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Vol 21. No 9
GRAND JURY IS
ORGANIZED MON.
W. P. C. SMITH ELECTED FORE->
MAN OF JURY —JUDGE HA§DE
MAN MAKES IMPRESSIVE
CHARGE.
The Grand Jury for the February
term of Toombs County Superior
court were called together on Mon
day nu 'taing at ten o’clock by Judge
R. N. Hardeman and after they had
met and organized they were called
into the court room and sworn in by
Solicitor Grey.
Mr. W. P. C. Smith was elected
foreman and was duly sworn in as
such.
Judge Hardeman charged them
along the usual lines in regard to
their duty to the county, to then
families, and to the state. He stress
ed the observance of law and their
duty as Grand Juriors in inforcing
the law in regard to the good morals
of the county.
Judge Hardeman said that good
morals, and clean citizenship must
come thru a wholesome regard for
law, and respect for law must come
from the best citizens.
Continuing he said that men lack
moral courage to declare themselves
against immoral conditions, therefore
we cannot expect the common class
to have a good and wholesome res
pect for a law they were afraid to
enforce.
There are three influences that
stand for the best in the world, the
home, the school, and the court, and
when either of these were disregard
ed there was inevitable failure in the
country.
The home was losing influence
over the children, because it did not
exercise parental authority over the
children, and the school was losing its
influence over the child because he
was not collected at home.
The courts are losing influence over
the people because the home had
lost its grip on the child and there
fore it grows up to disregard law be
cause the parents criticize the court
for failure, when it originates back
of all these, in the home.
Divorces
The Judge paid his respect to the
divorce evil in very strong language,
and is certainly not afraid to be
head 1 on this great and growing evil.
Continuing he said that one in ev
ery seven marriages were annulled
in the divorce courts, and for fifty
years there had not come a new idea
into the divorce law, and not a case
was legal so far as grounds were con
cerned in the divorce law.
In scathing terms he arraigned the
scoffers at all good, from the home,
the school, the church, and the courts
He said that when parents scoff the
children will dispise, and instead of
being good examples to all children
they were bringing a disregard fpr
law and constituted authority.
Judge Hardeman charged them to
look into the expenditure of all pub
lic funds, investigating every offi
cial record and call every man to ac
count for every dollar of trust funds.
Look after the roads, bridges, the
jail, court house and all public prop
erty.
In no mincing of words did he at
tact the evil of all evils, liquor. He
said if the prohibition law was en
forced as it should be we would
have every problem solved in regard
to lawlessness in our county.
He said there are four things if
you will rid your county of you will
rid of practically every kind of evil
—whiskey, pistols, vagrancy and
gambling.
After he had finised his charge
Judge Hardeman snet them back to
the Grand Jury room to do the things
that will come before them as men
who have the interest of every one
from the least to the greatest of the
county at heart.
The presentments will be publish
• ed later.
FOR SALE—Buff orpington eggs
$1.25 for 15. Wlrte comish game
eggs $2.00 for 15. Mrs. J. H. Smith
Elza, Georgia. pd.
The Lyons Progress
THE “STOVE LEAGUE” UP-TO-DATE
Judge Over Rules Motion for New Trail in Currie Case
MRS. H. ESTROFF DIES IN
SAVANNAH SATURDAY
Mrs. H. Estroff of Savannah died
last Saturday afternoon February
23rd, and was buried in Boneuture
cameterq Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Estroff was the wife of Mr.
H. Estroff of Vidalia, and the moth
er of Mr. Sam Estroff of the firm of
S. & W. Estroff.
Besides her husband she leaves six
children to mour her going away.
BOOSTERSCLUB
HOLDSMEETING
SECOND MONDAY NIGHT IN
EACH MONTH TO BE LADIES
NIGHT PROGRAM COMMIT
TEE IS APPOINTED.
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The Lyons Booster Club met at
the Elebrta Hotel Monday evening
in what was considered .the .best
meeting of the year.
|A short notice program was pres
ented in short notice speeches by a
few citizens.
Solicitor Walter Grey made a splen
did talk on the . possiajb'-ities of
Toombs county and the good that
may "be - accomplished by the Booster
Club.
Judge Hardeman was the speaker
of the evening, and his address was
a masterpiece as they all are, and
touched on the vital spot of human
interest for us all “the Child and his
interest.”
It was decided to have ladies night
the second Monday night in each
month, and each member is expect
ed to bring a lady, either his wife, or
friend.
A finance and membership com
mitee was appointed as follows: S.
J. Henderson, S. J. Bargeron, B. F.
Brown.
A program commitee was appoint
ed to arrange a program for each
meeting, and it is hoped that we will
have regular attendance now, and
get a spirit of boosting on us.
The program committee are: C. C.
Mosley, C. A. Rogers, Wm. E. Estroff
These committee are to act for one
month.
Mr. Garner our effeicient . county
agent made a talk on his farm pro
gram and outlined some of his plans
for the near future and called for
some good speakers to go to the dif
ferent school communities and as
sist him in the farm demonstration
work.
