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Voia 21. No 2
MRS. J. S. PIKE
TAKENJY DEATH
AFTER SUFFERING FOR SEVER
. AL DAYS THE END CAME ON
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FRIDAY NIGHT—MEMBER OF
- PROMINENT FAMILY.
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The entire town and county were
enshrouded by a cloud of sadness
when Mrs. J. S. Pike, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. S. I. Hussey, died at
her home on Friday night, January
4th. Mrs. Pike was taken several
days ago with a bad cold, and which
was not considered serious, until a
few days later, pneumonia developed
and the end came almost sudden.
The deceased was the first mem
ber of a family of two children
whose family name represent one of
the most prominient citizens of
Toombs county.
Mrs. Pike, because of her tender
disposition and beautiful character,
made friends of all her acquaint
ances. She was loved by every one
who knew her.
The funeral services were conduct
ed in the home on Saturday after
noon byßev. Theo Pharr and Rev. A.
D. Woodle. The body was laid to
rest in the Lyons cemetery.
Surviving the deceased arc her
father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. S.
I. Hussey, and a 4-year old son, Gyce
Hussey Pike, and one brother, Gyce
Hussey.
FARMERS DID BIG
BUSINESS IN 1923
ATLANTA, Ga.—More than two
billion dollars of business was done
by farmer business organizations in
1923, according to estimate made by
the United States Department of
Agriculture. The estimates are
based upon reports from 6,639 or
ganizations which did a total busi
ness of $1,200,000,000. Reports have
been received from 8,313 associa
tions and additional reports are yet
to come from approximately 2,000
organizations.
Os the 8,313 organizations report
ing, approximately 90 per cent, were
primarily engaged in selling farfn
products, and about 10 per cent, in
the collective purchasing of farm
supplies. Grain marketing organi
zations comprised more than 30 per
cent, of the associations; dairy pro
ducts, 22 per cent.; live stock, 14
per cent., and fruits and vegetables
11 per cent., it is stated.
Two thousand six hundred grain
organizations did a total business
estimated at $490,000,000; 1,841
dairy products organizations a total
business of $300,000,000; 1,182 live
stock shipping associations a busi
ness of $220,000,000, and 956 fruit
and vegetable associations a total
business of $280,000,000. Seventy
eight cotton co-operatives did SIOO,-
000,000, and 14 tobacco organiza
tions $132,000,000, according to re
ports.
TAX COLLECTORS THIRD AND
LAST ROUND
I will be at the following places
for the purpose of collecting State
and County taxes.
Blue Ridge, Tuesday, Jan 15th
from 10 to 12 o’clock.
Ohoopee, Tuesday, Jan. 15th from
2 to 4 o’clock.
Powell’s Store, Wednesday, Jan.
16th from 10 to 12 o’clock.
Hardens Chapel, Wednesday, Jan.
16th. from 2 to 4 osclock.
Durden’s Store, Thursday Jan.
17th from 10 to 12 o’clock.
Cedar Crossing, Thursday, Jan.
17th. from 2 to 4 o’clock.
Vidalia, Friday, Jan. 18th. all day.
Lyons, Saturday, Jan 19th. all day.
Normantown, Tuesday, Jan. 22nd
from 2 to 4 o’clock.
Meet me, pay your taxes and be
sure to register, so that you can vote
in the coming primary.
Yours very truly,
J. P. PUGHSLEY.
FOR RENT—The Duncan Odom
home place, 3% miles South of
Lyons. 3 horse farm. Write or see
Geo. S. Rountree, Vidalia, Ga. J24c
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The Lyons Progress
THOSE NOISY MINORITIES
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TOOMBS SINGING CONVEN
TION TO MEET NEXT SUN.
The first session of the 1924 Sing
ing Convention will convene at the
Baptist church at Ohoopee, Ga., Sun
day, January 13th, and people are
invited to attend, take lunch and
“spend the day.
Singers are urged to attend and
take part.
W. H. MORRIS,
Vice President.
SWEET POTATOES
Farmers having sweet potatoes
they want to sell will list them with
the County Agent at once. I think
we can load a car at a good price
next week. Don’t wait to see me,
but write me.
TOUR THROUGH FLA.
FOR LADIES ONLY
PERSONALLY CONDUCTED BY
GENERAL PASSENGER AGENT
KENWORTHLY OF GEORGIA &
FLORIDA RAILWAY.
Mr. J. E. Kenworthy, General Pas
senger Agent of the Georgia and
Florida Railway, will operate about
February 25th, a personally conduct
ed tour for the ladies of Georgia
through Florida, the Land of the
Flowers. The tour is to include
Jacksonville, St Augustine, Tampa,
Orlando and St. Petersburg. Sight
seeing trips will be made to all points
of interest. ‘. Every effort possible
is being made to make this trip a
great success. The expenses of the
trip will be very small, and any wo
man who desires will be afforded an
opportunity of making the trip. The
party will be gone from home four
days and five nights. Invitations
have been received from towns in
Florida inviting the Georgia women
to visit them.
