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Vol 21. No 15
POULTRY CUR
APRIL 26TH
SECOND POULTRY CAR TO RUN
OVER SEABOARD —FIRST CAR
PROVES TO BE A GREAT SUC
CESS.
Another poultry car will be oper
ated over the Seaboard by Mr. J. A.
Kelly, Saturday, April 26th. In that
time the farmers should have a
large number of friers ready for the
market. Remember not to stuff the
chickens with corn them orning of
the sale. The buyer in the car was
very lenient on that the last time
but he will be stricter, and those who
do stuff their chickens that morning
may suffer. Only four crates show
ed very bad that way among the
poultry loaded in this county. Feed
them heavily the evening before with
a wet mash feed, but give them only
a light feed of either grain or mash
that morning. They will ship better
if they have a light mash than they
will if fed a "grain feed that morning.
Remember the train is due at Vi
dalia at 9 A. M. and at Lyons at
10:30. We will start weighing up
this time at 8 o’clock in Vidalia and
8:30 in Lyons. Get your poultry in
and lets have it ready for the train
when it comes.
Another thing, the prices offered
for this poultry are for poultry
placed in the car door. They can
not possibly have enough help with
the car to handle putting the crates
in the cars and it is the duty of ev
ery farmer who brings in poultry to
assist in getting the crates handed in
the car to the men in there. This is
a cooperative sale just as much as
any cooperative hog or chicken sale
that we have ever held in this coun
ty and I know every one wants it to
move off as smoothly as possible so
that we can be sure these cars will
keep coming. So lets turn in and
help when the train rods up that
morning and thus help make the
cars operate successfully. *
The only unpleasant thing about the
last car was spirit that some truck
buyers from some of the Savannah
dealers showed in sending out trucks
to make the trip from Manassas on
into Savannah trying to buy up the
poultry that had been advertised for
and secured for these cars. It is
unfortunate that they should try to
hold down the farmers along that
part of the route by trying to keep
them from patronizing efofrts to help
them with marketing their poultry.
Few farmers stop to think what they
are doing when they sell to some one
whom they know is working in oppos
ition to their own interests. These
trucks did not hurt the business at
all, but merely hurt themselves by
putting the price up quite -a bit
above what they had been paying for
poultry in that territory and so will
find trouble in buying at cheaper
prices to make up their loss as they
must hope to do. The car secured
plenty of poultry and merely laugh
ed at the ones who attempetd to pull
the trick.
Taken as a whole the movement of
this car secured the cooperation of
everybody along the lines Every
body seems to think that it is the
most practical plan outlined yet. If
we can overload this car and make
it a two carload run as we did the
last time then the car will run on
a regular schedule and afford us a
market at shorter intervals. That
we hope to see in in effect im
mediately after this car runs Satur
day. April 26th.
SINGING CONVENTION TO
MEET AT NORTH THOMPSON
The regular session of the Toombs
County Singing convention will meet
next Sunday, at North Thompson
church, three miles north of Vidalia.
People are invited to take lunch
and spend the day.
Singers are urged to attend.
W. H. MORRIS, Vice Pres.
LOST —One Diamond Tire, 30 x
33 1-2, off truck between Lyons and
Vida’ia. Liberal reward if returned
to Lyons Motor Company.
The Lyons Progress
THE LYONS PROGRESS UN
DER NEW MANAGEMENT
Mr. C. C. Mosley has leased The
Lyons Progress, asuming active man
agement of the paper this week. Mr.
Mosley is postmaster at Lyons, and
will divide his time between the post
office and the paper. For the next
two weeks, he will devote most of
his time to the paper, while absent
from the post office on annual leave
allowed postmaster.
ALTAMAHA BRIDGE ON COT
TON BELT HIGHWAY ASKED
The urgent request of representa
tives of seven counties of south Geor
gia for construction of a steel and
concrete bridge over the Altamaha
river on the Cotton Belt highway
Was taken under advisement at a
meeting of the state highway board
Friday. The delegation, composed
of prominent men from the counties
represented, and in eluding several
members of the Georgia general as
| sembly, urged that the brige be
; built this year, if possible, and if
not, that it be placed on the program
j for the early part of 1925.
The bridge, the estimated cost of
which would be $250,000, would be
on the direct route connecting Lyons
county seat of Toombs county, and
! Baxley, county seat of Appling coun
ty. At present no bridge spans the j
river at that site, and the stream has'
to be crossed by ferry.
bridge also would be on the
Cotton Belt Highway, claimed to be
the shortest direct highway from An
derson, S. C., through Georgia to
Jacksonville. The delegates who ap
peared before the board Friday ex
plained that this highway is 116
miles shorter than any other road I
from Anderson to Jacksonville, and
that a bridge over the Altamaha at
that point would do much toward
making the road the main thorough
fare through Georgia. With the
exception of a 15-mile stretch, the
entire road is a federal state high
way.
