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The Lyons Progress. Vol. 8. No. 35. LOCAL NOTES sor 6 doses of “666” will cure any case of chills and fever. Pr:,c»2s cents. Aiden Odnm is selling seme buggies. He sold six in one day last week and he said it wasn’t a good day for selling buggies either. Mrs. Kytle and little eon have returned from a visit of a month or more in north-east Georgia. They say they had a fine time with friends and relatives. For Rent-Farm lands ill 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. State politics will now get a move on them. The entrance of “Little Joe” in the race for Gov ernor gets the ball started and we hear that one or two more will now get in. Dr. S. F. Howell, of Americas, came down the first of the week and spent several days with friends and relatives. We were pleased to ■see the Doctor looking so well, and to hear him say that has business in Atnerieus is fine. The Grimes Boys have left and some have gone to one place and some to another. Harry Grimes was a good repair man and he worked hard, but he w r as no man ager. They ran behind and they have left some little remember ances behind. The Lyons Auto Repair Shop has passed into the hands Elmer Abridge and others and they say that they are going to fit it up for doing automobile work. Elmer has been with a firm in Atlanta for several months and he is well up the business . Saul Ashendorf, proprietor of the new store in the Scarboro building is preparing to start a •sale next Friday and he tells in a page advertisement this week what bargains he is going to offer. Read his advertisement in another col umn of the Progress. Cotton is lower than it has been in three years and the farmers are now holding to what they have left. If they had begun holding it some time ago the price would not have taken such a slump. It is a hard matter to make the farmers see what is best for them. Our young friend Bob Williams, is to be married on October 26th, at Lagrange, a number of his Ly ons friends having received invita tions to the nuptials. The bride to be ie Miss Mary Sue Pharr, a pop ular voung society girl of La grange. We extend congratulations in advance to our young friend. Strayed—One black sow with seven shoats, sow marked with split, uuderbit and cross nick in one ear. crop and underbit iti the other; the pigs marked with three open splits in each ear. Left CL, Smith’s home near the Evans {place about two months ago. Will • v pay liberal reward for information ■ ras to where they are. R .D.Smith, ! Jißoute 1, Lyons, Ga. The Georgia & Florida railroad announces that on Saturday Sept. 1 :30, they will be able to resume the ! • operation of trains No. 6 and 7, north of Hazel hurst. The service •of this road was badly demoraliz ■ed by the recent heavy rains but 'they have repaired all the wash outs and trains will run regular rafter -Saturday. •While in Atlanta Mondav we ■called around to see our young friend Cliff Collins, who is now in active charge of the Retail Credit Association. Cliff has worked up rapidly with this great organization and we are glad to state that he is doing splendidly. He is the youngest son of our J. Perry Collins, aud he is a bVdiny young gentleman. Wade H. Coleman Accidentally Killed. On Tuesday morning early the sad news cams to Lyons that W. H. Coleman, a former citizen of Lyons and son of M. M. Coleman, one of our best citizens, had been killed at Soperton where he was in the hardware business. The first report said that he had killed himself and a later report- said he was killed by a pistol that had fal len to the floor accidentally. We started an investigation to get the truth of the killing and the facts are as follows: Mr Coleman and hia clerk, young Lawreuce Willi ams,were putttng some pistols a way in the safe for the night and the last one handled was oue that had been loaned out during the day being returned that evening, and it happened to be lcaded.lt was discharged accidentally while in the hands of young Williams, the bullet entering Mr. Coleman’s head just above the left eye and death resulted almost instantly The young man who accidentally did the deed called friends at once and the body was removed to the home of the deceased Mr. Willi ams ia grief stricken over the accident. Mr. Coleman had beeu iu the hardware business for months at Soperton and he was doing well. He had made friends and he was building up a business that was all right. It is sad that he was taken off just at the time when the future was so bright. He leaves a wife and three children to mourn their loss The remains were brought to Lyons Tuesday and they were laid to rest in the cemetery here. The Progress extends condolence to these bereaved. Special to the Ladies. We are going to be ready to show our Fall aud Winter Millinery on Tuesday and Wednesday, October Brd and 4th, and we take this method of inviting all the ladies of Toombs and adjoining counties to call and see what we are offering. Miss Pope, our milliner, has brought back from the East de signs that are strictly up to date and her own creations are beauti ful. Don’t forget to call and in spect the styles on the days men tioned and you will not regret the time spent. The gentleman are invited also as many of them are interested in the newest and prettiest styles in gents supplies as well as milli nery. The EMFtRE Store, Lyons, Ga. Special Notice, We take this method of putting on