Ashe
ville, N. C., with her sou Zenas
Seals, came Saturday and they are
to spend a few weeks with friends
and relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Smith, Mrs.
‘Loving, and Mr. and Mrs. W. T.
China attended the Sunday School
Convention at Long Pond Sunday
and they say they had a fine time.
H. L. Lankford went to Gleun
ville last w r eek to negotiate some
large loans for the Lyons Loan &
Abstract Company. This firm is
-doing business all over several
ICounties adjoining Toombs,
Many friends of Charley Drig
gers are trying to urge him into
the next political race. We don’t
know yet what they want him to
hp.ve but- they sav he would be a
good man’for any place and they
want him to get in the running.
The people living along Pendle
ton creek say that dynamiters are
at work all the time killing what
few fish are left in the creek; They
say that these dynamiters get busy
about the middle of the day. Pity
but what some of them could be
caught so that Judge Rawlings
would have a show at them.
A bill is now before the legisla
ture taking Toombs and Emanuel
from the First Congressional dis
trict and placing them in the 3rd
with Montg mery, Laurens, Tel
fair, Dodge, Pulaski, Wilkinson
and one or two others. We are
satisfied to stay in the First Dis
trict and we hope the bill will he
changed so that we can stay.
Chas. Neville, the Savannah
Public Accountant, has a force of
experts working on the Toombs
County books. This work was rec
ommended by the last Grand Jury
and it was supposed that Col. F.
F. Goddard would be in charge.
We don’t understand the change
but we are satisfied that Mr. Nev
ille will do his duty, and when !
the result of the examination is j
made by the experts is published
the people will know how the coun
ty stands financially and other
wise.
Senator J. P. Brown was at
home Saturday and he says that
the Legislature is moving along i
about as rapid as possible under
the circumstances. He thinks the
special bills for Toombs county
will have smoothe sailing and he
says that Montgomery county is
going to be devided up into two
counties, one of them to be named
Kent county. The making of
this county will leave old Mont
gomery in a pretty bad shape,and
while we want as many counties
in South Georgia as we can
get, we can't see why this cut
should occur.
Uvalda, Route No. 2.
Mrs. G. F. Morris spent Satur
day with her sister, Mrs. W E.
Morris.
Misses Gussie Cowart and Mary
Sharpe, of Alston, spent Monday
at the home of Mis 9 Lollie Sharp.
M iss Andra Sharpe of Alston,,
spent last week with her cousins.
Misses Aunsule and Eula Sharpe.
Misses Lora and Linme Clifton
were the guests of their sister,
Mrs. R. K. Morris Sunday after
noon .
We are sorry to sav that Mrs
J. H. McCullough is on the sick
list, and we hope her an early re
covery.
Mrs. R. M. Foster, who has
been spending a while with her
son, W. J. H. Foster, returned to
her home near Soperton last week.
Misses Gussie Cowart, Alma and
Lula Sharpe, Willie Sharpe and
Eune Cowart called at the home
of Miss Lollie Sharpe Sunday
afternoon.
The cotton in this section is
opening very fast now. The writer
passed the home of W. E. Morris
and his is about ready for picking.
English is a good farmer anyway.
Among those that called at the
hotne of W. E. Morris Saturday
afternoon were Mr. and Mrs G, F.
Morris, Miss Annie Jackson, W.
D. Clarke, Lawrence and Lucian
Sharpe.
Last Friday . afternoon Miss
Bertha Carroll and Ezra Claxton
drove to the home of D. J. Mc-
Swain and there they'were happi
ly joined together in the holy
bonds of wedlock. We wish them
a long and happy life.
Quite a large crowd called by
from the sing at the home of Miss
Lollie Sharpe Sunday. Among
them being Misses Edna Morris,
Jimmie, Lottie and Cora Garrett,
Messrs Albert Clarke, Lucian
Sharpie, Marcus Claxton, Bruce
Morris. Lewis Claxton and many
others we cant name. Wonder if
they went to the watermelon patch
and peach trees.
Lonely Bachelor.
A Fine Crop.
R. A. Higgs, of near Elza, sure
has a fine crop. We have never 1
seen one that will come up
w r ith that of Mr. Higgs. While
visiting there a few days ago, we
were walking over the crop and
pulled an ear of corn which
measured inches around the
ear, and 11 inches long after the
shucks were removed. He has
corn and long cotton that is hard
to beat. We wish him much sue- ;
ces. A Visitor.
A meeting of the Directors of
the W. A. & L. railroad will be
held in Adrian today and the pur
pose of this meeting is to sign a
contract for the furnishing of rail
and finishing the road from Lyons
to Wrightsville. The Glynn Con-
I struetion Co., it seems, is to look
after the work and they are to get
busy at once. The knockers will
yet see that they have made a mis
take.
