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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.