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THE LYONS PROGRESS.
VOL. 8. No. 29.
LOCAL ITEMS
Y A Barrett cooking stove for sale
cheap Good as new. See John
Dust
5 or G doses of “666” will cure
any case of chills and fever.
Price 25 cents.
H. M. Scott, section foreman oj
the Seaboard down at Eilabelle,
was in the city the other day visit
ing his old friends.
Mrs.R. P.Sweat and little Hazel
have returned from Nashville,Ga,,
where they have been visiting
friends for several days.
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
sel 1 cheap to quick buyer. Come
and see John Durst.
The Woman’s Mission Society
of the Methodist Church will hold
a public meeting Monday after
noon, Aug. 28, at 4 o’clock, A
splendid program is being arrang
ed and every one is cordially in
vited to attend.
“A Subscriber” at Ohoopee tells
us in a communication of a “near
running away” but he or her for*
got to sign his or her name. The
communication may give an item
of news that is good but cannot
give it place in the Progress un
til wo know the writer.
Mrs. C. W. Culpepper will en
tertain Mrs. Wm. Joh.iigean, of
Asheville, N. C , Mrs. .Josie Wilks
of Long Pond, Mrs. W J. Carter,
of Pembroke, Mrs. V. L. Stanley,
of Dublin, and Mrs. J. E Schum
pert, of Vidalia. at a “spend the
day” party this Thursday
Tfce Local Chapter of the U. D
G will hold its regular meeting at
tne home of the President, Mrs.
Belle Everlyn, Friday afternoon,
Aug. 25, at 4 o’clock. Very im
portant business will be brought
before the Chapter and all mem
bers are urged to bp present.
Mr. Penuel, of Reidsville, has
rented the old Dix stables for a
year and he is coming to Lyons to
enter the live stock business. He
will move his family here and be
a resident of the city. Mr. Pen
uel is experienced in the live stock
business and we know he will do
well.
Louis Levine, of Douglas, buy
er for Levine Bros., proprietors of j
the Lvons Bargain'Store, came up ’
from Douglas Sunday and spent a
couple of days in Lyons with Si
mon Levine, manager of the store
■here. Mr. Louis Levine is now’ in
New York looking up bargains for
their two stores.
R. MJ Garbutt is putting in a
new style electric lighting plant
and it will soon be ready for opera
tion. He will also put in his own
water works soon and then he will
be independent of the city plant.
The system being put in by Mr.
Garbutt is new and if it is suc
cessful it is going to be popular.
The new' bank proposition is j
booming now. Many good farmers j
are taking stock and the local peo-;
pie are beginning to take an inter
est. The bank is a certainty now
and it is only a question of time
before it will be in operation. Jn
building the new bank, arrange
ments are being made for the
postoffice, and the erection of this j
structure means that Lyons will ,
have a postoffice building that will s
be in keeping with the city.
Judge W. C. Hall, of Grove, !
Okla, is here visiting his parents
Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Hall, down
in the lower part of the county.
Judge Hall will be with us for
about oue month and then return
to his home. He will visit Savan
nah and Tybee and many other
points. Mr. Hall has many friends
in Lyons and Vidalia He is a
bright young man and we will be
sorry to see him leave. We wish
him much success through all of
his life.
M. D. & S. Will Run Through Trains. !
Dublin, Ga , Aug. 15 —Robert
M. Martin, managing director of !
the Dublin Chamber of Commerce,
and H. M. Stanley, a director and
editor of the Courier-Dispatch, |
left for Atlanta today to confer t< ■
morrow with J. L. Meek, assistant
general passenger agent of the
Southern Railroad, relative to
through train service between At
lanta, Macon, Dublin and Savan
nah over the M. D. & S. and Sea
board Air Line roads.
The Seaboard and the M. D. & S
have agreed to the service and it
remains for the Southern to make
the service a go.
It is proposed to have traine
leave Atlanta and Savannah every
night about midnight, carrying
baggage and mail cars, day coach
es and sleepers.
