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THE LYONS PROGRESS. Vol. 8. No. 36. LOCAL NOTES 5 or 6 doses of “666” will cure any case of chills and fever. Price 25 cents. McNatt & Mcßride have a change in their advertisement this week and it will be interesting to those who want to trade. Mrs. VV. C. Alsup and the baby came Tuesday morning and they will spend the Winter in Toombs with friends and relatives. Hiram Clifton, we understand, has bought the Ricks place now occupied by Harp Collins, and ho is going to have a neat home made out of it. Mrs. H. C. Willia will occupy the Seals home recently vacated by the Grimes boys, She is hav ing it repaired and it will be a comfortable home for her. For Sale —One shingle mill com plete on good location, ox team, timber, bolter,drag saw and every thing needed. Snap for good man Adress Box 184, Lyons, Ga. John Jackson and T. D. Ricks have the contract to move the old Coleman store and they are now on the job. Both are experienced and they will soon have it out of the way. September just gone has left a record that will be hard to beat. It was the hottest September in many years, and in spite of the prognostications October has Come in with the hot wave still on. How we would like to see a change. Mrs J. A. Sumner went to Rin con this week to spend several days with her brother and his family. The baby was taken sick Tuesday and she retijrned heme with it. We certainly hope the f illness will not prove serious at all. ft We sorry to learn that J. B. Johnson, manager of the Vida lia branch of the Miuter-Smich Hardware Company was quite sick several days last week. Later reports, however, sav that he is able to be up and around the store. How glad we are to know that the political bee is sleeping in Toombs county just at this time. We heard lots of politics a few weeks ago but the matter has been hushed up. Let’s hope the matter wont start up again for several months. Dr. I. E. Aaron went to Atlanta the first of the week aud while there he purchased the swellest line of Holiday goods that has ever been shown in Lyons. He bought for the old and young and he will have something that will attract everybody. The Lyons merchants are look ing unusually pleasant these days. They are doing a fine business and they are collecting up fairly well. The slump in cotton has hurt some but business is good anyway. Lyons is a good place for trade anyway and the farmers know it. The great crop of cotton is not going to materialize if all sections of the country are in the same shape with Toombs county. Our farmers are going to do fairly well but the late crop of cotton has been cut off by the caterpillars. Lots of fields have been cleaned up entirely and by the first of Decem ber there wont be a lock of cotton to pick if pickers can be had to get over the fields. 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 inflecting an opportunity to real- more for your cotton than heretofore They respectfully solicit your consignments. i Annual Meeting VV. B. M. U. Program for Sixth Annual Meet ing of W. B. M. U., Daniel Asso ciation, tc lie held with the W. M S., Mt. Vernon Baptist church. Thursday and Friday, Oct. 12th and 18th. THURSDAY MORNING. 11.30 — Devotioual service and greetings. Mrs. C. A. Mason. 11.45 — Response, Mrs. W. H. McDaniel. 11.50 Report of enrollment com mittee 12—Superintendents report. 12 15 —Message from our district vice-president, Mrs G H. Wil liams. 12.30 — Adjourn for lunch. THURSDAY AFTERNOON. 2 -Devotional exercises, Mrs. W. A. Rivers. 2 10—The Associational Union. Mrs. M. D. Mason. 2.30 — Responsibility of the local W. M. S., by Vidalia W. M. S. 3 Missions in Foreign lands, Mrs. M. B. Calhoun aud Mrs. G. H. Williams. 3.30 Missions in the home land, Miss Marguerite Nunnally and Mrs. J. W. Kytle. 8.50 — Our training school, Miss Blanche Bradley and Miss Clara Lake. 4 Adjourn. THURSDAY EVENING. 7.30 — Our Sunbeams . B—A sermon, by Rev. J. A. J. Dumas. FRIDAY MORNING. 11.30 Devotional exercises, Miss Clyde McArthur. 11.45 Missions in Georgia, Mrs. J. O. Gough, State Missionary. 12.15—H0w shall our people know, Mt. Vernon W. M. M. 12.30 Adjourn for lunch. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, 2—Otir young people, Y. W. A., Sunbeams, Royal Ambassadors, Mrs. J. O. Gough. ROUND TABLE. 1 Did our departments of young people meet their apportion ment this year? If not, why? If so, how? 2 What can the W. M. S. do to develop these young people in missions? 3 The place of the Y. W. A. in our denominational colleges and high schools. 