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LYONS— A Good Town In A «<> od roußtv.. Work For A Bolter JS A Greater TOOMBS. VoL 19. No 47 I SUPERIOR COURT I jo CONVENE MON. I hyeral IMPORTANT cases to I BK TRIED—PROBABLY takb 1 TMO WEEKS' TO CLEAR THE I pOCKET. I Toombs Superior Court will con rene at Lyons Monday morning with Judge R. N. Hardeman presiding and' Solicitor Walter F. Gray looking after the interests of the state. Several important cases are to be tjied at this term, some civil and some criminal. It is expected that It will take at least two weeks to dear the docket. JTETHODIST ladies to OBSERVE WEEK OF PRAYER The ladles of the Methodist church will observe the annual week of prayer on Friday afternoon of this week at 3:30 o’clock with an interest ing combined program consisting of every feature usuailly rendered in the afternoons of every day in the week pet aside for this purpose. A lot of preparation is being made by those who are to rend'er the pro gram and because of the interesting numbers this service, under the lea- i dership of Mrs. W. C. Mason, will be profitable to every one. All the ladies are urgently request ed to be present at this time. COTTON HAS REACHED THE NEW HIGH MARK i HE BALE BROUGHT SI,7OO—WAS BOUGHT BY FORREST ADAIR— fIRST RAISED IN GA. IN 1922 PROCEEDS GO TO HOSPITAL. ATLANTA, Ga., —Cotton has reached the new high mark of $3.44 a pound in Atlanta. One bale, weighing 500 pounds, brought $1,700. It was Georgia grown cotton, sold at public outcry, and! Forrest Adair, nationally known At lanta business man, was the auction eer. The proceeds went to the Scot tish Rite Hospital for Crippled Child ren. The scene was on the main floor of the Atlanta Commercial Exchange. One hale of cotton, the first raised in Georgia in 1922, grown in Tift Coun ty, near Moultrie, Ga., was shipped to Atlanta by express to the Atlanta Com mercial Exchange by the Georgia Cot ton company for the grower. It was received at the exchange on July 18. On July 19 It was sold at auction for 50 cents a pound, being bought by J. J. Williamson, of the well know firm of Williamson-Inman.Stribling Com pany The proceeds went to the grow er; the bale was given by Mr. Wi-11- iamrm to the Crippled Children’s Hospital. Now another auction lias just taken place. Half a dozen times it was pur chased, at prices ranging from st> cent? to 26 cents a pound. In each instance it was returned to the Child ren V Hospital, only to he reauctioned *>y Mr. Adair. John Manget, Atlanta cotton man, is the present owner of the muoh-ex- Ploite,. bale, and anneunced that he wa- as yet undetermined as to what he would do with it. The Scottish Rite Home for Grip ped Children, started through the ef forts of Dr. Michael Hoke, Forrest Adair, Sr., and other leading Shtlners, *ome years ago. is now recognized as 01 >e of the largest and best equipped ! institutions of its kind in the United States it was the pattern for a num *)®r of similar hospitals which have been established In various parts of country by national Shriners; In i * act ’ the idea of establishing these hospitals was obtained' from the At-* 'nnta hospital and action for a nation movement was decided! upon at a meeting by a national board, of *hich Forrest Adair wag elected •^airman. The Lyons Progress HUNTING SEASON OPENED MONDAY NOVEMBER 20TII ATLANTA, Ga.—As the hunting sea eon opened Monday with ideations of an abundance of game throughout Georgia, J. Frank Rhodes, commiss ioner of game and fish, called atten tion to an error in a recent newspa per article which stated that a hunter must have a federal license. The only thing necessary to hunt in | a county where the hunter resides, he j said, is a county license costing $1 ' and a state license costing $3 entitles the hunter to pursue his calling in any county in the state. Commissioner Rhodes said reports to his office show an abundance of j game, especially in South Georgia, where quail and duck are plentiful, l with lots of duck and! geese along the coast “Georgia’s reputation aa a game state is rapidly spreading throughout the country,” he said. REV. PHARR GOES TO Wfl YCROSS TO ATTEND THE ANNUAL CON FERENCE OF THE METHODIST j CHURCH. —SPLENDID PROGRESS MADE DURING THE YEAR. The Lyons Methodist Church has just closed a year of progress and ; prosperity and the pastor, Rev. Theo j Pharr, left Monday for Waycross to attend the annual conference, carry ing a report that will show all the financial obligations of the church paid fn full and a larger number of j accessions to the membership than the church has ever had' in any one j year. Every department of the church • I is thoroughly organized and plans are j in process of execution to make the coming year one of even greater pro gress. i NUMBER OF GA. WOMEN WILL GO TO FRANCE MISS