It is believed that the service
will prove a big success from the
start, and an effort will be made
to get it started early in Septem
ber.
The above is taken from the
Morning News and our people are
anxious to see this through service
started. It will be a great thing
for all the roads concerned as well
as the traveling public.
Marietta News.
Prof. J. L. Mosely left Friday
for Augusta. Hope he had a fine
time.
J. C Sapp and wife attended
services at Coleman school house
last Sunday.
H D. Findley spent Saturday
and Sunday in the blooming little
city of Oak Park.
Preaching last Sunday at the
Coleman school house was enjoy
ed by all present.
H. P. says he fares better stay
ing at home by himself on Sunday
than fooling up with the girls
Pen ton Edenfield is attending
school at Zadie. This school is
under the careful management of
Prof. Wade Mitchum.
J M Findley and his charming
little wife were out for a drive
last Sunday afternoon after his
return from Baltimore.
We are glad to know that sev
eral of the Marrietta girls and
boys are expecting to attend
school at Douglas this Fall
Misses Cleo Stone and Birdie
Collins attended preaching at the
Coleman school house last Sun
day. Girls, what’s so attractive?
Billy’ Possum.
The building boom has struck ,
! Lyons full, but the kind of build j
ings being erected are not so badly
needed. Besides the Coleman busi
ness house now being erected,
contracts have been let for two
business houses on the I. Q, Cole
man lots on which now stands the
old wooden store. The contract
for the new bank and for a post
office or business house on the
corner where the postoffice now
stands will be let in a few days
and it is rumored that a brick ga
rage and business house will go up
on the lots east of the Union Sup
ply store. We need residences for
people to live in and we need them
! worse than we need business hous
; es. Why cant seme of the money
I men see this need?
Up to last Thursday night, Aug
ust 10th, Lyons had received eight
bales of cotton, on Friday, the
11th, two more came in and on
Saturday three or four came here
to be ginned but Garbutt & Dono-
J van and the Lyons Ginnery were
I not ready and W. C. Driggers was
i grinding and could not gir . Three
I bales went from here to Vidalia to |
I be ginned, but we understand they j
were brought back to Lyons and j
I sold. The Vidalia gin is ready and i
ginning and we can’t see why the
Lyons gins can’t be doing so too.
The Garbutt & Donovan Gin
nery is running full force and yes
terday they ginned ten or fifteen
bales. Lyons is getting from ten
to twenty bales a day on an aver
age and those who are soiling here
seem to be pleased with the mar
* ket.
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Official Organ of Toombs County and the Town of Lyons.
LYONS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1911.
Additional Locals.
Mrs G. C. Jones went up in
Jefferson county the other day to
visit relatives.
R. M. and C. A. Garbutt were
in Savannah the first of the week
on a short business trip.
Mrs W. H. Morris is at hom#
again after spending several days
up in Emanuel county at her old
home.
P. S. Hagan, A. S. Odom and
one or two of the other boys went
to Tybee Sunday and they say they
had a-fine time.
We will have visitors a plentv
here next week and we wish the
old artesian well could be put in
operation before that time.
The court calendars are out and
we will gladly furnish copies to
those who are interested. It is ex
tra heavy this time and it seems
that most of the cases are litigated.
Elza Wing has purchased the
Phillips grocery store and he says
that he is going to handle a nice,
fresh line of family groceries. Elza
is a hustler and we wish him well.
Wanted—Boy to distribute cir
culars to all the homes in Lyons.
Must furnish references. Big op
partunity for the right boy. Ad
dress Wm. Fitzsimmons, Hazel
hurst, Ga.
Hazelhurst. the fastest growing
town in South Georgia Great op
portunity to make big money on
small investments. Attend the big
auction sale of town lots Tuesday,
August 22nd.
Dan Odom is at home again
after spending a few weeks up in
the mountains of Nortji Carolina.
Mrs. Odom and the baby stopped
off at her old home and she will
be away a week yet.
Attend the big auction sale of
town lots on Tuesday, August
22nd, at Hazelhurst, the fastest
growing town in South Georgia.
