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Voia 21. No 2 MRS. J. S. PIKE TAKENJY DEATH AFTER SUFFERING FOR SEVER . AL DAYS THE END CAME ON I FRIDAY NIGHT—MEMBER OF - PROMINENT FAMILY. • 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 ■'* . *, ' 4 • • The Lyons Progress THOSE NOISY MINORITIES |jp'/ 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. <■ .|. ft ftftft ft ft ft ft ftftftftftftftft ++*Hr+++**+*+4ft ft ft ft ft ft •!■ftft »t< ft ft ftft~n~|. | | Armours Big Crop I FERTILIZERS I i: ii- Phosphates, Kanite, Nitrates, Calcium Arseante :: • :: :i See me for your Fertilizer need* | I | T. Ross Sharpe 1 AGENT * ii T « ► T «► * t Subscription SI.OO MISS VANN NEW DEMONSTRATOR IS SELECTED BY COUNTY COM MISSIONERS TO FILL THE VANCANCY OF MRS. L. V. THORPE. ( 9 1 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.