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Vol 20. No "47
jurors For Nov.
SUPERIOR COURT
drawn to serve for regu.
lar term which will con-
VENE NEXT MONDAY. JUDGE
R . N. HARDEMAN PRESIDING.
The following citizens of Toombs
county have been drawn to serve as
Traverse jurors for the November
term of Superior court which will
convene next Monday, November
26 th.
"W. A. Dickerson T. W. Willits, Sr.
S. J. Rockett J. T. Tyson
B. F. Echols S. A. Lynn
J. W. Rolison W. S. Harden, Sr.
J. A. Morris T. R. Lee
C. L. Dickerson W. S. Lilliott
E. T. Mcßride S. W. Vann
P. A. New R. S. Sharpe
A. A. Sharpe J. E. Meadows
J. D. Todd Claud Christian
L. B. Godbee A. M. Beadenbaugh
Geo. S. Rountree J. P. McLeod
Duncan Odom T. R. Sharpe
L. J. Edenfield H. A. Threckeld
T. R. McSwain M. James
M. M. Williamson J. E. Bland
D. E. Odom W. H. Harrison
J. H. Little F. L. McCullough
W. F. O’Neal A. A. Webb
R. M. Stanley A. H. Lilliott,
L. L. Sharpe H. V. Lynn,
Dess Gray Han Odom
I. C. Edenfield J. L. Grimsley
W. L. Findley E. L. McDilda
DOCTORS TO MEET IN VIDALIA
The Leon Moye Medical Associa
tion will conevene in Vidalia today.
This association is composed of the
medical fraternity of Toombs, Mont
gomery and Treutlen counties. The
medicos will be the guests of Drs.
Thompson and Mercer while in Vida
lia and the program will include a
clinic at the Vidalia Hospital.
EDITORS OF DISTRICT
MEET IN VIDALIA
INTERESTING SESSION OF THE.
DISTRICT ASSOCIATION HELD
AT NEW VIDALIA FRIDAY —
DUBLIN GETS NEXT MEET.
Newspaper representatives from
over the Twelfth district gathered
at Vidalia last Friday for the regu
lar fall session of the association as
the guests of Editor and Mrs. N. C.
Napier of the Vidalia Advance. The
meeting was one of the best the as
sociation has ever held. Dublin
selected for the meeting of the asso
ciation to be held in March, 1924.
On arriving at Vidalia, the visitors
gathered at the Advance offee, at 1
o’clock repaired to the New Vidalia
Hotel, wjjere an elegant dinner was
served in the main dining room. Fol
lowing the dinner, President Chas. D.
Rountree called the meeting to ord
and the following program war. c. :
ried out:
Our duty to our home communities
and to South Georgia—T. L. Bailey,
Ccohran Journal.
Job printing costs D. A. Byck,
Savannah.
What are fair prices for political
announcements and political articles
—H. B. Folsom, Montgomery Moni
tor.
How 1 I handle the space grafter—
C. M. Methvin, Eastman Times-Jour
naL
A code of ethics for Georgia news
papers —C. D. Rountree, President
Georgia Press Association, Wrights
ville Headlight.
Present at the session Friday were
Editor and Mrs. H. B. Folsom of Mt.
V ernon, Editor and Mrs. C. M. Meth
vin of Eastman, Editor and Mrs. C.
H. Rountree of Wrightsville, Editor
and Mrs. N. C. Napier of Vidalia,
T. L. Bailey of Cochran, the efficient
secretary of the association, H. L.
Hamrick of Cochran, C. T. Darley of
Lyons, D. A. Byck of the M. S. &
H. A. Byck Co., Savannah.—The Vi
dalia Advance.
The Lyons Progress
I AT 3:30 P.M. THANKSGIVING DAY
S' .
BRYAN COUNTY LAW FIRM
OPENING BRANCH
OFFICES IN TOOMBS
Purri# & William# of Pembroke to
Open Office in Lyons at Once.
William 0. Williams, brother of
the late J. J. Williams and youngest
son of Judge and Mrs. P. W. Will
iams, of Lyons, is to have charge of
the office at Lyons, while Carlton L.
Purvis will remain at Pembrike where
he will conduct the firms’ interests
in Bryan and the surrounding coun
ties. This firm is now enjoying a
lucrative practice in Bryan and the
surrounding counties.
Both members ofthis firm are
graduates of Law Colleges, each hold
ing a LL. B. degree, and are qualifi
ed to practice in all Court both State
and Federal.
