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Vol 20. No 46
f. C. WIMBERLY
WRITES VOTERS
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WAS OPPOSED TO SPECIAL SES
SION OF LEGISLATURE BUT
WILL WORK FOR REFORM OF
TAX SYSTEM.
To the Citizens of Toombs County.
Dear Friends:
The Extraordinary Session of the
State Legislature convened last Wed
nesday, and is still in session.
Altho I was opposed to an extra
session, knowing full well that the
tax problems and school book prob
lems could be just as well solved at
the regular session, but now since
we are up here for the purpose of
reforming the tax system, I think
that every legislator should put his
shoulder to the wheel and help work
out a just and equatible tax system.
It is true that all of the tax bur
dens of the state are borne by one
third of the people of the state, and
that one-third are the farmers of our
fair land. The large corporations
with tremendous incomes, the high
salaried men with an annual income
of from five to SIO,OOO per year, who
have little property, bear no part of
the tax burdens. The farm land of
the state carries the entire burden,
and it is high time that a change is
made. I hope that it shall soon come
I shall do all in my power to aid in
bringing it about.
I am co-author to a bill providing
for an income tax, and also that no
advalorem or general property tax
shall be levied for state purposes
only. That would strike out the
five mill tax now being paid to the
state, therefore lowering the rate of
county taxation five mills. Our
county taxes are already more than
we can bear, save paying a five mill
state tax. The income tax would
take care of the state, and all the
revenue necessary for the adminis
tration ofthe affairs of the state
could be secured by an income tax.
I am here to serve the people of
Toombs County. If you have an idea
in line with the above remarks, don’t
hesitate to let me know it. I am
representing you, and am always
glad to hear from my constituents.
Rest assured that I shall take care of
your interest. I stand first for the
grand old people of Toombs County.
I shall guard your interest always.
Your servant,
ERNEST C. WIMBERLY.
WIMBERLY IS RESOURCEFUL
LAWMAKER
(From Savannah Press)
Wimberly of Toombs has about
won the first prize as the moßt re
sourceful legislator in the general
assembly. Mr. Wimberly, while he
lives in Toombs and it noted for his
extreme youth, being the youngest
man in the general assembly, has the
distinction of teaching in the Fulton
County High School. He is one of
the faculty. He has been wondering
how he was going to kill two stones
with one bird—or have it the other
way if you like. And he has just
about worked it out. He told me
yesterday he had not lost an hour at
school nor been absent during any
of the deliberations of the house.
He gets his classes assigned early
in the morning and, finishing with
his morning work at the High School,
he hotfoots it over to the house in
time to answer roll call at 10 o’clock.
The house has been adjourning a lit
tle after 1, and he hotstuffs back to
the school in time to hear his after
noon classes. I submit that it takes
a college education to equip a man
for service like that.
A CORRECTION
A correction in the report of
scholarship given by the Banks to
the club girls. Misses Abbie and
Addie Mann won the scholarship on
poultry, and Miss Catharine Clifton
the scholarship on can products.
Mrs. L. V. THORPE.
FOR SALE —If you want a good
young mule at a reasonable price
B. B. Newton at Elza. He has a lot
full. Dec 6 eol
The Lyons Progress
HIS 1923 THANKSGIVING DINNER H
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Hanging of Currie Postponed
PINEAPPLE PEAR
SOLD IN TOOMBS
MESSRS VEEDER AND CONNOR
HERE WITH COUNTY AGENT
GARNER INTERESTING FAR
MERS IN BUYING.
Several farmors around Vidalia
and Lyons have bought small or
chards of pineapple pears ranging
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from one to five acres each. Mr.
Veeder of Cornelia and F. M. Con
nor of the S. A. L. Railway were
here with County Agent Garner in
teresting a few farmers in putting
in some of these pear trees.
