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THE LYONS PROGRESS.
Vol. 8. No. 32.
LOCAL ITEMS
5 doses of “666” will cure
auy ca9P of chills and fever.
Price 25 c^nta.
John A. Coursey, of Ailey, was
in the city Wednesday mingling
with his many friends,
Mr. J. R. Odom and his daugh
ter, Mrs. Henry Wiggs, of Vidal
ia. were in the city the first of
the week.
The Georgia & Florida railroad
announces that the last Sunday
excursion to Augusta will be run
on Sunday, Sept. 17th.
Try Lilliott Bros., when you
want something nice. They have a
line of goods that pleases and they
have only one price to all.
Sol Mosely is buying cotton this
year and he is one of the liveliest
buyers we have. Sol is all right
aud we want to see him make
money.
Grant, the market man, says be
will have fish everv day through
the fish season and he wiil receive
his first shipment of oysters
Saturday.
For Rent—Farm lands in the
1192nd District, with good build
ings and good fencing. Will rent
either for sure rent or on sharps
Write J. W. Lucas, Route 2, Ly
ons, Ga.
The. Lyons Bargain Store ha 9 a
fine line of hats for ladies and
Manager Levin is anxious that the
ladies call and see them. They
are up to date and they sell very
reasonable.
For Sale—2so acres of best
Toombs county land twelve miles
from Lyons. 100 acres cleared.
WjULtell in bulk or in lots of 50
aeries each at reasonoble price.
Powers & Mozingo, Lyons, Ga.
Miss Pope will be at the Empire
again and she is already shipping
in her Fall and Winter line. Miss
Pope has been in the trade so long
here that she knows what the peo
ple want. She is expected next
week and her line will surpass
anything of the kind ever shown
in Lyons.
B. F. Brown tells us that his
head milliner, Mrs. C. W. Warner
is expected to arrive the first ot
next week. She has been in Chi
cago, Baltimore and New York
studving styles and we understand
that'she has bought a fine line for
the trade at Lyons. Mrs. Warner
is all right and her friends will be
glad to know that she is to return
to Lyons.
Miss Leacv Cowart stole a march
on her friends the other day by
slipping away and marrying Mr.
Lewis Lovett Lea, a prominent
young painter of Eastman. Phe
young couple went away for a week
or more to enjoy their honey moon
but they are back in Lyons again
and Mr. Lea is painting the home
of Mr. F. M. Smith. The Pro
gress pxtends congratulations.
Hunter Pearce & Battey, the
substantial, reliable, and wide
awake Factors, of Savannah, offer
you the same excellent service
that has convinced many
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 vour cotton than
heretofore They respectfully
solicit your consignments.
judge Mason has been forced to j
put locks on the court house doors
so that they can be kept locked on
Sundays. Lately a crown of young
sters have been gathering up there
on Sunday afternoon and they
would leave the chairs scuttered
out on the front porch up stairs,
and these chairs were ruined by
the rain and dew. At least a doz
en chairs have been ruined in this
mauwir aud the Judge thought it
best to stop this damage by keep
incr everybody out of the building
on Sunday.
Racket from Rackley.
A. S. McCullough visited rela
tives near Kuifield Sunday last.
Mrs. Edenfield was a guest
at the home of J. J. Wrenn Sunday
last.
J. M. Wrenn aud wife, spent
Saturday with M. T. Collins and
wife.
C. F. McCullough was attending
to business in Lyons Monday of
this week.
Math Collins and wife speutSuti
dav very pleasantly at the home of
J. M Wrenn.
Mr. andMr9. Melvin Edenfield
visited relatives npar Stillmore
last week end.
Willis Mills and Miss Easie Mc-
Cullough attended preaching at
Cool Spring Sunday last.
L A. Mosley has been on the
sick list for several days. We hope
he will soon be alright again.
J. M. Findley and wife spent a
short while Sunday afternoon at
the home of W. J. Wrenn and wife.
