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Vol 20. No 46 f. C. WIMBERLY WRITES VOTERS ■i i ■■ ■ ' m 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 , }=■=■ . ® > . 4z\ a 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 | 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. ———————— | _ —— - , <• Hamilton Burch **• M Mo.ley | •» BURCH A; MOSELEY $ <• At torney»-at-L»w t « » T «* Will practice ir. all Court of the State T Office —Second floor Aaron Buildings LYONS, GEORGIA X ‘ * Will appreciate your patronage. X 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. 1 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 " 1 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 *