Open up gentlemen and go with
him.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF TOOMBS COUNTY
LYONS, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. FEB. 28 1924
Judge R. N. Hardeman in Toombi
Superior court session Thursday
morning over ruled the motoin for
new trial in the Lee Currie case.
It is nut known what steps hi*
attorneys will take just at this time,
hut it is certain that they will make
anoher desperate effort jo prevent
clients neck from being broken.
It has come to a battle of wita
with the prosecutionand defense as
to which ( hal! hold on longest to this
famous case.
Four times has the sentence of
death been passed, and four times
has the defense brought evidence
enough on an appeal in the case to
get a new trial.
It is to he hoped that the case may
be settled one and forever, for it has
been a great burden to the tax pay
ers of Toombs county.
METHODIST S. S. HAS IN.
TERESTING CONTEST ON
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The Methodist Sunday School has
put on a unique contest consisting
of an areoplane race around the
world. ' •
The start is made from New York
and goes via San Fransancisco, Hon
dolulu, Bombay, Calcutta and on
back to the starting point.
Each new scholar counts five hun
dred miles and an increase in col
lections five hundred.
The contest has resulted in a
great increase in interest and has
practically doubled the membership.
DR. AARON PAINFULY HURT
ON STREET SATURDAY
Dr. I. E. Aaron came very. near
having a serious accident on last Sat
urday afternoon. •
He was standing by a machine that
was demonstrating on the street in
front of the New Grocery Store when
a belt broke and a piece struck him
on the head, knocking him sense
lesg for a few minutes.
He was carried to his office where
Dr. Odom gave him medical atten
tion, taking several stitches in the
scalp wound.
He was 6ut in a short time attend
ing to his work, and his friends wish
for him a speedy recovery.
TO ALL SPECIAL TAX PAYERS
All special Taxes for Toombs Co.,
these taxes are due January Ist and
unless paid by the last day of March,;
there will be additional charges asl
penalty of 20 per cent added. If ■
you do not care to pay these addi-1
tional charges, come forward and
pay your Tax Collector at once.
Yours truly,
W .T. LITTLE,
2te. District Deputy Collector.
WEIF LODGED IN JAIL
FOR STEALING CAR
dj Col. T. Ross Sharpe came very
■ear losing his fine automobile one
say last week, and.but for the fact
•feat he had let the water out of the'
raditor because of the cold, he would
have had some trouble in recovering
lt . -
j It was abandoned by the tbeif and
He was captured and lodged in pail
where he later confessed to the
theist. * .
It is suposed he is the miscreant
who has been terriorizing people all
over town, entering houses and
sneaking beneath windows.
The car was not damaged very
much, the cylinders being stuck when
found and this prevented any wild
riding on his part* - -
EAST SEABOARD
TRAIN WRECKS
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RAIL BREAKS UNDER ENGINE
TURNING TWO CARS AND TEN
DER OF ENGINE OVER—SEVER
AL PERSONS INJURED.
Seaboard passenger train No. 12
East bound was wrecked last nignt
(Tuesday! two miles west of Lyons.
The engine and two cars'were bad
ly damaged and considerable damage
was done to the track for a hundred
feet or more.
The West bound passenger train
crew notified the engineer on No. 12
to look out for something just about
this spot and for this fact there
would have been no doubt a serious
wreck.
A broken rail it is supposed was
the cause of the wreck. The train
was in charge of engineer Goolsby
and conductor Harden.
Those receiving any injury suffi
cient to need medical attention were i
carried to Vidalia where medical aid ,
wa a given them.
The injured are:
W. C. Chambliss, flagman, hand
I. J. Poole, baggage master, left
foot mashed.
Jeff Collins, express helper, cut
over eye and bruished on the head.
Norman Coles, porter, slight cut :
on cheek.
Mrs. Emile Osborne, passenger,,
injury' on face.
The wreck was cleared during the '
night and the East bound passenger
train passed through on time Wednes
day morning.
MEETING DATES EOR BOLL WEEVIL
AND FARM PROGRAM MEETINGS
TWELVE SCHOOL HOUSES WILL
BE VISITED IN TWO NIGHT
PROMINENT SPEAKERS WILL
SPEAK.
Beginning Thursday night of next
week twelve meetings will be held at
as many school houses in Toombs
county. Speakers have been escured
to speak,on Dusting Cotton for con
trolling the boll weevil. Other
speakers will be present from the
'business men of Vidalia and Lyons
to speak on a farm plan for Toombs
County.
Meeting dates, Thursday night,
March 6th, 7:30 P. M.
Ohoopee—Will Talley’s Store.
Normantown —School.
New Branch —School.
Marvin —School.
Rock Springs—School.
Johnson Corner —School.
Friday night, March 7th, 7:30 P.
M.
Y ancey—School.
Cedar Crossing—Store.
Parker—School.
Marietta —Schoo^
Center—School.
Union—School.
SELECT SITE FOR
WILSON COLLEGE
VALDOSTA, Ga.—Approximately
100 acres, including the Pendleton,
Goodwin and Smith property, has
been finally selected as the site for
the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Col
lege, according to an official an
nouncement made by the committee
on sites today.