The delgeates, numbering more
than twenty,' represented Bacon, Ap
pling, Toomibs, Emanuel, Jefferson,
Wilkes and Ware counties.
EASTERN STAR LADIES
HOLDS BUSINESS MEETING
The ladies of the Eastern Star
met at the Masonic Lodge room
Tuesday evening for the purpose of
completing the reorganization of
the Chapter. A good number were
present, and evidenced enthusiasn.
in the future of the O. E. S. An
other meeting will be called within
a few days, at which time officers
will be elected, and regular meet
ing dates named.
The ladies who are moving in this
work are solictious of the affiliation
and constant support of all who are
eligible to membership in the order.
A strong Chapter can be built up,
and its social and fraternal influ
ence will have telling effect on the
community.
NOTICE
Trustees and Patrons of Marvin
School are requested to meet at Mar
vin Saturday, April the 19th at 3
o’clock. Everyone interested in the
school, please be on hand.
CHAUTAUQUA HELD
HERE THREE DAYS
The annual three days Chautau
qua closed Saturday evening. This
year’s Chautauqua was patronized
by alrfer audiences than have at
tended any previous three day Chau
tauqua, and is believed to have been
one of the several good ones that
1 have been brought to Lyons. The
financial success also surpassed that
of any previous year.
A new contract was signed for the
Chautauqua to be given free to the
people of Lyons and vicinity next
year. The few in town who have
been guaranteeing the financial suc
cess have been growing in numbers,
an 4 became, so enthusiastic that it
was decided to pay the entire cost out
of their pockets, and give everyone
in reach the full benefit qf this
highly educational, entertaining and j
uplifting series of entertainments.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF TOOMBS COUNTY
LYONS. GEORGIA. THURSDAY. APR. 10 1924
HIGHWAY REPRESENTATIVES APPEAR
BEFORE THE STATE COMMISSION
ASK THAT ALTAMAHA BRIDGE
CONSTRUCTION BEGIN AT AN
EARLY DATE—TOOMBS WELL
REPRESENTED.
An urgent appeal was laid before
the state highway commission, at
their regular meeting in Atlanta,
last Friday, for the early construct
ion of the proposed bridge across
the Altamaha river, at Roland’s fer
ry, between Lyons and Baxley. It
was shown that this bridge would
make possible a road 116 miles
shorter from the north to Jackson
ville and other points in Florida than
any present route, and that, in con
sequence of this saving in mileage,
and the fact that it would be a high
land road, it would be favored by all
tourists with Florida points 'as des
tination, and would serve traffic in
this section of Georgia to an extent
not possible by any other way. This
bridge is to be located at the point
where the Federal aid road from Au
gusta, byway of Swainsboro, Lyon*
and Baxley, croses the Altamaha, a
road approved some time ago by the
State highway department, and na
tional highway engineers.
BOOSTERS CLUB HOLDS VERY
ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING MONDAY
BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF
PLANS REACHED FOR SECUR
ING EARLY ACTION ON ROAD
AND BRIDGE PROJECTS.
One of the most profitable meet
ings of the Boosters Club was hela
at the City Case Monday night. Com
mities representing Lyons and
Toombs county before the Highway
Commission at their regular meeting
in Atlanta last Friday in the inter
est 6f the Cotton Belt Highway pro
ject and the. bridge across the lAlta
maha river, made their report. This
places the Boosters and other or
ganizations fighting for this highway
and bridge in position to proceed
more inteligently than has been pos
sible heretofore, and practical plans
wereoutlined for carrying on the
work to a successful conclusion. All
future effort will be bent in the di
rection of securing the bridge at the
earliest possible date.
Before the conclusion of the meet
ing, a regular business session was
held, and committees for the month
of April were oppointed by the pres
ident, as follows:
Committee on entertainment: W.
E. Estroff and Dr. R. M. McCall.
Commitee on pragram: Mack New,
REGULAR MEETING
OF CITY COUNCIL
The regular meeting of the city
council was held at the council cham
her, city hall, Tuesday evening. Be
sides routine matters, the council
was principally engaged in consid
eration of the administration of the
city ordiance pertaining to business,
or specific, taxes. These taxes are
due, and collections will proceed at j
once.
The city has levied moderate taxes
from this source, but has been care
ful not to overlook and business
that should porperly be assessed, and j
fro mthis source, the city will re- j
ceive quite an ice amount of revenue.
The city is to be congratulated up
on the efficient and business like
manner in which its affairs are being
conducted by the present administra
tion. Competent business men, ac-,
customed to handling business prob-1
lems, are putting their best effort
into city affairs. The orderly dis
patch with which matters are dis
posed of demonstrates a complete
understanding of the problems in
hand. This businesslike proceedure
is very greatly facilitated by our ef
ficient city clerk, Mr. Goddard.