4 Do our girls leave these schools with a practical knowledge of the W. B. M. U.? A knowledge of our state andS. B. C. mission work and field? And with a fine uplift on general spiritual lines? Have we any responsi bility in this matter? Delegates will send their name and time of arrival to Mrs. C. A. Mason, Mt. Vernon. Mrs. Fulton Smith, Supt. Woman’s Work Daniel Ass. Sharpe’s Chapel News. Sav, Paul, what is the matter you don’t come to Sharp’s any more Misses Cora Page and Martha Dees were out driving Sunday af ternoon. There will be prayer meetiug at ; Mrs. J. H. Etheridge’s Sunday. Come everybody. Cleave Conley’s baby has been very sick for the past week. Glad to say it is better. Next Saturday and Sunday is quarterly meeting here. Every body cordially invited. S. L. Rowland went to Reids- i ville last Wednesday. He says he sure had a nice time. John Mclntyre and family from Vidalia spent Saturday night with his sister, Mrs. J. J. Odom. Mr. and Mrs. B . M. Higgs went over the river Saturday to see their son, Jap Higgs. Returned Sunday afternoon. Macky Odom went to Wrights ville Sunday. There must be something enticing up there. Hurry up, Macky, we all want J some cake, Sun Beam. I Official Organ of Toombs County and the Town of Lyons. LYONS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1911. All Day Sing «t Conner’s Church. Y\ h are requested to publish the foil wing announcement of an n'l day s4ng to take place at Conner’s Chunjß, about two and one half miles from Cobbtown on the sth Sundav in October, the 29t.h day A cordial invitation is extended to the public and all are asked to carry along well filled baskets. The program will be about as fol lows : V 1— Arrangement of Teachers and Leaders, by E . L Cobb. 2 Arrangements of all parts of music bv committees. Prof. Cow art and E. L. Cobb will appoint committees to see after all parts, two people for each part. B—Song by Prol. Cowart, fol lowed by prayer by Bro. J. A. Stephens. 4—Read out leaders and teach ers’ names and call for voluntary leaders. The following is a list of the leaders so far. Prof. Mell Cowart, Foreman, Prof. A B. Connor, Assistant Foreman, Lester Hol land, J. C. Crow, Linton Barrow, Virgil Sikes, Mathew Powell. Louis Crow, Reppard Cowart. Vannie Wrenn, Harley Rewis, Grady B'>v i ett, Cleave Hendricks, Elza Cole . man and Milligan Collins. The organist will be arranged on the morning of the sing In' Profs. Cowart and Connor. Any one who might want to speak w ill be given the opportunity. Everybody come and enjoy the day with us, and don't fail to bring a well filled basket. *"«6 .-_L ' . M,. ■ The icS b'dSiildSS in t/yoiv? eemS to go from bad worse instead of improving. The fact tit't »*«•* has a man on the wagon that flout serve hardlyhalf the people a: d those who do get service getshort weight. Our people have to pay well for the ice they get, too. It seems that the person who buy with the tickets gets this short weight and the man who pays in money gets all that is coming to him. We want the Vidalia factory to have the business here as long as we have no factory but we want them to have a man to look their business that, will deal honestly with the people. The County School Board held its regular monthly meeting Tues day and the attendance was very good. Nothing of extra importance was before the body and they fin ished their work early. In Prof. Brantley Toombs county has a Commissioner that looks after his business and he dont give the Commissioners any trouble either Rev. J. W. Kytle announces that be is to start a protracted meetiug on the sth Sunday and in this meeting he will be assisted by Rev W. J. Barton, a distin guished divine from Ocilla. This meeting will be a good one and Rev. Kytle is anxious that the membership of the church give him every assistance possible. The Akridge Auto Company is advertising iu this issue of the Prcgress. This firm is composed of E. J. and P. L. Akridge and they are both pretty good repair men. They are located in the old Grimes building and they are fit ting it up to do business. They say they are guaranteeing their work to give satisfaction. Manager Levin, of the Lyons | Bargain Store, is having some neat signs painted in front of his store. He believes in advertiseing and the only way to make advertising pay is to put out signs so the peo ple w-ho read the advertising will know where to find the advertiser. Every merchant in the city should put up signs. Flour as good as the best at $4.85 per barrel and 6 pounds of fine green coffee for $1 at the Union Supply Company. Other goods in proportion. They are anxious that you call on them '■ when in the city trading. The Killing of W. H. Coleman Editor Progress:—Please print the following statemen* fora poor oroken hearted bov: On Mondav i night., tht- 25th of this month, the J molt terrible scene this bov ev*-r witnessed was when poor Mr. Cole- 1 man fell dead without a word or moan as a result of a pistol shot fired from my hand Oh ! my God, what a pity. We had just received in s .m* new pistols that morning, and among them were two pearl hand led ones which created much ex citement during the day, and one which he had been keeping at his house, but brought it to the store last Saturday morning, the 23rd, and that night a young man came in and asked to rent the pistol un til Monday, and Mr, Coleman let him have it and sold him some cartridges to go in it. He went out and did not return until about dark, brought the pistol back and handed it t? Mr, Coiemau With a full round of cartridges, and fi© did not tell him it was loaded. He took it and laid it in the show case with the new one 9, and as I have said before, the new ones which created so much excitement were still lying there and people look ing at them had. been snapping them a great deal during the day us people will do in looking at them. We started to close and . Mr. Coleman said “we’d better put them things ill the