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Vol 20. No 35
SUPERIOR COURT
NOW IN SESSION
AUGUST TERM OF TOOMBS SU
PERIOR CONVENED MONDAY
MORNING —C. N. WALKER
HEADS GRAND JURY.
The August term of the Toombs
superior court convened at Lyons
Monday morning, Judge R. N. Hard
eman presiding and Solicitor W. F.
Gray being present to look after the
interests of the state.
The grand jury organized by nam
ing C. N. Walker foreman, V. B.
Herring clerk, and selecting J. M.
Woods bailiff. Serving on the grand
jury are J. L. Wolfe, C. N. Walker,
A A. Webb, M. J. Rattray, L. L.
Clifton, N. A. Dees, W. W. Stanley,
j. B Jones, J. M. Davis, J. M. Outler,
D. P. Sharpe, J. C. Bargeron, Jr., V.
B. Herring, W. J. Murchison, W. M.
Smith, H. P. Wilbanks, T. R. Mc-
Swain, A. S. James, E. M. Wimberly,
L. S. Cox, W. S. Hardin, W. H. Mor
ris and 01 R. McCorkle.
Judge Hardeman’s charge was
along the usual line the attention of
the grand jury being called to the
necessity of stamping out the traffic
in liquor and the carrying of pistols.
No Court Next Week
The session of the court will cover
only one week, Judge Hardeman be
ing compelled to be in Emanuel coun
ty next week to hold court there.
Civil business was taken up after
the court was organized, and about
fifty or sixty cases were disposed of.
The criminal docket will be taken
up today.
COSBY M. SMITH BUYS
FLOCK OF CHICKENS
Mr. Cosby M. „.Smith, who lives
near Elza has just bought 300 pure
bred Leghorns from J. C. Bargeron.
Mr. Smith plans to carry on some
pretty extensive poultry raising and
egg shipping as well as raising tobac
co and cotton.
This is a much wiser use of the
money secured from this years un
usually good tobacco crop than some
farmers in another section are re
ported to be making of their money
by spending practically all their pro
fit for new cars. We are glad to see
the poultry business grow as the real
backbone of the wealth of this county
will be poultry and livestock.
FOR SALE—3S acre farm, 2%
mile, south of Lyons. Cheap.
MRS: VICTORIA ETHRIDGE,
4tpd. Route A, Lyons, Ga.
Colonial Theatre
“The Coolest Spot In Town’’
Chilled, Washed Air.
PROGRAM:
PARAMOUNT WEEK
Monday—Agnes Ayres in
“A Daughter of Luxury.”
Tuesday and Wednesday
Cdoria Swanson in “The Im
possible Mrs. Bellew”.
Admission 15 and 35 cents.
Thursday and Friday—Ro
dolph Valentino in “Blood and
Sand.”
Admission 15 and 35 cents.
Saturday A Walter De
Courcy production “The Amer
'can Toreador”.
Harold Lloyd in “His Royal
Slyness.”
PARAMOUNT WEEK
I The Coolest Spot In Town”
Chilled, Washed Air.
Colonial Theatre
The Lyons Progress
Yum, Yum! ,
GA. RURAL LETTER
CARRIERS’ TO MEET
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IN TWENTIETH ANNUAL SES
SION NEXT MONDAY AND
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3-4 AT
COLUMBUS, GA.
COLUMBUS, Ga.—With an attend
ance of approximately 500 rural let
ter carriers expected here next Mon
day and Tuesday for the twentieth
annual meet of the Georgia Rural
Letter Carriers’ Association, Colum
| bus and Fort Benning are closing
j plans for entertaining visitors.
; On Monday at noon the rural let- j
ter carriers will have lunch at Fort
Benning, the 97,000 aede home of
“The Infantry School” the greatest
; school of arms in the world, bar none,
according to Secretary of War Meeks
The big military project is only eight
I and one half miles from Columbus
i but more than 100 automobiles will (
j be required to transport the visitors
to the camp. A tour of the camp
will be made immediately after lunch- j
eon, four army officers explaining
the many features of the school
where officers from all parts of the
country learn, in a practical way,
military subjects.
Monday night the rural letter car
riers will be taken to the Rialto 'the
atre where they will see the delight- j
ful photoplay “The Custard Cup.” j
Every courtesy will be extended the ;
visitors.
The speakers arranged for by
President George T. Tippin, of
Round Oak, Ga., include Senator W.
J. Harris, Congressman W. C. Wright
John D. McCartney, Savannah, O. C.
Cole, Post Office inspector, who will
also conduct the question box, Fred
L. White, J. E. Womack and Senator
Walter F. George will probably
speak, agreeing to be present if he
can possibly get to Columbus at that j
time. Interesting reports on the ;
work of the association and other j
features will make up a well rounded
program.