Work is progressing rapidly on
the old Lyons Ginnery, a new
boiler has been put in and anoth- '
er stand is to be added and it is I
going to be stricely up-to-date in I
| every particular. Mr. Wimberly
; says he hopes to be ready by the
j latter part of this month to handle
all the cotton brought to him, and
with new equipment he wall be
able to give good service.
Henry McQueen, at the First !
National Bank, will take the gin- I
ners’ reports for the Government
this year. He was appointed by
the Census Department the other
day and he will begin his work
when the season opens. His late
father did this work last year and
the 9on is a worthy successor.
The Garbutt & Donovan Gin
nery is being looked over, adjusted
as it were, and they say they are
going to be ready by the 15th.
This is one of the best ginneries
in South Georgia and good people
will be in charge of it again this
season.
Official Organ of Toombs County and the Town of Lyons.
LYONS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1911.
Additional Locals.
Col. E C. Collins, of Reidsville,
was in the city last Saturday to
vi9ithis parents and to look after
some legal matters.
Mrs. E. B. Jackson and the
children went up in Bulloch coun
ty the other day to spend a week
or so with relatives.
Roscoe Clifton, who has been in
Florida for several years, has mov
ed back to Toombs county and he
will be with his father for the
balance of this year. He says that
he don’t think he will go back to
Florida very soon.
T. J. Coursoy is the new presi
dent of the Union Guano Manu
facturing Company and a better
man could not be found iu the
county. He is one of the county’s
largest land owners, a practical
farmer and a successful financier.
Mr. Sutton, of Sutton & Smith,
the Johnson Corner merchants,
was in the city the fir9t of the
week. He has received a new
switch board for their telephone
line and he sav3 they are going to
prepare to give their people the
very best service.
W. L. Durden, who has a neat
little store down in the Anderson
School House neighborhood, was
in the city the first of the week on
his way to Atlanta to buy goods.
He SHvs that he is going to have a
nice line and he wants the people
to give him a show at their trade.
S. J. Samms, owner of the
Amusu Theatre in Vidalia, was in
the city Wednesday and he aas an
advertisement in this issue. He
run 9 the very best pictures and
changes every night. Show runs
from Bto 10 p. m., and the ad
mission is 5 aud 10 cents. When
in Vidal’a go and see tile picture
show’
We understand that the first in
stallment of the school house im
provement subscription has been
called for, the work of cutting up
the old auditorium into rooms be
ing about completed. The commit,-
' tee is also making an effort to
raise the balance of the amount
; necessary to erect a new’ auditori
um and we hope they will succeed.
W. L. Durden, the merchaut in
the Anderson settlement, near the
Andergon School house, on Uval
da Route 4, w>ll receive in a few
days a handsome line of goods,
I such as dry goods, ladies and gents
! furnishings, groceries, etc. He
i has been in Atlanta and found
j many good bargains for his custo
mers. Save a trip to town by call
ing on Mr. Durden.
Dewitt Osborne went down in
the lower section of the county
Sunday to visit his parents and he
brought back from his brother’s
place a stalk of sorghum cane that
would take a premium any where.
The stalk was nearly twelve feet
high and it was not fully matured
and Dewitt says that his brother
has several acres all the same size.
This cane is fine for hog feed and
it makes very good syrup also.
Mr. Patten,of Berrien, introduc
ed in the House a resolution to
appoint a joint committee of five,
from the House and Senate, to in
vestigate and report upon the ad
visability of the state’s establish
ing a prison farm in South Geor
gia. An effort was made 2 years
ago to purchase a prison farm in
the southern section of the state,
but a change of administrations
came along and nothing was done.
B. F, Brown leaves this week
for the Eastern market centers,
his business being to lay in a
large Fall and Winter supply of
goods. He says that he is going to
get the best he can find fqr his
many customers and he is going
to make price a feature. E. Gor
don Floyd w’ill be with Mr. Brown
during the season and Gordon is
cne of the best salesmen in the
city. See Mr. Brown's new adver
tisement in this issue.
First Bale for 1911.
Lyons get 9 the first bale of
i Toombs county cotton for 1911
1 and it was pretty, too. It was
raised by J. H Watts on his place
a short distance west of the city
and it classed strictly good mid
dling. The bale weighed 475
pounds and it was auctioned off,
Mr. R. S. Willson being the buy
er at $90.65, or a fraction over 19
cents per pound.
Mr. Watts is tme of the county’s
best farmers and for several years
past he has been ginning the first
bale. Usually he has sold in Vidal
ia but this year he decided to try
Lyons and he seems perfectly sat
isfied with the esult. Mr. Watts
did not sell the seed out of this
bale, but had he sold the seed and
the cotton it would have brought
nearly or quite SIOO.
This first bale was ginned by
W. C. Driggers at his gin in the
edge of the city and the sample
was first class in every way. Mr.
Driggers is the only ginner in the
city that is ready right now, but
both the other gins will be ready
by the fifteenth.
Lyons feels rather big over get
ting the first bale of cotton and is
an honor to the buyers as well as
an advertisement to the city that
the price paid was so attractive.
