Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

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. A 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.