On arrival the letter carriers are
asked to go direct to the hotel
(Waverly) where a committee head
ed by John B. David, local rural let
ter carrier, will confer with them re
garding hotels. They will register
I for the convention Monday morning
I atthe entrance to the Federal court
I building second floor Post Office,
j The convention will be called to or-
I der at 9:30 o’clock Monday morning.
WANTED —Hogs, Shoats and Pigs
See FRANK J. PAYNE,
Care of Nelson Hotel,
Reidsville, Georgia
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF TOOMBS COUNTY
LYONS. GEORGIA. THURSDAY. AUG. 30 1923
SOUTHEASTERN TRUST COM
PANY ORGANIZED IN ATLANTA
ATLANTA, Ga.—One of the most
important business developments in
recent months, insofar as this section
of the country is concerned, is the
formation of the Southeastern Trust
Company, with headquarters in this
city.
This company, with an authorized
capital stock of one million dollars,
has been organized by sons of the
most substantial and successful bus
iness men in the south, for the pur
pose of making first mortgage loans
on improved real estate, in the cities
! and larger towns of the southeastern
states. Both improved residential
and business property will be hand
led, either completed or in course of
! construction.
Bonds issued by the company will
not be secured by the actual proper
ty against which they are issued, but
each one will carry the endorsement
'of the company itself, thus making
these investments secure to a degree
never equr in this class of busi
ness.
The company is in position to
! bring south large blocks of: northern
capital which has hitherto been un
available for this purpose and it is
certain that it will perform a real
service, and be a valuable factor in
the development of the southeast.
The company is now disposing of J
some final blocks of its capital stock
and arranging for permanent corres
! pondents in the leading cities of the
| territory, after which it will begin
active operation in the making of
loans in all parts of this section.
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SENATOR HARRIS
SPEAKS AT LYONS
SENIOR SENATOR SPEAKS TO
SPLENDID AUDIENCE MONDAY
MORNING AT COURT HOUSE
REVIEWS WORK IN CONGRESS
A large gathering of Toombs
county voters packed the auditorium
at the court house Monday morning
to hear Senator Wm. J. Harris,
Georgia’s senior senator, give an ac
count of his stewardship in congress.
Senator Harris was introduced by
S. B. Meadows and spoke for over
an hour. At the conclusion of his
address he left for Jeffersonville,
where he had engagement for an ad
dress Monday afternoon.
Mr. Harris reviewed his work in
congress with especial reference to
legislation designed to aid the farm
ers of the country. He made a plea
for the ending of wars and told of
his desire to see nations arbitrate
their differences. At the conclusion
of his address he asked for an ex
pression of approval of his work in j
the senate, practically every man in !
the auditorium expressing approval I
of the senator’s record by rising to
his feet.
—The John Flannery Company,
Savannah, Ga., will make liberal ad
vances on consignments of cotton.
—For Rent—Five room house in
Lyons. Ready September Ist. See
G. E. USHER, Lyons.
SPEECH MADE
BVWIMBERLY
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTA
TIVES AT THE CLOSE OF THE
SESSION—REPRODUCED FROM
ATLANTA DAILY PAPER.
Wimberly of Toombs made an at
tack upon a minority of the House
today, that he claims is “in an over
whelming majority”. He centered
his attack on the Rules Committee
and the Constitutional Amendment
Committee. Bills were introduced in
the earlier part of the Session pro
viding for an Income Tax, and Class
ified Tax. They were referred to the
Constitutional Amendment Commit
tee, and Wimberly claims that this
Committee have trottled them and
has not kept them from coming on
the calendar; that this committee has
had ample time to submit them to
the House; which was the wish of a
vast majority of the Legislatui'e, but
refrained from doing so, and as a
result no Constitutional Amendments
providing for an Income Tax, or
Classifications Tax was submitted to
the Legislature until the last week.
He claims further that the Rules
Committee disregarded the rights of
the people of the State and the
Members of the General Assembly
by not placing these tax proposals to
the House when they were passed on
by the Committee, even though the
Committee delayed so long in sub
mitting them to the House. Mr. (
Wimberly accused these Committees
of throttling the Legislature.
Mr. Wimberly also said that the
House is not responsible if an extra
session is called, but that this minor
ity in these two committees who
have failed to submit these simple,
but necessary measures are alone
responsible.
Mclntosh has unique
COW BUYING PLAN
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The Georgia Association program
is being carried out in Mclntosh
county. Money is being raised for
the purchase of cows for the farmers
on a unique, local stock certificate
plan; twenty-five business and pro
fessional men and farmers subscribed
SIOO each and secured stock certifi
cates and the money is being used
as a revolving fund, operating with
out profit, to help establish the “cow,
hog and hen” plan on the leading
farms of the county. This fund is
available not only to the white farm
ers who are following the advice of
| the white county agent, Mr. A. S.
