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THE LYONS PROGRESS.
VOL. 8. No. 33.
LOCAL NOTES
5 or 6 doses of “666” will cure
ftuy case of chills and fever.
Fnce 25 cents.
If you feel like you want a fish
for dinner at any time remember
that Grant, the market man, has
them fresh every day.
Mr. Dasher, salesman for W.
0 Shuptrine, has been on the
sick list this week but we are glad
to say that be is able to be up.
Cotton went off the first thing
Monday morning and the market
has been uncertain ever since. It
went off a quarter of a cent iu a
few moments.
For Rei\t—- Farm lands in the
1192nd District, with good build
ings and good fencing. Will rent
either for sure rent or on shares.
Write J. W. Lucas, Route 2, Ly
ons, Ga.
We hear thatS. Olin Thompson,
formerly of Lyons, but now of
Screven, is about to get too happy
all at once. He has and addition
to his family and both mother and
baby are doing fine.
Manager Blackwell, of the Nat
ional Bottling Company, is selling
all he can make right now and it
keeps him hustling to supply the
demand. His Viva Punch and
Rye-Ola are great sellers.
J. Frank Darby, of Vidalia. was
in the city a few hours Tuesday.
Frank is running his planing mill
regular now and he says he will
soon be prepared to supply all the
dressed lumber the people want.
Mrs. J. E. Thompson and the
children with her mother, Mrs.
Willis, all of whom have been in
South Carolina for several weeks
visiting friends, have returned
and they say they had a very
;.>leasant time.
Sycamore Place, the beautiful
and comfortable home of Mr. and
Mrs. F M. Smith, will soon be
completed and it is looking grand.
The home has been almost entirely
rebuilt and it is now one of the
handaoniHst in the county.
*
For the past ten days we have
had about the warmest weather we
have ever experienced in this sec
tion of the The ther
mometer has not been so high but
the days have been close and
hot and we are anxious for a
change.
The little building next to the
Aaron Drug Store is to be used a9
a fruit store and it will be con
ducted by Mr. Davis, of Vidalia.
He has been coming to Lyons for
several months and he found bus
iness so good that he decided to
move here.
Cotton pickers are in demand all
over the county. We drove out in
the country the other day and we
saw several places that were white.
Iu some places the farmers are
having to pay 80 cents per hund
red for pickers and it is entirely
too mucti.
Mrs. Butler Coleman, residing
about two miles west of the city,
has been quite sick for several
weeks with typhoid fever. She
was very luw Friday of last week
but .we here that she is better at
this time and we hope she will
soon be well again-
Miss Ruby Proctor, our primary
teacher, who has been retained at
home on account of the sickness of
her mother, came Monday morn
ing and she is now at her post of
duty. Miss Ruby is one of the
beet teachers we have ever had and
we are glad to see her here again.
Mrs. Warner, head milliner for
B. F. Brown, arrived last Saturday
night and she is now very busy
getting her patterns ready. Mrs.
Warner says that she has a fine
line of goods to offer the ladies of
Lyons and vicinity and she says
prices this year are going to
reasonable.
The Outlook for Business.
The outlook for business this
Fall, m curopiuioii. good The re
cent heavy rains mav cut short
the crops to some extent in
Toombs county, but unless some
thing more disastrous occurs, we
believe the yields ot both cotton
and corn will be up to the average.
Reports irom many sections of the
State as published in the daily
'papers indicate that deterioration
is visible, however, we do not look
for what may be termed a short
crop in this county.
While early government reports
overstretched the matter byway
of propheeving a bumper crop,
later figures have convinced the
Southern planter that he now has
reason to expect a fair price for
his product. There is no indication
of a surplus crop in Texas, and
the same with other cotton pro
ducing states of the South. We
believe business generally through
out the country will be good, and
that we are conservative in this
belief, we simply refer to reports
to justify the opinion. As to con
ditions and the outlook for busi
ness in the territory covered by
the Progress, we feel sure that de
velopments will show that we are
right in predicting success for
planters and merchants. We will
say to our readers that there is no
reason why discouragement should
prevail. Let’s look forward to good
times and we will experience the
tingle and buoyancy which accom
panies prosperity. Money, we pre
dict, will be easA this Fall. The
banks of the South are in good
condition and the financial insti
tutions of Georia are in fine shape.
The Farmers’ Union is accomplish
ing a great work and is doing
much to keep the farmers eucour
aged.
We do not believe that it is wise
to rush the staple on the market.
As long as the price hovers around
11 cents, it appears to us that
some effort should be made to se
cure advances of money on the
crop until a fair and just price
can becommanded. Thirteen cents
is not too much, it seems to us,
for the farmer to expect. If there
is one thing we believe in, above
all other interests that may be
mentioned, it i 3 the proper pro
tection of the farmer. The man
who grows the crop is the foun
dation of progress, and it is to the
best interests of all business that
we stand by the farmer. We look
for a splendid business for Lyons
and Toombs County.
To Visit Uvalda.