EMILY WOODWARD, EDITOR VIENNA NEWS, YICE-PRES. OF GA. PRESS BEING SPON SORED BY SLOAN PAPER CO. The Good Will elections for the American Committee for Devastated France, which will send al arge num ber of Georgia girls and women US France next summer, is being carried to a’.l the towns of Georgia thru the candidacy of Miss Emily Woodward, Editor of the Vienna News, Vienna, Ga., and Vice-President of the Georgia Press Association. Miss Wood'ward is being sponsored by the Soan aper Co., of Atlanta. The Georgia Press Association heartily endorsese Miss Woodard’s nomination by the Sloan Paper Co., and each lo cal editor is asked to accept appoint ment on her campaign committee to, secure votes in their communities, to insure her election. Almost all of the candidates, thirty two in number are from the city of Atlanta; but Miss Woodward will se cure her votes from the state at large, and because of the wide appeal of her campaign, it is expected that she will have no difficulty in being elected, in spite of the great following of a large , number of the candidates who have entered from Atlanta. Miss Woodward’s Atlanta head quarters are located In the offices of Sfoan Paper Co., 18 Central Ave., and this company is acting as her cam paign manager in Atlanta. The Good Will Elections have as ' their aim the raising of funds to sup port the work of the American eom i mittee in the devastated regions of ! France. MF-s Anne Morgan, daughter ■ of the late J. Pierpont Morgan, is the • active director of this work, and in t the past five years, she has been able [i to accomplish a tremendous amount of good for the suffering and porer- OFFICIAL ORGAN OF TOOMBS COUNTY LYONS. GEORGIA. THURSDAY. NOV. 23 1922 Mrs. W. H. Felton Takes Oath As First Woman U. S. Senator AFTER ONE DAY, GRAND OLD LADY DOFFS HER TOGA—UNAN IMOUS CONSENT OF SENATORS MAKES CEREMONY POSSIBLE. j WASHINGTON.—Mrs. W. H. Felton, of Georgia, took the oath of office to day, as the frist woman United States i Senator. It was true that her term probably will be only for a day but the cere money crowned with success the ef forts of the 87-year-old' lady and made to "blaze the path of American womanhood” in the Senate and it was indicated that she would be content to step aside tomorrow in favor of Walter F. Georgle, who was elected November 7, as her successor to fill the unexpired term of the late Sen ator Watson. It was to the vacancy caused by his death that Mrs. Felton was appointed last September to serve until the November elections. The seating of Mrs. Felton attracted a crowd to the Senate which rivaled that which greeted President Hard ing a ahort time before at the House where he addressed Congress in joint session. And she wap at once show ered with congratulations. When sJie was directed to proceed to the rostrum for the administering of the oath of office, her face broke into a smile. On the arm of Senator Harris, of Georgia, and lifting her gown daintly, she walked down the center aisle and up to the Vice Presi Real Farm Population; Less Than Third of People Are In Agriculture To have the exact figures on farm population state by state, which the census bureau has published for the first time this yoar, is distinctly a step in the right direction, in the opinion of Dr. C. J. Galpin, of the Uni ted' States department of agriculture. A further detailed report, county by county, would give us the much need ed basic facts with which to make studies of changes in farm population, Dr. Galpin says. “Thus we would know better how to make basic computation for the purposes of economies, education and financial questions affecting our farm population.” According to Dr. Galpin the so-call ed “rural population” must be distin guished from “farm population,” as “it makes a difference in the judge ment of anybody who dlcusses the ag ricultural situation whenever he is ty-stricken farmers and small village residents who lost all their possess- | ions in the war. In order to cast a vote for Miss Woodward, it is necessary to contrib ute ten cents to the American com mittee. If a dollar is donated, Miss Woodward receives ten votes; ten dol lars counts as a hundred votes, and so on. It is expected that fully fifty thousand dollars will be raised in Georgia during the election period, which endsi on December 1. The number of delegates elected de pends upon the amount of money rais ed. It is expected that fully ten or twelve women of the state will join the delegation to France ne!xt spring. All expenses of the delegates are paid and they are officially received by the | French government while on thefjE trip. Full dally details of the election are printed in the Atlanta Journal, which hi sponsoring the campaign for the state. The amounts collected by each candidate can be read each day in the Journal. The editor of this paper has agreed 1 to act as Miss Woodward’s represont tative in this town. Local people who want to make contributions, no mat ter how small, to the work of Ameri can committe, can send' or bring their contributions to this office. Inciden i ta’ly, these contributions will be cre . 