Carlton L. Purvis is the son of
Mrs. Sallie G. Purvis, Postmistress of
| Pembroke, and the nephew of Her
schel Williams of Dublin, and the
late Judge Robert (Bob) Williams
of Swainsboro. His preparatory
education was received at the First
District Agricultural School of States
boro. He is an Alumi of the Unver
sity of Georgia, Mercer University,
Macon, and the Atlanta Law School
of Atlanta. He enjoys the respect
of the citizens of Bryan County and
that section of the State.
William O. William father Judge
P. W. Williams retired from the ac
tive practice of Law about ten years
ago. His experience in this profes
sion was extended over a period of
about forty-five years. He was wid
ely known and respected in South
east Georgia as one of the leading
lawyers of his time.
William 0. 'Williams after graduat
ing from Lyons High School entered
the GeorgiatAlaboma Business Col
lege, of Macon. After graduating
from that institution he entered as
a volunteer in the United States
Army, and served with the 42nd,
commonly known as the courageou
Rainbow Division irt France during
the World War foreighteen months.
He was wounded twice and gassed
while fighting in France. After re
turning from France Mr. Williams
disability received while fighting in
France warranted his being given
Vocational Training, and the Govern
ment sent him to the Lamar School
of Law, Emory University, of Atlan
to, .Georgia, where he received his
’LL. B. degree.
The progress of this law firm will
he keenly watched as William O.
Williams is virtually a native son of
Lyons, and Carlton L. Purvis has a
wide famliy connection in this sec
tion of the State as well as Mr. Will
iams.
The Lyons office will be known by
the firm of Williams & Purvis.
We extend to them our very best
wishes for success in their branch of
fice here.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF TOOMBS COUNTY
LYONS. GEORGIA. THURSDAY. NOV. 22 1923
Educational Week, Nov. 18-24th
Effort to Enroll Teachers and
People In Ga. Education Asso.
The Georgia Education Associa
tion is making a determined and
persistent effort to enroll the teach
ers and friends of education in Geor
gia as members of its body. There
are 16,00 white teachers in Geor
gia and several hundred more school
officials. Every one of these should
be a member of .this Association. A
large, strong body of educators, j
speaking as a unit thru one organiza- 1
-tion can be an irrestible power fori
educational progress. Georgia is far I
behind in the efficiency of herj
schools. One big cause for this isj
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that her law-making bodies and her
taxing officials have not felt the im
pelling force that its teachers, or
ganized as a body, would give. The
teachers’ influence in Georgia has
been weak and of no force because
they have spoken as separate indivi
duals and not as a unit for 16,000
teachers. Georgia has the smallest
j number of teachers in her Educat
ion Association of any Southern
I Late. Viiginia has 10,000 members
jin her Association; Kentucky over
i 8,000; Alabama and Mississippi, over
j 7,000. Georgia has less than 3,000.
" ————
EE. PARKER EOR
CIERKOF COURT
ANNOUNCES FOR RE-ELECTION
TO THE OFFICE OF CLERK OF
SUPERIOR COURT—-HAS MADE
SPLENDID RECORD.
Mr. E. F. Parker at present Clerk
of Superior Court, announces this
week his candidacy for re-clection to
this office. Mr. Parker has served
the people in this office for the past
term, and is a well fitted man for
this office. It is not much that can
be said in behalf of Mr. Parker, as
the public knows Mr. Parker and his !
efficency as Clerk.
Mr. Parker who has put his con-!
stant and deligent attention to this '
office and promises if re-elected to
continue to look after the welfare of
the office in the future as he has in
the past.
His announcement follows:
For Clerk Superior Court
Thi3 willannounce my formal can
didacy for re-election to the office of ■
Clerk Superior Court of Toombs ’
County subject to the rules of the i
white primary.
The office has had my constant
and diligent attention and should I be
re-elcted I promise to continue to
look after the welfare of the office
in the future as I have in the past.
Yours truly,
E. F. PARKER.
NOTICE
Lyons, Georgia,
Nov. 20th. 1923.
The While Away Club will have a
• form of fiddlers’ convention in
! Lyons in the very near future.
i Three prizes will be given; First
! Prize $10.00; Second Prize $5.00;
• and Third Prize $2.50. The contest
is open to all fiddlers of this and
; surrounding counties and the club
■ would be glad to hear from any and
all parties who desire to participate
i at as early a date as possible so that
program etc. may be arranged.
Those desiring to enter the con
test will please send in their names
to the undersigned,
Mrs. Wimberly E. Brown,
Secretary, Lyons, Ga.
Yet she has more teachers than any
of these Southern states. She
ought to have the biggest member
ship and the strongest body of teach
ers. This can be made true if the
leaders in education in every county
of the state will rally to the support
of the directors ofthe Georgia Edu
cation Association.