This is the pear tree that wos ori
ginated at Ludowici and which the
Georgia Experiment Station grew
for 15 years, planted alternate trees
with Kedffer and other varities of
pears. At the end of the fifteen
years most of the other varieties
were either dead or badly blighted,
while the Pineapple pear showed no
blight whatever. Also, none of the
orchards have had any trouble with
scale so far, though, the originators
say they do not guarantee the trees
to be scale resistant.
Waycross and Macon canning
plants had orders last year for can
ned pineapple pears that would have
‘consumed at least 200 car of the
canned products, could they have
secured them. It looks reasonable
that as the orchards develop the
market could be increased to con
sume large quantities of them can
ned.
These trees should be set between
December 15th and January 15th.
It takes 27 trees to the acre, set 40
feet apart.
Frank W. Fitch, Dairy Specialist
Here
Mr. Fitch of the Georgia State
College of Agriculture was in the
county for two days this week, Mon
day and Tuesday and spoke at meet
ings at Ohoopee and New Branch
Monday and Center and Aimwell
Tuesday on shipping sour cream.
Quite a few farmers are turning to
shipping cream again this fall and
, these meetings will help others get
started.
Bill Jones on the repair track
Imagined he coud do
A moment’s work beneath a car
Without the flag, so blue.
Well, yes he did it many times,
‘ In spite of rules and warning;
. j One day an engine bumped the car—
Bill’s Wife is now in mourning.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF TOOMBS COUNTY
LYONS. GEORGIA. THURSDAY. NOV. 15 1923
The hearing for a new trial for
Lee Currie which was to have been
argued before Judge Hardeman last
Saturday November 10th was post
poned indefinitely, The Progress
has Keen informed unofficially. This
is suposed to automatically grant
Currie s respite from hanging which
to have been November 16th. The
reason given for postponing the hear
ing was that the court stenographer
did not hn7e the records typed in
time for them to be available for
the hearing. No official report
conid be secured up to the time of
going to press, but it is assumed the
hearing will be during the next reg
ular term of the Superior court in
Lyons, which is the fourth Monday
of November.
PRODUCTS FROM COTTON
SEED VALUE AT $150,000,000
At present the value of products
obtained from cotton seed in this
country is in excess of $150,000,000,
annually, according to officials of,
the Georgia Department of Agricul
ture. The one-time nuisance has
become a veritable gold mine of
enormous importance to the prosper
ity of the cotton states and of wide
diversity in its uses. The manu
factured articles that trace their
source back now to cotton seed in
clude many of the necessities and
comforts of modern life.
“The magnitude of the loss suf
fered by the South in the failure to
discover earlier the possibilities of
cotton seed can hardly be comput
ed” said an official of the state ag
ricultural department. “It can be
understood in a degree when it is
considered that the seed represents
two-third of the cotton crop and the
cotton itself only one third. Hugh
piles of cotton seeds that rotted ori
the ground or found their way into
rivers and creeks to clog them form
ed a problem that worried farmers
and ginners in the South sixty years
99
ago.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to extend our sincere
thanks for the many kindness shown
us by our friends in the illness and
death of our husband and father.
Mrs. G. T. Gray and family.
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ATLANTA TRIO TO
' BE AT VIDALIA
WILL GIVE CONCERT ONE DAY
NEXT WEEK—DATE FOR CON
CERT HAS NOT BEEN LEARN
ED YET.
ATLANTA, Ga. The Atlanta
Trio, the three young Georgia musi
cians who recently formed a concert
company for a southeastern tour,
and who were accorded a triumphant
reception before a highly critical
Atlanta audience two weeks ago, will
begin their first tour of Georgia this
week, giving seven concerts on the
tour.
This week will be taken up with
dates in Barnesville and Concord,
and next week, they will give pro
grams in Dublin, Vidalia, Statesboro,
Swainsboro and Sandersville. Other
, appearances before Christmas will
be made at numerous North Georgia
points around Gainsville and in
Cartersville and the vicinity of Rome.
