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THE LYONS PROGRESS.
Vol. 9. No. 3.
LOCAL NOTES
Dr. I. E'. Aaron went to Macon
the first of the week on a short
business trip.
sor 6 doses of “666” will cure
any case of chills and fever.
Price 25 cents.
G. W. Lankford went to Reids
ville ttie first of the week on a
short business trip.
John Coleman, of Rogers & Cole
man, of Reidßville, was in the city
a few hours Monday.
The Lyons Masonic Lodge have
decided to run their directory for
1912 and it will be found in an
other column.
McNatt & Mcßride have chang
ed their advertisement this week.
They are ready for 1912 trade and
they have the goods for the peo
ple. Read their advertisement.
Strayed—One brown Jersey cow
with heifer calf. Left my home
obout ten days ago. Reward for
information leading to her re
covery. Geo. B. McLeod, Lyons,
Georgia.
Mrs. G. K. Guerry, of Savannah,
was in the city this week visiting
her daughter, Mrs. E. Mac Wim
berly. Mrs. Guerry is looking well
and her Lyons friends were glad
to sep her. *
I have a few good farms yet that
have )een let out and the
land is tine. Houses are also good.
Will let them for sure rent or for
share of crop. Address J. L. Sut
ton, Elza, Ga.
We are sorry to say that Miss
Rosa Powers is still in a serious
condition. She has been in verv
bad health for several weeks and
vvyire hoping that she will soon
be all right again.
Lost—Somewhere on the streets
of Lyons, a small round locket
with the initials E. I. W.. on one
side, was attached to a small
chain. Finder will be rewarded
npon returning same to the Prog
f ress office.
Strayed—From my home on
Tuesday night, one red horse mule
about four years old weighing
about £ or 900 lbs. Reward for
information leading to its recov
ery. Address C. A. Tharpe, Ly
ons, Georgia.
J. B. Johnson, of Vidalia, was
in the city Wednesday mingling
with friends. Mr. Johnson says
that he will probably take a posi
tion ns road builder for either
Laurens or Appling county in the
next few days and we are satisfied
that either county will be fortu
nate in securing his services.
Hunter Pearce & Battey, the
substantial, reliable, and wide
awake Factors, of Savannah, offer
you the same excellent service
that has coviuced many of the
benefits of marketing cotton
through them. Until you -have
tried them, perhaps you are neg
lecting an opportunity to realize
more for your cotton than hereto
fore. They respectfully solicit
your consignment.
Every day is seemingly gin day
in Lyons at the Lyons Ginnery and
they are getting about nil they
can do. Last Saturday over fifty
bales were carried to the gin and
since then the average has been
nearly thirty bales a day. The cot
ton market has been getting a lit
tle better and some of the farmers
who had decided to plow under
what was in the fields are now
picking.
F. Staten, former Secretary
W. A. & L. railroad was in
the city the first of the week. The
road is now in the hands of a re
ceiver and Mr. Staten is the tem
porary receiver He has often told
the wonderful things he was doing
for the road and some people were
surprised at the move he made at
last. This little move wont stop
the road from being built and it
may hurry the work. The road will
eerta ulv be built sooner or later.
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Good Advice.
Mr. Editor:—The year 1911 has
passed, with nil of its joys and
sorrows, and has been entered on
the scroll of time. We have pass
ed through the first month of
1912 It has been dark, dismal and
gloomy. The farmer is somewhat
dismayed, for be made an awful
effort last year and fell far .short
of his expectations—we know not
what iB in store for us in the fu
ture. But let us not dement. It be
hooves us to act wisely and learn
a lesson from past experience.
There should be a kindly feeling
between landlord and tennant —
they should pull together for each
others’ mutual benefit. Now let
us all resolvo, beginning with the
new year, to be better men, better
women, boys and girls. Let us
learn to love each other’s families
and all of their legitimate busi
ness.
Young man, when you start out
in life, be honest, truthful and
frugal, for this is the cardinal
star that will lead you to success
and renown. These are the funda
mental principles of good citizen
ship.