Represenatives of the counties af
fected were so satisfied with the
propects of action favorable to early
construction that a movement was '
immediately launched to establish a
free ferry at the place where the
bridge is to be located, so that the
large colume of immediately avail
able travel may be diverted to this
route. A ferry which has already
been built can be put in operation
as soon as the necessary action can
be taken by the road commissions of
Toombs and Appling counties, and
the road covering the approach to
the ferry on the Toombs county side
put in good shape.
Delegations were present at the
Highway Commission meeting fron.
Waycross, Alma, Baxley, Lyons,
Swainsboro, Washington and Louis
ville.
Toombs county was ab!y repres
ented by G. W. Lankford, J. B. John
son, E. J. Giles, Mack New, W. W.
Odom, J. A. Pughsley, W. A. Mc-
Nutt Jr., E. L. Thomas and J. H. Mc-
Natt.
Plans for advertising this route
to tourists will be taken up by the
organizations sponsoring the pro
ject at an early date.
Dess Gray and T. Ross Sharpe.
A new committee, consisting of W.
T. China, E. F. Parker and A. L.
Page, was appointed to make plans
for building a ladies’ rest room in the
city, and instructed to report-to the
Club, with appropriate recommenda
tions.
Well aware of the value to the
Club of the associate lady members,
and the necessity of mixing music
in our pragrams, the program com
mittee was authorized to purchase a
piano for the club, and instructed to
have it installed by our next Monday
night meeting.
In view of the excellent enter
tainment facilities afforded by the
City Case, the Club adopted a resolu
tion making it our regular meeting
place.
That it is highly important that
all members attend as regularly as
possible was brought out very clear
ly in discussions, and it was urged
that indiference on the part of any
member in this respect should be
penalized by suspension, tl was
further urged that members notify
entertainment committee not later
than noon each Monday whether they
will be present at regular meetings.
The meeting was characterized by
more than the usual enthusiasm and
fellowship.
LARGE ACREAGE OF
BIG STEM JERSEY
Two hundred acres of big stem
jersey potatoes are now being set
out in the county, and Mr. W. *L.
Duncan, who introduced this potato
in our state, says that conditions are,
at present, very favorable to a good
crop.
Mr. Duncan brought this potato*
to Tooihbs county about three years
ago as an experiment. Last year a
considerable acreage was planted
around Lyons and practically all who
tried them found them a very pro
fitable crop.
The big stem jersey is the sweet
potato most preferrd by east coast
states, where most of them are
grown, but the short winters of
South Georgia make it possible for
Georgia farmers to produce a much
earlier crop, which brings a fancy
price.
The marketing is handled for the
jersey farmers in the most satis
factory manner by Mr. Duncan, who_
personally supervises this end of the
industry.
It is believed that the jersey po
tato will, within a few years be one
of the leading agricultural products
of this section.
$50,000 GIFT MADE TO WES
LEYAN BY COL. SAM TATE
MACON, Ga.—jA gift of $50,000
has been made to the Greater Wes
legan found by Col. Sam Tate of Tate
Ga., a trustee of the college and
well known philanthorpist, it was
announced at campaign headquart
ers here. This is the largest indi
j vidual gift to have been received in
j the present million dollar endeavor
to provide the College with a new
group of buildings.
Early reports from alumnae
groups throughout the Southeast in
dicate that the graduates of Wesley
an are rallying to the support of
their alma mater. Each alumna has
been asked to get or give $270 as her
proportionate share of the Greater
i Wesleyan fund and much of the suc
cess of the campaign is said to hinge
upon this quota being acepted by all
Wesleyan women.
The total subscribed to the fund
to date is approximately $300,000.
Other large gifts are being sought
by the College and a plan whereby
donors of substantial amounts may
have memorials created in • their
honor has been worked out by the
1 campaign committee.
A gift of $25,000 to the fund was
; received from Mrs. James McDonald,
1 of Cuthbert, Ga., soon after the cam
paign was first announced. This
gift is to endow the Wesleyan lib
! raray and is a memorial to the
I daughter of the donor, Miss Eva
Gertrude McDonald.
RED CROSS NURSES INSPECTS
OVER 3000 SCHOOL CHILDREN
ATLANTA, Gea.—Four Red Cross
Public Nurses in Georgia have in
spected over 3,000 school children
during the first two months of this
year, according to figures just com
plied at Red Cross Headquarters
>ere.
Inspections conducted in 65 city
and county schools throughout the
State With the assistance es Red
Cross Nurses have included careful
examination of each child for physi
cal or mental defects which "retard
his develpoment.
Os the number examined, many
were found with serious defects
which were retarding them in their
school work as well as in their gen
eral phsicial development. Many
children were found in the class
rooms of the State with communic
able diseases, and were excluded
from the schools until the dinger of
infecting other children had passed.
