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THE LYONS PROGRESS. Vol. 8. No. 37. fi- LOCAL NOTES Mrs. A. V. Mozingo spent last week at Uvalda with Mrs. Ben tttnderson. 5 or 6 doses of “666” will cure any case of chills and fever. Price 25 c-nta. Dr. Hall, of Cedar Crossing, has gone to Atlanta and will be up there for a month or so. Ray Loving, of Dublin, was in the city the first of the week visit ing his many friends and relatives. Dan Partin, who has been sick at the home of Dr. Gray, ie up and has gone to his home at Cedar Crossing *“ The Sheriff has quite a nice list of advertisements for the next sales day and some of the proper ty is fine. Mr. T. L. Drake, Jr , of Adrian, was in the city the other day,hav ing come down to visit his Toombs county friends. Mrs. Thompson,of Kemp, Sher iff Thompson’s mother, was in the city the first of the week visiting among her relatives. | |Mra. Seab Hall, Mrs. Arthur Lilliott, Mrs. Bob Manu and Miss Gladys Lilliott spent last Wednes day at the home of Dr. Gray. 7f. H. Page and his associates say they are selling good farm mules for from $125 up as long as they last and they have some fine mules, too. C. W. Brazzell came in from down on the river Sunday and went to Savannah to try to get some cotton pickers. Whether he got any or not we did not learn. For Sale—One shingle mill com •ite on good location, ox team, *nber, bolter,drag saw and every thing needed. Snap for good man Adress Box 184, Lyons, Ga. Lester O’Neal, of Uvalda, was in the city last Sunday. He nays that the strike hurt the business down in his section and the peo ple were glad to see the trains run ning again. Judge Dennis D. Moore has giv en up his position in the Union Supply Company, having decided to give his entire attention to his farming operations. Judge Moore is a splendid young man and we are sorry to see him leave Lyons. Strayed —One light dun color ed, white pided butt headed Jersey cow unmarked medium size, small sink on left hip. Left my home Sunday, Sept. 24th. Will pay re ward for information leading to her return. J. P. Williams, Elza, Ga. We are sorry to see T. R. Sharp in the city Sunday morning walk ing on crutches. Mr. Sharpe was suffering with rheumatism and he has gone to the White Sulphur Springs for his health. We cer tainly hope that he will be all right when he returns home. 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 your cotton than heretofore They respectfully solicit your consignments. Prof. Monts tells us that he ha 9 now enrolled at the Lyons High School over two hundred pupils, a larger number than the school has ever had for a fall term. He savs that he has many more applicnt • ions, too, and before the term ends he is expecting at least thirty more. , The Spring term will see many more entrants, and the building, 1 although improved, will be eutire- I]y i/\o small. We must have the I n<]/L\%iou next year and we hope I our people will begin now to get I ready for it. Take Care of the Birds. Sometimes you see a boy or evmi a man out with a gun killing birds as fast as they appear. This should be stopped. Some birds are the friends of the farmer and should be protected. Their greatest work is to destroy insects. The boys in the family may do a great good by building bird houses about the barn, house and ehade trees. The houses should be kept out of reach of cats and dogs. Give each room 6 inches of floor space aud make it 8 inches high. A single opening near the top 2 inches in diameter should be uiSule for large birds; but foe small ■ birds such as the wreu a 1-inch door will do. When I was a small boy I would ' trap and kill birds, but I know i bettef HOW, and wish I had knowq ■ better then. I have built a great many bird houses this year and put up about the farm. And the birds built , nests in them, too. I used old boards or planks. If birds felt that man was a friend and not a foe, they would i often turn to him for protection. ; Think of the storms, winds and rains. Would you like to have to stay out in them as the birds do sometimes? Think of it. The bird 1 is a friend of the farmer. We can not have too nianv birds. They should be supplied with shelter and water. —Alonzo McKay, in The Progressive Farmer. Just Plain Facts It seems to be the general opin ion of people that a Newspaper is a money making enterprise. There would be a living in it if everybody who takes the paper would pay for it. If a newspaper man fails to meet his obligations promply he i 9 regarded as a dead beat, while if we were fcc publish the names of those who are from one to three years be hind with the paper there would be more mad folks in this count s than the editor would like to meet. These are small amounts yet when you put about a thous and of them together it means something for the paper. We may lose a great dea l of what we already have on the books but in the future if you will read the Progress you will pay for it or borrow your neighbors’. Then there are some people who use the columns of the paper to advertise their business and never pay for it. In the future if you have notices you want run in the local columns count the words at'd bring one cent for each word. This will save us the trouble of booking it and save you the trouble of being ‘‘dunned.” The old doctrine that a trusted and honest servant is hard to re place is true in every way Es pecially is this true of a public servant but the public don’t seem to see it in that light. If a few become dissatisfied at some act of a public official, and