Dr. J. E. Masrow, the famous
Savannah eyesight specialist, will
be at the Moses and May Drug
Store, at Uvalda, Saturday, Sep
tember, 16th. His specialty is the
examining of school childrens’
eyes and the fitting of study glas
ses to them ; also the fitting of
glasses for eyes which have become
over strained by overwork or old
age. His work is known to be ac
curate.
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 ear. 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.
Mrs. W. O. Donovan, Mr. and
Mrs. Chapman and Miss Richard
Donovan, all of Macon, came down
in a car this week and spent Wed
nesday in Lyons with their many
friends.
Mr. Zera Williams, who owned
the New Lyons Pharmacy last
year, has a special notice in this
issue that will be of interest to
those who are indebted to him.
L. D. Osborne moved to Vidal
ia Thursday so that he could be
near his work. DeWitt is a good
boy and we wish him well.
Official Organ of Toombs County and the Town of Lyons.
LYONS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1911.
Additional Locals.
Mrs. M. P. Brcughtmi, of Mc-
Rae, came down Thursday morn
ing to look after her property.
Mrs. Broughton has many friends
here and all were glad to see her.
W. C. Oliver & Son. the hard
ware men. are making a special
offer on Buckeye fencing for the
next fifteen days. You farmers
who will want fencing should see
this firm before the time expires.
Owen Clements, now with the
Macon Telegraph in the mechani
cal department, came down Mon
day night and spent a fpw days
with the Progress man. Mr. Clem
ents was foreman in our office for
several years and we are glad to
kuow that he is doing so well in
Macon.
The subrcribers to the stock of
the new bank are to have a meet
ing this week for the purpose of
organizing. They tell ns that $25,-
000 has been subscribed and that
it will all be paid in when the bank
opens for business. We under
stand, too, that the majority of
the stock-holders are farmers and
they are getting anxious to see the
bank start business
The political situation in
Toombs county seems to be at a
standstill, yet a few rumbles »r
--heard, now and then. We can hear
of a hundred prospective candi
dates but if we approach a man
and ask him about it be knows
nothing. It is a little ear'y to start
the ball rolling, but th -re is an
old saying that the earl n ' i d gets
the worm. We dont know huw
true this statement is.
Hunter Pearce & 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 your cotton than
heretofore They respectfully
solicit v mr consignments
We hear that Mr.E M. Godwin
sold his farm south-west of Lvotis
some time ago and the price naid
was about nine thousand dollars.
Mr. T. G- Poe. of Vidalia, was the
purchaser, and Mr. Poe sold it
a few days later to Jas. McNutt,of
Ailey, for $10,500, a profit of
about fifteen hundred dollars in a
week. This was a fine farm and
it is worth every cent tuat was
paid for it by the last purchaser
Dr. J. E. Masrow, the well
known aytsight specialist of Sa
vannah, will-be at Uvalda with
the Moses and May Drug Store,
Saturday, Sept. 16, from 8 am, to
8 pm. All thos suffering with
eye troubles ojp who are in need
of new glasses would do well to
consult him on this trip. He
is endorsed m hundrds of praising
testimonials from those who have
been benefited by wearing his
glasses
The Baxley people have called a
meeting of the stockholders in the
Altamaha Bridge Company for the
22nd inst., the meeting to be held
in Lyons. Both Atlanta and Sav
annah will have representatives at
this meeting and it is urged that
every subscriber come. The or
ganization will be completed at
this meeting and other business of
importance transacted Remember
the meeting is to be held in Ly.
ous on the 22nd of September.
Mis 9 Frances Pope, milliner at
the Empire, has arrived and she
is opening up her great line of
Fall and Winter goods. Miss Pope
knows what the people in this
eectionwiil buy and she has bought
a line that is suited to the trade.
She has all the latest designs
and she knows how to make hats
from these designs. She is a splen
did designer also and can please
most fastideous. Miss Pope is one
of the best in the millinery busi
ness and she brings lots of trade
to Lyons from other sections of
the country.
Ohoopee Dots.
Gin at Ohoopee is running now
iu “full blast.”
Miss Hattie Tapley spent Sat
urday night in Ohoopee.
Remer Duffieid and Mr*. Hol
land went over in Tattnall coun
ty Sunday,
Mrs. J. P. Sumner and daugh
ter, Ruth, spent two or three days
out at Union with relatives, re
turning home Monday.
Bro. J. P. Sumner is running
his protracted servces at Hardens
Chapel this week, assisted by
Revs. Kitchen and Stewart.
Your humble scribe and Mrs Ruth
Joniißon went Sunday and it pro
mises to be a good meeting. Miss
es Ninnie Cowart and Charlotte
Johnson are there.
While at the home of Judge A.
S. James Sunday some people
drove up to the gate and asked
for the Judge, and we told James
there was a party at the gate that
looked matrimonial. Sure enough
they were united inwedlock, in
the buggy in which they sat, and
went on their way rej .icing, with
our richest blessings showered on
their future. The parties were
Mr Willie Brown and Miss Tru
die Roberts. Haw Thorn.
A Visitor Pleased With Lyons.
I just, arrived two days ago m
the little oitv <>f Lyons and found
board with Mrs. E. M. Godwin, a
old Georgia sister, and I am
delighted with my place of abode.