By such careful atention, the re
port states, the darger of serious
epidemics in schools is minimized.
School authorities and teachers
state that noticable improvement is
being made in the general standard
of work done by pupils in Georgia
following the correction of physicial
defects which have prevented at
tending school regularly of properly
preparing their lessons.
In addition to the work in schools,
Red Cross Nurses throughout the
state have conducted 67 health dem
nostrations or lectures and have
made nearly 400 visits to homes
where sickness or disease required
skilled nursing attention.
LOST—Platiumn top bar pin Wed
nesday morning, will give reward if
returned to Progress Office.
DR. HYDE SPEAKS
AT UNION SERVICE
A union service, comprising the
Methodist and Baptist congregatoins
was held at the Baptist church Sun
day morning, at which Dr. Hyde, one
of the strongest lecturers on the
Chautauqua program of last week,
preached a sermon on the subject:
“The Unreaped Corners”. The two
previous lecturers of Dr. Hyde gain
ed for him a larye audience at this
service, who were unanimous in
pronouncing his last address as the
test of his three to the people of
Lyons. In a very forceful way, Dr.
Hyde showed that those who are less
strong than we have a claim on us
that we can not afford to consider as
secondary to our own interests.
The town is better for having had
so able a man copie into our midst.
Subscription SI.OO
DEATH CLAIMS
MRSJIV. LYNN
DEATH OCCURRED SUNDAY
NIGH ABOUT 11 O’CLOCK AF
TER MEDICAL AID HAD FAIL
ED.
Death came to Mrs. Pearl Lynn,
wife of Mr. H. V. Lynn, a local
blacksmith, Sunday night about
eleven o’cloc. Mrs. Lynn had not
been well for abou three weeks, and
became desperately ill Sunday morn
ing.
Mrs. Lynn is survived by her hus
band, five small children, a step-son,
her monther, Mrs. Rosa Hooks of
Douglas, two brother, Mr. Jordan
Hooks of Douglas and Adolphus
Hooks at sea with the United States
Navy, her grand-father and grand
mother, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Jenkins,
also live at Douglas.
Mrs. Lynn was a lovable character
; and counted her friends as she num
■ bored her acquaintances. Her going
will be ftl with reepest regrets in
the community, and especially in the
family circle, where she was a con- ■
j stant and devoted companion.
Funeral services were conducted
!at the Methodist church, at four
, o’clock, Monday afternoon, and her
, remains interred in the city ceme
tery.
! MASONS HAVE FINE MEET
ING MONDAY EVENING
The regular communcation of
Lyons Masonic Lodge, held at the
, Masonic Hall Monday evening, was
j one of the best meetings that the
i lodge has had in al oing time. It was
| attended by an unusually large num-
I ber of the members of the order, who
| availed themselves of all the benefits
I that such an occasion affords. They
j entred heartily into the proceedings,
j and came away feeling that Masonry
, had had a boost.
The interests of the lodge are
prospering in the hands of the pres- *
ent officers, and this bids fair to be
the best years in its history.
At the Monday evening communi
cation, Mr. S. Jones Bargeron, Mr.
Pat Godwin, Mr. Howard McNatt,
| Mr. Dan R. Newton and Mr. Bruce
| Little were initiated into the mster
! ies of the art.
CITIZENS MILITAFY TRAINING
CAMPS
The Citizens Military Training
Camps for young men, between the
ages of 17 and 24, conducted by the
War Department and Military Train
ing Camps Association will be held
at Camp McCleland, Ala. (Anniston)
Fort Bragg, N. C. (near Fayetteville)
and Fort Barrancas, Fla. (Pensaco
la), commencing July 3rd, and end
ing August Ist. The following num
ber of students have been alloted to
each camp—McClellan 2400; Fort
Bragg 900; Fort Barrancas 400.
Applications from youg men who
desire to attend one of these training
Camps should be addressed to Head
quarters Fourth Corps Area, Ofifce
of the C. M. T. C. Officer, Red Rock
Building, Atlanta, Ga. An authori
zation is sent direct to each approv
ed applicant and he i s given full in
formtion. Each accepted candidate
has the option of paying his own fare
to camp, where he is reimbursed at
the rate of five cents per mile for
each mile traveled, or he can accept
a government transporation request
Tor his ticket and will receive not to
exceed $3.00 per day for meals en
route.
Any accepted applicant can obtain
full information as to fare to the
desired Camp, schedules, service, etc.
by applying to any ticket agent or
representative of the Georgia and
Florida Railway. Through coaches
will be arranged from important
points, for parties of 25 or more,
and these coaches will be scheduled
to reach camps at suitable hours.
For information write the under
signed:
| Georgia and Florida Railway, J. E.
Kenworthy, General Passenger Agent*
Augusta, Georgia.