there is not one on earth that could please all, the move is immediately made to have opposition for him. It is poked into his ear by all the dis gruntled and he soon begins to get worried. He would be willing to serve the people again and the good people want him, could elect him 'without worry, but he feels that he has done his duty and he don’t care to have a scram ble to get in again. A new' man has to go in because the experienc ed man has decided to quit. After the election the same disgruntled crowd asks for something and are | refused, then the trouble starts again. They are never satisfied, j Funny what kind of citizens we \ have anyway. B. B. Newton is opening up a ! fine store at Elza-and he is put , ting in a fine line of goods. Ben has extensive farming operations down there and he will do a mer , chaudising business also. He brought fifteen bales of cotton to i Lyons last week and he took back five or six wagons loaded with 1 freight. Official Organ of Toombs CouMir the Town of Lyons. LYONS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1911. Additional Locals. Well, well, we don’t hear any Governor talk in Toombs county at all and ’t is hard to tell just how the people stand on the situa tion. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Aaron, of Scarboro, who have been visiting their son, Dr. I. E. Aaron, for a week or more, have returned to their home. For Sale—One twentv horse powcTengine, Leffel make, n. good condition Will sell cheap to a quick purchaser. Address A. H. Hardy, Jr., Elza, Ga Route 1. The Methodists had quarterly conference at the church Mouday and the churches in the circuit made u good showing, Presiding Elder Hiil came down to preside over the conference. The Akridge Brothers, Elmer and Percy, are making good as automobile repairers und they ar getting about all the work they can do. They have the old Grimes stand and they are fitting it up to do work as it should be done. Mrs. J. R. Anderson, of Nash ville, Ga , who has !>een here f< r a week or so with her daughter, Mrs. R. P. Sweat, has returned t her home. Mrs, Sweat and little Hazel went to Nashville to spend a few da\s. Mr. Anderson was here also, returning with his wife f|Mrs. C. A. Garbutt and Miss Letlia Williams went up t.» La grange last week to att- ■<: the wedding of their brother. R T. Williams, which occurred >; the 6th inst. Bob Williams is a fine boy and we hear that he has won an excellent little lady for « wife. *Ve extend them our most "hearty congratulations. A young girl that will link her life with a man who is guilty of a dishonorable crime, knowing of the crime and the circumstance at the time, has made for herself a future that would not be attract ive to many. Better to get » slug gard than a criminal even though the criminal he not convicted in the courts of law'. Cooler weather has come in < n us and ice is not so necessary, but we want to say that the service since last week has been better. The Vidalia people say that if Ly ons dont erect a factory before the next season they are going to build a refrigerator and prepare to give the poeple good service. We like the Vidalia ice and if the factory there will serve us right we dont care to see a change un less we get a factory of our own. The farmers make a great mis take by paying so much to have cotton picked. We understand that some are paying as high a $1 a hundred, or about one-third of what the cotton would bring if it is put on the market at the low prices prevriling. If every small farmer in the country, especially every share farmer, would cut his cotton crop down to just what he could gather himself with the help of his family, the country would soon be a great deal better off. Toombs county has a record that every citizen in the county should feel proud of. The county wa9 formed about 5 years ago, has a fine court house and jail paid for, 40 or 50 miles of good road, a hue county farm a good surplus in the bank, all from a tax rate that has been smaller than any of the sur rounding counties. We must say this is due to the excellent man agement of the county affairs in the last three years by judge Ma son. He was been the “watch dog” over financial matters and those kickers who are a little dissatisfied at the road working force must admit that the general county af fairs are all right. No man could have done better with the roads, either, all thiugs considered. We are satisfied that Judge Mason has done his duty, and he is trying to serve the people for their benefit. Cross Road Dots. Carl Grant and wife visited home folks Sunday. Giad to sav the sick ones around here are improving. Flovd Moore visited relatives at Swainsboro Sunday. Some of the farmers in this sec tion have finished picking cotton Mrs. Bertie Carrol visited Inr mother, Mrs. Alex Th> mps -n Sunday. Mrs. W. D. Grant visited her ion, M. A. Grant, cf Lyons last Saturday. Nina Boyd had as guests Sun dav Hansell. Henrv and Edna McSwaiu and Rosa Higgs. George McDonald, Phanuel Haskins and Otto Clifton visited R. 23)•. Boyd Sunday afternoon. There was a large attendance at the Arbor meeting Sunday Rev. Webb preached a good sermon. Sherwood Boyd attended preach ing at Sadie Sunday, and spent the afternoon at Frank Blocker’s Quarterly meeting at Center churcn Saturday and Sunday. Come and hear the Presiding El der preach. Annie Thompson has gone to tn* 3 Move Sanitarium at Vidalia, to study for a trained nurse. We wish her success Glad to see morn correspondents coming in. We like to read what ot