Mrs. *V. M. McCullough and
daughter, Mis 9 Mattie, spent Sun
day pleasantly at the home of G.
W. Collins.
One of Mr. and Mrs. L .P. Mills’
little twin babies is very sick at
this writing, but we hope it will
soon be much better.
Quite a crowd attended the en
tertainment at the home of J. B.
Collins Saturday night and we are
sure they enjoyed themselves.
Willis Griffin left Monday for
Douglas to enter school. Willis is
a bright boy aud without a doubt
he will make his mark in the
world.
G. D. McCullough packed his
grip and left us Sunday, and no
one knows yet where he is stoping.
We guess, though, he will soon be
heard from again.
We have been having lots of rain
in this section of late and serious
damage has been done to cotton.
The roads aho are in bad shape
and travel as well as work of all
kinds had to he suspended for a
few days.
Pine Apple.
Sharpe’s Chapel Notes.
Willie Higgs and family spent
Sunday at the home of B. M.
Higgs.
L. B. Odom will soon have his
new home completed and it will
be a neat place.
Prayer meeting every Saturday
night at church. All invited to
come and take a part.
The farmers are busy picking
cotton now. The heavy rains put
them behind and 't injures the
cotton also.
Mrs. J. J. Odom and son,Mack
ie, spent Sunday in the North
Thompson settlement, with their
many friends.
A meeting will be held at the
home of L. B. Heckle Sunday
night and a general invitation is
extended all.
Our Sunday school is doing fine.
“Uncle Ben” Odom is a good Sup
erintendent and large crowds at
tend every Sunday.
A crowd attended the services
at the home of B. M. Higgs Mon
day night, among them being
Mrs. Womble and her sister.
Will Hughes is looking unusual
ly fine right at this time and the
reason is he has a fine girl at his
home. Mother and child are do
ing fine.
Java is a tropical paradise and
vield9 immense wealth to the
Dutch investors. Borneo is forg
ing ahead and many large enter
prises are in successful operation.
Some of our laws are put into
i leather bound books tor the bene
fit of lawyers and they work’em
for all they are worth —Darien
Gazette.
The Georgia editor is not saying
much about that veto but he is do
iug a powerful lot of thinking. Re
form is a great thing, saith Difck
: Grubb.
Official Organ of Toombs County and the Town of Lyons.
LYONS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1911.
Additional Locals.
Harry Grimes has been in
Swainaboro this week working on
a machine.
Mrs. A. S. Odom is at home
again after spending several weeks
at her old home in Henry county.
Mr. and Mrs. Mozingo and the
baby went down in Florida Thurs
day to spend a week or so with his
parents and relatives.
Mr. Claxton, manager of the Vi
dalia Cocoa Bottling Co , and Mr.
Adams of the Vidalnj Ice Factery,
were in the city Thursday on a bus
iness trip.
Victor Coursey is buying cotton
for J Mon Johnson, the exporter,
and Vic says he has authority to
pay the highest market price. Vic
tor is a good judge of cotton and
Mr Johnson could not have gotten
a better man to represent him.
The heavy rains are continuing
and they are doing untold damage
to the roads and bridges of the
county as well as the cotton crop.
The cotton is rotting in the field
and the farmers are beginning to
feel a little blue over the situation.
For Sals —186 acres of land,
about 27 acres improved w;ith two
tenement houses ui.d out
houses, located about 1 mile from
Ohoopee station. W ill s-li rea
sonable for cash. Calf on or
write A. A. & J. W. Webb, Olwo
pee, Ga.
The store in the Scarboro bui! ■
ing is open but the line 90 far is
not complete. The two young m-n
conducting the store are jew* -u <i
it seems as if the stock is so i> -
left overs or bankrupt 9tock. Tn -v
say thev are soon to receive a large
9tock and then they will advertise.