GreaU.opportunitv make big
money on small investments.
Now is the time to put out shade
trees and we are glad to see that a
few of our citizens have started
the good work Z. P. Williams is
now having water oaks put out
around his home, and others we
understand will follow suit.
Carrier T. B. Wilks, of Route
, No. 1, was off on his vacation last
I week and on one or two days his
substitute was sick, consequently !
no mail went out on this route.
Mr. Wilks is back on the job and
we don’t suppose the mail will
miss any more.
W. O. Shuptrine is having the
front of his store and the front of
the store occupied by R. S. Will
son painted a neat white. This will
be one of the neatest fronts in the
city when the work is finished.
Alfred Cadman, the painter, is in
charge of the work.
We are sorry to say that young
Danny Partin, who is ill at the
home of Dr. Gray, is in a serious !
condition. He was taken at Vi-.
dalia, it seems, and he came here
for treatment;. We hope that he ;
will rally soon and recover his
good health again.
Hunter, Pearce & Batty, the
cotton factors of Savannah, are
advertising in the Progress again
this season. This is one of the
best firms in the Forest City and
our farmers who want to ship cot
ton, cannot find a better firm to
i handle it for them.
Hunter Pearce & Battev, the
: substantial, reliable, and wide
awake Factors, of Savannah, offer
you the same excellent service 1
that has convinced many |
j of the benefits of marketing cot
ton through them. Until you
have tried them, perhaps you are
neglecting an opportunity to real
ize more for your cotton than !
heretofore They respectfully
solicit your consignments.
Mrs. C. N. Walker Found Dead.
The news came to Lyons Monday
that Mrs. C. N. Walker was found
dead in bed at her home that
morning. We understand that
she had not been sick at all and
the doctors say the cause of her
death was heart failure.
Mrs. Walker was a daughter cf
Judge C. H. Mann and a most ex
cellent lady. She was the mother
of several children, most of them
small and one a very young babe,
born only a few weeks ago She
was in the prime of life and to be
taken so suddenly to the unknown
beyond was indeed hard. Mr.
Walker, the husband, is one of the
county’s very best men and the
death of his good wife is a sad
blow to him. This home, so re
cently a very happy one, is now
cast in gloom, but God, in His in
finite wisdom, knows what is for
the best. The wife and mother
has gone to her reward and it is
the wish of the Progress that the
sorrow’of the bereaved family be
lightened. Let’hem look to the
One above and live through life so
that when the end cumes their re
ward will be a reunion with this
loving mother.
Library Instead of Monument.
Editor Progress:—We are all
aiixious for a Confederate Mon
ument, but instead of a marble
statue cr suppose we let it
take the form of a living mon
ument —a Library. We can buy a
lot, erect a building and get books.
There are a number of people who
will subscribe to a home library.
Then, too, we might make it two
stories high rent the lower floor,
and use the upper for a Library
and Chapter Hall.
This would be a monument for
the living as well as the dead he
roes of ’6l and ’65, one that will
have a gcod influence upon all
who care to read, and we should
encourage the young people of our
town to think more. Let us have
the Library, it will in a few years
be self-sustaining and doing good
all the time, while the marble stat
ue will only be good to look upon.
The money invested doing no one
any good. Well Wisher.
Card of Thanks.
We, the Farmers Union of
Toombs county, do hereby heartily
thank the good people of thn City
of Lyons for their co-operation !
with us in our Rally on July the |
20th. It makes us feel that we are i
| among our frieuds. We thank and j
appreciate every act of kind-
I ness shown us on that oeasion by
those good people and we shall al
ways remember them May Heav
en’s blessing rest upon them.
Done in executive session, Aug.
13th, 1911.
R. A. Smith. Pres.
A. J. Mathews, Sec. and Treas.
The railroad proposition is now
standing a little quiet but work is
going right along. The Board of
Directors went to the stockhold
ers about the contract for finish
ing the line and the stockholders
have left the matter in the hands
of a committee. On this commit
tee will be Capt. T. J. James, W.