During the past year, many
of my old associates passed away
and are resting in inotfter earth in
different states; and this reminds
me that I shall soon be placed iu
some bivouac of the dead, there to
rest ’till that great fina 1 day, when
the earth and sea shall be called
upon to give up their dead.
Then we will all meet beyond
the river. John H. Clifton.
Ohoopee News.
Miss Clyde Woods, of Vidalia,
spent last Friday at the home of
B. C. Coleman
Herman McColsky, of Vidalia,
spent a few hours in Ohoopee
Friday evening.
Carl Thompson, of Collins, was
mingling \gir.h his many friends
in Ohoopee Monday.
Meadie Edenfield, S C. Mosely,
Bud Wilkes and Watson Sapp
were m Ohoopee Sunday.
Miss Edenfield, ot near Mar
rietta. spent last Saturday and
Sunday with Miss Lola Meadows.
Miss Ina Coleman, of near Ly
ons, spent several days of last
week with her brother, B. C. Cole
man.
Miss Ruby Anderson, who is
teaching school at Collins, spent
last Saturday and Sunday with
home folks.
Quite a crowd from over in
Tattnall attended the birthday
dinner at the home of N. B. Jar
riel Sunday. Haw Thorn.
To Play Professional Baseball.
Clayton Gray, a catcher who
hails from Lyons, Ga,, got into
Savannah and organized baseball
at about the same time yesterday
afternoon, signing a contract with
the local club a few hours after
arriving in the city for that pur
pose.
Gray, who is a product of the
Eleventh district Agricultural
School, stood six feet three inches
in .the baseball realm down around
his home town last season and lie
says he expects to grow some more
in the South Atlantic this year.
Though the big fellow is a
stranger to organized ball he has
had considerable experience in in
dependent circles in the state
and upon applying for a berth
with the locals yesterday expressed
confidence that he would deliver
the goods, if called upon. He will j
be ordered to report for the spring I
training season.—Morning News.
Clayton Gray has played ball
with our boys for two years and he
is a good one. Every fan in the
town hopes that he will make
good on the Savannah team.
Percy Akridge decided to pack
his grip and start out in the world
Monday night. He told the writer
that he was going to Montgomery,
then to New Orleans and in the
early Spring he would go to lowa.
We learn later that he found a
position in Vidalia and will stop
in that city for awhile.
Official Organ of Toombs County ant* the Town of Lyons.
LYONS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1912.
Additional Locals.
R. J. Anderson, Jeweler, Vidal
ia, Ga , next to New Vidalia
Hotel. Fine watches, clocks and
jewelry. Repairing a specialty.
Twenty-six years experience. Sat
isfaction guaranteed.
Some people never hand in an
item for publication but if we hap
pen to miss an item in which they
are interested they are sure to
hand us a north pole stare that
would freeze the liver of a polar
bear.
Many of the boys are beginning
to want to kpow whether Billy*
Harden is going to get in the race
or not. Others are coming out
and the liue-up is appearing.
They want Billy,it seems,but he is
shy. He made ns u good tax col
lector and many of the voters want
to try him again.
Mayor Smith lias appointed a
Board of Revisors to look over the
registration Ixioks of the city and
they will begin this work to-day at
the office of the City Clerk over
the Toombs County Bank. All
parties who have registered with
out paying all city, county and
state tax must do so at once to
make thenselves legal voters. Re
member this provision of the law
is very strict.
John Durst has returned from
Savannah, having left Mrs. Durst
under the care of a specialist'at
the Telfair Hospital. W® were
glud to hear him say that Mrs.
Durst is not suffering from Tuber
culosis. The specialist sayß that
she is suffering from a severe
throat trouble and he thinks she
will soon be herself again. This
will certainly be good news to h**r
many Lyons friends.
Let’s cultivate a public spirit
and talk less and work more. En
couruge # our local authorities in
making improvements. Speak up
speak well, talk encouragingly of
our town and its bright prospects.