Frank Scarboro is a good farmer
and he has taken the ribbon for
the longest ear of corn in Toombs
county. He brought us two the
other day, one fifteen inches in
length and the other thirteen
iuches. He says he has plenty
more and it will measure out well
too. The corn is known as the
little cobb variety and he has a
large field of it.
Material for the I. Q. Coleman
building i 9 nearly all on th
ground but there is a delay in
getting the old building moved.
Mr. Calhoun, who has the con
tract, had the misfortune to get
his leg broke at the work a week
or so ago and since that time it
seeni3 that no one wants to tackle
the job. It will be moved, how
ever, and work on the new build
ing [will be started in the next
week or ten days
The Directors of the Union
Fertilizer factory met in Lyons
Wednesday and they considered 1
the location of the plant. They
did not give out the result of their
deliberations, but we could under
stand that they have several sites
in view and some of them have
been offered free. This fertilizer
factory is to be ready for business
in the beginning of the new year
and it will mean much for the
farmers m this section of the
country.
School opened Monday with the !
very brightest of prospects, the
attendance being larger than ever I
before for the Fall term. Prof. '
Monts had worked hard the w§ek j
before and he had in all the new
desks and the rooms were in order, j
The entire faculty was on hand
with the exception of Miss Proctor
who was delayed on account of the
sickness of her mother. She is ex
pected to-day when the primary
classes will begin their studies.
The faculty this year is the same
as last year with the exception of
Miss Bodie Jones, who takes Miss
Davis’ place. The term promises
to be the best in the history of the
school if our good people will give
the Superintendent and teachers
support: Our school is a credit to
the city and we are gladto see it j
grow in usefulness.
Ohoopee Dots.
Miss Lois Johnson is at Alamo,
with her brother.
Mr. Ricks a.id wife from Alston,
spent a fpw days with relatives in
Ohoopee,
G. W. Meadows went, over in
the Johnson Corner community
T uesdav.
J. 3 McCullough spent a few
davs in and around Brunswick
last week.
Mrs. Sud ; e Duffield and Miss
Lois Johnson went over to Col
lins Saturday.
Mrs Susan Johnson went to Lv
o?is Tuesday and then out 111 the
Harden’s Chapel section to visit
children and relatives.
J. P. Johnson and wife, of Aia
mo have returned home after visit
ing their parents and relatives at
Ohoopee and Glennville.
An >t Julian Anderson, who has
been spending some time in Ohoo
pee. has returned to her daugh
ter’s MT9. Frank Driggers.
Misses Ninnie Cowart and Char
lotte Johnson went, over to Collins
Friday to the dedication of their
fine school building and reported
a fine time.
Allen Kitchen and wife, Morgan
C nxton, Claude Smith. Miss Ollie
Anderson. G B andj. P. Johnson
went over ro Reidsville to meet
Watson. He did not come .
Miss Lola Meadows has returned
from Atlanta, where she went to
acquaint herself with the millinerv
business, and she purchased a
stock, which has arrived, and she
will occupy a part of the Post Of
fice building.
M'sses Eula Graham. Lillian
Sieu, Emma Cowart, Charlotte
Johnson, Messrs Caleb Rolison.
Harrison Bush, Anthony Graham.
G. B Johnson and Mrs Ruth
Johnson attended Bro. Sumner’s
preaching at Cowan’s Chapel
Sunday.
Haw Thorn.
The Timber Crop.
It is painful r<> see the way the
pine forests ar- being butchered
:tlid. wasted in Florida,” said an
educator who recently made a
short trip in that State.“ The lum
bermen, as a rule, simply make a
clean sweep wherever they go—
leaving no proper stand of trees
on the laud for future growth,
and forest fires, more often than ,
not, are allowed to kill the young j
growth even where it is allowed to |
get a start. The land is also im
impoverished through the destruc-1
non of humua that the pinestraw 1
would furnish if allowed to rot in
stead of being burned off.”
What is here reported of Flor
ida is true of far too many other
i sections of the South. We can not
too often emphasize the fact that
the timber is a farm crop just as
corn or cotton, and should be as
carefu'ly looked after The im
portance of keeping a good stand
is not # more important in one case
than the other.