The project for the Wilson Memo
rial College grew 90 rapidly that tne
matter of fifty or seventy-five acres
-for the site was entirely too small,
and the committee promptly took
such action Saturday evening as
would include a sufficient amount
of adjoining property to make the
acres.
Location
This will carry the college proper
ty from the street road west
ward to the Patterson street exten
sion, thus giving it east and west
boundaries of prominent, thorough
fares, while the north and south
boundaries will also be broad streets,
making the location one in every
way ideal.
Finding the original combination
of property secured from Mr. A. S.
: Pendleton, Mr. T. E. Goodwin, and
Mrs. D. D. Smith to be entirely too
small forthe proportions being as
sumed by the memorial project, the
commitee secured additional acre
age from all three of these property
owners and closed the contracts Sat
urday evening.
Work Completed
This finishes the work of the local
! commitee on a site, until this tender
; is finally passed upon by the confer
-1 ence commitee will clear the way tor
active work in preparing for the
building operations. The property
was secured without “strings” of
any kind, although it is stipulated
that it shall be used only for college
purposes, to which there was of
course no objection from any source.
Thus the old Sparks College is lost
in the great Woodrow Wilson Col
lege.
It is sad to think of Sparks college j
losing her identity, for there are j
.-scores of preachers in the South
Georgia Conference who are the!
product of the old Sparks College, of
Sparks, Ga.
We hope the new school will prove
a great blessing to the world and be
as great in the future as the name of
Woodrow Wilson will stand in the
history of the world.
SPECIAL NOTICE
We have had something like four
or five applications for Collector of j
water and light bills. Help us use
this money toward giving you more'
efficient service by being prompt
with your part.
LYONS ICE & COLD STORAGE
COMPANY,
By C. P. Odom.
SITBSCRIPriON SI.OO
LYONS ICE & COLD STORAGE
CO. IS BOUGHT BY C. P. ODOM
F. F. Goddard, owner of the Lyons
Ice and Cold Storage Plant and
lessee of the Lyons Water Works
and Light Plant, has sold his inter
ests in both places to Clyde P. Odom,
who has been associated with Mr.
Goddard since the plant was built.
The plant has been enjoying a wide
and large trade for ice and has had
a large quantity of meat stored at
all times. It has been especially
successful in curing meats for the
farmers as it installed a dry cure
method when first built that keeps
the curing rooms at a steady tem
perature but always dry.
TOOMBS GOES AFTER
MUCH NEEDED BRIDGE
TWO COMMITTEES ARE NAMED
TO TOUR THE ROUTE OF HIGH
WAY—LYONS BOOSTER CLUB
HAS TAKEN LEAD.
At a special meeting of the Lyons
Boosters Club two committees of
eight each, headed by State Senator
I George W. Lankford and Col. Wim
j berly Brown, were selected to tour
the route of the proposed Greenville-
Jacksonville Highway to secure the
co-operation of the towns along the
route in getting a bridge built across
the Altamaha river in the southern
part of Toombs county.
This route will be covered by the
North committee headed by Col .W.
E. Brown, from b<yons to Oak Park,
Swainsboro, Midville, Waynesboro,
Augusta, and then back byway of
the proposed Greenville-Jacksonville
Highway at Wrens, Louisville, Wad
ley, Swainsboro and returning to
Lyons.
The Southern commitee will go to
Baxley, Alma and Waycross. Meet
ings are being arranged with cham
bers of commerce, boards of trade,
and other clubs at these points to
arouse more interest in getting this
highway completed. committee has
already visited the Baxley authori
ties and secured a promise from the
county commissioners to co-operate
with the Toombs county officials in
securing a free ferry across the Al
tamaha until the state aid which has
been promised can be* secured in
building the bridge.
DUSTING MACHINERY
SECURED CO-OPERATIVELY
Arrangements have been complet
ed here today by the county agent
and some of the business men of Vi-»
dalia and Lyons for the farmers tt
get cotton dusting machinery co-od
eratively at wholesale prices. C(J
tracts have been made by some
the mnufcturers and George H.
Bride and the First National Banlfcj
Lyons and the Modern Farm ImjH
ment Company will handle the ma-"
chine at cost to the farmers. This
is done in order to encourage the
farmers in use of good control me
thods' with their cotton.
LYONS BAPTIST CHURCH
A. D. Woodle, Pastor
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Preaching next Sunday morning
anff evening by the pastor.
11 A. M ; Sermon, subject: “The
Marks of the Lord.”
7:30 P. M. Subject: “Weighed and
Wanting.”
3:30 P. M. Sunday School.
We have classes to suit all who
may come. An effort is made to
instruct and interest those who at
tend, and you will be benefited if
you cast your lot with us.
At 8 P. M. on Thursday’s we
have our mid-week Prayer Service.
We have a right to expect the at
tendance of our members, and are
glad for any others to come who wilL.
The pastor hopes to see all the
members of the church at the aervieeatf?
Sunday.