The success ofthis campaign de
pends upon the city and county su
perintendents and the college presi
dents in our state. The motto of
every school and college ought to be
“100 per cent perfect in member
ship in the Georgia Education Asso
i
ciation”. The superintendent who
gives this campaign his enthusiastic j
snpport and leadership will have all
of his teachers follow him in join
ing the Education Association.
Abetter and stronger organiza
tion of teachers would greatly aid
our public gramar and high schools j
in doing better work Our state can I
never reach the highest point of es- (
fiency industrially, economically,
socially, or morally until all of its
children are well educated. In this ■
work teachers must lead and can
only lead when they speak officially j
as one strong organized unit.
We therefore give our strongest
indorsement to the efforts of the
Georgia Education Association in
enrolling all the teachers of our
state. We hope that the county and
city superintendents in this county
will immediately begin the campaign
toenroll our teachers. We hope to
report in an early issue that this
county has gone over the top and has
one hunderd per cent membership.
Let Toombs County do its part to
make the next meeting of the Geor
gia Education Association in Savan
f nah, May l-3rd, 1924, the biggest
I convention of teachers ever held in j
the Sorrtk '
Subscription SI.OO
[TOOMBS CO. CROP
PASSES 5,000
[ 2,965 BALES LESS THAN IN 1922
—STATE SHOWS 140,592 BALES
LESS THAN IN 1922 TERRELL
COUNTY LEADS THE STATE.
The Department of Commerce,
through the bureau of census an
nounces the report on cotton gin
ned by the state up to November the
Ist. 1922, 632,258 bales. November
the Ist. 1923, 491,666 bales. 140,-
592 bales less in 1923 than in 1922.
Toombs county ginned in 1922,
; 8,048 bales up to November the Ist.
[November the Ist. 1923, 5,083.
2,965 bales less than in 1922.
Lyons leads all other points in the
j county in shipping this season. Lyons
has shipped approximately 3,500
bales, all other points 1,588. Lyons
leads all other markets in the coun
ty, the buyers have gave the top of
the market all the season.
Terrell county leads the state in
' cotton ginned both in 1922 and 1923.
1 Terrell county ginned in 1922, 20,-
577, and in 1923, 10,422. Jeffer
son county ginned more in 1623 than
in 1922, 1923 ginned 10,280, in 1922
ginned 7,366.
The market is still very strong
around 34 1-2 cents, and the out
look is it will go on up higher yet.
WHAT VARIETIES OF
PECANS TO PLANT
The Georgia Experiment Station
is frequently requested to name the
best varieties of pecans to plant.
This, seemingly, is a simple question,
yet it is one very difficult to answer
even by those who may be familiar
with most of the pecan varieties.
This is necessarily true because the
I desires and personalities of the grow
ers themselves are just as variable
as the long list of varieties of pe
cans from which they select.
Varieties of pecans behave differ
ently uncPer different climatic and
soil conditions, and this fact should
be considered for each locality.
The Stuart pecan is possibly more
widely adapted and the most exten
sively * planted variety of the list.
Yet this variety has not done well ok
some ofthe red clay soils of the Pied
mont section of Georgia, where it
should give place to other varieties.
The Mobile, generally recognized
as being a very poor variety, fills
out much better when grown on the
Piedmont soils than when grown ®n
the Coastal plains. Its habit of
early and heavy bearing has caused
many growers to plant the Mobile in
the Piedmont Country, even tho it
has other serious objections. The
Teche is another very heavy yielding
varieyt which is much prized by some
growers even tho it is a nut of rather
inferior quality.
The Delmas, one a very popular
and choice variety has been largely
j discarded due to its susceptibility te
the pecan scab.
The Schley which is re cog zed as
the Queen of quality, scabs to some
degree in the Coastal Plains section
while it seems fairly free of scab in
the Piedmont region.
The Moore and Moneymaker are
very early and prolfic bearers, and
seem fairly well adapted to practical
ly all sections of the state where pe
cans are grown. The Frotscher
seems well adapted to the Tiftoa
sandy loam soils, while the Pabst and
Alley seem rather generally adapted.
From the following list, growers can
select varieties suitable for their
conditions in most sections of Geor
gia; Schley, Stuart, Pabst, Alley,
Success, Moneymaker, Moore and
Prothscher.
Trees from thre to five feet high
set during the months of December
i and January will usually give good
results.
H.'P. STUCKEY,
Director.
FOR SALE—2S acres all under
wire fence, 18 acres in cultivation,
dwelling, etc. 3 miles from Lyons.
$650. Apply to
M. M. COLEMAN,
It. Lyons,
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