Our city has always been the best
cotton market in the three coun
ties that join each other and this
year we understand that we are
to have more competition than
ever. The addition will be two or
three foreign buyers and they say
they are going to be on the ground
right away.
All honor to Mr. Watts for this
first bale. He is a farmer that
knows how to farm and it would
be well for many of the other far
mers to follow him* He says he is
going to use Lyons as his market
base this year and we are satisfied
that he will be pleased when the
season end 9.
We are in favor of the old plan
of working the roads of the county
or the law r as it was during the
administration of Judge Clifton.
Judge Mason has too much to do
to look after this branch of the
county business and we believe in
a count v intendent w’th full
power to do this work provided he
is put under sufficient bond. Judge
Mason has done well since the
matter has been placed in his
hands, but it is taking him away
from other county affairs and the
compension is not sufficient to
just’fy the continuance of the
work. We don’t need county
commissioners but we do need a
Superintendent of Public Roads,
and the office should be separate
from any other. The Superinten
dent should be appointive, too, so
that he wouldn’t have to dabble
in politics. With such a man in
office all sections of the county
would get an equal showing in the
working of the public roads.
One or two seemed to want to
jump on the Progress the other
day on account of the little pas
sage in the note we wrote about
the City court bill about letting
the people know what was going
on. Now, friends, we have over a
thousand readers in the county
of Toombs who are looking to us
to keep them posted on what is
considered county affairs. We’re
going to try to do our duty. This
city court measure, however, is a
good one for all and we are of the
opinion that a great portion of the
people will favor it at this time.
We have a chain gang and we need
men on our roads. We have a jail
full being fed at our expense and
with a city court several of them
would now be doing us good ser
vice one the roads. Lets try a
City court awhile anyway. If it
is a bad proposition we can get
rid of it almost any time.
The local chapter U. D. C.. will
hold an important meeting at the
Lyons Hotel Friday afternoon,
August 4, at 4 o’clock. All mem
bers are urged to be present. —
Mrs. Belle Everlyn, Pres.
Subscription SI.OO.
LOCAL NOTES
A Barrett cooking stove for sale
cheap. Good as new. See John
Dust.
Dr I. E. Aaron went to Rincon
Thursday morning on a profess
ional call and he will return Fri
day afternoon if all is well.
Mr. and Mrs Levy Thompson,
of Findleyson, are spending a few
weeks in Lyons, guests at the
borne of Mrs Thompson’s parents.
Our correspondents are getting
to be irregular and we want them
to write every week. Say,friends,
if you are too busy, try to find us
some one else in your neighbor
hood.
I have for sale a neat five room
house with six lots and good out
houses. With all convenience
such as water and telephone. Will
sell cheap to quick buyer. Come
and see John Durst.
Oliver & Sumner, it seems, are
to continue the Hudson agency and
they are also taking on two or
three other cars. They will have
more to say about their automo
bile agency when their contracts
return.
J. B. Johnson has taken hold
in the hardware business like an
old experienced man. He has
charge of the business and he is
putting in a line that will attract
trade. It is now W. C. Oliver &
Company, and J, B. is one of the
company.
B. F. Brown is offering some
great bargains in Spring and Sum
mer goods now and those buyers
who are looking for something
cheap 'and good should call on
him. He will leave for the east
ern market in a few days and be
fore his Fall line gets here he
wants to clean his shelves. Call
on B. F. Brown .
The County School Board failed
to have a quorum last Tuesday
when the regular montly meeting
should have been held, so the
Chairman adjourned the meeting
until today (Friday) when he
hopes to have all members pres
ent. It is now getti >g time for
all schools in the county to begin
arranging for the fall term and
this meeting will be an important
one.
Driggers, the ginner, will have
, a monopoly of the long staple
cotton ginning this season, it
seems. He has improved his gin,
however, and he is prepared to
handle the business. He has short
staple gins also and he is going to
bid for that business too. Mr.
Driggers understands ginning and
he will get about all the business
where people are selecting the
seed.
Dr. Masrow, the eye specialist,
will be at the New Lyons Phar
macy on Monday and Tuesday the
21st and 22nd, the first two days
of court. Dr. Masrow is one of
the very best opticians in the busi
ness, grinds his own lenses and has
excellent assistance at his office on
Whitaker street in Savannah. He
guarantees all his work and he can
lie found at any time to make his
guarantee good. Read his adver
tisement in another column and
remember the dates he is to be
here. Remember also that he will
make the New Lyons Pharmacy
his headquarters this time.
Now, that we know the Union
Guano Factory is going to be lo
cated in Lyons,it is up to our peo
ple to get "together to offer a site .
The Union is not asking it but we
should show that much public
spirit. Strong effort is being
made right now to have the com
pany select a site in another city,
but we are satisfied that all the
Board of Directors are favorable
to Lyons, but we should not rest
until we have given them a site
that will be convenient to the
railroads and to the city. Let
some public spirited citizen start
the ball to rolling at once.