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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*.