hers are doing. Write the news about you, young folks. Two Blue Darters. Very Little Visiting. There is a growing dislike among men and women to visiting except among intimate friends, because the guests must ‘‘be nice” to the family, and often that is very tire some, according to guests with ad vanced ideas. Often peonle on business in certain towns go to hotels and keep out of the way of friends for fear they will be en tertained. “Yes, I like Mrs. C— very much,” said a young lady when asked why she did not hunt up a friend <Ol a journey she had recently taken, “but she always has such p"->r cooks. Life in her home is on- icng nightmare, I should think.” A noted lecturer was going to speak in a 9mali town with an indifferent hotel, and a committee waited upon him to tell him that a citizen of the place had kindly offered to entertain him. “I am very much obliged to the gentleman,” said the lecturer politely, “but I make it a rule to never accept such invitations. It 19 very wearying to have to be po lite to the family, and often the ways of the household are not con ducive to quiet and rest.” He simply did not want the bur den of “being nice” to the people whose kindness of heart had of fered him the best their home af forded during his stay in their little city.—Ladies World. Crosses of Honor for Old Vets. November Ist, 1911, is tlft last day of this year upon which Cross es of Honor may be bestowed upon Confederate soldiers. Any Veteran wishing to obtain a cross will please make application at once as the applications must be in the hands of the State Cus todian three weeks before the be stowal of Crosses and the applica tions on hand will be sent in at once. Veterans may make applica tion through Mr. Philip Morris or the President of the Robert Toombs Chapter, U. D. C. Mrs Belle Eyerlyn, ,Pres. Robert Toombs Chapter. I also request the Wade Hamp ton Camp, U. D. C., to meet on the above date at Lyons, Ga., at 10 o’clock a. m., as there is some j business to attend to. C. 11. Mann, Com. J. B. Cave, adjutant. Miss Mamye Page, from out at Hillsborough, spent several days last week with her friend, Miss Jadie Mae Martin . Subscription SI.OO. LOCAL ITEMS The glass front for the new Miu ter Smith Hardward Company storn has l>een put in and the work of putting in the fixtures 19 now I well under way. This building will be ready for occupancy in about two weeks. Gvpsv bands were passing r hr ugh Lyons Monday and Tues day all day but none of them stop* ped in this neighborhood. We,r have local stock dealers that can supply the demand for horses and mules so we dont need Gypsies. i* i *: Chief DeLoach got a cursing negro from the train Suudav night and after a tussle landed him in the calaboose. The negro was loaded with a big pistol and plen ty of ammunition and he had to answer two charges instead of one. The U. D. C. will held a call meeting at the home of Mrs. Aldeu Odom Friday afternoon at 3:80, and I urge all the members to be present, for it is necessary that we meet before the State Convention convenes in Griffin . —Mrs. Belle Everlyn . A young Mr. Willis, of Ohoopee, is arranging to move his family to Lyons and at first it is thought he will take the old Coleman house next to the Progress. He will sell s wing machines for J. P. Brown and he will have a fine machine to offer the people. The Toombs county potato crop is certainly fine. We have gotten some of the finest we have ever seen at this season and they are fine tor immediate use. The cane crop is fine also and it wont be long before we will be able to get some fine new syrup. We give in another colum ex tracts from ex-Governor Brown’s first card. This does not mean that we are going to tear our shirt in the campaign in support of any one candidate but we do like the sentiment expressed in the card and we call attention to it. Some of the boys have been try ing to get Billy Harden out again for Tax Cotlector. He was defeat ed last election bv a small ma jority but Billy left a record be hind that was beyond reproach. He made a good collector and he ! was not hard on the people either. As will be seen from an article in another section of the Progress several crosses of honor will be delivered to old Veterans by the local U. D. C. Chapter on the first of November. All old Vets who want crosses and who have had none should make application to Mrs. Belle Everlyn at once. Speaking of the train service on the Seaboard, we of this section want to see the train from Savan nah to Atlanta or Macon that the Dublin Chamber of Commerce was after. They had a promise that such a service would be established soon. This would benefit us a great deal more than the third train to Savannah from the west. The citizens of Savannah are making an earnest effort to have the Helena and Columbus train service extend to Savannah from Helena. If this train is extended ito Savannah it will pass Lyons | about 9 o’clock at night going in I and coming out it will pass about 5 o’clock in the morning. It will certainly be a convenience and we hope the citizens of Savannah will succeed in their efforts. A young yellow darkey by the name ol Frank is uow languishing in the hotel de Thompson await ing trial for stealing a satchel from the buggy of Mr. Leonard Thompson on Thursday of last week. The boy got scared before he could get the booty hid so he threw it in a car of cotton that was being loaded for Savannah. The satchel was recovered with everything in it intact. The boy will no doubt do time on the readsof the county.