The Trio is under the management
of the Young Artists’ Guild, and no
charge is being made by the Guild
for securing engagements. It is a
definite attempt on the part of a
large number of music lovers to
provide concert opportunities for
some of the South’s talented music
ians. The trio is composed of Fran
ces Stovall, pianist; Lillouise Smith 1
Green, violinist, and Winifred Bird, 1
■lyric soprano. Fees for concerts,'
have been placed so low that even 1
the small towns of ths section can
afford to present them.
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OYSTER SUPPER 1
There will be an oyster supper at '
Yancy School House next Friday
night, Nov. 16th. Everybody invit- ‘
ed to attend.
FOR SALE—2OO acres land on j
Altamaha River. 2 houses, barn, i
etc, 65 aeres fenced, timber, oak and
pine vale $1,000.00. Ber.t situated '
for stock farm, good for tobacco and
cotton. Quick sale, $2,500.00 cash. '
JOE USIILR, 1
N 29. Route A, Oe.ala, Florida. 1
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HYDROfUCIRIC PLANT AND CONCRETE
DAM ACROSS THE OHOOPEE RIVER
LARGE FORCE OF MEN NOW
PUTTING IN CONCRETE DAM
WHILE WATER IS LOW IN THE
RIVER.
Mr. W. A. Nail, of Manassas, Ga.,
has bought the rock falls on the
Ohoopee River, and is now got a
large force of men at work putting
in a concrete dam across the river at
that point while the river is low, and
not much water to obstruct the work.
The dam will be several hundred
feet long and 35 feet high, and will
be built sufficient to stand the high
water pressure.
Mr. Nail expects to be able to
produce at least one thousand horse
power with the first unit, and to add
other units as they are needed. He I
expects to furnish current to all the
towns in this section of the country
and to the rural districts that want
it.
The dam is just above the Jeff-
Davis Highway bridge, between
Lyons and Reidsville, and can be seen
from the highway at the bridge
crossing the Ohoopee River.
This dam at this point will have a
solid rock foundation and will be so
constructed that it will not cause a
pond are need a head of water. It
will be built in a funnel shape, going
over a solid rock fall that will pro
duce the power without backing up
a large amount of water.
HOG SALE TO HELD HERE
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 23RD.
The monthly hog sale will be held
here Friday November 23rd. So far
there has not been a carload of hogs
listed for the sale. Those having
hogs for this sale must notify Coun
ty Agent Garner before next Satur
day.
Chicken Sale Vidalia November 21« t
Bring your chickens to Vidalia
early Wednesday morning. Be care
ful about stuffing them as trouble
was caused in the last carload where
some had stuffed their chickens and
they did not carry so well. Give
them a good light feed of soft mash
that morning, made of meal and
shorts with either butter milk or
water.
THE FARMER AND THE
RAILROAD, THEY MUST
BE FRIENDS, NOT FOES
“I am thinking of this question
purely in my character and occupa
tion of a farmer and this is what I
think.
I think that the farming business
and the railroad business are so uk
terly dependent upon each other,
their interests are so identical that
the man who drives a wedge between
them is either crazy or he is a crook.
Perhaps he is neither, but just
ambitious to capture leadership
among farmers and, to entice them,
Ihe is willing to deceive them to their
great injury.”
The foregoing is written by Fred
L. Chapman, Editor of Better Farm
ing.
Fromthe home market standpoint
the buying power of Railways and
Farmers represent the large part of
domestic consumption, therefore, as
stated by Mr. Chapman, they are en
tirely upon each other.
Agriculture is our greatest indus
try, it furnishes raw material and
the railroad furnishes the service.
We cannot have a prosperous coun
try without prosperous farmers and
it is to the interest of the farmer
thatthe Railroads prosper in order
that they may furnish ample service
at all times.
The Georgia and Florida Railway
has expert demonstrators assisting
the farmers in our territory, realiz
ing that your prosperity means our
prosperity.