notice, parties who have notes in our favor, which come du3 this October the first. The clause granting two years to ourcustom ersj is conditional upon the first half of the note beiug paid promptly on the day the note is due, and failure to do this makes the entire face of the note due and collectable at once. Please bear this in mind, and if your note is due October the first, do not fail to see us not later than Monday, ! October the second, at First Na tional Bank Building. Very truly yours, Alexander & Alsup Chief DeLoach collected an even hundred dollars cash in fines Mon dav morning out of three darkies, i He got fifty dollars from Drum- j trier for selling liguor, twenty-five from John, the cook, for acting as agent in the sale of liquor, and twenty-five dollars from Bang : Walden for being drunk and curs ! ing on the streets. The way to ; break up lawlessness is to put the law to the lawbreakers and Mayor Smith is doing his duty when one is brought before him. For Sale —One shingle mill com plete on good location, ox team, timber, bolter.drag saw aud every thing needed. Snap for good j man Adress Box IS4, Lyons, Ga. Official Organ of Toombs County and the Town of Lyons. LYONS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1911. Additional Locals. Miss Ethel Bomar, who is teach ing the music class at Statesboro, came home to spend Saturday and Sunday, returning Sunday after noon. Miss Ethel Bomar has gone back to school. She is one of our pret tiest and most charming young ladies and we wish her well in her studies. Mrs. F . W. Nunez and children, of Wavcross, Ga , spent several days iu Lyons with her husband’s Mrs, M E. Nunez, the first of the week. Saturday is work day for the orphans and we hope thoso in our city who are charitably inclined will not forget this most import ant matter. It is real charity to help take care of the innocent orphans. Lost—Somewhere on the Marvin road between my home and the home of W. S Harden I lost a brown broad cloth over coat List Saturday. Finder wiM please let me know and I will call for it. Address R. D. Smith, Route 1, Lyons, Gil t)r, Tommy Godwin if at ho in--i for a few day* before going back j to school in Atlanta He lias been up in Wilkinson caunlv during his vacation and has made with the people up there. He will fin ish up this coming term and we wish him success. .John Luther Godwin i ft. last Suuday for Deland, Fla , filter the Stetson University. J !■ Lu ther says that he will proL ■ '•iy lo cate in Florida when he fin shea his law course aud he though that it would be best for him to grad uate in a Florida school. There will be a sing at Wesley Chuple Church on the fourth Sun day in October next all day with dinner on the ground. The sing will be conducted by Prof Fuir cloth, one of the best in the state and every body is given a cordial invitation. Dont fail to carry well filled baskets. Several of our good friends have answered the call of the Progress, but we have a thousand yet tu hear from Many of them don’t even think of the little amount they owe the Progress, but if these small amounts would come in at once we could pay every obligation against us and have some left to improve the paper with. Hunter Pearce & Batt-ev, 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- 1 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 Sam Faircloth is dead. This was sad news to many friends of this good c'tizen. He was taken sick suddenly last Wednesday night aud from what the Doctors say it was apoplexy. Sam Faircloth was one of the good men of the j county, and a splendid farmer and he leaves a large family behind. His remains were laid to rest on ' Fri day at Harden’s Chapel. The j ; Progress extends condolence to ! those bereaved. Up to last Saturday during the * mouth of September the cotton < buyers of Lyons had bought about 1400 bales of the fleecy staple. This was an average of nearly four cars < a day. This is nearly a thousand i bales over the same dates last 1 year. The crop this year, how- < ever, is at least two weeks earlier than last year aud the large rec eipts so far dont show that, the crop is so much larger. Our farm- 1 ers have made a good crop but it 1 |is not so large as some have pref ’ ' dieted it would be. Views of Congressman Charles G. Edwards. “Unless cotton can be marketed at a profit above the cost of its production, cotton growing in the South is doomed. Magnificienttrade balances are maintained for our Country by the South’s money crop, aud it is therefore not only of interest to the South, but to the whole Coun try that the farmers should get (l profit on the cotton crop. It is my opinion, the combina tion of spinners and New York speculators can best be dealt with by fighting them with their own “fire.” “In Union there is strength” and if the farmers will combine and agree to a plan, such as out-lined m the Montgomery Cotton Convention, whereby the cotton crop can be gradually plac ed on the market, as the pressing needs of the manufacturer demand it, the farmers and not the spin ners will be in command of the situation and will get better pric es for the crop All intelligent producers of cot ton should realize that th*-*ir salva tion depends upon their getting to gether as quickly as possible, and upon their standing together until the fight for prices is won. If thev will but get together and | pu< l together under the pmposd I plan, so that the market will not be glutted