It is these many little considera
tions that makes a town grow.
Nature has showered upon us her
choiceet blessings, and with per
fect unity and effort for the good
of our common cause, great will
be the resu't.
A beautiful girl is very likely to
believe she was made to be looked
at.; and so she sets herself up fox a
show at every • window, in every
door, on every corner of the street,
in every company at wliich oppor
tunity offers for an exhibition of
herself. And believing and acting
thus she soon becomes good for
nothing else, and when she conies
to be a middle-aged woman she is
that weakest and most sickening
of human beings—u faded beauty.
T. D. Kick® had hie fine hunt
ing dog killed last Saturday. He
was sick and acting like he had
hydrophobia andi it was thought
best to kill him before lie did any
damage. This dog was bitten by
the dog that belonged to Lester
Clifton that was decided mad. Mr.
Ricks was bitten by his own dog a
week or so ago and he decided to
send the head to tile Pasteur Ins
titute for investigation and it is
very probable that he will go him
self for the treatment.
Some complaint has come re
garding the giving of half the road
iu Case of an automobile coming
ur* behind a team. The parties
claim that when they come up be
| hind a fellow with a team he stub
bornly refuses to give any of the
road, no matter if there is plenty
of room to turn out. Now the law
recognizes the rights of both, the
man with the team and the man
with the anto, and these rights
should be respected. There are
plenty of men who are running
autos who should be driving ox
teams and vice versa, but all men
should not be treated that way.
The law say 9 that when a man is
overtaken by a faster vehicle, the
man driving the slower vehicle
shall turn out and give half of the
beaten path.
Sharpe’s Chapel News.
Quite n crowd attended Sunday
school here Sunday.
Mrs. Eddie Higgs and children
called on Mrs B. M. Higgs Satur
day.
Mfs. H. A. Galbreath called on
Mrs. John Odom Sunday after
noon.
Lonnie and Claude Drake atten
ded Sunday school at this place
Sunday.
Bill Fuller and wife took dinner
with Barney Watts and wife last
Saturday.
Barney Watts called on his par
* ents Sunday and reported a vejry
pleasant time.
Misses Ethel and Edna Gal-
Breath called on Miss Josephine
Odom Sunday.
Manning Booth spent Saturday
night and Sunday with Mnckie
Odoin and reported a good time.
Praver meeting next Sunday
night will he at the home of Will
Edwards. Everybody invited to
attend.
Sorfv to say that Mr«. J. J.
Odom has been quite sick for a
few davs. Hope for her an early
recovery.
1 On last Friday morning at 7 o’-
clock the death angel visited the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Willie Ful
ler and took away their precious
little boy, Lloyd. He was sick
but about two days ivhen his
sweet spirit took its flight, to the
God who gave it. May God ever
bless the bereaved, that when
called to go they can meet their
loved ones over on the other shore.
We certainly sympathize with the
bereaved oneß. “Sunbeam ”
Cross Road Dots.
Mr/. Oscar Poole spent. Sunday
with Mrs. Taylor.
R. Jt. Bovd made a business
trip to Vidalia Saturday
Jitn Coleman attended church
at Alston Sunday morning.
Milton King visited R E. Boyd
Sunday. Come again Milton.
Mr and Mrs Floyd Moore spent
Sunday with Mrs. W. D Grant.
Rev Rogers visited the Center
Sunday school Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. R. E. Boyd spent a pjeas
[ ant hour at Mrs. James Coleman’s
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Mosley
> visited W. H. Harden Sunday af
l ternoon .
i Misses Vert and Alice Thomp
’ son visited Miss Inez Boyd Wed
, nesday morning.
■ Miss Lucille Coleman returned
f to her home at Springfield, Ga.,
! Saturday'aftemoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Kite spent
i Sunday with the lat.ter’s parents,
» Mr. and Mrs. Moore.
! Willie Beasley called on Miss
Guseie Taylor Sunday afternoon.
We hungry birds cake.