4He'„ to Mira Woodward’s total and dent's desk, where Senator Cummins' of lowa, president tempore,, was pre siding. Saintes Presiding Officer As Senator Cummins motioned for her to raise her right hand she ex hibited her only eign of unfamiliarly with the proceedings, waved her hand to Mr. Cummins and smiling as if re ceiving a similar salute. Senator Har ris nudged her arm, however, and then she raised it, gazing Intently at Senator Cummins aa the oath was de lieverd and giving her response in a low voice. The seating of Mrs. Peßon bad been expected in view of the tracit agree ment of Senate leaders to interpose no objection in the fact of possible technical precedents as to her status after the election on November 7 of her successor, but for a time today it appeared as though such objection might be offered and definite aesur ance that the oath would be admin istered was not reached unitl a delay of two hours. The principal delay was due to an address of Senator Walsh, Democrat Montana, in support of her claim. This address, which was not on the program, went into the precedents in volved in the proposed course and at first gave the impression that the Montana Senator was opposing Mrs. Felton’s claims. But later Mr. Walsh swung into strong support of her position, declaring that her title was clear and that granting it should not be considered a favor or a chivalrous act. thinking that the so-called rural pop ulation’ is responsible for farming, r whether he is thinking of the people actually living on farms who do the farming. “Slightly less than 30 per cent of the population of the United States live on farms. It does not help agri culture in any way for the people to keep thinking that there are more than 51.400,000 people engaged in farming when the fact is that there are about 20,000,000 less, or only a little more than 31,000,000. “We have made great progress in collecting and studying the statistics of agriculture with respect to farms, Sands, crops and live stock, but we have neglected to show the same care in gathering and analyzing statistics; with respect to the people who live upon farms and constitute the body of actual farm producers. will play a large part in insuring hear | election. The people of this town and county ha\te been very liberal in the past, and the editor hopes that the town may be able to make a substantial contri bution. It is especially hoped that the candidate who is representing the J state at large may be successful in. spite of the heavy competition from the Atlanta candidates. Miss Woodward is one of the best known newspaper women in the South She is a woman of much ability and personal charm, and her election to the delegation will gfve the Georgia representatives one of the most cap able and gracious women who could be selected to represent the state in. France. $5.00 REWARD For information or return of one male bob tailed pointer dog, name Dan. Lost or stolen from Lyons Nov ember 16th. S. J. Henderson, Lyons. I . BOX SUPPER AT ZADIE > SCHOOL NOVEMBER 30TH A box supper will be held at Zadi© School house Thursday night, Novem _ 1 ber 30th. AU the girls art? requested 1) to bring boxes for sale.. S. L HUSSEY AND SON HAVE ATTRACTIVE WINDOW Again the firm of S. I. Hussey A Son furnishes the people of town with something novel and timely to look up on in the form of a unique window trim carrying out the idea of the sea son in its nature. This time “Guyce” has, very effect ively, arranged a trim which carries one out into the myriad-colored woods with hunters well supplied with guns and shells lead in advance by a pack of eager dogs going forth to claim the feathered sopil of the wild woods. Also in the window can be seen a tiny log cabin which gives one the im pression that it has been deserted only a little while by the hunters, who have taken their abode there for a season of pleasure. Such talent In window trimming is very rarely demonstrated in a town the size of Lyons. TOOMBS CO. CROP PASS 8100 MARK CENSUS REPORT SHOWS 8,048 BALES GINNED TO NOV. IST— MONTGOMMERY COUNTY TO TAL RUNS TO 6,504. The cotton crop in Toombs county this year has safely passed the 8,000 bale mark, figures issued by the cen sus department showing 8,048 bales ginned in this county up to Novem ber Ist. For the same date last year the figures were 4,819. Figures for the state and for other counties in this section are given as folows: 1922 1921 The State 632.370 735,843 Montgomery 6,504 3,262 Thttnall 5,048 3,227 