at any time, it will on ly be a question of a short time, before the farmer and not the spinner will make the dailev quotations of prices. This movement for the holding and gradual marketing of the crop is a wise and good scheme and it should strongly appeal to the Southern people as being the solu tion of the present unfortunate situation that confronts our cot ton farmpr. If the farmers will stand togeth er they will win, but failure and 'ow prices will be the result if they fail to stand together. I am glad of an opportunity to contribute financially and to rend er any possible service to this im portant movement, which means so much to the whole country, es pecially l<> tiie people of the South.” Ohoopee Dots. H. T. Newton made a business trip to Savannah Monday. Elton Scott and Miss Leila Cow art attended preaching at Mt. Zion Sunday. J. P. Johnson came down from Alamo Sunday evening to visit relatives. Miss Stella Scott spent several days of last week in Lyons with her sister, Mrs. Bowen. Miss Lola Meadows went over to Reidsville last week to have some dental work done. Floyd Willis went over in Bul loch county last week to spend a few weeks with relatives. Misses Charlotte Johnson and Blondelle Brockington Mere in Lyons a short while Monday. G. W. Meadows and mother, Mrs. Hutchinson, went up near Adrian last week to visit nick relatives. Dan Newton and Arlie Stephens came home from the U. B. 1., and spent Sunday and Monday with their par mts. Mrs. Susan Johnson returned home last Saturday after spend ing several weeks in the Wesley Chpela neighborhood. G. B. .Johnson and daughter, Miss Charlotte, attended the fun eral of D. S. Faircloth at Hard en’s Chapel last Friday. We are sorry to note that Miss Lois Johnson and little brother George, have been sick for several days with malarial fever,but hope they, with the skillful treatment of Dr. Gray, will soon be well. Butler Coleman and Surveyor Wilkes came down from Lyons Wednesday to survey some land that Mr. Coleman informs us he has bought from Bert Cowart. He will begin building on it at once. Haw Thorne. Subscription SI.OO. LOCAL ITEMS j For Sule—A few full blood Rhode Island Red roosters, price ;-|1 25 each all young and fine. Call lon Mrs. VV. P. C. Smith, Lyons. Mr. J. A Vann, who has been here for a little over a year, has gone back to North Carolina to as sist his father in doing some | building. “Little Joe’ - has been induced to enter the race for Governor and he is going to be a hard one to de feat. He says it is the wrong time to start up the prohibition trouble and he is right. Frank Darby, of Vidalia, was in the city the first of the week looking after some business mat ters. Frank is prepared to supply building material now and those who send orders to him will be treated fairly. We heard a man say the othet* night that April of next year was late enough to start politics. We agree with this man but the poli ticians don’t agree with us. There will be plenty of announcements before January and the late ones will be left. Our ice mail now tells us that we have to take at least ten pounds of ice at the time or we dont get any He has instructions not to cut less than ten pounds. We must have an ice factory of our own or thpy may tell us next year that we cant get less than 25 pounds at a time. We heard on the train Tuesday morning that the Court of Appeals had granted a new trial to W. L. Darby, but we have seen nothing in the papers to verify this report. This case has been before tile Court of Appeals for several months and the judgement of that court has been anxiously awaited. Lyons got 156 bales of cotton last Friday and equally as much Saturday, and this week it has been coming in very lively. We don’t understand why it is that the farmer will dump his cotton on the market when the price is so depressed. They should graduate the sales now, because the crop is not large and better prices are promised. Agent Thomas and his assist ant, Mr. Murphy, are catching it bad right now. On Friday they loaded six cars of cotton and re ceived seven full car loads of freight besides having the local to look after, telegraphing and ans wering one thousand or more questions. They have work enough now to keep four men busy all the time. While at Collins last week we called at the handsome store of Stanley & Davis and we found it one of the prettiest and most com plete places of business in the country. Ed. Davis, an old citizen of Lyons, is in this firm and Ed is a man that knows how to get busi ness. Stanley & Davis have a very complete line and we are glad to announce that they are doing a fine business. State Warden Mercer is now ap pointing county wardens and we are anxious to see who will get the appointment in Toombs. The law can be made absolutely worthless by the appointment of some men and from what we can hear one or two such men are applicants from this county. We favored Brice Anderson because we believe he will do his duty and we hope yet that he will get the appointment. The Altamaha bridge is a settled proposition and it is to be erected at an early date. The company was organized at the New Lyons Hotel las f Friday with T. A. Bryson as President, Mills B. Lane, Treas urer, E. J. Giles Vice President, and Mr. Melton, of Baxley, as Secretary. The stock has about all been taken and the contract for the erection of the bridge will be sanctioned as soon as the govern ment engineers sanction the plans.