, Our last question has not vet
j been answered, but here is an
. other. How many times does
! the word “Betroth” occur in the
. Bible? Get busy, correspondents
. and lets make things lively and
interesting.
Mr. Editor, we thank you for
| correcting the mistake made in a
recent issue of the Cross Road
Dots. They happen now and
then and we hope the compositor
will be more careful in the future.
Two Blue Darters.*
Shooting on the street with a 22
calibre rifle is just as much
against the city laws as is shooting
a 88 calibre pistol or a shot gun,
and we dont see why it is that the
small boys are allowed to shoot at
will with such guns. When some
child’9 eye is put out or possibly
the child is accidentally killed,
the law will be enforced. It will
then be too late however. The
boys are shooting robins, too,
which is a violation of the state
law. When some parents are
made to pay about. $25 or SSO for
their laxness with the children,
thoy will think of the warnings of
the Progress. We warn you, py
ents, to stop this promiscuous
shooting on the streets
rifles.
Subscription SI.OO.
LOCAL ITEMS
Harp Collins went to Savannah
the first of the wehk on a short
business trip.
Wm, Morris, of Vidalia, was in
the city the first of the week. Mr.
Morris is a candidate for treasurer
and he is going to make a good
race.
Hon. J. P. Brown was in Atlan
ta two days last week attending
the special session of the legisla
ture and assisting in making “Lit
tle Joe” governor again.
The public installation of the
Knignts of Pythias will not take
place until night of the 12th.
Arrangements are being made and
the boys are going to have a good
time.
W. O. Donovan, of JacKSOnville
Fla., was in the city several days
last week. He >s saw milling near
Jacksonville now and he says that
he will soon move his family to
that city.
B. F. Eckles, dealer in Jewelry,
kodak supplies and kodaks. Eyes
tested and fitted. All kinds of
fine engraving. Satisfaction or
money back. Next to New Vida
lia Hotel, Vidalia, Ga.
Levine Brothers are moving
their store back to Douglas. They
say they are not leaving because
business was bad, but they want to
concentrate their business at one
point. They are good people and
we are sorry they saw fit to move.
One of Mr. J. P. Dnffie’fc little
children who are spending some-j
time with their grauTmother Mrs.
Peter Clifton, was quite severely
cut with an ax on Wednesday. We
are glad to sa? that the wound is
i.ot serious and that the little one
will soon be ail rightagain.
Few people have an idea what
an incentive it is to both teacher
and pupil to know that parents
andjoutsiders are taking a lively
interest in their work. We believe
the “little folks” at school appre
ciate such interest more perhaps
than the larger ones. Still the ef
fect is not lost on any of them,
and we hope every parent will take
a hint from this ,and place the
school on their visiting list.
Alex McQueen, a brother of
Assistant Cashier Henry McQueen
and one of the brightest young
men in Vidalia, is a candidate for
Justice of the Peace to fill the va
cancy caused by the death of
Judge Mclntyre. Alex is a young
man but he will make a good
Justice. He is studious and at
tentive to business. The people
of the 51st district should elect
this young man to the position he
aspires. They would certainly not
make a mistake,.
Algerine Williamson is iu the
race for tax collector and his an
nouncement will be found in an
other column of the Progress to-*
day. Mr. Williamson lives in Vi
dalia where he is considered one
of the staunchest citizens. This is
his first in the game of politics,
but he has served the people in
many ways. His announcement
speaks for itself and wo take pleas
ure in recommending him as be
ing worthy in every way for the
honor he is seeking. We could not
elect a better man and we are sat
isfied that he is going to make a
good race.
Tax Collector Thompson has
announced for Re-election, his an
nouncement will be found in an
other column. Willie Thompson
haß only served the people a part
of one term but he has proven
that he knows what to do and we
are satisfied that he is going to be
hurd to defeat. Willie has been
good to the tax-payers, waited on
them quite a long time in many
instances and they are not going
to forget him for the kindness.
The Progress takes pleasure in
calling attention to his announce
ment and we cheerfully recom
mend him to the people.