And with the growing scarcity j
of lumber and the steady rise ini
its.price, the farmer should have |
as little mercy on the man respon
sible for firing his woods as he
j would have on a man responsible
j for firing his corn crib. —Progre9-
j eive Farmer.
Announcement.
| We wish to announce to the
citizens of Toombs and surround- j
ing counties that we have opened
our office in the Toombs County 1
Bank building, aud will conduct
a general real estate and insurance !
business. Any one desiring to
purchase, sell or rent real estate
we would be glad to have them
place the business in our hands. ;
Our insurance department con- 1
sists of life, fire, health, accident
and automobile insurance.
Any business entrusted to us
will receive immediate and careful
I attention. Respectfully.
Powers & Mozingo.
Subscription SI.OO.
LOCAL NOTES
Judg* S P Smith, from down
on Altiimaha. was in the city
thn- first of ttif* week looking after
some legal, matters.
Messrs. Jno Poe, J Wad** John
son and brother and" Col. Patillo.
of Vidalia, were in the city the
first of the week on a business
trip.
We aae now arranging several
attractive clubbing offers for the
Progress and we want those who
want several papers to come to
see us before sending money away.
Lost—Somewhere on the streets
of Lyons a small solid gold class
pin with enameled front in black.
Has motto “Ich Biene” and 1911”
on front. Reward will be paid for
its return to Miss Helen Dewitt.
Charley Phillips is now chief
at the Oliver Hardware
store and he is going to make a
good one. Charley is new in the
hardware business but he can
Lam and one thing is certain, he
knows how r to treat a customer
courteously.
Rev. J. W. Kvtle is at home
again after a vacation of several
weeks. He has conducted one or
two meetings since he went off on
his vacation and he says they
were successful. Rev. Kytle is a
nard worker in the vineyard of
the Lord and a splendid man
generally.
Lyons got over sixty bales of
cotton Wednesday and the pick
ers can hardly get in the fields
yet on account of wet ground. If
the good weather continues the
fleecy staple will roll in next week
right. We hope our friends who
are selling cotton now will re
member the Progress.
Strayed—One black sow with
seven shoats, sow marked with
split, underbit and cross nick in
one ear, crop and underbit in the
other; the pigs marked with three
splits in one eaj\ Left C L. Smith’s
home near the Evans blace about
two months ago. Will pay liberal
reward for information as to
where they are. R. D. Smith,
Route 1. Lyons, Ga.
The Union Supply Company is
making special prices on stoves,
buggies and wagons and the price
is so low that it is attractive.
This Comany is getting in a gen
eral line of hardware as well as all
other goods and they are going to
do busines this year on as small a
profit as can be afforded. They are
j promising the people the benefit
of this plan of doing business and
in our next paper they are going to
have offers that will surprise the
people. Inthe meantime call on
them when you want to trade.
The cotton receipts for Lyons
for season of 1910—11, was nearly
7000 bales. Four years ago the re
ceipts of this city were just a lit
tle over 3000 and this great in
crease in so short a time shows
that we are certainly not going
I backward. The receipts of-long
staple cotton for the same time
j during the past season was some
thing over GO bales. A iew years
ago the receipts of long staple
were much larger but of late the
; market for long staple has not
I been good and the cotton planters
! quit planting this staple.
Iu our last weeks paper we fail
j ed to give any of the court cases
and it was because we were crowd
led with the Grand Jury report.
; The civil business did not amount
; to much, only two important cases
| being tried and one of them re
j suited in a mistrial. This case was
Hayward vs. Poe. The other case
was Mrs. Catherine Moore vs. W.
;L. Darby, for damages. The jury
awarded Mrs. Moore a verdict for
17,500. The criminal docket was
pretty well cleared and the county
got tour twelve mouth road build
ers. Judge Rawlings talked of a
special term for December to
clear the civil docket*.