safe, 1 * and and I said “you Walit Intake yours to the house, dont you?” and he said, “yes, I reckon so,” and then sa*d “no, I believe I will leave it down here and maybe we can sell it” so I picked them up, four new ones andlhe old one, and picked up the old one last, taking the four in my left arm picked the old one up in my right hand and thinking that they were all empty, as we never did put one in the case load ed as I know of, and Mr. Coleman had just stepped up two or three steps and picked up the lamp to come back to the iron safe, and I pulled the trigger as we had been snapping them before. It fired, and the poor fallow fell, broke the lamp, set ill-- store on fire and him in it dying, the fire being be hind the counter between me and him and not a soul in the store except me and him. And just to think I have killed a man. My God, what a pity. May God bless that poor widow and children that I have made, and all others but. especia'ly I feel burdened for them. Young men take warning, take warning from this, and be careful with pistols, for death lies therein. I w ill close a9 I am in a hurry to get this off on this mail. Lovingly to all concerned, Lawrence Williams. Soperton, Sept. 27, 1911. Around Almwell. Cotton Picking is the order of the day in this section. Alex Thompson made a business trip to Vidalia Monday. N. B. Atkinson, of Normantown made a flying trip to Vidalia Sat urday. Arch Carpenter, of McGregor, attended preaching at Aimwell Sunday. Neal Hughes and wife visited the home of J. T. Nunn Saturday night and Sunday. Mr. and Mrs N. A. Coursey vis ited at the home of Everett Tailor Friday and Saturday. Jesse Baker, First Coleman and Buster Lewis attended preaching at Aimwell Sunday night. The protracted meeting here last week, which was conducted by Rev’s. Brown and Shepherd, was quite a success and was largely at tended . Hugh Taylor and Mack Williams were rushing there best girls Sat urday night, Misses Fannie and Emma Yomans, of Collins. Hurry up boys, we are all getting cake hungry. Two Girls. R. M. Garbutt went to Savan nah the first of the week on a busi ness trip. Subscription SI.OO. LOCAL ITEMS L. D. Osborne was in the city Sunday mingling with his many friends. He says that business is good in Vidalia. ! The stray mule advertised by W. H. Page has not been located yet and Mr. Page is offering a re ward of $25 for information about the mule now. Perry Brown got into the seed market Tuesday and he raised the price one dollar per ton. Sol Moseley is his buyer and he is getting quite a little seed For Sale —One twenty horse power engine, Leffel make, in good condition. Will sell cheap to a quick purchaser. Address A. H. Hardy, Jr , Elza, Ga Route X. As an advertising medium the Progress is “it.” Mr. R. A. Smith lost his overcoat one day l«9t week oil the public road and a five line local found it at ouce. Ed Parker has taken a position with the Minter-Snnth Hardware Company at Lyons. Ed is a good boy and we are satisfied that he will make good iu the hardware business. Say, while you are trading, try “Uncle Ike’’ for household goods and farm hardware. He has a few odds and ends left over from his dry goods and shoe stock, too. that might please you, Charley Phillips is taking td the hardware buriness like a duck takes to water. He is with the Oliver Hardware Companv and he is arranging the stock so that it can be seen to advantage. Our two Jewish stores were clos ed last Monday on account of a holiday of the Jewish faith. Mr. Levin went to Douglas to visit friends and Mr. Ashendorf went to Savannah to spend the day. The Garbutt A: Donovan Gin nery caught fire Tuesday morn ing but by prompt action on til part of those in charge the dam age was slight. The ginnery is now running at full blast and is doing * good work. Powers & Mozingo, the real estate and insurance agents, are building up a nice business. They are pushing the real estate part right along and they will bring several good settlers to Toombs county this fall. The strike on the Georgia & Florida railroad is playing havoc with the mail down in the lower end of Toombs. All our good friends down there get their mail nut on a route from Uvalda and they havent had any mail down there since last Thursday. R. M. Sutton, of Sutton & Smith down at Johnson’s corner, was in the city Tuesday afternoon on hi 9 way to Savannah. He says that he is getting in a fine line of goods new and he is going to be gin telling the people about them soon through the columns of the Progress. We are sorry to learn that Capt. T. J. James, President of the W. A. & L. railroad, is quite sick at his home iu Adrian and that little hope for his recovery is entertain ed. We hope the old gentleman will get all right, because if he should dit, South Georgia would lose a good man. We have it from good authority that up tc the first of last week the gins of loombs county had ginned just a little over 1700 bales of cotton during the season and we also have it from excellent au thority that the Seaboard agent at Lyons has received for shipment from this point about 900 bales so far. This is a good deal over half of the cotton of the county that has been ginned and it shows that Lyons must be a favored market with the farmers.