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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.