The tour will be open to women
only from all towns in Georgia and
South Carolina. If you are inter
ested in seeing Florida and having
the best time of your life, communi
cate at once with J. E. Kenworthy,
General Passenger Agent, Georgia
and Florida Railway, who will be
glad to give you all details concern
ing the tour.
This is the first tour ever operted
out of Georgia, consisting only of
women. The trip will be made in
solid standard Pullman cars, and
special entertainments will be pro
vided in all towns visited. If you
are interested, make your reservat
tions quick.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF TOOMBS COUNTY
LYONS, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. JAN. 10 1924
FILE YOUR INCOME TAX
RETURNS EARLY
Let one of your New Year reso
lutions be to file your income tax
return early. Form for filing in
| dividual, corporation, partnership,
personal service corporation, infor
mation, fiduciary and other returns
required by the revenue act are now
available at the office of Collector
of Internal Revenue, Atlanta, and
the following branch offices, Macon,
Ga., and Savannah, Ga.
The filing period is from January
1 to March 15, 1924.
Inaugurating the most progressive
' and important step it has taken since
; the initiation of the Income Tax
Laws, the Internal Revenue Bureau,
after months of research work, has
developed a simplified income tax
form which Collector Rose declared
would make it as easy for the salar
ied or wage-earning taxpayer to pre
pare his return for the coming fil
ing period as it would be for him to
fill in a request for a postal money
order, or to make out an application
for employment such as is required
by the average commercial concern.
Reduced from six pages to a sin
gle sheet on which answers are re
quired to only three questions in rel
ation to income, Form 1040A has
been revised in the interests of the
great majority of taxpayers. The
number of persons affected by the
adpotion of the simplified form is
shown by the fact that of 6,662,176
personal returns filed for the calen
dar year 1921, 6,136,570 were re
turned on Form 1040A. Os personal
income amounting to $13,215,434,-
211 reportedo n 1040A forms, $lO,-
981,649,359 was derived from salar
ies and wages.
It is estimated that more than 4,-
000,000 persons in the United States
will use Form 1040A in .reporting in
come for the calendar year 1923. Out
of a total of approximately 75,000
who will file returns in the district
of Georgia more than 40,000, it is
estimated, will use the new form.
Persons who use Form 1040A will
find the problem of correctly mak
ing out an income tax return reduc
ed to a minimum. The difficulties
of the audit also will be greatly less
ened, thereby expediting the work of
the Bureau of Internal Revenue, and
reducing the cost of operating ex
pense.
The new Form 1040A will be used
exclusively by taxpayers whose indi
vidual net income is $5,000 or less,
coming principally from salaries and
wages, and was designed to meet the
almost universal criticism that the
income blanks were so complicated
that it required the services of a law
yer or an expert accountant to fill
out one. v
Form 1040 is to be used by per
sons, any part of whose income forj
the year 1923 was derived from bus-j
iness or profession, farming, sale of i
property, or rents, regardless of the
amount, and in all cases where the
net income was in excess of $5,000,
whether from salary, wages, busi
ness, profession or other taxable
sources.
formerly Form 1040 was used
only where the net income exceeded
$5,000. The taxpayer will receive
both forms for the reason that it is
not possible to determine at this
itime which form is desired by indiv
iduals.
Failure to receive a form does not
relieve the taxpayer of his obliga
tion to file his return and pay the
tax on time. A copy of the form
desired may be obtained on request
written or oral, at the office of Col
lector Rose or any of the branch of
fices.
In view of the fact that it is not
possible to determine, at this time,
' the class of return which will be re
quired by 1040A taxpayers whose
'names now appear on the lists Ipf
this district, I have decided to mafi
both blank Forms 104 CIA and 1040
to all 1040A taxpayers, and the tax
payer can then ..select the proper
form on which to make his return.
FREEZING WEATHER
GOOD FOR FARMERS
FATAL FOR BOLL WEEVIL
COMMISSIONER J. J. BROWN
SAYS COLD SNAP WAS BENE
FICIAL.
ATLANTA, Ga.—“ Taken all in
all, agriculture in the state will ben
efit. b;. ;.ae cold snap,” said Commis
sioner J. J. Brown of the state agri
cultural department this week.
“Saturday and Sunday the very
low temperature has~ gone a long j
way toward playing havoc with the j
boll weevil, and when the low tem
perature continued through Sunday
night it certainly pretty well killed
him out. The moderate fall weather I
up to this time means> the boll wee- j
vil, in going into hibernation, bar
rowed only lightly. He had cover
ed himself over in a very shallow
way, and the extreme cold, and i
heavy freeze of the ground has got-;
ten to him pretty well.