Telfair 9,282 4,662 Emanuel 14,468 11,355 Candler t 4,137 3,689 Figures for Wheeler and Treutlen counties were not given in this report. TWELFTH DISTRICT DAIRY ORGANIZED MEETING HELD AT COUNTIES WERE REPRESENTED —NEXT MEETING TO BE HELD IN JOHNSON COUNTY. The Twelfth District Dairy Associa tion was organized at Dublin, Ga., I November 9th, with the following of ficers: W. R. Jackson, Wtightsville, Preei d«nt. S. D. McNeely, Adrain, Vice-Presi dent. J. F. Hart, Jr., Secretary. Six counties were represented at this meeting, and’ a very interesting and instructive program was render ed. The purpose of the organization is to promote the dairy industry, and to give helpful instructions to those not informed on subjects of interest, how to select a good' dairy cow, how to feed and care for them, and the grow ing of permanent pastures, were the chief topics at this meeting. The meeting was Well attended and all , were well repaid for going. An in vitation is extended all dairymen, how ever ppnall, to join the association, and they can do so by applying to the Secretary. There are no dues. Meetings will b© held quarterly and will be rotated la the counties repres ented in the oaembership. The next meeting will be held' in Johnson coun ty. OHOOPEE COMMUNITY CLUB Our regular meeting was held ©n last Friday afternooa. Owing to the absence of Mrs. L. V, Thorpe we only bad a social meeting which wasi enjoyed by the few mem bers present. Our next meeting will be held at the school house on the first Friday in December. All member? wl'l be pr’.’*LL THE LYONS PROGRESS I A Progressive Paper In A I Progressive Town— J LYONS, GEORGIA j Subscription SI.OO 5 NEGROES BREAK OUT TOOMBS JAIL LAST FRIDAY NIGHT—BSC APB W BREAKING HOLE THROUGH HI WALL WITH WINDOW WEIGHT NO TRACE FOUND OF THEM. Last Friday night between the hoar* of dark and daylight Saturday morn ing, five negroes who had been con fincd in the Toombs County Jail for stealing and breaking In stores, kept their record of “breaking'’ by their escape from confinement by punching a hole through the wall dt the Jail with * window ewight, gob ten In their possession by unknowh means, and making good their escape. It ia not known by what mean* they reached the ground from the up per story where they were confined but it is beilieved that they tied sheets and blankets together using these for this purpose. Jailer Hendricks stated that they were all in a "pen” except one and he belives that with his assistance they got away. FIE SUPPER AT MARVIN SCHOOL FRIDAY NIGHT There will be a pie supper at Wftr vin school Friday night, November 24tih. The proceeds are to be uped painting the Marvin church. By your going out to the supper you will not only have a good time but will help a good cause. MILLIONS ARE DRIVEN EROM ASIA MINOR BY TURKISH MILITARY FORCES— e * KING OF GREECE, THANKS TKB AMERICAN RED CROSS FOR IT# AID—PEOPLE SUFFERING. WASHINGTON.— Upon the quick charity of America largely depend* the fate of a million Chlrstlans drive* from Asia Minor by Turkish military forcen it is declared at National Headquarters of the American Red Cron. Greece either will be a sepul chre or a place of rebirth for theee stricken people, whose desperate plight is further depicted in a cable gram received by the Red Croes from Vice Chairman A. Ross Hill who I* directing relief" work from Athens. King George, of Greece, through Dr. Hill, rent thanks to the Red Cross for its aid and expressed the apprecia tion of his nation to the American people. The Red Cross is rapidly per fecting its organisation In Greece said Dr. Hill’s mespage, which went on to state: • ‘‘Hundreds of thousand of refuge* are filling the Greek cities and islands. These consist largely of mothers with children who. v;ith eld people, are sole remnant of ( i flourishing popula tions driven 1 to sea by the Turks. The«e miserable women, cold, hungry, despairing, shelterless*, walk the streets with babies clinging to their skirts. In many refugee centers wo men who lofat sons and husbands gas* from leaden eyes, life over. Tbeir- Httle ohildren are only hostages i*r the future of that element of Greek people who first established them selves in Asia Minor three thousand years* ago. “In many barracks children, and old people He day and night, file* eating at sores on their bodies and faces, their future black. "King George thanks the America* Red Cross for its help s>nd extend* the appreciation of hia nation tfr Hi* American people. “Smallpox la spreading from om*. concentration camp to another. Mean while Greece is * waking new floods of refugees. Tb* race Is on between American Red Crosa supplies and these fresh shipload of people. The Greek gavemia*t has te’egr i a renreaeet?.*L»*•<» ill ».■ -.metrics srkinsi • ... 4 v-'•*"■'t hety trc-fli cverjr flV^>’£ ’Qr