I H. Rowland and W. C. Oliver, and
they are to meet next Saturday to
i look into the different proposi
j tions offered. We are getting anx*
| lous to see something doing.
Mrs. Vivian L. Stanley and
children, after a visit to Flint
and Ashburu, is expected in the
city Wednesday afternoon, and
after a few days visit to her sister,
Mrs. C. W. Culpepper, she will
return to her home in Dublin.
Marion Wells, a brother of J. H.
! Wells, formerly of Lyons, is here
| visiting relatives Marion has
| grown wonderfully since he was
here attending school a few years i
I ago and h’ - s old friends will hardly
recognize him at all.
! °
Miss Pearl Thompson, who has!
been a charntfhig guest of Miss El
-1 len Wimberly for several weeks,
; has returned to her home at Scre
ven.
Subscription SI.OO.
LOCAL NOTES
Return the library books to the
Aaron Drug Store at once. They
are wanted.
I
Little Miss Annie Lois Culpep
per entertained at a “spend the
day” party last Thursday.
Tommy Perrv, son of Cicero
Perrv. has taken a position with
; S J. Brown und he is going to
make a good salesman.
Miss Dona Hendricks, of Nash
ville, a charming young society
girl, is here spending a few days
with her friend, Mrs. R.P. Sweat.
All parties who have books from
the library at the Aaron Drug
Store are requested to return them
at once. Don’t fail to attend to
this please.
Selden Easterling, of ReidsvilJe,
was in the city a short time Tues
dayr He is writing life insurance
and he seems to get plenty of busi
ness in Toombs county.
Carrier T. B. Wilks, of Route
No. 1, was off on his vacation last
wepk and he visited Brunswick for
several days. He says that he had
a fine time down at St, Simon 9.
Grant, the ice man, is holding
his own. Since starting out for
himsplf he has keot the people
supplied with ice and he says that
he is going to continue to do so.
Mrs. Sweat, of Waycross, was
ill the cPv this week visiting her
son, R. P. Sweat of the First Nat
ional. Mrs. Sweat was accompa
nied by her son, Albert Sweat, and
they returned home Wednesday.
John W. Greer, general hustler
of Tifton, was in the city Thurs
day advertising the South Georgia
Fair to be held at Tifton in Nov
ember. Mr Greer sa\’9 it is going
to be a great lair and we believe
what he says.
To the members of the Wo
man’s Missionary Society of the
Lyons Baptist Church. The regu
lar meetingof the Missionary So
ciety will be held at the Baptist
church .Monday at 8:30 p m. It is
the earnest wish of the leader to
have every member present.—
Mrs.E. P. Bomar, President.
When any of our friends visit
j Tybee we recommend that they go
j to the Ocean View Hotel for a fine
j fish dinner at a reasonable price.
They serve a fine fish dinner at the
Ocean View for 50 cents and the
guests are treated nicely. This
hotel is at the Bohan Pavillion.
depot and don’t forget it is the
Ocean View Hotel.
Mrs. Mack Wilks and the baby
are here for a few days visiting
old friends. She is a guest at the
home of John Durst. Mrs. Wilks
was very popular in Lyons, being
a resident here all the time that
her husband was putting in our
electric lights and water works,
and her friends are glad to have
her back if only for a visit.
“Valley Farm,” the drama that
has been rehearsed for several
weeks by local talent, will be pre
sented next week and those who
know say that it is going to be
good. The drama was presented
here once before and it was well
received. The proceeds es the en
tertainment will go to the local
chapter United Daughters of the
Confederacy.
We must sav a few words for the
Georgia Life Insurance Company.
It is certainly one of the strongest
in the country and their policy is
one of the best. Their policy hold
ers are safe, too, as the company
has a great fund behind it. The
home of the company in Macon is
one of the finest buildings in the
state, and being a home enter
prise it should have preference for
home patronage. Sweat & Mc-
Queen, at the First National
Bank, axe the local agents and
those who want insurance should
call on them before having a pol
icy issued.