The table is groaning with good
things. My room is elegantly fur
nished. We have a nice class of
boarders, and Mrs. Godwin is a
delightful hostess, generous, kind,
serving each guest with loving
courtesy. Ihe Court House is one
in which the people of Lyons
should feel very proud. The stores
are fine for a town of this size, the
clerks are polite, obliging and
courteous. The residences are for
the most part quitb pretty. The
Mayor an obliging gentleman of
ability indeed. Take it as a whole
it is one of the most attractive
little cities in South Georgia. May
it continue to progress and grow.
Mrs Zora Badger Brown.
The Too to bg county people will
have to get busy on the bridge
proposition. We are behind in
the procession and we are the ones
that are to be the most benefitted.
Appling county has put up her ten
thousand dollars, Savannah has
come to the front with SSOOO and
Atlanta has taken SSOOO. Toombs
county has beenjalloted SIO,OOO
and we must have that much.
Mr. C. W. Brazzell is the only one
that is seemingly taking any in
terest in the matter and he has a
nice list of stockholders, but he
has not enough. Let etery man
that can, take at least one share.
This is not a donation,but it is an
investment. The money will not
be thrown away, but it will be re
turned with interest.. We must
have the bridge and Toombs coun
ty must take stock in it. Get busy
friends, and do your duty. Mr.
C. W. Brazzell, down on the Al
tamaha, has a list, and Hon.B. B.
Meadows at Vidalia is taking sub
scriptions. There are other lists
also and every body should sub
scribe.
Both the Lyons banks have
statements in this issue and they
show that our financial institu
tions are in splendid shape. They
both show large loans and dis
counts which means a healty busi
ness, but this call comes right at
the end of one season |and at the
beginning of the other and the
deposits,while good,were not what
they are today by many thousand
dollars. Both our banks are abso
lutly healthy and they are taking
care of the great fall harvesting
business in fine shape. We are
proud of the statements published
today, and we are satisfied that
our banking institutions will con
tinue to grow in strength as well
as in usefulness.
Subscription SI.OO.
LOCAL ITEMS
Miss Irene Sommers, who spent
several weeks with Miss Mollie
Godwin, has returned to her home
in Jacksonville. Miss Mollie ac
companied her home and Bhe will
visit Orlando and Geneva while
away.
Mr. Penuel desires us to say his
mules and horses will arrive in
Lyons about Friday morning and
the people can see them at any
time after that date. He says he is
going to have stock that will be
good to look at as well as good
for work.
Chief DeLoach is doing some
hard work on the streets and he is
getting them in a little better
shape. The recent rains did a lot
of damage and it is going to take
several weeks yet to get all the
principal streets even in passable
shape. The chief is doing good
work and it will stand, too.
The thing for our people to do
is to erect a factory to make ice
a..d we wont have to depend on
anyone else then. Ice is a house
hold necessity and Lyons, with
its country backing, and with the
completion of the W. A. & L., will
take the output of a pretty good
sized factory. *
Many of the farmers are not sel
ling cotton seed this year and we
can see where they are right. The
oil mills are not pay ing enough for
the seed and it is much better to
keep them at home than it is to
give them away. According to
the market for cotton seed pro
ducts, the seed should be worth at
least S2O per ton and the farmers
should not sell at a cent less.
J. B. Johnson, manager of the
Vidalia branch of the Minter-
Smith Hardware Company, has
moved his family to Vidalia. Mr.
Johnson is a good citizen and he
has an excellent family. We were
sorry to see them leave Lyons and
we hope they will like their new
home. We were pleased to hear
Mr. Johnson say that the business
a s which he is the head is doing
splendidly. He is a good business
man and he has an able assistant
in DeWitt Osborne.
»
Many of the Toombs county
people are taking quite a little in
terest in the new game law and
they sav they are going to see that
it is enforced we have a few peo
ple who pay no attention to such
law's at all but we are fearing that
some of this class will feel the
strong hand of this law when it is
violated. Lots of determined law
abiding men are going to be on
the look out and the law breaker
is not going to find as many
friends as he thinks.
For the past week or ten days
the people have been kicking
about the ice service, many fam
ilies not being able to get ice at
all. This is a condition that is to
be regretted, and Mr. Grant, the
ice man, says that it has been im
possible for him to get ice enough
to supply the cit.y. The roads have
been bad and he could not haul
from Vidalia, and the railroads
were so badly demoralized that
they could not bring it from other
points. Mr. Grant says that he is
arranging to remedy the evil and
from today on he will be able to
supply everybody that wants ice.
We have about twelve hundred
people inthis immediate neighbor
hood, we mean in the four counties
around and including Toombs,
that read the Progress, and of this
number at least a thousand are in
arrears. Some are in arrears for
only a few weeks, while others are
behind from one to five years.
Now friends we want you to read
the Progress if you want it, and if
you want it. you will be willing to ,
pay for it, so bring us along
enough to show that you appreci
ate our efforts or we will begin to
think that we are boreiug you with
the paper and stop it. You know
whether you are behind or not and
you know who we are talking to.