“No reports have come to the de-i
partment yet of damage to small
grain and I hardly think we are go
ing to have material complaint from
that or other crops. The freeze was
too early to hurt trees and, on the
whole, the weather conditions of the
last three days will prove a great help
to agriculture. If it will hold on
for a day or two more it will be all
the more help, and will put farmers
rn fine shape to go ahead with a very
successful fight against our greatest
pest for the next rcop period.
ALICE STEWART
DIES At fITZ'ALD
DIES SUDDEN WITH HEART
FAILURE WHILE VISITING
RELATIVES AND FRIENDS IN
THAT CITY.
Miss Alice §tewart, a long resident
of this county, died almost sudden
on last Thursday at Fitzgerald.
Miss Stewart had been suffering for
a good while with heart troubles, but
her death was not expected at this
time. She was about 41 years of
age.
Miss Stewart had made Lyons her
home for quiet a while, and some
few months past left for Fitzgerald
to visiting relatives and friends, and
was in that city when her death came.
Funeral services were conducted
at the home of her brother, Mr. J. R.
Stewart, Saturday afternoon by Rev.
W. R. Wilkinson of Savannah. In
terement at the Lyons cemetery.
She is survived by her mother,
Mrs. S. J. Stewart, and one brother
J. R. Stewart, both of Lyons.
TIPS FOR TAXPAYERS
Every single person whose net in
come for the year 1923 was SI,OOO
or more or whose gross income was
$5,000 or more, and every married
couple (living together) whose net
income was $2,000 or more or whose
gross income was $5,000 or more,
must file an income-tax return.
Broadly speakjng, gross Income is
all income received by the taxpayer
during the year from salary or wages
business, trade, profession or voca
tion, dealing in property, interest,
rent, or divideneds, or from the
transaction of any business carried
on for profit. Net income is gross
income, less certain specified de
ductions ' fbr business expenses, bad
debts, taxes, etc .
The exemptions are SI,OOO for
single persons, $2,500 for married
couples (living together) whose net
income for 1923 was $5,000 or less,
and $2,000 for married couples
whose net income was in excess of
| $5,000. An additional credit of
j S4OO is allowed for each person
!(other than husband or wife) depend
| ent upon the taxpayer for chief sup
port if such person is under 18 years
of age or incapable of self-support
because physically or mentally de
fective.
The normal tax is 4 per cent on
the first $4,000 of net income in
excess of the exemptions and credits
and 8 per cent on the remaining net
income.
CARD OF THANKS
. ..I wish to thank my many friends
in this county for making my work a
success while I was here. I hope that
each of you will go foward in your
work and make it a success in the
future as you have in the past.
Mrs. L. V. THORPE.
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MISS VANN NEW
DEMONSTRATOR
IS SELECTED BY COUNTY COM
MISSIONERS TO FILL THE
VANCANCY OF MRS. L. V.
THORPE.
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Miss Willie Vann arived here Sun
day night to take up her duties as
home demonstration for Toombs
county, succeeding Mrs. L. V. Thorpe
who has resigned to accept another
place.
Toombs county has been very ac
tive in support of this work for the
two past years and Miss Vann has
started in with much enthusiasm and
plans to have her work well under
way during the week.
She comes well recommended and
it is expected that the work will be
even more beneficial than it has been
in the past.
COOPERATIVE ORDER FOR
FERTILIZER MATERIALS
Several counties in Georgia have
been making up cooperative orders
for fertilizer materials, principally
acid phosphate, nitrate of soda and
kainit with some tankage and sul
phate of ammonia.
Farmers caring to mix their own
fertilizer can place orders for these
with the county agent as notified
last week in the Lyons Progress end
ing Saturday January 12th. No
orders will be accepted after Satur
day. This is done in order that this
cannot be used as a price cutting
scheme. We have what we consider
good basic prices in hand and will
accept orders for the materials dur
ing the time state. A deposit of
$5 per ton is required on nitrate of
soda and tankage and of $1 per ton
on acid phosphate and kainit.
Using merely sod, kainit and acid
will make a good fertilizer but should
not be made up long in advance of
using as it will lump and make it
hard to distribute. Addition of
tankage or cotton seed meal will
make a good distributing fertilizer.
Farmers can make quite a saving in
mixing their own regardless of where
they get the materials and that is the
object lesson that the agent has in
view together with the Advisory Com
mittee which is helping in handling
this.
MONTHLY HOG SALE TO BE
HELD JANUARY 25TH.
Farmers having hogs for the Jan
uary hog sale at Lyons which comes
Friday, the 25th, must notify me not
later than Saturday January 19th.
I will have to be in Athens during
the week of January 21st to 26th
and will come back to hold the hog
sale if enough are listed to make a
carload by the Saturday proceeding.
If these are not listed by that
time the sale will be postponed until
a full car is listed and a call sale
will be held later.