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THE LYONS PROGRESS. VOL. 8. No. 27. LOCAL ITEMS / | 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.