Bussey of Townsend, but also to
I eighteen colored farmers working un
der the leadership of J. U. H. Sims,
the colored county agent at Darien.
Already there has been a carload
shipment of poultry and the program
is developing rapidly through the
leadership of the Mclntosh County
Live Stock and Poultry Association
which was organized under plans sug
gested by the Georgia Association.
LYONS SCHOOL FACULTY
HAS BEEN COMPLETED
The faculty of the Lyons High
School has been completed. The
Board this week elected Miss Christel
Preetorius, graduate of State College
for Women, to the fourth grade, and
Mr. D. C. Corbitt, graduate of Ash
bury College for high school depart
ment and Athletic Coach for boys
basket ball.
NOTICE TO PATRONS LYONS
SCHOOL
School opens next Monday at nine
o’clock. All patrons and friends are
most cordially urged to be present at
the opening. All pupils are requested
to be present. Entrance cards will
be issued by Mr. B. F. Brown at his
store.
Country high school pupils will
come free of tuition on same terms
as town pupils.
G. E. USHER, Supt.
—For best results ship your cot
ton to the old reliable Cotton Fac
tors, The John Flannery Company,
’ Savannah, Ga.
Subscription SI.OO
CURRIE CASE SEI
FOR OCTOBER IST.
JUDGE HARDEMAN WILL HAVE
SPECIAL TERM OF COURT IN
1 OCTOBER TO TRY CASE—CUR
RIE’S FIFTH TRIAL.
Owing to the fact that he was un
able to devote but one week to the
August term of the Toombs superior
' court, Judge Hardeman, after a con
ference with Solicitor Gray and at
- torneys, has announced that a special
term of the Toombs superior court
will be held the first Monday in Oct
ober for the purpose of trying Lee
Currie, under indictment for murder,
' and who was granted a new trial by
1 the supreme court.
This will make the fifth trial of
this celebrated case, Currie having
1 been found guilty and sentenced to
be hung three times, each time the
supreme court ordering a new trial
One trial resulted in a mistrial, the
■ jury being unable to agree.
GA. COUNCIL OF CO-OPERA
-1 TIVE BODIES IS FORMED
At a meeting in Atlanta recently
| of the managing heads representing
the five principal co-operative mar
keting associations in the State, the
1 Georgia Council of Co-operative Mar
keting Associations was organized
with election of J. E. Conwell, of the
Georgia Cotton Growers’ Association,
, as Chairman and William P. Bullard,
1 ofthe National Pecan Growers’ Ex
change of Albany, Georgia, as Secre
tary.
Other officials attending the meet
ing inaddition to Mr. Conwell and
1 Mr. Bullard were T. M. Chastain,
1 president ofthe Cane Growers’ Co
operative Association, Cairo, Ga.,
John D. Paulk, president of the South
west Georgia Watermelon Growers’
Association, Adel, Ga., and Colonel
R. E. L. Spence, president of the
Georgia Peanut Growers’ Co-opera
tive Association, Albany, Ga.
The conference followed a call
by Mr. Conwell, of the cotton associ
ation, a few days ago, at which time
he suggested the advisability for
representatives of the co-operatives
to meet from time to time to advise
with each other, not only for mutual
benefit, but for carrying forward the
movement of organizing marketing
associations for all farm products.
As described in the rules of organ
ization, the Council will be purely a
voluntary association of the manag
ing heads of the various co-operative
marketing associations in the state.
Membership in the council will be
limited to the managing head of each
of the co-operatives chartered under
the co-operative marketing acts of
Georgia of 1920 and 1921. t
In speaking of the first meeting
Mr. Conwell stated: “I can see very
clearly that the managers of the dif
ferent associations for marketing
farm products can, by meeting to
gether and exchanging ideas, be able
to render a better service, not only
for the co-operative marketing move
ment, but for the members of the
associations already organized. This
will be a great benefit in itself, but
in addition tothat, the council ex
pects to help the growers of the farm
products that are not organized at
this time on the co-operative plan, to
form associations for marketing their
products co-operatively.” All mem
bers of the council were unanimous
in their expression that to solve this
problem would mean that farmers
would then be able to solve our prob
lems of diversification inasmuch a3
growers will then be assured of fair
prices for their products once they
are organized on the co-operative
plan.
The council will meet from time to
time and the next meeting will be
called by the chairman.
The Fashion Shop of Misses Mae
Odom and Annie Lau.ie Hagan will
open to the public on Thursday,
August 30th. Their opening an
nouncement is being carried on the
front page of this issue, which will
be read with much interest to their
many friends. j