Suggestions and constructive crit
icism are invite.
Yours very truly,
H. W. PURVIS,
General Manager, Georgia and
Florida Railway. I
Subscription SI.OO
SPARKS CIRCUS TO BE IN
VIDALIA ON THURS
DAY, NOVEMBER Z2RB.
November 22nd, afternoon and
evening under huge masses of eaa-
Vas, the finest circus ever made by
the ingenuity and courage of men,
will parade and show in Vidalia on
November 22 to make the young
folks happy and the old folks young.
The great parade is on Thursday
morning at 10:30 o’clock. First of
all, a real wild animal circus is a
1923 acquisition, having been import
ed fromthe world’s greatest wild ani
mal training quarters at Sellinghen,
Germany. Inclueded in these dis
plays will be found lions, tigers, leop
ards. polar and grizzly bears—even
trained ostriches will be seen in ad
dition to the Sparks group of sixteen
“Rotation” horses, the two elephant
herds, fancy gaited and posing horses
the Bibb County Pig Circus, Captain
Tiebor’s seals, and hosts of others of
a novel nature. The circus proper
opens with an elaborately staged
spectacle, “Echoes from the Reign of
King Tut,” in which all of the ani
mals, performers, premier dancers
and a large chorus participate. As
a fitting finish to the all feature
performance, a genuine English Fox-
Hunt, introducing real Irish-bred
high jumpers, broad jumpers i and
perfectly schooled fox-hounds, will
replace the old-time and very dang
erous chariot races usually to be
found with other circuses.
Dont’ forget the date Vidalia
November 22nd.
WESLEYAN COLLEGE
TO RAISE MILLION
MACON, Ga.—Wesleyan College,
the oldest college for women in
America, is to enter on a campaign
to raise one million dollars for new
buildingß and endowment, it was an
nounced by Dr. William F. Quillian,
president of the College. A magni
ficent new site, the old Flourney
estate in the Rivoli district of Macon,
has been purchased where the col
lege will build its new campus.
The campaign will be carried op
this Spring under the leadership of
Orville A. Park, national chairman,
who is a former president of th*
Georgia Bar Association and compil
er of Park’s Code of the Laws of
Georgia, the official state code. Ho
is a prominent Methodist, chairman
of the Board of Stewards of the Mul
berry Street Church in Macon aud~
for 25 years superintendent of tfc*
Sunday /School.
The executive committe of thp
campaign includes: Bishop W. N.
Ainsworth, Rev. W. F. Smith, O. A.
Park, Rev. 0. F. Cook, C. B. Lewis,
Former Governor N. E. Harris, Pres
ident W. F. Quillian, George B.
Jewett, W. R. Rogers, Jr. and W. D.
Anderson.
Wesleyan Colege was the first"
college in America to grant a degree
to a womqn. The first graduate
Miss Catherine Brewer, received the
bachelor’s degree in 1840, the first
woman in America to receive sueb
a degree. Miss Brewer later mar
ried and was the mother of Admiral
Benson of the United States Navy.
A little later, after Mr. Holyoke Sen
inary in Massachusettes began to dp
work of collegiate grade, and Obe»-
lin ollege in Ohio granted its first
degree to a woman, scores of colleges
followed the lead of Wesleyan by
- higher education to women.
The college is under the control es
the North Georgia, South Georgia
and Florida Conferences of the Metli
odist Episcopal Church, South.
MR. J. Me. MANN APPOINTED
GAME WARDEN FOR COUNTY
Mr. J. Me. Mann of Cedar Cross
ing has been appointed game warden
for Toombs County. Licenses can
be bought at J. P. Pughsley, Court
House at Lyons, Lee Hardware at
Vidalia, and Mr. J. Me. Mann’s Stow
at Cedar Crossing.
Those not having licenses will fliwiEl
it advisable to get them. jp
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